This game is on a terrible state right now.

[Ath192]

There have been many interviews in the past where the developers themselves admit to not planning out things in advance, particularly in regards to the story. Furthermore, if they did plan things out in advance and still - ten years on - hadn't figured out how to create content with staying power then that would be quite worrying!

The game's population also isn't hugely impressive, especially when a significant chunk of players aren't even playing the game but using it as a weird Second Life style lobby so they can attend 'venues' and alter the game to be utterly unrecognisable as Final Fantasy XIV. Plenty of evidence of which can readily be found by following the FFXIV tag over on Twitter.

I won't link it here for obvious reasons.

TBH Mark Zuckerberg could buy the game, remove the DF, call it the metaverse, and a lot of people wouldn't care. But its super sad because this was supposed to be a game, not a lobby.

[aveyond-dreams]

TBH Mark Zuckerberg could buy the game, remove the DF, call it the metaverse, and a lot of people wouldn't care. But its super sad because this was supposed to be a game, not a lobby.

Precisely. Why would I pay 10 bucks a month for a subscription here when I can just open up any number of apps and talk to people for free?

[Boblawblah]

Precisely. Why would I pay 10 bucks a month for a subscription here when I can just open up any number of apps and talk to people for free?

Yes, why indeed..