what makes an MMO fell dead

[Connor]

Its the most un-mmorpg game ive ever played.

I had this exact same thought whilst playing today. Job abilities in particular have been changed drastically over the years to basically remove any need to think about other people whatsoever (i.e Foe Requiem, Astrologian’s original cards, Refresh/Tactician, Virus, etc). Basically, the game’s most salient message is ‘Don’t pay attention to those other people in the dungeon and don’t you dare think about trying to help them’.

Then when they do add something that actually encourages team play they make it 120 sec cool-down meta which then completely defeats the purpose of encouraging team play. I mean, if all jobs use their buffs at the exact same time whilst going through your standard maximal dps rotation, without ever having to consider the context, then they may as well just be auto-activated passives every 120 seconds.

Frankly I wouldn’t be surprised if they go 100% full-on solo mode and delete the role system entirely. Making every job ‘role agnostic’ so it’s literally impossible to be affected by other players.
Can’t have players being held back by something like job roles , that’s just stressful . They might actually to think about building a party instead of just going in and pressing the glowing buttons!

Where even are all these ‘support despisers’ SE is catering to anyway? I don’t remember seeing floods of forums posts begging them to make it so your party members are wholly irrelevant to your gameplay lol. The last complaints I saw about support was literally like 4.0 when people kept bitching about Requiem having a 1.5s cast time because ‘mUh DeEpS’ lol (does 1.5s even drop dps enough to significantly affect a parse lol?). So they nuked it out of existence then we’re like ‘let’s never do one of these again’, and eventually gave birth to the 120 sec meta. Nobody can complain about party support if it doesn’t exist, I guess lol.

I mean, if you ask me, catering a game to literal no one then wondering why players are dissatisfied is probably what kills an MMO lol. Or at the very least is going to start causing problems in future