Quote Originally Posted by yesnt View Post
Most MMO players just want a reasonable experience for their money. I don't want to quit. I want the game to be decent.
You're not going to get the player base to agree on what constitutes decent. The members of my Free Company don't even agree about the state of the game. A few of us are stepping away from the game pending changes that may make it enjoyable to us again. Others are happy with it as is and continue to log in to play as usual.

Who do you think SE is more likely to listen to?

Continuing to pay for game time isn't going to cause the game to change to your satisfaction when other players are satisfied with how it currently is.

In the long run, it's your money. You can keep spending on something you don't feel is decent, or you can spend it elsewhere on something that does.

Just remember that by continuing to pay for a product you don't like, you're enabling the business to continue turning out the product as is. That's true of any product from any company, not just FFXIV from SE.

Quote Originally Posted by brinn12 View Post
Nothing. But the answer to this question hardly tells us anything. We could ask:

"If a game is masking its flaws behind a fantastic story and universe, what happens to the playerbase when the story gets bad?"
Same thing that happens when the player base thinks the story is good.

Some quit playing. Others continue to play.

The player base is not a hive mind. There are different opinions about what is good and what is bad.

Don't worry about what others are thinking. If you think the game is good, keep playing. If you think the game is bad, quit playing. It could be you're not part of the demographic they want to please with current game design so continuing to stay subbed to complain about it is just throwing your money away.