Bizarre burnout

[Absurdity]

I wouldn't call it a bizarre burnout.
You don't agree with the direction CBU3 has been taking the game and you find yourself not having fun anymore, that is entirely valid and don't let anyone tell you different. I wish I could give you a solution but all you can really do is find a different game that you like, because it is very unlikely to ever change and very likely that they will just double down.

All of us that feel the same and are still here, we're essentially just wasting our time. This becomes especially obvious when any criticism is usually met with "everything is fine, stop being so negative, I like it, you're in the minority" or any combination along those lines.

There are enough people who are totally fine with the boilerplate grey sludge of design that SE has no reason to change the direction for the game. So all you can really do is vote with your wallet, stop giving them money and most likely be replaced by a sprout immediately.


Call me ridiculously cynical but that's what seeing the game you loved turn into something you increasingly can't stand for over 2 years does to you. People say that the forums are overly negative but I wouldn't even be on these forums if ShB's job design didn't happen, I didn't even have a forum account until the end of Stormblood because there was no reason for me to feel disgruntled enough to visit the forums back then. It had some incredibly rough edges but sandblasting them all off may not have been the right choice either.

[Lauront]

There are enough people who are totally fine with the boilerplate grey sludge of design that SE has no reason to change the direction for the game. So all you can really do is vote with your wallet, stop giving them money and most likely be replaced by a sprout immediately.

It's the trend I've seen in the EW Lucky Bancho data sets. We'll see if it keeps up.

[SturmChurro]

It's the trend I've seen in the EW Lucky Bancho data sets. We'll see if it keeps up.

I haven't seen the data, but I always presumed that much of the new community that came with the streamer surge, would get to that point in the game where they would feel there is not much more they want to do, burnout, or leave when their streamer stopped playing. It definitely wouldn't last. EW launch hype definitely prolonged a lot of it. I'd like to hope SE will take more feedback to heart.

[Lauront]

I haven't seen the data, but I always presumed that much of the new community that came with the streamer surge, would get to that point in the game where they would feel there is not much more they want to do, burnout, or leave when their streamer stopped playing. It definitely wouldn't last. EW launch hype definitely prolonged a lot of it. I'd like to hope SE will take more feedback to heart.

Yeah, I'm very curious to see what is going to happen with it. From memory, a good chunk of them have still not fully completed EW as of the last data-set; I think he put the full clear at 660k for the last dataset, of the 1.3m or so. It's going to be a while to see where all the chips fall. The breakdown is here - you can run it through an auto-translator, or go here and access it in the EN version of the site. The latter site seems to have added the data from the new to the old survey so it's double-counting, more or less.