Renelius said:
Flopped? Are you kidding me? I am too lazy to look up the actual numbers, but you do know that FFXI still has a TON of monthly subscribers (all paying 13(?)USD a month +1 dollar for every mule or additional character), right? And it has been around for 6 years now. And it has milked it's customer base numerous times with expansion packs. Your average FF game makes a pile of money out of the gate, but 3 years later the cheques ain't comin in. I GUARANTEE you that if you look at the profits SE has made off FFXI, they simply dwarf any other FF game by comparison. |
FFXI is worth it. There are over 2 million subscribers. WoW has players from Korea and China who make up the majority of the userbase, but they have multiple characters which consitute to the '11 million players' that Activision-Blizzard spews. Plus with WoW, only ONE character can excel in ONE class, and with FFXI you can have one character and switch to any of the jobs freely, and each job supports one another (majority of weapons and armor, not Artifact, and magic). Plus WoW is like Disney's Toon Town, even though I played WoW on my friend's computer at UNC Pembroke, because I noticed how similar it was to Toon Town since a 'handicapped girl' was playing it.
And seriously, who doubted that FFXIV would not have a monthly subscription?? The subscription is worth it, and when I read the posts saying, "Monthly fee? No thanks, not buying this game," makes me want to scream because even though you have to pay a fee, it could be worth it. I know FFXI was because I met a ton of friends on it and I have known a couple of them for 5 years now. Just give it a chance for one month...
