The content should be enjoyed by all players?

[ChrysOCE]

All I know is that there's nothing left for me to do as a casual player, and it's debatable if there ever was, and I just got lucky/carried up until now through everything I ever cleared.

But I'm mostly tired of being blamed for everything that's wrong with the game, so fine, I give up, I'm not going to stay here and darken the hallway of the hardcore players like some kind of boogeyman, and they'll have to find someone else to scapegoat from now on.

You know noone is blaming you, personally, for anything to do with state of FFXIV, right? Like, why take on this victimhood?

[Mawlzy]

You know noone is blaming you, personally, for anything to do with state of FFXIV, right? Like, why take on this victimhood?

That depends on who you listen to and what/where you read. The concept of the "filthy casual" ruining MMOs and other games for the "true gamers" has been around as long as the genre. It is, as you imply, completely false, but the myth persists.

[ChrysOCE]

Eh, I'm the "filthy casual" and I'm the reason your jobs are homogenized, your content is "brain dead", your PVP has PVE in it, and now apparently I'm "sniping" and causing wipes in Forked Tower ...despite the fact I haven't even reached Occult Crescent, much less stepped into the raid there. Give it time and somebody will start blaming me for why cross-DC travel doesn't exist yet, why there's no housing on Aether/Prima/Crystal, or that I'm the one hiding all the hrothgar and viera hats.

It's not a "personal" blame in that people are blaming me specifically, but they ARE blaming the group of players I belong to for why the game is in its current state on top of the general accusations of being called dumb, useless, and entitled on a nearly daily basis.

And it's not just on the forums either. I've seen that sentiment on Twitter, and Reddit, and in Discords, and even in-game its self. Shucks, I get a lot of assumptions made of me just because I'm from Dynamis (that I'm stupid or a troll alt) and of course you have the folks who assume I have no room to complain about anything ever because I haven't even finished Shadowbringers, despite how many of the game's problems have existed well before Dawntrail.

After almost a year of being pointed at and told I'm the greatest blight this game has ever known (even though I've only been playing for 2 and a half years), you start to believe it, and doubly so when the developers themselves don't seem like they care if casual players stick around anymore either.

So yeah, I've got like... maybe 3 days left of forum access? And while it probably isn't a productive use of my time to be reading or posting on a forum for a game where neither the creators or community wants me here, or how my bitching and whining isn't going to matter any more than anyone else's, I suppose I felt the need to wail and gnash one last time before I went completely silent, and I'm not pinning the reason for my departure on Square-Enix alone because the playerbase contributed just as much to why I don't want to play anymore.

See, I put everything on CBU3. They are the ones developing the game and constantly miss-stepping on content releases. As much as I dislike FT and the discord requirement, I don't blame the discords or those players. I blame CBU3. Players on both sides are always going to ask for things but no group really has a unified voice, except maybe the unhappy healers. Like you have said before, it wasn't the casual players asking for 2min job homogenization.

I can bemoan the EW relic steps and think it was a complete joke and that there is nothing about those relics that hold any kind of special nostalgia vs ARR/HW/Stb/Shb relics that, for me, took some real time and investment in acquiring. But EW relics wasn't any player group's fault. It was CBU3.

[Gurgeh]

....

Sorry to see you going Aid. Because obviously you cared enough to actually find this upsetting. It's clear that you once, and recently, really loved this game. You are not alone. Joining you shortly.

P.S. The live letter announcement: they are going to have to do better in future because live letters don't come along often enough to respond to these problems. And with regard to them being untranslated, that's just not good enough either anymore. Like Zepla recently said for those of us who are fed up and have left, or have left but just haven't admitted it to ourselves and are dead players losing logging in for our houses, they now need to be knocking it out of the park. With communication that now means building a relationship, such means communicating directly, not via delayed community translation BS. That was great when things were good and people want to make the effort. We don't anymore. If you can't be bothered or are too stingy to hire a translator (SE shouldn't even need to hire one) we can't be bothered to listen.

I'm sorry that you've had to go Aid. And we know there are so so many of us. And the damage that's been done can never be undone. We were here for the community, and that community will never be 'trusted' again. That community can never exist again. Not for us. And there really are so many of us.

[Vazdan]

...

Yeah, I'm right there with you. I just cancelled my sub. I've come to the realization that I have pretty much quit already, and have admitted it to myself. I don't know if I'll ever come back to be honest. Unless things change and CBU3 actually makes an effort to communicate with us... there doesn't seem to be any point in sticking around. I think pride has soured all of them and has fed their arrogance in their unwillingness to communicate.

[Gurgeh]

You know noone is blaming you, personally, for anything to do with state of FFXIV, right? Like, why take on this victimhood?

"Typical of those people."
"But not you of course. Your alright"
("I'm not racist. I have friends who are X")
It's all the same BS.

F me.

[ChrysOCE]

"Typical of those people."
"But not you of course. Your alright"
("I'm not racist. I have friends who are X")
It's all the same BS.

F me.

Dude, you are so angry XD