Quote Originally Posted by Turtledeluxe View Post
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.
I think we understand very well.

the people who complain have every right to. however they constantly complain and still.. pay money to be here.

this is an mmo, kinda... people will always come and go. when they are done with what they wanted to do, or experience, they will play it less. revenue will always rubber band because of this.

are the devs complacent? I dont know, I am not in their work place or in their heads. many still enjoy the game, and some of us even understand that things are not always how we want but we enjoy it enough to keep paying for it until it doesnt do it for us any more. People such as the OP post countless variations of the same tired drivel, and yet keep rewarding SE (or any game company for that matter) with their money.

so please feel free to educate me on why the rest of us are misguided when we still enjoy things, and the OP doesnt, and expresses that DAILY and still... gives them money. is the attention they get from a handful of forum goers worth it?

we seem to understand.. but do you?