Quote Originally Posted by DynnDiablos View Post
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The game is absolutely shifting its focus to players who love hardcore content, raiders and seems to be listening to the XIV content creators and what they want more than the actual player base...


So, just quit. Well, it's easy to say that, but this game has been a special part of my life for over a decade. It's not so simple as just quit. However, I am reaching that point. And I truly feel, for me, to make the break it would need to be a permanent blowing up of the bridge. A complete character and account deletion with zero ties left. I haven't reached that point yet, but I am so so close. If the story was at least keeping me interested there would be a silver lining, but this new writing team ain't it. And I have found 7.0 and 7.1 to be some of the worst storytelling I've ever experienced.

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Sorry to hear all this.
Please don't delete your account or character. Just in case
Maybe because you entirely don't need to.
I'm confident that if you have a break for long enough, then when you come back, you'll find you don't have the social circle anymore, you went be having a lot of fun, and you will likely leave again soon after.
Just in case dint delete your account, because it's not necessary.

As for the content creators, they used to have fantastic ambassadors for casual like Zepla. It's ironic if that's what they have been doing, because all I've been doing is down voting Chaotic videos to try and get the message through to YouTube to take them out of my personal suggestions. One particular content creator I just flat told you tube not to recommend them at all for anything ever again. I don't like being condescended to in my personal space. Other creators the time has been, some creators the tone has been smug and taunting. But I rarely ever see them in my suggestions so, whatever.
There now aren't any XIV creators that YouTube suggests to me and there haven't been in a long time.