I'm completely apathetic towards this live letter. I was almost excited, but waiting another 2 months until occult crescent and that being the *only* zone until 7.55... nah. Just... nah. Dunno why I'd bother logging in for that when I can just do it next year, if I haven't finally gotten rid of my houses and moved on completely by then.

A good friend of mine bought me a 60 day gametime card because he wanted me to go get the Inferno Jacket and such. So I did. But I find myself struggling to care.

I first posted on this forum nearly 6 years ago now. I mained Bard. That was when they introduced the Bard that didn't do *any* buffs to the world, and, you know, it was Shadowbringers. And although Shadowbringers had a good story, I never latched onto another job as hard as I did Stormblood's Bard. I dabbled, leveled *all* my jobs and eventually found my footing on the Red Mage I only casually played. Raided with it a bit, but it never felt right.

And with every job they added and reworked, we strayed further away from the jobs I enjoyed.

I skipped out on playing during most of Shadowbringers. I played during maybe... two patches of Endwalker. All the while still keeping up with the game hoping that it'd one day come back to life.

I found myself unreasonably excited for Dawntrail. I got caught up again. I made new friends on Light in the process of doing ex farms and such.

Then they decided to lock it down for release. Sure, understandable.
Then the lock was extended to a new permanent travel inhibition system. oh.

At this point, most of the people I know are barely logging in. Some have statics, but one just unceremoniously forgot to update their payment details and said "eh. fuck it." gone.
Then they deleted what made my Dragoon friend's job tick for him, ensuring he'd most likely never play again. gone.
Now they're deleting what makes Black Mage tick, ensuring my caster friend probably won't come back again either.

Logging in is difficult. There's nobody waiting on the other side, and no content I want to engage with. I don't have time to spend hours in pf, but I also don't want to be railroaded into the same 3 dungeons for months, the same 3 alliance raids I've seen since they made the roulette, the same event quest copied over and over...

Crafting is boring. PvE is boring. PvP just isn't my cup of tea. The social part isn't there unless I seek out the clubbing community and quite frankly I'm not a clubbing type of guy.

I was angry before. Saddened. Now... it's been so many years and so long, I've mostly moved on. I just don't care that much anymore.

I'll still keep up with developments, atleast until WoW's housing drops. And if that's even half as good as XIV's housing, then I think I have a new place to stay.