Anyone else just feeling really disapointed this expansion?*vent*

[Sweetness]

Yoshida and our community agree that FFXIV is not a live-service product and should never be played as such. You pay for the content, you finish it, and then you leave.

As Yoshida says, just unsubscribe, that’s Square Enix’s position and there’s nothing we can do to change it. FFXIV will end up tanking in subscribers, and SE will likely be happy, as they never planned (or can afford) for this game to become so popular.

Think of FFXIV as a side project for SE; it’s not like Blizzard which has WoW as one of their main projects. Square Enix makes a ton of games and FFXIV is just a fraction of their total revenue. Moderate your expectations.

Uh, I think the term live service kind of went over your head. One google search of the definition, and this is what you get. ”A live service game is a game that sees a constant stream of new content added post launch, and is purposefully designed to keep you playing years after launch. This is unlike traditional single-player games, which can be completed in a set number of hours. Such content can vary drastically”.
Now, I understand what Yoshi was saying by telling people to take a break, but it also comes off to me as a veiled sentence meaning that this game isn’t their main project and as such “don’t expect too much”. But hey, I guess we shouldn’t expect much for a game we pay monthly for /s

And I find it increasingly odd they’d keep saying that when this game’s profits were a huge chunk of Squares recent earnings. I’m looking forward to ff16 mostly at this point. I hope it will be good.