Alot of people are going to switch over from WoW to try out and probably stay at Aion. My question is how many plan to jump ships when FFXIV is released next year. I for one am all for playing Aion untill FFXIV releases than jumping ships!

Not nearly enough info on FFXIV is available to get me to jump ship. Most probably I would just play both games if I enjoyed them enough.

The game caters to whole different audience than WoW and Aion IMO. My guess is that most players from both games don't like the direction the game is heading, since it's too different from the 'normal' MMO's they like to play.

Of course those who'd like to try something new will probably be all over XIV, and both games probably have those kind of players too. 

I won't be jumping ship.  I will play both games at once (giving XIV a chance).  I plan on investing enough time and effort into Aion (and others will be helping me so much) that I intend to play it and to continue playing it even when XIV launches.  I plan on playing both simultaneously, though I will probably become slightly less active in Aion if XIV is a lot more involved than "more casual friendly" implies (which I bet it will be).

Still, I think by the time XIV launches I will be through a lot of Aion's content and I will mostly play to help my legion, though I will still participate in events and whatnot if others are game.  Especially with Aion's crafting set up ("craft all" feature), I think it should be no problem to play XIV while still making progress in Aion.  We'll see, though.  A lot of that depends on the quality of XIV and how complex it proves.  As others rightly point out, SE will make casual players feel like they can still accomplish stuff, but I don't think the game will be without its hardcore aspects.  I will just have to save those for later.  Playing both seems very reasonable.  I'm not one to rush through content, though.  So, I always can find something to do in whatever game I'm playing.

Originally posted by MustaphaMond

I won't be jumping ship.  I will play both games at once (giving XIV a chance).  I plan on investing enough time and effort into Aion (and others will be helping me so much) that I intend to play it and to continue playing it even when XIV launches.  I plan on playing both simultaneously, though I will probably become slightly less active in Aion if XIV is a lot more involved than "more casual friendly" implies (which I bet it will be).

Still, I think by the time XIV launches I will be through a lot of Aion's content and I will mostly play to help my legion, though I will still participate in events and whatnot if others are game.  Especially with Aion's crafting set up ("craft all" feature), I think it should be no problem to play XIV while still making progress in Aion.  We'll see, though.  A lot of that depends on the quality of XIV and how complex it proves.  As others rightly point out, SE will make casual players feel like they can still accomplish stuff, but I don't think the game will be without its hardcore aspects.  I will just have to save those for later.  Playing both seems very reasonable, though.  I'm not one to rush through content, though.  So, I always can find something to do in whatever game I'm playing.

I agree playing both games is reasonable as Aion is alot of PvP at end game. Could be nice to play through content in FF than switch over to a PvP base base game for a change of speeds.