Quote Originally Posted by caffe_macchiato View Post
Your entire post fell apart when you said this. Final Fantasy XIV has not received $156 worth of content over the past year. The system is vastly outdated.

Over a billion people play live-service games that do not require subscriptions. At its best, Final Fantasy XIV represents 0.1% of the gaming market. The fact that FFXIV receives less content than a bottom-of-the-barrel gacha, and at higher cost, might be why Square Enix is losing record amounts of money.

The world's most valuable company, Microsoft, should not devote more than 0.1% of their attention to give a failing company special treatment.
Then I suppose it boils down to what it's worth to the player. I don't see spending $70 on D4 was worth it, and it wasn't. And nor the $40 dollars are year for the bargain battle pass....I don't see a long list of chores in exchange for cosmetics "content" worthy of my hard earned cash. And I sure as hell don't see the "Accelerated" battle pass as anything remotely worth purchasing....
Me: "So I pay more money to SKIP chores? Just So I can get cosmetics FASTER?"
Blizzard: "Yes! Doesn't that sound like a time saver?"
Me: "No, it sounds like exploitation of people that don't have time to play your game so you give them a "choice" to skip things they didn't even have the time to waste in the first place"
Blizzard: "Hmmm, then you prolly don't want to know that we grossly nerfed all the classes so it takes even longer, and for people that don't understand what real value is"
Me: *Blank Stare* "....I'm going to the local game store to get what ever amount of money I can out of this trash game I can while it's still relevant" *get's $55 dollars back*
Me: "Oh hey Neir: Automata for $15....*plays for 300 hours*

I also pay 19.99 a month ($240 a year) for FFXIV and have been for years....and I don't regret ANY of it...as I have got WAY more out of that investment...then I did from Diablo 4 in 3 months of owing the game. Call me a shill/white knight...whatever the new phrase is now if you want...but I know the value of FFXIV is hands down BETTER then any other MMO currently out there...WoW fell off the map. I will continue to play and pay for FFXIV as long as it continues to release content steadily the way that it does...that is just good business. I like what I see...I pay for it....people decide with their wallets. Blizzard has to stop smelling their own farts to ask us "But we made you a Diablo game....Why don't you like the Battle Pass...don't you like cosmetics?"

No I say....I like value and content I can absorb that offers real return on investment. I will no longer buy a live service game ever again after what D4 pulled. Complete waste of time and effort.