Is it time to Sunset FFXIV?

[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

[Voidmage]

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

Your link can also be read as that they don’t need to invest much because the mmo market is profitable even without major content drops tbh.

[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

[TBerry]

I'd personally like to finish my mission of "craft fucking everything" thank you very much.

[Undrentide]

F11 only ran for 8 years before FF14 1.0 released. Why would it be surprising if another game was in development? I find it strange how Yoshi keeps saying we have 10 more years.

and FFXI is still going relatively strong at a higher sub price too.

[AnimaAnimus]

and FFXI is still going relatively strong at a higher sub price too.

FFXI was created with a lot of care. Content was thought out and designed to be engaging. Gear lasts a long time so even the heavy grinds are worthwhile since you will use that piece for years. Basically they put a lot more love and thought into XI and it shows. And its because they were trying to make a good FF game and not babies first mmo and a dress up manga.

[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.

[Naomi_Sinclaire]

I think its time to indeed sunset FFXIV & to ironically go the route of "playing other games" but permanently (unless something changes, & fast). The lack of content we've been getting since Endwalker is abysmal in my eyes, & I'm finding more & more enjoyment in other games these days given that FFXIV feels like a chore to play these days (log in to raid, log out, log in for roulettes, log out, etc). Its wild how things change so drastically, The only reason I survived the 9 month content drought of Endwalkers last half was thankfully due to Ultimate progression giving me something to do. I remember when I was so addicted to FFXIV that I'd play all day & night, but these days I can't even warrant the most basic interactions in-game.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

FFXI was created with a lot of care. Content was thought out and designed to be engaging. Gear lasts a long time so even the heavy grinds are worthwhile since you will use that piece for years. Basically they put a lot more love and thought into XI and it shows. And its because they were trying to make a good FF game and not babies first mmo and a dress up manga.

That's kind of disingenuous, because most FF games are not like FFXI, in terms of grindy and needing to spend months playing them to get anywhere. Also, Its an entirely different style of gameplay. A lot of XI is sitting around waiting. Its more comparable to EverQuest than modern MMOs. It reminds me a lot of Lineage II, which was also incredibly grindy.



Also, those same devs are the ones that made XIV 1.0 so...

[Ayer2015]

I feel like the game (Devs, writers, etc..) has painted itself into a corner. Maybe it's time to focus on the next MMO and start over. This one isn't fun anymore and I don't know how we can recover from it. They whole formula that it was built upon is stagnant. The game shouldn't drop to a lull in things to do and play time just in a few months after the release of a major expansion.. the brand is suffering.

I don't know if you're trolling or not, but for me at least the game just doesn't have the same pull as it used to. Its been a gradual progression though. I resigned to just playing the game when MSQ content drops last expansion, but frankly DT left me not caring about the MSQ at present.

I think MMOs are just not very novel anymore. Online play is very common across games in general at this point, and social media has exploded from the time when this genre was at its peak.