Congratulations Square Enix! FF4 surpasses WoW this year. (Source inside)

[Stormpeaks]

You must not be keeping up with Dragonflight.

Here, let me remind you.

Citadel area? Dead. Unless you super outgear it, you won't even be able to do all the dailies there. Good luck trying to kill the rares you summon with keys if no ones there to help you.

Cooking Event? You'll never reach Legendary, as no one does them anymore.

Centaur Hunts? Dead.

Elemental Storms? No one does them.

Winter Storm timeline? Dead. No one ever goes there.

Forbidden Reach? Dead.

The Caverns? Was dead in its first week.

Time Rifts? They'll be dead when the Dreamsurges happen.

Players that come in late to Dragonflight are bombarded with disjointed questlines (So, new players have no idea which ones to do before the other for the story), the quest areas are empty of players, the zone activities are impossible for them to solo so they are told to just skip it. I, like many, requested that Blizzard scale these areas down (as Blizzard easily could, as they had no issue scaling all Mob Health/Damage up by 25% and nerf all healing by 25% - a BAD decision as they did this due to High Key M+ Players and ended up screwing over all the other majority playerbase) and to reduce the grind for them as they're dead areas. That was met with Blizzard being silent and the "white knights" would attack anyone that suggested making things better for other players. Their mindset is that everyone should "Suffer like they did".

Then there's the WoW Token. It has only gotten more ridiculous as prices rise which means there's no reason to farm or work towards anything that can be bought with Gold. Buy a WoW Token or RMT as Blizzard supports it (Blizzard never removes RMT bought gold, nor bans the Buyers. All the Top guilds participate in RMT trade and sell carries for profit. Blizzard knows that they do. They brag about it. Yet aren't banned). I've seen the same Bots trains in the same areas grinding 24/7 and not getting banned until Blizzards 6-12 month ban wave. Then they're back again, as they've more than made their money back to profit and to buy a boost to 60 and a sub.

It's almost like WoW is made for people that actually want to do content, and not focused on leveling/MSQ like FFXIV is, I know I know, it's crazy that there actually is content in a game, since you are so used to FFXIV and the 2 days of content once every 6 months, but some games actually do focus on content and not questing and leveling.

As for the RMT part, I am laughing pretty hard, have you ever seen what's under the limsa aetheryte with idle cam ? RMT is prevalent in this game, and nothing is done agaisnt it, it's been left like this for years after years, gil sellers and players are literally trading in the middle of Limsa in front of everyone to see, you can see them with their busy status, and always around level 10, it's very obvious what's going on there, the only difference is that WoW made it legal by putting it in their game, while FFXIV is keeping this stance of "cant see what's going on and cant hear lalalalalala" as everything happens right under their nose