At this point will FFXIV collapse if all mods and third party tools disappear?

[Absurdity]

I appreciate your sincerity. I haven't been around long enough to doubt that the gameplay has been "dumbed down" but isn't savage still a thing and ultimates? If there is an argument by raiders/elite players or whatever they are called, that they would like MORE difficult content in the game for them, I think that is completely valid. I want this game to be large and healthy, even if a good chunk of that is folks doing content that I have zero interest in.

This isn't even about hard content for me, although the fact that everything below extreme is bafflingly easy plays a part in it. Gameplay is the simple act of playing your class/job, the content is actually irrelevant in this case because if I have fun playing my job then I'll have fun in even the most braindead of dungeons.
But no matter how difficult they make the savage "mechanics song and dance", I am still bored out of my mind spamming 1-2-3 once the initial process of learning mechanics is done and it's an optimistic estimate that it will even last throughout progress. Just because you make me run zigzag across the arena every 30 seconds it doesn't suddenly become engaging or satisfying.


They are still making difficult fights but those will never be able to last for 8 months between raid tiers, so even if I still enjoyed doing those fights it would never be able to stave off the boredom.

But those "depressed that others find joy chatting in Limssa and playing dressup" I just dont get that attitude. Do we think Yoshi P is going to stop developing hard content because they throw RPers a bone like dance floors, while most of the "RP stuff" is on the mog station? I just don't understand the need for animosity between the two communities. We should clamor for content that we can ALL enjoy.

Read it again, I find it depressing that sitting in limsa and chatting is probably more satisfying than actually playing the game's content. This isn't a criticism of the limsa chatters, it is a criticism of how bland doing anything else in the game has become.