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

[Krotoan]

I want you to precisely elaborate how the content is garbage or how it forces you to play it. Anymore than this game forces you to do extreme trials or savage raids that is. Do go ahead, i gave you plenty of examples of added content the game provides but you refused to engage with any of them in specifics.

Tell me how M+, better PvP (with an actual reinforcing reward ecosystem) and more raid bosses per tier and more raid difficulties is "less worth doing" and more "garbage" than the content in FFXIV. And why you are forced to do any of it in any capacity.

I'm upfront going to say I have not played WoW in years. It got stale and I was sick of logging in on a schedule to make sure that I got to use my ONE run of content to try and get the item I wanted. I also sat down and realized that every event I wasn't logged into and things like AQ opening were just gone forever. It became a job.

From what I hear from my friends who still play WoW: Random drops on dungeon runs with RNG stats and special rolls of items that can be absolute garbage or endgame BIS and entry keys that get wasted if someone flubs the run. Farming Faction that becomes completely useless after the next faction arises or sometimes disappears entirely. New systems that become entirely irrelevant as well. Something about a magetower involved a lot of swearing in my discord.

Nothing ever FORCES someone to play a game, but FOMO and straight up wasting peoples time is a no no for me and that all happens with content that disappears or becomes irrelevant.

FFXIV has examples of this as well and pretending they haven't done it is madness, but it's MUCH less prevalent and not a driving design force like Blizzards designs have been.

Except it very much is, there is no way around that what is happening in this thread is you people deluding yourselves into thinking having less content is a good thing as a coping mechanism.

"you people". Like it's a hive mind.

You can insist it is so, but if I can point to the fact that what people are praising is the design and not the amount, you're wrong. Nobody likes when less of what they like comes out in the next release, but you can still appreciate that what comes out isn't likely to just disappear into irrelevancy within a year or make you engage with it now or never if you want to complete it.