Quote Originally Posted by Brandr View Post
In my previous comment I guess I didn't emphasize enough what I thought is the main part:

You have many, oh God so many, valid reasons to quit FFXIV.

BUT, strangely, everything OP said is either a straight up lie or dishonest, stinking of AI generated text.

The reason I affirm this is because nothing OP said would make a human being quit any game.
The game is different? Really that different? Has the gameplay and rotations that different from when he left, back in ShB? If he had said he left in Heavenward, I'd agree, but it was in Stormblood that the new homogenized rotations began.

Another reason he gave is FCs died. Unless this is your first MMO, it shouldn't be any surprise. Shadowbringers was in July of 2019, SIX WHOLE YEARS AGO. My God, dont you know people chance hobbies, change games, peoples lifes changes! People leave FCs, whole FCs change games together, people go to college, start jobs, have kids, get tired of gaming altogether... So many reasons to stop playing a game...

No human being would be remotely surprised by that.

The other point was Souls-like stuff.... Of a content OP says he didn't even played himself, he says he HEARD OTHER PEOPLE saying... Worse: game journalists... Man, we're in 2025, you should know better that since "7.2: too much water", not a single word of a game journalist is worth any second of your life.

Again, there are many valid reasons to quit FFXIV, I have quitted and came back, but none of OP says is valid. If you wanna quit, just quit.
If you really need that Pat in the back and someone saying "Yes, I see your point, you're absolutely right!", give us a true reason. There are plenty!
"My friends don't play anymore", that's a good reason.
"I don't like what they did with my favorite job",
"My server is empty", "Another game does better what I like the most in a game", "I lost my job, don't have money to pay my subscription", "Now I feel like playing single player games", "I am in a phase of my life that I can't play games/MMOs", "Wuk Lamat bad".
All valid reasons, and many more.

But what you doing is just lying.
If you think my post or my replies are generated by AI...then again you are just another person who will say anything against someone you disagree with in a attempt to discredit. Individuals like yourself is precisely a key aspect of this community I grew to loathe and was happy to be away from for a very long time by blatant lies about others who have a opinion or critique.

Quote Originally Posted by SyferU View Post
Well now you are being disingenuous. In the article it doesn't say anything about heavily inspired, especially not the difficulty since the article said this:

In the interview with PC Gamer, Yoshida went on to say that you'll probably see most of Elden Ring's influence outside the combat encounters.
Quote ""When it comes to the people involved in the battle content on our team, they would be playing and they would be saying, 'Oh yeah, if we could make something this difficult, we should definitely do it,"
"But when it comes to things like the scenery in the game or the atmosphere and being able to convey that sense without a lot of text to convey those nuances in the story, Elden Ring does that really well. And I think there must be people in the team who are really inspired BY THAT AS WELL."

"By that as well" means in plain English in addition or including! Why do individuals like you have to blatantly lie when anyone can read verbatim what he said themselves?!?! So he did not say "Elden Ring's influence outside the combat encounters" only, he clearly said that in addition to other aspects of what Elden Ring is which includes combat which is factually a massive draw for why people play these series of games!

My goodness I sincerely get tired of dishonest players who can't allow others their critiques unless they have to lie about them...