I used to be apart of the crowd that said that the "Go play other games" was such a chill approach, and removed pressure from you. Don't get me wrong, its good not to lock you hostage, but an MMO is meant to be played and its job is to keep you engaged because you are paying a SUB FOR IT. You are PAYING MONTHLY for it. If this was a free to play game I would be totally fine with this kind of content. "Just take a break dude, play other games." Not even starting on the lack of QoL, and systems that need polish / updating.

Ah yes, abandon your FC, community and friends that WANT to play the same game and WANT to enjoy content in it? That's single player mentality, and I swear this game is doing it's best to become a single player game instead of arranging things for the community to do together and creating systems that drive people together.


But then I realized it was simply for the reason that this game has barely any if any evergreen content, the gearing is not fun, stats lack any sort of nuance, materia is just for show, the leveling process is not a journey its just a chore of spamming same content over and over. The game is extremely alt unfriendly.

Go play other games = We have nothing of value to offer to you in a long term in our cycles and our systems are flawed and extremely surface level, please go enjoy games that do things better than us instead of us focusing on making our systems better.
The game won't die, it's 2nd only to WoW in numbers and both have their own crowds and some bounce between the two. No other MMO can compete against these. WoW has the gameplay cornered, FFXIV has the visuals and story...ish (Not so promising after EW and DT) and will continue along that path with the graphics being SLOOWLY updated.


I treat the game as it should be, an rp simulator. The gameplay has 0 meaning, the open world has 0 meaning aside from being pretty to look at.