Let's be honest here. Only reason this MMO gets away from ridicule is for 2 things. One it has Final Fantasy slapped onto it. If this wasn't Final Fantasy this MMO would of died out years ago. Number 2 many of the community whole heartily defend Yoshida despite lackluster content and bugs upon bugs especially in this expansion but he gets a pass because of his name. This game let's be real is mediocre at best lately. PVP is a dismal state of affairs. If you took away tomes and XP PVP would be dead. If you have been in any PVP matches people just run all over and not think before doing. Content has become so easy to feed to casual play that it has become a mind numbing experience.

FFXIV has become stale over the years and became less exciting. Nothing innovated has come out for this game in 5 years. Everything is rinse and repeat. The engine is outdated, character customization is bare bones, outfits start becoming recycled variants. The gearing up is such a drag and they know its a issue but rather you grind once a week for tomes to get something instead of addressing the needs. I want more out of this game not half-assed content and expect to be happy.

It will be a matter of time when a new MMO comes out and will overshadow FFXIV. Then Yoshida would of wished they implemented better content and QoL changes into FFXIV. Yoshida has become complacent and thinks this game is perfect and nothing new is needed. Why do you think people use shaders? Have you seen the colors in this game it's horrible and bland.