The reason FFXIV is lacking content is because of casualization.

[CStrife912]

Well for one in regards to 16 and releasing on console first....so what its been like that for a long time where console gets it first then PC. Also recent data showed 33 million PS5s now as the userbase...UK sales went up 415% in January alone..Sony even said shortages are done its alleviated you shouldn't have much of an issue getting them. I work in electrical retail we have loads of PS5s in now...it's actually harder to get an Xbox Series console then a PS5.

Second....the game went into production around 2016...if they were pulling staff etc you'd have seen a drop off in quality for years....yet we have SB-EW and all subsequent patches worth of content....like come on with that logic of its doom and gloom its silly.

[MintnHoney]

if they were pulling staff etc you'd have seen a drop off in quality for years

I mean, as an AST main, I can tell you a little something about a drop in quality over the past few expansions.
As a healer, I can point out an entire subforum that, over 2 and a half expansions, predicted failings and drops in quality, along with domino effects to other parts of the game (particularly the other roles). Not that you'd need to be a healer to see these things, but, we've certainly seen quite a bit of decline over the years.

[Krotoan]

Oh look. someone with a character with one Healer at 90 but all crafting and gathering disciplines leveled is spamming bait threads. I wonder who it could possibly be?

[Soge01]

Except not really because that was a response made by disillusioned people whom decided to change their formula of focusing on the mobile market with an entirely different audience and here is people doing the oppossite when every FF game has always been released as a console exclusive game first and PC second yet people are whining that they arent being catered to first becuz PC mastuh rais

To be fair, it would be nice if console exclusives released with PC at the same time. Regardless of whether the newest console are hard to get or not. You'd probably make more money this way, but then again. The companies that own these consoles would probably whine about PC sites cutting into their profits. Well, mostly Sony. Microsoft has that game pass thing that lets you play xbox games on PC. If Sony did this, they'd be making a crap ton more money.

Though, this is just my very casual observational opinion.

[RyuDragnier]

To be fair, it would be nice if console exclusives released with PC at the same time. Regardless of whether the newest console are hard to get or not. You'd probably make more money this way, but then again. The companies that own these consoles would probably whine about PC sites cutting into their profits. Well, mostly Sony. Microsoft has that game pass thing that lets you play xbox games on PC. If Sony did this, they'd be making a crap ton more money.

Though, this is just my very casual observational opinion.

They don't do it because they probably know how the internet works. Meaning yar har fiddly tee dee, people will pirate it, so may as well make as much money as you can on it first.

[Atelier-Bagur]

To be fair, it would be nice if console exclusives released with PC at the same time. Regardless of whether the newest console are hard to get or not. You'd probably make more money this way, but then again. The companies that own these consoles would probably whine about PC sites cutting into their profits. Well, mostly Sony. Microsoft has that game pass thing that lets you play xbox games on PC. If Sony did this, they'd be making a crap ton more money.

Though, this is just my very casual observational opinion.

I mean I'm not going to argue with that logic. I would love that the game were released multi-plat on the same date but thats not how things work unfortunately.

[Shinkuno]

This is the main thing here. A strange thing to notice about people is how they seem to forget what it was like to not know something. We were all sprouts once and we all struggled to understand what we were supposed to do. The game as well has struggled to have a consistent language to tell us what to do, but now that language is getting much more consistent. The barrier to entry is lower partially because there's less complexity, but mainly because the method of communication is being made more consistent.

Sorry but you dont design a game around people that are barely able to press 2 buttons, thats what tutorials are for, if they still cant manage that once they played through the game and are doing endgame content, they either get better or quit

[hagare]

they said "more complex and difficult" and yes, if you compare the questing experience now to then, ofcourse it wasnt ultrahardcore1337 hard, but it was definitely more challenging then, i remember on my rogue i would often get near death just from stuff i aggrod trying to go to the next msq npc. I bet alot of people that currently are lv90 would have never gotten that far before quitting if the "difficulty" was still the same

*looks at solo duty now and then* hmmm......

[Shinkuno]

*looks at solo duty now and then* hmmm......

you mean how people purposefully fail them so they can brainafk them on easy mode setting?

[RitsukoSonoda]

To be fair, it would be nice if console exclusives released with PC at the same time. Regardless of whether the newest console are hard to get or not. You'd probably make more money this way, but then again. The companies that own these consoles would probably whine about PC sites cutting into their profits. Well, mostly Sony. Microsoft has that game pass thing that lets you play xbox games on PC. If Sony did this, they'd be making a crap ton more money.

Though, this is just my very casual observational opinion.

Given the number of issues we've seen on PC ports of games that were originally designed to run on a console. You'd at least hope they'd use that exclusivity period to help make sure the port doesn't follow that trend.