I am grateful! How Player Influx Breathed Life Into FF14 Again...

[Kes13a]

Why you may ask? Because for the first time based on what I have seen as a player both on social media and in game, there is a energy I felt gone from the FF14 community that in my opinion has somewhat come back.

What energy you may ask...the energy of seeing new players again experiencing the same nature of the unknown I believe many felt going into the story, lore, dungeons, and all matters that make FF14 the game that it is.

I am grateful for the likes of Asmongold, Annie Fuchsia and Bellular Gaming bringing this influx of attention to FF14.
I am also very grateful to Mr. Happy, Meoni, Work To Game and other veteran content creators for doing what they do of providing a voice and cornerstone that make up the FF14 community!


Does this mean we as players should not be cautious or be considerate to others?

No! This means as players we should look past all of our preconceived notions of each other and new communities to react accordingly only when we perceive a clear issue we hope may never come up.

we might have a differing opinion here.... but I did not think we were dying prior to these people trying the game... at all. FFXIV was not on life support nor was the dev team trying to kill the game off.

assuming the GM's continue to do their jobs, I dont expects people doing toxic things to stay a part of the community for long if they are reported as they should be.

however, I am really not sure why you are saying we should not be considerate to others. is that just poorly written or is that really the point of the post or how you feel?

I am sure that so many, judging by the fan postings in the forums, think the streamers have "saved" FFXIV, this is not the case. we were fine before, we will still be fine as long as the devs keep doing what they are doing. there have always been a decent amount of sprouts breathing life into the game, so, relax, we arent exactly wasting away...

[Mingqin]

I wasn't aware the game was dead or dying. I'm glad I'm not on Aether though.

Well, technically it is, all things including ourselves are slowly dying :P

[LaylaTsarra]

Game has been growing. Cities are always full. This happened well before a certain streamer hit the scene.

[ReynTime]

Even before this influx I saw new players all the time. Did none of you guys do the leveling roulette or Main Scenario daily stuff? For sure you are more likely to get an entire group of sprouts but FF14 in my experience has never been lacking for new people.

The biggest issue with FF14 is veterans scaring off new people from playing with crap from 7 years ago they remember about ARR being the worst thing ever in MMO's. Like have any of you ever played anything other then FF14 in your lives?

MSQ roulette is the only thing worse than Expert Brainless-hallway-simulator Roulette right now due the random toxicity and freeloaders making an already tedious duty drag longer. So I certainly do not.
Well I guess Mentor beats them both but still.

[TheRealMadruck]

however, I am really not sure why you are saying we should not be considerate to others. is that just poorly written or is that really the point of the post or how you feel?

Sincere question...when I wrote:

"Does this mean we as players should not be cautious or be considerate to others? No!", so now let me remove the prior part to this sentence.

"Does this mean we as players should not be considerate to others? No!".

How Kes13a did you interpret that as me saying we should not be considerate of others when this sentence which is correctly framed means the opposite of your implication? Truly amazing.

[Neoyoshi]

It was like this before the launch of Shadowbringers, and also before the launch of Stormblood.

[Alexandre_Noireau]

It was like this before the launch of Shadowbringers, and also before the launch of Stormblood.

This is kinda diferent in someways.

The servers are not ready and it shows. But well. Hopefully they are ready for Endwalker lunch.

[Driavna]

It was like this before the launch of Shadowbringers, and also before the launch of Stormblood.

Not that I remember tbh. I glad there is a lot of people playing but will see what happens at Endwalker release.

[Hyperia]

This is kinda diferent in someways.

The servers are not ready and it shows. But well. Hopefully they are ready for Endwalker lunch.

Well… there the same servers that soldiered through the ShB launch so there no pushovers. The challenge is what tthey want to do in the expansion would probably push the existing infrastructure too much. As it is now, the servers are doing a great job with player activity that is nearly the same as the ShB launch weekend.

Any other game that took in several hundred thousand new players would probably have melted down in flames.

Kudos to the server teams!

[Caurcas]

The game is stagnating somewhat, and that seriously hurts its future.