Quote Originally Posted by Red-thunder View Post
Everyone defends all the modding and plugins and ERPing and NSFW courtesan venues nowadays.

You know in Heavensward and Stormblood, back when we actually had a game, this sort of topic wouldn't even come up in the first place because everyone is busy playing the game.

Now it's different. The existence of these venues and mods allow SE to get away with producing nothing, making patch cycles take 1-1.5 months longer than before, and pumping out garbage, formulaic AI-tier slop every patch.

They don't care about fixing their netcode because anyone who cares already got Alexander or NC.

They don't care about their graphic overhaul barely doing anything because everyone who cares already uses Reshade and textures.

They don't care about their atrocious uninformative UI because any raider who cares already use plugins that solve that.

They don't care about pumping out garbage formulaic content because players will make their own fun by ERPing with each other.

Such is the state of FF14 in 2025. Actually already started in 2022 but now it's entrenched.

If anyone actually wants a real game get out of MMOs.
Just because I don't care when adult people do private adult stuff, that does not mean that I don't care for the bad state and problems of the game. ^^"
But normally when talking about problems there was an army of whiteknights attacking everyone that he/she is just burned out.
I speak about the true problems for many years. :c

Nevermind, have a nice day : )