Final Fantasy XIV pretty but empty

[shadowmimiiru]

I've now been logged in for 1 hour. The chat channel is dead. Utterly dead ... more proof that the mmo genre is dead and I should just rant like an old woman about the days of EQ.

[Sorce]

I won't be subscribing, but I did buy the game at launch, and while there is some cool stuff, it's not nearly enough to keep me interested. So since I still have a backlog, I'd rather try and tame that than pay money for a game I'm not really interested in. If it was f2p, I'd stay with it, but we all know Squeenix won't ever do that.

[Phantomgrift]

Wait, everything I read says that WOW is apparently still like the place to be for MMO.
Is it just the rest of the genre that died?

[synkr0nized]

No

It's mostly that there's a decent sized chunk of "MMO Players" who sign up for every MMO and play it for a few weeks before abandoning it. When they get loud enough, they sometimes convince folks that a game is dead or dying. I really don't get how Mim thinks the genre is dead, though, especially when more keep coming out.

WoW might not be enjoying the numbers it had in WotLK or Cata, but it's still thriving. Eve is still going. STO is always active when I log in. GW2 has plenty of full servers still. I think SWtOR is still going well enough, though it and STO are probably hanging on mostly due to the fact that it's Star Wars and Star Trek. It was my understanding that Rift, while not enjoying the success it wanted, is still alive. There's also that SyFy one, Secret World, Marvel's heroes one, and numerous others.

And then you can consider the Korean grindfest MMOs.

I can't speak at all about FF, though. Maybe that game really is dead.

[shadowmimiiru]

[synkr0nized]

Ah, that's a fair point. You seem to have to search that out in specific groups, join the right guilds, etc. for it. The typical player is the "give me my loot and shut up" type anymore.

[dexeron]

That's one of the things that's kept me from being able to really get into any MMOs since UO. I haven't been able to find very many with a type of play-style that fosters a sense of community, and most MMOs just aren't any fun playing single-player past a certain level. I probably got spoiled by being in such a good guild on UO back in the day. :P

[cain]

Mithras are terrible, that's your problem

[shadowmimiiru]