Is it time to Sunset FFXIV?

[MaxDetroit]

I think they value investing their time to another failure game instead of FFXIV, they just want to have their own god of war..

For all you Doom-Sayers, FF14 is still the major cash cow in Square Enix Lineup. They will continue to support this game, a lot. It's a money machine.
After the negative Feedback for Dawntrail and Yoshi P back from his FF16 encounter, you bet they will invest a lot into the game to get everything back on track.

See:
https://automaton-media.com/en/news/...le-games-drop/
https://www.bitget.com/news/detail/12560604143370

[BabyYoda]

For all you Doom-Sayers, FF14 is still the major cash cow in Square Enix Lineup. They will continue to support this game, a lot. It's a money machine.
After the negative Feedback for Dawntrail and Yoshi P back from his FF16 encounter, you bet they will invest a lot into the game to get everything back on track.

See:
https://automaton-media.com/en/news/...le-games-drop/
https://www.bitget.com/news/detail/12560604143370

You are so out of touch sorry but I am out

[Larirawiel]

For all you Doom-Sayers, FF14 is still the major cash cow in Square Enix Lineup.

Jepp, and this is the problem. If you have one cash cow then you better pay attention, that this cash cow stays alive.





Cheers

[Andanie]

This is my biggest criticism.

Square Enix seems to refuse to give FFXIV any real money and it's WILD because they're losing it everywhere else. FFXIV desperately needs funds and man power and some innovation, but they seem to never have the funds.

I don't think the game is dying, but it will suffer if they keep up the current trend.

[PharisHanasaki]

While I agree with some of the points being made, I would like to remind us that we brought some of this upon ourselves. Take AST for example, the job was flexible, could be played as regen or shields, had buffs and debuffs, and a card deck that could be played multiple ways (enhanced buffs, AoE buffs, or buffs with extended duration). It was not perfect, and RNG was a bit frustrating at times, but it was fun to play. Then we get a minority in the forums, who mind you were not even healer mains, complaining about how awfully hard the job is, how the only useful card was The Balance because we focus on DMG more than fun play, and every other card was garbage because it messes my rotation, etc, and the job was dumbed down and homogenized to a point where you are practically playing any other healer. They attempted to diversify the buff kit once again, but for me it still doesn't feel interesting or fun to play AST anymore, if anything it feels like a chore. And don't get me started on SCH.

Homogenization of roles killed the fun.

Story wise, I don't feel like the majority here. I don't know what you guys were expecting, but for me it was a fun start. We got closure to the Hydaelyn ark in EW, so DT is kind of like the ARR of whatever is to come next. I don't think anyone had fun running to and from the Waking Sands, but at that point we were all new to the game and had so much to do that it kept us distracted from the slow pacing and chore-ish bits of the story. ARR was awfully long before they cut off some of the quests. To me, despite the odd bits here and there, the experience was positive.

SB is still the worst expansion in my opinion, Lyse < Wuk Lamat by a mile, I was glad she left the scions for good. Wuk Lamat is not my favorite either, but I don't think she's going to join us permanently (fingers crossed) so I don't mind. The pacing of SB was so bad finishing the MSQ was a pain for me. Shinryu was amazing though. The patches were much better, but the main expansion was B.A.D.

[Havenchild]

While I agree with some of the points being made, I would like to remind us that we brought some of this upon ourselves. Take AST for example, the job was flexible, could be played as regen or shields, had buffs and debuffs, and a card deck that could be played multiple ways (enhanced buffs, AoE buffs, or buffs with extended duration). It was not perfect, and RNG was a bit frustrating at times, but it was fun to play. Then we get a minority in the forums, who mind you were not even healer mains, complaining about how awfully hard the job is, how the only useful card was The Balance because we focus on DMG more than fun play, and every other card was garbage because it messes my rotation, etc, and the job was dumbed down and homogenized to a point where you are practically playing any other healer. They attempted to diversify the buff kit once again, but for me it still doesn't feel interesting or fun to play AST anymore, if anything it feels like a chore. And don't get me started on SCH.

Homogenization of roles killed the fun.

Story wise, I don't feel like the majority here. I don't know what you guys were expecting, but for me it was a fun start. We got closure to the Hydaelyn ark in EW, so DT is kind of like the ARR of whatever is to come next. I don't think anyone had fun running to and from the Waking Sands, but at that point we were all new to the game and had so much to do that it kept us distracted from the slow pacing and chore-ish bits of the story. ARR was awfully long before they cut off some of the quests. To me, despite the odd bits here and there, the experience was positive.

SB is still the worst expansion in my opinion, Lyse < Wuk Lamat by a mile, I was glad she left the scions for good. Wuk Lamat is not my favorite either, but I don't think she's going to join us permanently (fingers crossed) so I don't mind. The pacing of SB was so bad finishing the MSQ was a pain for me. Shinryu was amazing though. The patches were much better, but the main expansion was B.A.D.

I will disagree slightly here in that AST mains were complaining here as well and those complaints were at least accurate. People just have a hard time accepting here that their "requests" tend to have unforseen consequences because they don't tend to be well thought out from the beginning.