Now that the game is officially on its deathbed, what are your thoughts?

[Ryaze]

So like every expansion previously in the content dry time, player number will increase again like always

but yea people are all about dooming here in the forum, usually reddit is the one with the most doom shit but hell the ffxiv forum is topping everything

Dipping a couple thousand has been the norm during low patches and minor content droughts, not going to a 5 year low. That's something else entirely.

[AvoSturmfaust]

Dipping a couple thousand has been the norm during low patches and minor content droughts, not going to a 5 year low. That's something else entirely.

a couple thousand? did you actually check your facts? the time between 7.2 and 7.3 had always HUGE drops not only a couple thousand and like i said you cant literally count the last few years in because of all the WoW player and covid like Catwho said earlier, when do people understand it? the 2020 numbers are the real numbers

[Mawlzy]

a couple thousand? did you actually check your facts? the time between 7.2 and 7.3 had always HUGE drops not only a couple thousand and like i said you cant literally count the last few years in because of all the WoW player and covid like Catwho said earlier, when do people understand it? the 2020 numbers are the real numbers

I guess it's conceivable that the intrinsic limitations of the game mean that it cannot maintain a player count above 2020 levels.

The problem is that the quality of the game is manifestly getting worse, both in terms of the cadence of content release and the quality of that content. I'd love to be proved wrong, but on its current path there is no way FFXIV will even stabilize at 2020 numbers.

[AvoSturmfaust]

I guess it's conceivable that the intrinsic limitations of the game mean that it cannot maintain a player count above 2020 levels.

The problem is that the quality of the game is manifestly getting worse, both in terms of the cadence of content release and the quality of that content. I'd love to be proved wrong, but on its current path there is no way FFXIV will even stabilize at 2020 numbers.

But thats kinda a personal opinion, i know many people are unhappy how the content is atm but there are plenty people which love it, take as example me, i love OC, i love FT and i will love the DD even if its just a improved version of PotD

for you the quality drops, for me it increases because the content outside of savage/ultimate finally starts to not be a push over dummy fight

[All_Nonsense]

you cant literally count the last few years in because of all the WoW player and covid like Catwho said earlier, when do people understand it? the 2020 numbers are the real numbers

When the game enters a soft maintenance mode in 8.0 and development time between patches is increased to 6 months as the veterans of CBU3 are redistributed to other projects while the new hires continue writing their shonen slop story and copy-pasting dungeons from a decade ago, are you going to keep blaming Covid and WoW for it? Or will you finally realize (too late) that the dev's have been fleecing you because they think you're an idiot who will play the game no matter what they do (oh hey, just like WoW did!)

HW numbers by the end of 7.3. I'll be watching and waiting.