I need to vent about FFXIV as a whole at this point.

[Kaliesto]

For game to be "massively multiplayer" it requires, definitionally, a massive number of players. It is largely the subs of the "Casual base" that you so despise that finance the game, "base" being a highly-pertinent word here.

These players do not actually dictate game design, however. The state of FF14 is a result of decisions made by SQEX. You're waving your stick at the wrong cloud.

Those decisions were made because "that crowd complained", they clearly have a hold on the developers more than you think.

I'm done pretending otherwise, and I'm done giving them a pass.\

and who gives a damn they finance the game, I rather let this game go down in flames than watch it die a very slow and very uncreative and highly boring mess because this crowd dictates how this game is played; its way too obvious now.


But yes

I should be mad at the developers too, but the casual crowd is also part of the equation of this entire mess.