Playing an expansion as current content has been a lacklustre MMO experience

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This is Final Fantasy style story telling for like a few decades now. You may not like it, but this is what unique to FF14, this is what make its narrative more powerful then the MMO standard, and this is what make me and other love it.

What universe do you live in, have you ever actually played an FF game? It's not even close, because FF story at least has actual gameplay between cutscenes, and the dungeons aren't just straight up hallways.

No FF game is 300 hours visual novel with 90% filler rambling. And even if what you said WERE true, it's not an excuse to make an MMO be exactly like the single-player franchise. Why even make it at that point if all you really wanted was a single player game? So not only does it fail at being a Final Fantasy game, but it also fails at being an MMO. At least one of those should have been done well, but we suck at both!

The one thing most of us ask for, is if each expansion really wants to be a straight up 30-50 hour visual novel, then please at least cut it up a little bit, or god forbid actually separate the expansions by completely different stories that could allow players to actually jump in once every 2 years.

Nobody here was forced to play all numbered FF games back to back, so why are we all of a sudden OK with XIV's choice to continue to ramble on for YEARS? It's only getting worse as we keep going, and ignore how obviously flawed this design philosophy really is.

We never realized it would get this bad. We had faith that we wouldn't be in a worse position than World of Warcraft. I had always assumed we'd start splitting stories up, but Yoshi-P doubled down, added MORE expansions onto the existing story and then added boosts. So it really just feels like a greedy tactic more than anything.

FFXIV is just like a nice little single-player treat that you enjoy once every few months before putting it down again, and that's how many people like it. It's not supposed to compete with other major MMOs like Fortnite, Halo, COD, Minecraft, etc.

Yes. It Is. This is the type of mentality that is destroying us. If what you legitimately believe is true, then why do they continue to ATTEMPT to release new content after the expansion is released? Because they try to retain players throughout the year. Or how about housing? Why even relinquish them at all?

These RPers are getting dumber by the year - I don't think we're going to make it to 7.0 honestly. When all you have is story, there's barely a reason to play when the story is over.

You cannot say this is a better MMO than WoW and other competition, while simultaneously attempting to refute that it's even an MMO - Saying it should be played like a Single Player game. That's so brain dead.


LISTEN TO YOURSELVES.