Live letters have lost their magic - Zepla

[Auro_Seldaris]

Fully agreed. We in the FFXIV Movement (yes, this is a movement) believe that FFXIV is the best MMO and one of the best games of all time with over 30 million players. If you have a negative opinion about the game, you better not share that or upload a video. Because if you do, that’s attention seeking. You ARE allowed to share positive opinions (thanks Asmon!) but you may NOT criticize our game. Everyone else likes it and if you don’t, just go play other games. This is FFXIV, the game for playing other games.



Agreed. If your approval for this game is below a certain value, you may NOT comment on it, even if you do or have played the game. If you don’t have at least a 70% approval for FFXIV, YOU MAY NOT COMMENT ON IT! THIS IS NOT THE GAME FOR YOU! Make sure that your opinion is within acceptable parameters or you are not FFXIV-y enough for our movement.

Based fellow Midlander female main. I wish I could upvote this twice.

[Veritas-Ancora]

Live Letters stopped being interesting to me when they stopped answering forum questions.

They at least seemed like they cared back then.

[brinn12]

"Has the spell faded and now I'm just seeing things more realistically?" — a question smart people who have been brainwashed will eventually ask.

Square Enix needs to act, before it's too late for FFXIV. Asking people to play other games when they are unsatisfied with FFXIV is only going to make them quit. There is no one to replace them this time, there is no exodus from WoW.

[Kozh]

Finally, and this really is the most important part, stop playing FFXIV if you dislike it so much? Square Enix are just a business like any other in this industry and you don't owe them anything. You can take a break, play another game or, find another hobby.

People do leave, you know? Aside from a handful of same people who complain on the forum, a lot of those who agree and speaks up are not the same people who complained last year(s) ago.

It's quite funny how forum white knights get this bothered by people's complaints, even though with how the forum works, they already have advantages. And by that I mean, people who unsub can't post or reply anything here, therefore ensuring that the forum will have more people defending the game than who criticized it.

[Auro_Seldaris]

"Has the spell faded and now I'm just seeing things more realistically?" — a question smart people who have been brainwashed will eventually ask.

Square Enix needs to act, before it's too late for FFXIV. Asking people to play other games when they are unsatisfied with FFXIV is only going to make them quit. There is no one to replace them this time, there is no exodus from WoW.

"Go play other games" was never meant to be the actual solution. Hell, it didn't even mean what it's been twisted into meaning by the Great Community. All it meant originally was that they wanted to respect your time and life enough to not make you a slave to FFXIV, to not make you feel like you HAVE to play 14 literally every single day for hours or you fall irreversibly behind like in WoW at times... and like players have been enslaved to WoW at times. All it ended up being was a way for white knights to deflect valid criticism. I wish he'd never even said that now... and I wish he hadn't actually bought into that BS argument himself. It's pretty telling when the Producer and Director of a game says, "You should just go play something else instead."

[Nadda]

https://youtu.be/UnY7PMsV8QI?si=9MCrmXa-iwJ4Is-9



Hearing Zepla talk about the live letter, it really reminds a lot of us just how much wonder and magic has evaporated from the live letters. We still rely on community translators to understand the live letter to this day. The live letters are such a sick joke at this point, and their stale format is a good representation of the staleness of the entire game.

No Zepla's feelings don't reflect how I feel at all. She's turned into a real miserable endsinger and I'm not playing to that tune.

[Asari5]

they want you to stay subscribed while playing other games... other games from SE, dont they?

[Daralii]

they want you to stay subscribed while playing other games... other games from SE, dont they?

That might be the idea, but the company is so adept at burning money and good will that it's doomed to fail.

[Auro_Seldaris]

No Zepla's feelings don't reflect how I feel at all. She's turned into a real miserable endsinger and I'm not playing to that tune.

You say this, and yet in another thread you say that the BLm changes are not just "player dramatism" but are actually bad and need addressing - which Zepla herself said was the "icing on the cake" of the 7.2 negativity. So either there are major problems, or there aren't, which is it?

[Nadda]

I feel like Zepla's tone in her video was way over the top—it’s like a neighbor coming to tell me they ran over my dog. Dawntrail has issues, but people are acting like it’s the worst thing ever, as if we’re in WoD/BfA/Shadowlands combined. She’s misrepresenting Yoshi-P’s words like he’s Ion Hazzikostas, which is bad faith stuff. She says, “I’m trying to be positive” while pouring on nothing but depression in every video. Enough already.

The forums are full of vitriol and pessimism, and it’s draining. Trust is hard to earn and easy to lose. Zepla used to call FFXIV her lifeline, making people believe it was a paradise. But now, she's adding fuel to the fire with endless negativity.

I get that there are valid issues with Dawntrail, and there’s a difference between blind optimism and reasonable critique. But the constant doom and gloom isn't helping anyone. Positive change requires some optimism, not just tearing things down.

Zepla bailed on WoW during its hardest times, but the people who stuck around got rewarded. I have no doubt FFXIV can course-correct too—it just takes time. Zepla built the narrative of FFXIV being a safe haven, but now she’s burning it down over a rough patch. It’s disheartening, and I’ve lost respect for her. She made me love the game, but now it feels like she's stabbing me in the heart over a stumble. Forget it. Forget her.