Reading the post on the forums for 3 months shows that FF14 is dying steadily!

[Hiruke]

In AION you get to socket gear as well, each gear got 6 slots, they call it manastone intead of material there, but if you fail at socketing cause of RNG, you lose whatever you put into the gear before, so if you failed on the 6th slot, the other 5 slots becomes empty, imagine players here dealing with that lol, riot time.

You mean like FFXIV 1.0 where each slot the chances of successfully melding were dramatically reduced (and were actually quite poor to begin with!?) and when you failed, you didn't just lose the materia, you lose the base item as well!? No, I totally loved in 1.0 where you had to spend 2-3m to get a hand piece for MNK which was basically required to be considered for dungeon runs to get DL, or how you needed similar gear to have a decent shot of beating Rivenroad (Hard). Shameless play to get gil out of the system before relaunch? That would be like 20-30m in post-relaunch gil.

That's like saying people in Country B are dying of starvation, so people in Country A should suck it up - at least you got that moldy bread to eat. Mmm. Moldy bread. Yum!

It's an absolutely fact that most content in FFXIV rewards the lucky rather than the diligent or skilled. 1% drop rate on mounts, mirrors, minions, other vanity is pretty legit... Wouldn't want to gate it behind an interesting, limited, difficult battle so skilled players could farm it and sell it to the lazy. Rather have everyone take a shot at the slot machine and see who should start playing the lottery.

[Felis]

No, I totally loved in 1.0 where you had to spend 2-3m to get a hand piece for MNK which was basically required to be considered for dungeon runs to get DL,

Other people used lv50 GC gear if they were in the right GC with the right stats on the gear.

[Dravion]

[matt246688]

Reading the post on the forums for 3 months shows that FF14 is dying steadily!

[Kaze3434]

besides op never holding true to showing proof that 10k fates were done in 9 days, no the game is more alive than before. do people like what hunts have done? its split. using one part of an update to determine if a game is dying is pretty shallow thinking

[Rjain]

Strange, it seems to be growing more and more by the day. I must live in another universe.

Personal housing is coming soon. It's not the fault of Square Enix that you do not want to join a free company. You know, the foundation of pretty much every MMO in the universe. If you would like to criticize a massively multiplayer game, you should probably start with not criticizing the massively multiplayer elements.

The game is not without its issues but to pop in and say the game is dying due to issues that are currently being addressed and because it doesn't go with your personal tastes is silly.