playerbase down 25% in 4 months?

[Colino]

I think this is a perfect time to state some fanboy facts:

Market Wards are the best thing evah' I love roleplaying in a zombie room!
Who needs more story content anyway? I love the fact that npc quests are nothing more than leves!
60min raids yay! Why play WoW when we have this! Besides there's some palette-swap gear as a reward, whoopee!
I love how diverse and exciting the leves are! Completing them feels like I'm really helping these people, even though they ask me to complete the sam things over and over again, ...hmm
Who needs landscape overhauls? We have 3 huts incoming! They'll surely spice up things in this copy paste zone that's the size of Texas.
No death penalty! It's totally icky when the game forces me to think dying as some kind of bad thing!
Who needs cutscenes in NPC quests?! Seriously didn't they see the leve- ...I mean flavor text box? That's some immersive compelling stuff right there!

Now let me just kill some marmots so I can give them to this guy that doesn't have a name but is a real character let me tell you. You can just remember him by his appearance alone. He does the standing animation and usually wears clothes that have 3 shades of brown in them, you know the one with haircut 1 out of 5 on his head?

Anyway you all know what we say to people who don't like these things? Leave now, lols we don't need a playerbase to keep this MMO alive all it needs is a few dedicated fans.

/end sarcasm /start barf

Wooooh boy aren't you scared in your pants for the IMPENDING DOOM? I mean honestly I've been biting my nails for 6 months woooah nelly they sure know how to keep us excited!

I sure do hope they keep posting those walls of text only lore about something that's going to happen at some point in time in the future even though it was supposed to happen 4 or 5 months ago but does it matter? We all know it'll be such a mindblowing experience where we'll have to touch bells and hunt r5 mobs for an awesome super duper re-skinned hat!

It only takes so long before anxious daily checking in turns into weekly perusals turns into "Hey what's happening with that FFXIV game you were playing?" "Dunno, I've been doing other things, probably nothing." "Hey did you hear about that new game X that's coming out?" "Ya, it looks good, just waiting on that now, should be fun."

This. I know it's my fault but I feel like a gigantic moron for actually recommending this game to people saying "yeah it's not at it's greatest but it has loads of potential and will surely turn around within months, get a head start now because it's gonna be awesome!"

I wouldn't blame any of them if they smacked me in the face now