Zepla: Endwalker is the Worst FFXIV Expansion I have played

[Payadopa]

The problem is the lack of content and what content is there is predictable and you have to do it with boring jobs. All of the above compound the issue. If we had, say, more interesting jobs grinding the same stuff wouldn't be that much of an issue for instance.

They just sandblasted off too much and people being bored and leaving is just a natural outcome. Now only the people who enjoy boredom are left and parade their same old "if you don't like it just leave" around.

[CStrife912]

OP : posts video about a content creator that says the game has issues, but that some things are good

TheGrimace : I hope OP gets banned for posting the video !!

Great community btw, too bad he seems to have infinite accounts so you dont get your echo chamber of toxic positivity, cry about it.

For most of the stuff you post I can agree with but this is just nah just nahhhh not a hill to die on there. You know full well who the poster is regardless of post topic. I’m sure we would all love to engage in genuine back and forth but when 90% stems from a multiple personality individual then it’s a bit hard not to get fed up with it. It waters down the forum and also the debating that could be had and it’s definitely something that should be addressed. I know you have alt accounts but your for the most part being constructive except a few posts here being a little aggressive.

[Snorky]

I didn't know who this streamer was until this thread. I follow another streamer who is bigger audience wise but I don't watch all the time. I watched this and while I found her to be entertaining I didn't hear any new ideas or suggestions just much of the same as I see on this forum and from the OP. I don't dislike this person I tried to watch some of her other streams but it wasn't interesting to me. To me this is not a apples to oranges discussion this is a apples to apples discussion. Some people like a crisp juicy apple as is some people want a apple to be a nice flaky crust gooey sweet pie. I'm somewhere in between. I'm not a raider, and I play a lot. I'm not disillusioned with FFXIV and I am having fun doing the things I do. No one is wrong for wanting things to be better, where any wrong comes in is only making it better for some and not for all. Balance is important, I have my own criticism about this game but it's not enough to make me start 6 or 8 threads condemning every little thing. When I look on the front page of this forum and see the same poster starting 6 to 8 different complaint threads that is sus. Sorry OP you do have a point on some points but mostly I see it as noise.

[Poporito_Popoto]

So which past troll with a new avatar are you?

[Snorky]

So which past troll with a new avatar are you?

I'm sorry are you referring to me as you can see my account creation date and this is my only one.

[Theodric]

This forums =/= "many"

I've been posting around these parts for a decade, mate. I've met and befriended a considerable amount of players around these parts over the years - quite a few of whom I'd have never met in-game due to playing on a completely different server/datacentre. There's a pretty broad range of people posting here and a significant number of lurkers as well.

It's also the primary official point of engagement between customers and the business since any other place of engagement relies on a third party platform as an in-between.

[WickedSensei]

Agreed 100%

[ZephyrMenodora]

I disagree, because we as players can gather a huge amount of statistics. We can analyze the lodestone like Lucky Bancho or the census website does, we can look at the Steam data, do polls, gather statistics on number of PFs at certain times, number of people in certain zones, number of sprouts at certain times, how often NN is at max capacity, the world status page shows us whether SE considers it congested. We have a lot of "fan websites" that have statistics they either do publish or could publish, as well as many large discord servers that have Server Insights available to them that will show them a lot of the same data SE can see about endgame player habits (spoiler: there is a spike when there is a patch).

But statistics are only as good as how you interpret them and two people can often use the same statistic to paint a completely different picture depending on their perspective of how the statistic came to be. That goes for developers too. SE could see the statistics looking good on the surface and it's possible they don't delve deep enough into them to see a problem somewhere.

The one thing we do know is that the Lucky Bancho statistics are pretty good right now and have been throughout Endwalker. Better than in prior expansions beside the WoW exodus moment in the months before Endwalker. If there is something deeper in the statistics that is a problem, it's ultimately not yet manifested in an overall decline of players back to, say, Heavensward levels, by those stats and it's not even declined below 1 million by those stats yet.

too.

Or you can just look at quarterly financials which are public info, but those aren’t popular here since they are higher than past expansions.

[RosaliaDLB]

Or you can just look at quarterly financials which are public info, but those aren’t popular here since they are higher than past expansions.

It certainly couldnt be because of the mog shop pumping out more stuff than ever before, and in shorter timespans as well, with less and less time between new mog shop stuff (and also for an increased price than in the past, I forgot to say that so I had to edit)

certainly couldnt be that.

[Nebelheim]

Or you can just look at quarterly financials which are public info, but those aren’t popular here since they are higher than past expansions.

Financial reports dont reflect daily/monthly logins though. Just because financials are up could be a variety of reasons. It could be from an influx of mogstation sales mixed with subs from ff11 and 14 and dragon quest 10. people seem to forget the mmo division isn't only ff14 it accounts money brought in from 2 other mmos and a cash shop.