Zepla: Endwalker is the Worst FFXIV Expansion I have played

[Heavenchild]

But compared to year two of all prior expansions the numbers are higher. They always decline the further from the expansion release we get until the new one.

Again, there is much much more stuff in the cashshop than ever before.

[ZephyrMenodora]

Again, there is much much more stuff in the cashshop than ever before.

Copium. But I know I’m in a thread full of people salivating over a clickbait title on a Zepla video lol.

[Heavenchild]

Copium. But I know I’m in a thread full of people salivating over a clickbait title on a Zepla video lol.

This game has problems and it's importrant to speak about that. To say that everything is fine, while it is not, will just kill the game in longterm.
There is much more in the mogshop than ever before. They released a lot more and also the older stuff from events adds up. Thats an important thing in the financal statistics.

Maybe a lot of people haven't canceled subscription yet, but they don't log in. Most people I know don't log in anymore, because they feel like 'nothing interesting to do here', even shortly after a new major patch.
A lot of them don't even log in for the patch, after seeing the patchnotes. Those people won't pay for a game they don't play for ever.

Post EW was very weak, because most of the stuff they released feels incomplete. (VA/Criterion or IS). No field content, no relic journey, no sidestory with trials, less and less 'nice to have' in-game rewards.
We did not get 1 new looped dance for example, since the dwarvs tribal quests from ShB.

Thb I don't care anymore, about people like you, who defend this and pretend that everything would be fine.
I love this game and I say when something goes wrong, because I want the game to stay good!

And now I go touch my grass and leave this thread alone. And I am glad that Zepla had the courage to speak out, about all the problems.

[ZephyrMenodora]

This game has problems and it's importrant to speak about that. To say that everything is fine, while it is not, will just kill the game in longterm.
There is much more in the mogshop than ever before. They released a lot more and also the older stuff from events adds up. Thats an important thing in the financal statistics.

Maybe a lot of people haven't canceled subscription yet, but they don't log in. Most people I know don't log in anymore, because they feel like 'nothing interesting to do here', even shortly after a new major patch.
A lot of them don't even log in for the patch, after seeing the patchnotes. Those people won't pay for a game they don't play for ever.

Post EW was very weak, because most of the stuff they released feels incomplete. (VA/Criterion or IS). No field content, no relic journey, no sidestory with trials, less and less 'nice to have' in-game rewards. We did not get 1 new looped dance for example, since the dwarvs tribal quests from ShB.

Thb I don't care anymore, about people like you, who defend this and pretend that everything would be fine.
I love this game and I say when something goes wrong, because I want the game to stay good!

And now go I touch my grass and leave this thread alone. And I am glad that Zepla had the courage to speak out, about all the problems.

I hope you feel better getting this all off your chest while not caring about people like me.

[Theodric]

Again, there is much much more stuff in the cashshop than ever before.

Yep - and they're likely still trying to compensate for recent events such as this:



I'm also led to believe that Forspoken didn't do as well as the company hoped and even led to the studio responsible for it shutting down. There's more merchandise being sold than ever before, sure, though that doesn't necessarily translate into customer satisfaction where FFXIV is concerned because a lot of us are here to play a video game with some staying power to its offerings.

Then, of course, there's the matter of financial reports often being heavily curated in order to give the most positive impression possible. Another factor I'd note is that the CEO of the company itself recently changed.

The next content patch for FFXIV isn't out until October and the second part of it isn't due until January. Then there's going to be a fair long wait until Dawntrail. It'll be interesting to see how many new items go on sale in that time period compared to the amount of actual content for players to engage with.