Reasons Why FFXI is Declining

[Demon6324236]

My thread is gone not even a full day and rather than leaving things be, you come in and reply to posts which could lead to an argument once again... My point apparently was not made.

[Daemon]

My thread is gone not even a full day and rather than leaving things be, you come in and reply to posts which could lead to an argument once again... My point apparently was not made.

And this is my point I was waiting to prove. You are too busy responding after all of my posts. As if I'm the only problem. I didn't derail my own thread first.

You still ignored the fact that I stayed on topic.

Did I insult anyone? Did I derail the topic before you responded? Did I call anyone names? Read the response again because this is exactly why people are telling you your reaction and example is of a person who has some sort of grudge.

Why do you feel the need to make points against people?

Unless you're trying to prove something about a person which defeats the purpose of coming to these forums.

Which is to leave feedback.

I came to help others, not go against anyone.

There is a big difference between attacking someone intentionally and defending after someone.

I don't start off my responses calling people names insulting them.

If you are going to tell anyone to stop doing something then tell it to the people who started the argument. Or the ones who are igniting the problem.

I still don't understand how you don't see this.

[Omegablue]

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[Aemora]

FFXI is dying because it's old.

It's been more prominent lately because FFXIV is new.

No other reason.

[Arcon]

No other reason.

Wrong. I didn't leave because it was old, I left because the problems finally surpassed its entertainment value, and it's the same for many others. Problems don't stem from age, they stem from bad decisions, which SE has a demonstrably unlimited supply of. I don't want something new, I want something good. Up until a few years ago, FFXI was that good. It was a local optimum in the sea of MMORPGs. Other MMORPGs did not overtake it since then, it actually fell back. The game we have now is worse than the one we had years ago. And that is not time's fault, it's SE's.

[Anjou]

TLR version of this entire thread and its glorious majesty:

Shit's broke.

[Daemon]

TLR version of this entire thread and its glorious majesty:

Shit's broke.

Yeah thats because limits are being stretched beyond the boundaries which causes the game to be in its current state.

You can only eat so much and expect so much from the chef serving you your dinner.

[scaevola]

jeez, how broken does your brain have to be to blame a change that's been with us for more than 3 years for a dive in population that is only happening right now

[Rustic]

jeez, how broken does your brain have to be to blame a change that's been with us for more than 3 years for a dive in population that is only happening right now

Cause it hasn't been "right now". It's been happening for years, but FFXIV + Adoulin just pushed that into the spotlight.

And we had the mass server merges in 2010-2011, if you don't remember your history. But something that chokes off your flow of newbies doesn't kill server population immediately, it bleeds it away as attrition gets people logged off the game for good. Without those new players, anything that jolts the population downwards has a magnified effect simply because there's nobody to -replace- those departing players. And with FFXIV, that is definitely a jolt. We almost had it happen with 1.0, but the colossal failure of the original FFXIV ended up meaning most of those players came back.

It's like killing a tree from the roots up.