Yoshida telling players to go play other games is very damaging to FFXIV

[Puremallace]

Ion HazExcuses tells players a lot of different things. Barely any of them turn out to be true.

[kaynide]

He might encourage you to take a break, but as we all know, housing encourages you to keep paying regardless of if you're playing or not. He might not want you to get burned out but he does want your money, so let's not pretend there's anything altruistic in this. It just make you seem like a fool.

The housing excuse vs casual gameplay is not really valid;

Originally housing was not meant to be for individual players but for FCs, so if a specific player wasn't on, as long as someone else was the house is fine. The only reason we have personal housing is because the devs caved to player wishes.

So, yes, while that is on the devs, the player base has to accept responsibility for this. We wanted this, so we have to accept the consequences, even if the devs are ultimately at fault for what I'd say was a bad call.

[Nekaru_Infitima]

So when people start dying from deep vein thrombosis and blood clots left and right because they had to sit there and do nothing but play the game.

It'll be WoW further sued and not FFXIV.

[Kyrj]

No, go away

[SamsaraTrickstar]

Housing demolition is suspended currently, so take your break.


Also, no need to play every day anyway. I imagine most people take small breaks.

but you pay full price. so you start paying most of the days..

[SamsaraTrickstar]

The housing excuse vs casual gameplay is not really valid;

Originally housing was not meant to be for individual players but for FCs, so if a specific player wasn't on, as long as someone else was the house is fine. The only reason we have personal housing is because the devs caved to player wishes.

So, yes, while that is on the devs, the player base has to accept responsibility for this. We wanted this, so we have to accept the consequences, even if the devs are ultimately at fault for what I'd say was a bad call.

how its relevant? didnt 1.0 hav elimiton how much exp you can get or something? what was in the past stay there. as of now you need to pay for a house its not free.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

but you pay full price. so you start paying most of the days..

Do you have any streaming subscriptions? A gym membership? Do you use those every day?


XIV is literally cents per day.

[Hysorn]

Look at the WoW director, Ion Hazzikotas. He never told players to take a single break from WoW. Infact he gives players new ideas on how to play WoW differently when they get bored or during a content drought but never once he said to take a break.

Heh, they want you to play so badly that the game literally punishes you for not playing by being behind on timegated stuff and having to wait until they add catch up mechanics while even the catch up mechanics are timegated. Nah man, enjoy that you can take a week off from FFXIV be it for work or vacation, come back and still be competitive.

[Nyarlha]

ITT another living testament that over the last 15 years, Blizzard engineered so called "lifers" via predatory game design that are now incapable to play video game normally and need to have their life defined by one specific game somehow.

There are a bajillions games out there, I just can't fathom these people when they say they've been playing WoW for 15 years and nothing else.

[kaynide]

how its relevant? didnt 1.0 hav elimiton how much exp you can get or something? what was in the past stay there. as of now you need to pay for a house its not free.

What are you even talking about? Or did you not read the whole thing?

I guess I’ll give the to;dr version?

…housing encourages you to keep paying regardless of if you're playing or not.

>This situation only exists because the devs caved to player wishes
>Housing is not required for casual play (or any level of play)

At what point did I say housing was free? Or was that your misunderstanding?