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[AwesomeJr44]

An Echo Chamber is an Echo Chamber....Telling People you prefer the game to be one way...are the same thing on both sides.
Doesnt matter if you think its right or not, or think either side is better. Its the same thing. Both sides are doing the same thing.

Wanting the game to be what it was made to be and wanting the game to be radically different from what is was are not the same.

I came to FFXIV way back when because I wanted a good serious story with compelling characters. And we got that all the way up until Endwalker launched as that was what the game was built upon. A good and serious story with fantastic characters. Emet-Selch is probably my favorite fictional character of all time, with a few other FFXIV characters taking the spots directly after. FFXIV was where to go if you wanted an MMO with that kind of story, thus I came to FFXIV for that. This is what FFXIV is supposed to be. This is what is was MADE to be.

Now, players from other MMOs are invading the game's community and demanding radical changes to the game's tones and storytelling. They arrived, didn't like what FFXIV was and demanded that it be something completely different. Where are the fans of FFXIV supposed to go once FFXIV isn't FFXIV anymore? Well the devs don't care as it's not about the old fans who made the game the success it is. We'll get shoved out the door and forced to either go somewhere else or watch the game we love decay like a rotting corpse. And when FFXIV's playerbase starts to decline, these people will follow us wherever we go and do the same thing again and again and again. We can see this happening over and over across media and it's going to happen here unless the devs start catering to their REAL fans, the people who want FFXIV to be FFXIV and for it be pretty damn good at it too.

Personally I'm going to give this game a chance and wait until 7.0 to make a decision on whether to stay or leave, just out of respect for the past 9 or so years (and perhaps from hopium that the devs will wake up), but I wouldn't fault anyone for quitting after 6.0.