Future direction of FFXIV

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We’ve now entered the part of the conversation where some of those dissatisfied argue that they’re opinion should outweigh others because they’re apparently the true connoisseurs of video gaming and the masses are just pigs eating the slop set in front of their faces.

The games doing fine. Sub counts are up, it’s winning awards and getting reviewed well. You have every right to not like the direction it’s heading, but don’t make it anything more than that.

Comparing a patch in a subscription based MMO to another games DLC content is a very skewed view. This is a online game, that requires others to complete tasks. When you are splitting the patches as casual and raid, you are splitting the times when player bases would be subscribed. So when Player X decides now to want to go do Savage raiding when a casual patch is coming out, there are players that are still around to do it with. That is where the issue lies with the idea of just unsubscribe when your content is not here as a solution, when that in fact becomes the problem. That is why the game really does not respect our time as Yoshi says. Sure there's droughts in the game content to go play other games so it "respects" my time in that aspect, but it certainly does not respect my time in game.

Perhaps I’m incorrect but to “not respect the players time” is to make content specifically to maximize how long a player would need to spend to finish it so as to extend sub lengths. Telling subscribers to unsub until their preferred form of content comes out is the opposite of that I believe.