I feel like i cant support Squex or cbu3 anymore

[Fatch38]

Having a job/going to school/only having 2 hrs a night or weekends to play definitely helps you pace. You don't "have" to clear/grind everything in the first week.

some content doesn't even survive a week (hello criterion) but can totally agree on that take otherwise

[Kaurhz]

It never does cease to amaze me the number of people that just create thread upon thread upon thread with the exact same premise as one of the previous, albeit summarized and worded differently. - I mean your prerogative and all... But...

Really, this is probably part of the reason why you're find it so easily disgustful..?, and why some others aren't, even with longstanding issues they may have with the game. Some people will just go along their day, play this game or whatever other game, emote and poor quality statue aside.

Personally, for me, I've seen far, far more predatory things in gaming than spending a little on a statue which also offers an emote.

For some people their support doesn't hinge on the exact same metrics as yours does. Some people simply won't care about cash shop items - I don't, it's peoples' prerogative on how and what they spend their money on.

Just as there people that might find exploratory content to be the utter peak and best content in the game, 100000/10 rating, plz gib more expansion-after-expansion. But there are some people that simply find that the content loses it's flare after doing the same Skirmish (glorified FATE) after a dozen times, or the same critical engagement for the 8th time, for some people the content loses it's novelty pretty quickly, and only ever find it as a chore to engage further.

Like, people are going to be satisfied and dissatisfied with different things to you, it ain't really that unfathomable to understand.

[Avoidy]

some content doesn't even survive a week (hello criterion) but can totally agree on that take otherwise

Yeah the content delivered is really sparse and then there's barely a reason to go back and do it again since it's so repetitive that usually once or twice is enough. If you do savage, the replay factor might be a little better if you care, but even then that's just going back and doing it once a week. Frankly, I don't know how people "pace" this stuff out when they drip feed us like 5 hours worth of stuff and expect it to last for 4 months. Maybe they are logging in for 4 minutes a day, idk.

[Delily]

ngl.. im just sick of seeing things in the game getting worse, the quality of content lowering, the amount of content lessening, the gap between content getting wider and the new expansion information being fragmented and not having much to it.. (no release date, no job action trailer.. 3 trails before the final one) all for the sake of drawing things out, or delaying things to not be called out

the cashshop has become predatory to the point where it feels like they respond to players begging for content by adding new cash glam or $400 figures with predatory emotes.

im starting to look at this company, this game.. and feel disgust in the place where i used to feel respect for them having built this game up so well. Im currently playing monster Hunter world, and im asking myself.. am i excited for dawntrail, yea.. but im also kinda repulsed by it too. cause the idea of giving them more money to keep predating on players in a way that now feels kinda dispicable.

you are free to tell me to unsub, leave give you my gil all the ususal toxic rubbish, but i wonder; how, you- the people who DO feel this way continue to justify youre support of FFXIV
and im not asking that in a mean way.. im asking it legitimatley. how DO you do it

TL;DR. If you think FFXIV's cash shop is predatory, I'll show you Lost Ark's.

[Turtledeluxe]

I actually did unsub and it feels great. You are correct that XIV appears to be on autopilot with a core staff that's desperate to do something but have their hands tied by particular players who want the game to be the way it is. It's pretty sad. I feel like these issues have likely been persisting for a while but in a funny way, the main MSQ was distracting people from the many outdated issues and creative issues happening.

CBU3 is working on a new unannounced game, DLC for XVI. and XIV all at once.

[WantlessYoYo]

My biggest concern and main complain is that this game doesn't see even a fraction back of what it makes, and you can see it

This is SE money cow yet it feels like they just put a bare minimum for the content to exist

The fact "Hildibran eats half your budget", are you serious? I'm not blaming the animators who must LOVE making Hildi i'm just AMAZED ONLY HILDI is half their budget in terms of animations, because it just means 1, it's giga expensive to do, or 2, they have so little it's a laughable amount to work with, but is because it works with said minimun why would they invest more

I wish one day we get to see how little(or in the contrary who knows, much) SE actually invests into XIV

[AlucaDragonheart]

My biggest concern and main complain is that this game doesn't see even a fraction back of what it makes, and you can see it

This is SE money cow yet it feels like they just put a bare minimum for the content to exist

The fact "Hildibran eats half your budget", are you serious? I'm not blaming the animators who must LOVE making Hildi i'm just AMAZED ONLY HILDI is half their budget in terms of animations, because it just means 1, it's giga expensive to do, or 2, they have so little it's a laughable amount to work with, but is because it works with said minimun why would they invest more

I wish one day we get to see how little(or in the contrary who knows, much) SE actually invests into XIV

Agreed, it's really irritating that Square Enix uses this game to fund products that are already going to be dead on arrival when they release(Foam Stars anyone?) instead of putting that money into the game itself.

[Gemina]

Frankly, I don't know how people "pace" this stuff out when they drip feed us like 5 hours worth of stuff and expect it to last for 4 months. Maybe they are logging in for 4 minutes a day, idk.

I wouldn't look at it as "pace" the content out. It's simply a matter of rationing the content because you know there isn't going to be anything new for awhile. Granted, people will eat up the MSQ, raids, and seasonal events to avoid spoilers, and to also be able to talk about it with other players while it still fresh. But things like side quests, deep dungeon, variant dungeons, EX/Unreal trials, Custom Deliveries, Tribal quests, Island Sanctuary, etc. can all be done at your leisure. If you burn through all of this and are then crying that there isn't enough content to go around, it's on you. Do other things with your time rather than consume FFXIV content like a locust.

There is also a ton to do in the game if you're up to it. PF is always looking for players to join them. There is big game fishing, which can consume all your time in the game if you let it. You can work on the sight seeing log, or take up a ARR relic quest for one or more jobs. To this day the ARR relics are the best looking weapons you can get with their own distinctive design and glow, and they've become relics in not only in the game, but in the literal definition of the term. Veteran players will know and appreciate what you put yourself through to get it even by today's requirements, and new players tend to awe over them and ask where you got it.

The game has been around a long time now. If you can't find something to do, it's not due to a lack of content. It's your lack of interest.

[Mcg55ss]

i just dont agree here man. i think the majority of ppl would not feel happy not to own these emotes, would feel bad, excluded and left out. in that sense.. it is no longer a choice. when the alternitive to spending cash is feeling miserable you cant be included. thats predatory

ok but FEELING excluded doesnt = essential. Also that;s not on SE that's on a weak person or community pressure nothing to do with the company but keep crying these post are good for a laugh.

[Stormpeaks]

i just dont agree here man. i think the majority of ppl would not feel happy not to own these emotes, would feel bad, excluded and left out. in that sense.. it is no longer a choice. when the alternitive to spending cash is feeling miserable you cant be included. thats predatory

if you feel "excluded and left out" because you cant do /playdead, the problem is on you dude lmao