Island Sanctuaries demonstrates unhealthy play styles that's alarming!

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Meanwhile I'm out here barely able to get the motivation to touch the island.

[Jason_Ashford]

Meanwhile I'm out here barely able to get the motivation to touch the island.

honestly, once you get set up it really doesn't need touching more than once every couple days. Just drop by, feed your animals and collect their loot, water your garden and bounce. There is a reason why they let you set up the workshop and granary to run for a week without your input (in fact, you can set up the workshop to run 2 weeks without input). it is mean to be super casual, low maintenance content.

[Jojoya]

Meanwhile I'm out here barely able to get the motivation to touch the island.

Then don't touch it. You're not going to be missing out on anything important if you skip Island Sanctuary.

If you get to the point you feel like you have to force yourself to do something in a game, it's a sign you really should be doing something else. You're theoretically here to have to fun so it's just a waste of your time if you're not.

[Azuri]

Thank you for the concern. Now kindly stop telling me how I should play the game. You do not pay my sub.

[Zer0]

So let me be very clear, this post is not a troll nor am I being hyperbolic.

After only less than 72 hours since patch 6.2 came out, I have been now seeing countless videos on YouTube and spoken to a small number of people within my own free company who have rushed to get to level 10 in Island Sanctuaries.

This style of gaming reminds me of the days of World of Warcraft when a small number of people no Life the game to the detriment of either their health or personal responsibilities in the real world. And that should be incredibly alarming to a lot of people if you sincerely care about the FF14 community.

I have come to expect a certain bit of vitriol for voicing my concerns from a small number of individuals merely for stating this unhealthy play style that is concerning to me but I couldn't stay silent.

I have been playing 14 since beta, and one of the facets that drew me into 14 from wow comes from the prevention of this form of playstyle. You have even heard people like Yoshi P state in the live letter this same concern.

But let me be very blunt, play how you want...do what you want as the old adage goes I don't pay your sub. But recognize that you are no lifing content in my opinion to the detriment as I mentioned of your own health and to the broader 14 community. And in addition, there will be no new content other than savage raids until patch 6.25. Once you have blown through this, more likely your Crystal rank in PvP...you will be sitting on nothing to do as many complain about because you don't know moderation.

But more than likely people won't care what I wrote here and I'll just be a post that will fade into the archives of these forums!

This same thing happened with Classic WoW, the old devs were right. You think you do, but you don't. They wanted the old time content and feel. Then when it came out they rushed to max level to min/max clear content that literally doesn't require a pulse to finish.

[Bukachu]

you could stop being everyone's nanny and live your life and let others live theirs how they want? its really not that complicated, mind your business LOL

[Bukachu]

This same thing happened with Classic WoW, the old devs were right. You think you do, but you don't. They wanted the old time content and feel.

Millions of people played classic, and still over hundred thousand do daily. not sure what you're on about.

classic is literally carring the current wow numbers on its back

[Zer0]

Millions of people played classic, and still over hundred thousand do daily. not sure what you're on about.

classic is literally carring the current wow numbers on its back

They lost over 90% of the population in about 2 months. Because the people who actively wanted to just play the game as it was intended got tired of carry groups and botters and gold buyers and left.

Also, carrying wow numbers isn't saying much. WoW has lower numbers than about every single MMO out there. Blizzard has a habit of ruining everything they touch.

Point is, no matter what you do the entire game culture is about min/maxing everything possible. Always will be. You can try to make a casual laid back piece of content and most idiots will still min/max it.

[Bukachu]

They lost over 90% of the population in about 2 months. Because the people who actively wanted to just play the game as it was intended got tired of carry groups and botters and gold buyers and left.

Also, carrying wow numbers isn't saying much. WoW has lower numbers than about every single MMO out there. Blizzard has a habit of ruining everything they touch.

Point is, no matter what you do the entire game culture is about min/maxing everything possible. Always will be. You can try to make a casual laid back piece of content and most idiots will still min/max it.

No idea where you're pulling those numbers from but they're wrong.

that aside WoW has 4th highest playerbase numbers between MMOs on western part of the world (Runescape -> PoE -> ffxiv -> wow -> LA is top 5 rn), as awful as that game has become, it has numbers, and classic's playing a big part in that.

Point is, different players play the game differently, and only "idiot" as you call it, is a person who cares about how other people spend their time. disgraceful behavior. they dont have much going in their livese so they have a need to stick their noses in other peoples business.

[Ranaku]

No idea where you're pulling those numbers from but they're wrong.

that aside WoW has 4th highest playerbase numbers between MMOs on western part of the world (Runescape -> PoE -> ffxiv -> wow -> LA is top 5 rn), as awful as that game has become, it has numbers, and classic's playing a big part in that.

Point is, different players play the game differently, and only "idiot" as you call it, is a person who cares about how other people spend their time. disgraceful behavior. they dont have much going in their livese so they have a need to stick their noses in other peoples business.

"World of Warcraft Classic is estimated to have 26,318,224 total players or subscribers. DAILY PLAYERS. 750.07K."
- From mmo-population

"According to the website The Gamer Journalist: 'As of March 2021, there are roughly 215,000 WoW Classic players on US and EU servers."

Which seems still to be the case, so yeah that is more than 90% BUT for MMO standards it is still really popular. Around 200k daily players is not that bad really, not at all.