Quote Originally Posted by Turtledeluxe View Post
I've always thought this has been absolutely true, at least since Endwalker, of this game. The team is busy curating lots of content that seems completely based on stereotypes of players.

XIV absolutely reeks of metrics, studies, surveys, etc. It has utterly lost any strong sense of creative decision making FF is known for outside the narrative.
Island sanctuary is the worst example of this

It’s like they saw everyone playing animal crossing during Covid and decided that a bad farming simulator was as the way to add content to the game

Island sanctuary doesn’t feel like anything a 14 player would have organically asked for