The Great FFXIV Exodus of 2024

[Banriikku]

It's more like trolling and some people make a game to their personality. That means sucess or failure counts for them to their life and for that reason such people even defend the most bs the devs can come up with. Maybe he/she is part of the "i want to win an argument on the internet" crowd. What i read until now from "Edwin" indicates "trolling".

Back to topic:
The game looses players. It is loosing paying players, free to play players are increasing as far i can tell. But those do not stay long and do not bring cash. We will see. SE had one of the worst years for a long time. The earnings report 2025 will do the trick. If enough money burns investors will start rattling the cage to get a course correction.

[JRonnie]

My anecdotal observations are there are still plenty of people hanging out in Limsa posing in glams and rping, still quite a few hard core raiders doing their thing, bugger all people logging in outside of that though. Trying to get any sort of mid-core content done is like pulling teeth at the moment, including the new 24 man.

[BabyYoda]

Today, 30/11/2024

I cancelled my subscription for this game after 1800 days being subscribed and I will not return till 8.0 hoping things changed to the better,
see you in 2 years.
reasons: Job design, combat design, frustration of PR talks, no interest for SE to improve or running the game for 10 years.
there is nothing promising for 8.0 until now we got nothing other than PR talks and they are just words with no actions we didn't see anything from Yoshi P and my trust on Yoshi P is very low compared to previous years.

Good bye,
Tunda King

[Noox-115]

Well its true that the people population keep going down since DT its incredibly low compared to EW its Below 200K player

When DT released it was about 400K active player

And between Last January and Mars about 1 Million

https://mmo-population.com/r/ffxiv

maybe the data is no exact but honestly I see it in game I play tank and sometimes i was like 15min - 20 min for a trial which never happened to me

[Blinkxz]

Content is not the issue with the game right now. This game has never released all that much content. Bigger issue is Job design and the current state of the MSQ. Jobs just aren't as fun as they used to be so your gonna get bored faster even in casual content. As for the MSQ End-walker was bad in my opinion but had the advantage of tying up Shadow Bringers and while I like Dawn-trail more or less many others didn't. I have also played in JP since ARR so I also didn't need to deal with the bad VA.

[CNitsah]

Content is not the issue with the game right now. This game has never released all that much content. Bigger issue is Job design and the current state of the MSQ. Jobs just aren't as fun as they used to be so your gonna get bored faster even in casual content. As for the MSQ End-walker was bad in my opinion but had the advantage of tying up Shadow Bringers and while I like Dawn-trail more or less many others didn't. I have also played in JP since ARR so I also didn't need to deal with the bad VA.

Lol. Even if the job design was perfect, 7.1 would still be done in 8 hours of play, and we'd still be bored out of our mind without anything to do since everything is one time and never again. Content (or rather, type of content we get : content not made to last) is THE problem of this game right now.

[Xeronia]

I am escorting a friend through the story who returned recently, it has been miserable and it this point they are willing to skip cutscenes just to be caught up and then go play WoW with a friend and myself. It took too long to get to the first dungeon and at no point is Wuk Lamat making a good case for all her screen time. We all collectively broke out the liquor at "We will solve their problems with a festival" and no one stopping such a stupid idea that worked because Wuk Lamat can't be wrong with her dumb idea. You could even fix that scene with Alphinaud or Alisaie catching it may have been a aetherial focus for the reeds but nope.

Needless to say replaying this due to a friend has not been a great look for the game in general and reminds me how bad this is to play through. The friend is also getting sick of half the electors pulling challenges that would have been nice to have the option to offer to craft the item and be turned down. Hey we need to make a saddle, no you can't mention you are a leatherworker. Hey we need to repair a float, no you can't mention you are a carpenter. Oh hey look we need to find a goldsmith...You get the idea. Having options that led to being turned down would have been nice to acknowledge people that did have advanced crafters.

[genuine_stranger]

I am escorting a friend through the story who returned recently, it has been miserable and it this point they are willing to skip cutscenes just to be caught up and then go play WoW with a friend and myself. It took too long to get to the first dungeon and at no point is Wuk Lamat making a good case for all her screen time. We all collectively broke out the liquor at "We will solve their problems with a festival" and no one stopping such a stupid idea that worked because Wuk Lamat can't be wrong with her dumb idea. You could even fix that scene with Alphinaud or Alisaie catching it may have been a aetherial focus for the reeds but nope.

Needless to say replaying this due to a friend has not been a great look for the game in general and reminds me how bad this is to play through. The friend is also getting sick of half the electors pulling challenges that would have been nice to have the option to offer to craft the item and be turned down. Hey we need to make a saddle, no you can't mention you are a leatherworker. Hey we need to repair a float, no you can't mention you are a carpenter. Oh hey look we need to find a goldsmith...You get the idea. Having options that led to being turned down would have been nice to acknowledge people that did have advanced crafters.

Yeah, but that would mean CBU3 actually putting some thought into blending story and gameplay. Instead, it feels like they’re designing everything for the DAUs (dumbest assumable users), so we get the most basic, paint-by-numbers approach. Heaven forbid they give us anything complex or acknowledge that players might have, you know, skills or brains.

[LucienFaust]

Lol. Even if the job design was perfect, 7.1 would still be done in 8 hours of play, and we'd still be bored out of our mind without anything to do since everything is one time and never again. Content (or rather, type of content we get : content not made to last) is THE problem of this game right now.

Yup jobs are hardly the problem we just simply don't have enough content. They seriously need to add either Criterion, deep dungeon or field operation at launch and cycle through them. I'd prefer field operation at launch and deep dungeon and Criterion together and update it as follows, 7.0, 7.2, 7.4 and maybe one more update towards the end to keep us busy until the expansion release. Sigh I just want to play their stupid game some more raids and dungeons are barely content that last.

[LucienFaust]

Also forgot to mention let us fucking queue with our friends in Crystal pvp at least with one friend on non ranked. Tired of them treating this game only for solo players only.