The Live Letter XXVI and why change is necessary.

[Catwho]

Some very valid points, and welcome changes.

However, SE may have also learned to be more careful when people start saying they want "harder content" because while only a small minority of people actually want genuinely hard content, a larger more vocal group are only saying they want the hard content but what they really wanted was something no harder than Titan HM was in 2.0. Difficult, but not impossible.

I will disagree that it was the raiding content that drained the smaller servers because people transferred to other servers, however. I think a lot of the server drain was simply because people stopped logging in. Final exams and Fallout 4 took precedence. I had more people log in last week than I'd seen since before 3.1 came out, because they were finally ready to dig into 3.1 content they'd been delaying.

[PetiteMalFleur]

I will disagree that it was the raiding content that drained the smaller servers because people transferred to other servers, however. I think a lot of the server drain was simply because people stopped logging in. Final exams and Fallout 4 took precedence. I had more people log in last week than I'd seen since before 3.1 came out, because they were finally ready to dig into 3.1 content they'd been delaying.

Very valid points you make. Your right that it often isn't "game is boring, I'm fed up going to unsubscribe." However, the very fact people turned to other games is exactly what I'm talking about, although using much simpler, black and white terminology for the sake of clarity. Overall the game failed to compete with the market. Half my static are currently playing another mmo. Not because they hate ffxiv but because the other game is currently more interesting than ffxiv. That is also an issue I hope these changes will help fix next tier.

[Niamh_Rillemaugh]

I will disagree that it was the raiding content that drained the smaller servers because people transferred to other servers, however. I think a lot of the server drain was simply because people stopped logging in.

If anything, it's a mix. There was already a drain pre-3.1, hell Faerie felt almost dead. However, people have put together some data on transfers over the course of a month: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...gid=1891972249