FFXIV population decline continues

[Carin-Eri]

This sounds like typical management BS language. Players are unhappy because we ended a 10 year arc? The producer doing other stuff that will finally teach him how to fix FF14? WTF?

I'm a customer who is very easy to please. I don't do any of the harder stuff, so I don't complain constantly about it being too hard/easy, classes being too hard/easy, the clouds being too fluffy/not fluffy enough, or WE. I do not expect to be spoon fed new content every other week, I have fun with what's there.
But if DT is a sign of things to come, I doubt my sub will survive 8.0. A lackluster story, characters I don't give a eff about, an absolute bizarre mix of scenarios (south american, wild west, copy/pasta scifi)... this is what kills it for me. I still can't get over the cowboys duking it out the old fashioned way... with rubber bullets. How any of this got greenlit is a mystery to me; and if the people that are responsible for DT still need to learn their job(!) by doing other jobs(!!) then I don't see how they will turn the ship around.

We need FF14 ARRA (A Realm Reborn - Again).

That's exactly what it is. I mean, in truth, it isn't surprising - we'd never receive an honest response to the issue from a corporate mouthpiece who can/will only ever try to make the company look good.

Reposting that response again, as it dropped off the last page:

Interestingly, the above was fed-back on an unofficial sub-reddit as I gather the mods on the Official FFXIV subreddit kept deleting threads pertaining to this.

All I take away from that is SE is fine to eat our subscriptions without giving any regard to (FFXIV) sustainability, burnout, or player feedback.

[Ephremjlm]

Interestingly, the above was fed-back on an unofficial sub-reddit as I gather the mods on the Official FFXIV subreddit kept deleting threads pertaining to this.

All I take away from that is SE is fine to eat our subscriptions without giving any regard to (FFXIV) sustainability, burnout, or player feedback.

Well though that COULD be true (Final Fantasy Tactics is more akin to FF11 than FF14), basically what they're saying is that players need to foot the bill so the director can actually learn how to be a director for "Final Fantasy" as a brand. Thats wild, but not unexpected if anyone here read the Yoshi P's interview on the "We Are Vanadiel" website, and the way he acted during the FF16 launch. I mean I personally thought it was funny hearing Nomura be like "yeah idk man I definitely think JRPG is a term for a reason and we do it best" instead of making excuses for a game they knew wasn't going to have the Final Fantasy feel before it even came out.