Face it, this game is in maintenance mode now, i.e. managed decline

[FireMage]

you guys are doing the worst thing imaginable to trolls. Given them praise and attention.

The irony. Or is it the projection? Nah definitely irony given that TC is definitely trolling

[TheMightyMollusk]

Skiros at least participates in the thread, rather than spewing the same "hot take" in slightly different wording and then leaving it for one of his simps to get mad over.

[Skiros]

Skiros has good taste in the images he posts. If he's a troll, at least he's a cultured troll. 10/10 signature.

Thanks, I pride myself for my taste in men.

[Zanarkand-Ronso]

Thanks, I pride myself for my taste in men.

To bad my standards are abit different, otherwise Id call him handsome
To me...he looks Cool. But not handsome

[Ath192]

Hop over to fresh new 10/10 games like Forspoken

They're probably starving the players from content here so they go buy a PS5 and play XVI, think about it, after savage XVI will be about to release and they need the player base good and bored. Big brain strats. There will be no grind to keep you busy. Go buy XVI.

[TowaIsBestGirl]

Aaaaaaaaaand it's been resurrected.



"You have no power here, foul necromancer. You are nameless, formless. Return to the shadow from whence you came!"

But also, I have no clue if some wise man has ever said this but in the spirit of the thread's topic I'll say this:

"It's not about playercount, it's about player retention."

Has FFXIV managed to do this? Who knows, I'll leave that up to your imagination. ◕‿↼

[bic12]

I just love how prophetic I am.

[Shistar]

As for the new EU DC, if you think it will be a success, you are in for a rude awakening, Sagittarius which is my world is already very much dead, with multiple mediums not even taken in PERSONAL wards, just like Raiden on Light, only Phantom and Alpha are nicely populated, if you think an entire new DC of 8 worlds will work, I dont know what to tell you

Phantom player here. The ward my personal is in took over a year to fill, and people move out-even out of mediums!-more often than I would expect. The ward my FC is in only recently got two new neighbours since Dawntrail dropped. Phantom is also a ghost town lol
The one thing we have better than NA is that Phantom & Sagittarius are part of Chaos DC, thus we benefit from faster queues being fed by mostly Ragnarok, Omega, Louisoix, etc. Same thing for the new servers in Light, with the added bonus that they get the active PF too. I truly don't know why I didn't move to Raiden instead of Phantom lol at least we got the cooler names!

[Gwenkatsu]

If you think FF14 is in maintenance mode, you have no idea what that word even means.
Check out Rift if you want to see a game truely in maintenance mode.

Not that I think FF14 is in a good spot right now.

[XtremePrime]

You have no idea the confusion I got when people were mentioning Hogwarts Legacy coming out soon, thinking everyone was probably trolling- only to realize this thread was necro'ed from 2 years ago.