FFXIV Healer Strike and the 'How would you fix it?' line

[Qyoon]

Except people HAVE been leaving, in growing numbers, and Square-Enix still isn't scrambling to resolve anything. Hell, it's not like they would even know WHY people are leaving because they don't bloody ask, and we know they don't read the damn forum no matter how many times a GM advises people to use it for "feedback".

And even IF the game's population dipped into the lower 6-digit mark or even 5-digit? There's no guarantee that SE won't just shrug and not care, or maybe they DO but it ends up not being in the way people want them to. They already turned one other MMO into an NPC-powered nigh-single player game when there weren't enough people, and they're currently working on a mobile game that we can rightly assume will have all the same trappings of free-to-play mobile MMOs.

Square-Enix effectively has two outs if they want to send the PC game into maintenance mode; Turn it into a single-player online experience, or turn it into F2P slop, neither of which requires much effort on their part compared to addressing even just one of the many complaints that have been piling up for years now.

Personally I don't plan in renewing in June, I don't see the point, I'm paying them for less than when I get in frickin' gacha games. I've done character pulls that felt less scummy then my subscription.

We don't know what they consider enought players for the game to be viable.
Maybe they don't scramble because in their opinion they don't need to and are prepared for lower numbers.
The golden age of they game as passed since major influencers have left the game and people followed.
Competition litterally did put way more effort into their game, offering new gameplays and features.

You have no guarantee SE would care, but you know for a fact, for the past years they did not.
They have already turned FF XIV into mostly a singleplayer game running on substricption.
They are indeed investing time and money ( with a different studio) into a mobile.

So guess what, beside your monthly subscription, you have no power other SE decisions.

Yoshi P said it himself, if you like the game play it, if you don't take a break and play something else.
Maybe you will have more fun with another game and be happy, maybe you'll be back because it wasn't that bad afterall.

Personally i stopped caring, i love sage, it could be so much better with at least a 1-2-3 rotation, but this is what it is...
I am here for the RP community and having fun, if another game appears to offer me a better experience, i might go there.

SE doesn't seem to care, why would i more than they do ? Ain't gonna buy a plane ticket to visit SE HQ and fix the game for them.

As a customer my duty is to pay and give feedback about my experience.
Turns out they don't care about our feedback but are willing to take our money.
Only leverage we have on them is money, someone else will gladly take it if they offer a better product.