#WukLamatMustDie

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But it doesn't change the fact that the MSQ is the main attraction. You remove it, you lose most of the players.
If you remove gathering, crafting, housing of the game or endgame activities, FF14 won't be as good anymore yes, but it could still work.

I see your point here, but I think it may be a bit unfair. FFXIV is 99% MSQ gate-locked. If you removed the MSQ, we don't actually even know what this game would look like. It has married the MSQ to the gameplay for so long that removing it would leave people without a knee-jerk response out to the sheer shock.

FFXIV is MSQ, I woefully agree. I think it's a mistake the way it's done, and it means that when they release an expansion with questionable story it irrevocably damages all of FFXIV.

I am just saying how it is, if you play an MMO and it gets an expansion then most of the buy is to be able to access content in that expansion and the story just being a side bonus, most content creation comes with interacting with other players in an MMORPG, being silly about everything else is just like any other hate speech...

Factually, objectively, and I'd argue even legally, incorrect.

"Most content creation comes from interaction with[...]" Yes, interaction is key in MMO, but interaction is not 'content', and it is not 'created content' either: it's spontaneous reaction from interaction. If I go to Alabama and someone says "The end is nigh" I don't think "Wow whoever paid him to say that is off the mark by a few years." This interactions are not 'content creation' at any stage. If they were, every single FFXIV player could sue CBU3 for their royalties on their share of the interactions that were sold as part of the expansion. Companies don't advertise it that way for a damn good reason.

"Being silly about everything else is just like any other hate speech." Just, wow: so the only valid complaints are hate speech? If I buy a house and you take away my bathroom, I'm gonna be pissed. Sure I didn't buy the house for that bathroom, but you robbed me of that bathroom and I paid for it. This is hate speech?

You need to touch grass, ASAP. You're in no position to tell others what they have a right to expect for their purchase, you're no advocate of the brand, and you're definitively not well-versed in the concept of what 'content' even is. Please refrain from spreading this nonsense, the topic is already charged enough without your misinformation addled argument.