Disappointed With XIV Direction

[Ephremjlm]

I feel a similar sentiment that most others do in this thread and idk I don't plan on renewing my sub until 7.2 after it runs out (idk maybe ill stick around for starlight). But truthfully, I think right now they are biding time. For what? The exploratory zones. Here's to hoping they nail it and don't crap something out to "appease" the crowd (us) who complained last time.

And I feel like it shouldn't need to be said but idk how people still crap on older MMO's when they solved these issues. The short of it is that they were paced the way they were because 1. yeah they wanted that sub money, but 2. because they knew constant development for live service was an issue. If you don't want your players getting bored then they NEED things to do that THEY like. It blows my consumer and business mind that this game feels like it PUNISHES paying customers who WANT to continue paying for their service, and even worse telling them to unsub. It's dumb. Let the players decide what they want to do, you aren't their mom.

And furthermore this specific issue is compounded by the fact that FFXIV isn't catered to MMO audiences, but general gaming audiences. It's not a bad thing per say, but as a long time MMO enjoyer, sorry I played FFXI, OSRS, Diablo, etc. and "galm" isn't my end game, nor do I care about island sanctuary, the gold saucer, the insane amount of random story fetch quests, and honestly i'm about over one off instanced raiding where most of the time we AFK in a hub city like a mobile game. Not to say having variety is bad, but the other stuff wasn't made for me. And the same can probably said from someone who came from Habbo Hotel who loves the housing and glam system but plays battle content ultra casually. Neither of these are bad but now SE has dug themselves into a hole where they need to produce enough NEW content for EVERY kind of player, or they will be frustrated, and likely leave because they feel like their needs aren't being met (because they aren't).

We'll see what happens but SE, this team, and Yoshi P specifically really need to start taking these things more seriously. FFXIV is NOT World of Warcraft, and it is NOT OSRS, and there are plenty of new MMO's on the horizon that will likely make this game look outdated, and if SE isn't prepared their money well will run dangerously low, or worse dry.

[Reimmi]

For how much players in their hugbox like to parrot yoship they always forget when he said the most important players are the silent ones who leave

Posts like this are way more important than some thread about a hairstyle or a face being 1 pixel misaligned