The State of Endwalker: A 2 year Recap.

[Nebelheim]

And the perfect counter to the current state of how cringe FFXIV has become is the fact that CBU3 went on to make a game that was almost entirely aligned with my tastes and interests in FFXVI. If you want to claim some kind of victory in FFXIV as the game continues to spiral further and further away from what brought players like me to it then you are free to do so. But FFXVI gave me everything I wanted that was ripped away from FFXIV.

I stand by everything I've said. If anything, I am more entrenched than ever in my opinions and delight in the fact that I have a recent mainline FF title that validates them all. And I maintain that FFXIV would have been better off not catering to the crowd that dragged it down to it's current state. They can do so much better, and I hope that someday in the distant future after DT has had it's predictable outcome that a return to form in XIV finally happens.

First things first they need to figure out how to make content and gameplay that doesn't turn people off after a few hours though. Until that happens there's no game here, only a visual novel akin to the FFXIV AU High School manga.

I don't get how you can enjoy ff16 but not ff14 when there stories and questing are structured exactly the same with how they tell the stories. The only difference is ff16 has more mature scenes and shows off character deaths in better ways. I don't have problems with your post or you in general but it's also hard to take your words seriously when you keep going back on your word of quitting for good and can't see how very similar ff16 is to ff14. FF16 doesn't even feel like a rpg it plays like god of war and devil may cry the only rpg elements it really has is it's questing and story structure.