Unofficial Census 2016 for FFXIV

[Istaru]

First, I did a poor job in my quoting and responding to you, I apologize.

We're clearly talking about before the proverbial elevator is installed. If you've been following this conversation, you would know that.

We both are actually, knowing that the elevator is coming and what it does has an effect on how some people approach many things in this game.

Everyone knows that the elevator comes with every even numbered patch. We also know the each patch is roughly 100-110 days from the last one.

I know people who skip out for long periods of time because of the elevator. Some of them are people who used to stay constantly subbed and eventually came to the conclusion that challenging content as it is currently delivered is a waste of their time. They can come back 6 months to a year later and clear everything in a short period of time and bounce out again, normal mode or EX or savage doesn't matter.

I doubt removing story mode or making them unique glamour will change that behavior. And the way they play does have an effect on the subscriber numbers we would see in a report like this one. I think part of it is the raid normal mode, part of it is the lack of unique rewards from the savage raid, lack of long term goals, lack of long lasting content of an appropriate difficulty, part of it is a very lackluster raid story, a lack of difficulty in most of the game outside of raiding and part of it is the elevator effect. I think it is all of them together.

I think for each and every one of us, we will rate an item on that list higher or lower or add and subtract from it based on our own experiences. I don't think any one here is wrong, I think collectively, we are correct.