Why casual players don't 'just leave'

[sindriiisgaming]

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I don't feel like the genre is dead whatsoever, just it lacks any real innovation. For a time in shb 14s popularity jumped to uncontrollable levels due to mass exodus from wow. The game was filled with new players looking for a more laid back experience. Infact it was in this maelstrom of new players I met my irl partner of 3 years now. But the game is now suffering for several reasons

- the wow players would inevitably return home to wow.
This is just how ppl are they will always go to comfort.
- The content and or game was just not challenging enough.
Not for a wow player for sure. And as a desperate ploy to keep wow players hooked, yoship has catered solely to them the last 3 years. Which has led to an ever widening gap between casual and hardcore players.
- The content cycle is as dry as the sagoli desert.
The lack of new or high quality content has led to widespread dissatisfaction among the players, causing infighting and anti-criticism gatekeeping, there are just too many confirmed cases of this resulting in players walking away from a rapidly shifting toxic hardcore and toxic casual community. Non toxic spaces in ff are now harder to find than reasonable food bills.

As a result of all these things and more, ff is crumbling to its compettor wow, And with yoship radio silence on many large scale problems such as cheating in fru or player dissatisfaction leading to a massive upturn in modding and even xenosys vex making mod recommendations in his tier lists. Dwindiling msq quality and low quality content. The community will continue to trickle away until those QOL are addressed.