We need to talk about the PC Gamer article

[Turtledeluxe]

I skimmed the article but didn't read it fully. Seemed like she was complaining about how SE continues to use the same content release formula and wants them to change it because she's bored, then tossed in a few community memes in an attempt to gain credibility.

I feel like all I needed to know about the author was included in the profile at the end. "When she's not staring at her bunny girl, she can be found sweating out rhythm games, pretending to be good at fighting games or spending far too much money at her local arcade. " In other words, she doesn't really play the game. She just logs in to stare at her Viera for whatever reason.

I'll repeat what I've said many times before. If you're not longer enjoying the game, take your money elsewhere. Blizzard didn't pay attention to what players had to say until WoW players took their money elsewhere, or stopped playing modern retail to play Classic instead.

SE will not behave any differently. As long as FFXIV is not falling massively short of whatever revenue goals they've set for the game, they're going to stick with a formula that is making money for them. When it stops making money, that's when they'll think about change.

16 likes and none of you seem to understand

- People have left the game
- They're leaving the game
- They're playing it less
- Revenue has been down for several quarters

So you're being incredibly redundant. SE devs are complacent and think the bump from 7.0 that is inevitable will somehow justify them. What the article is pointing out is what if 7.0 doesn't really sustain hype and players just continue the downtrend? You're acting like poor performance is just "woops this week is bad we need to change the game". A fundamental shift in behavior likely won't begin until the months after 7.0 is released.

So just as with WoW, it wasn't one day "oops 5 million people quit". It was years of annoying content drops and negative feedback.

And I can't emphasize enough devs and players make this assumption-- "Oh it's just the end of a patch cycle, 7.0 will bring the game back to where it was". Yeah keep assuming that. Players sang Endwalker's praises for two months at most. Once the glow of MSQ is over again we will see how engaging the game is in its current state.