Quote Originally Posted by Mistyregions View Post
The answer is simply this.

Wow players, and the vocal majority got on forums and provided feedback that led WoW down the path of ruin it's on now.
What?

Did you play WoW? The multi-thousand page uproar over the removal of flight and Pathfinder, that to this day hasn't been reverted. The similar uproar when they added a gcd to instant cooldowns. The uproar when Karabor, Bladespire and a whole raid tier were scrapped in WoD and the loss of nearly 5 million subscriptions? The countless ignored threads asking for reforge back. Several-hundred-page class threads pointing out gamebreaking flaws in beta that were ignored resulting in the class needing emergency buffs and tweaks for a month after release. The endless complaints about Titanforge and rng that have now been made a core part of the game. Massive nerfs to leveling speed. Dungeon trash doubled in quantity while rewards are lowered.

The WoW Devs are notorious for a "we know better" attitude. It's even become a meme. Their head Dev is a lawyer and excels in avoiding questions and dancing around feedback.

FF's Devs in comparison are far better and can both listen to feedback and approach it with common sense, but you can't claim FF's playerbase hasn't been trying to steer the ship into the casual iceberg. "Nerf Shinryu, nerf Mist Dragon, nerf Thunder-God Cid, nerf crafting, nerf gathering, nerf relics, ban other players for offering me advice, these 4 buttons NPC controlled fights are too hard nerf plz, remove positionals, remove role actions...".
That isn't WoW's playerbase. They're used to NPC controlled fights, mythic+ dungeons and all had dps meters. That's FF14 community feedback.