Declining American player satisfaction - Future of game in Yoshido's hands

[CGMidlander]

save us yoshido

[BroodingFicus]

*How I feel when someone like this tries to speak for all Americans*

[Saseal]

......never speak your opinion for an entire country. >_>
Opinion.... proposal.... thoughts..... actually, I have no idea what you're doing. o_O

Somehow, I highly doubt all your claims. I would have expected more from a chemist and technical engineer. Though, I guess they do say theres a difference between 'book smarts' and 'street smarts' (common sense).
Therefore, I'm just going to assume this is a troll attempt. >_>

[Iagainsti]

HELP! The game is suffering a decline that needs halted since I started a year ago: US player community has disappeared dramatically on Siren as on two other worlds because: 1) Dungeons and selection system depends on a forced "socialist" view that we must play as “big happy family” even with different cultures that don't have the demand for reward drops, advancement rewards that you cannot solo yourself. The game IS NOT A POLITICAL platform for steering behavior - Americans (and perhaps other countries) won't put up with it and WE have the cash.

[Noshpan]

Looks like OP has been drinking too much of Donald Trumps' Jesus Juice.

[Amiaze]

Hm...seems like trollbait, but I see no reason not to have some fun.

HELP! The game is suffering a decline that needs halted since I started a year ago: US player community has disappeared dramatically on Siren as on two other worlds because: 1) Dungeons and selection system depends on a forced "socialist" view that we must play as “big happy family” even with different cultures that don't have the demand for reward drops, advancement rewards that you cannot solo yourself. The game IS NOT A POLITICAL platform for steering behavior - Americans (and perhaps other countries) won't put up with it and WE have the cash.

"Socialist" ? What? You mean the social aspect of the game and not the political party, I'm assuming. And as stated, this is an MMO. You're meant to play with other people to succeed. I enjoy the fact that I can solo most of this game in a very selfish way, truth be told. In all honesty, I think it needs more content and fixes that encourages players to work together. That alone would likely handle the whole super casual vs. elite issue that the game has.

And please exclude me from your "Americans" snippet. The game has its faults, but I'm not subscribing to your views.

2) Crafting is a violation now: Having to be in an FC to build or acquire an airship needs ELIMINATED and GET RID of specialists. The rotations and “randomizer”of crafting is BROKEN and fails easily thus destroying the fun. A computer game of this quality should not be ruined by arrogant view we have to do things a certain way YOU think up - “We the People” did not agree to. I have all classes 50+ by the Hand, Land and combat and personally am 50+ year old Chemist and Engineering Technician in real life. A friend of mine is a Cardiac Surgeon in real life and went to Fallout 6 because of crafting fails and most of same reasons. This is computer program, so making private housing and additional storage artificially scarce is inexcusable - there is NO reason for RATIONING PRIVATE HOUSING OR PRIVATE STORAGE. Would be simple to add many wards to old and new areas.

Crafting itself is not broken, and a lot of people find it very fun. Perhaps you personally do not, but I do, and so do all the other people out there that main crafting classes. The only real issue with it now is that crafted gear doesn't mean as much as it once used to (and in my opinion, nowhere near as much as it should). As for your jobs...that's irrelevant. You can play the game and pace yourself however you'd like. I have a full plate as well, and I still managed to get most endgame content done and level everything I wanted. Mizzteq is an X-ray technician and not only plays a lot, but has enough time to make in-depth walkthroughs for all the endgame content.

And Fallout 6? Damn, I must be behind, I'm still fighting through Fallout 4! O_O

Additional storage should be easy to get and trying to control the game with it sends subscribers to Fallout, COD, and GTA. FCs will almost never allow individual storage in Company Chest. In all cases weapons and clothing MUST be made stackable. I could fix this game in a couple of months with a paradigm shift but currently now feeling like WoW with terrible players – the hard-hitting go-getters have a short fuse for unnecessary frustration and leave first for competition. This is a fantastic game with something for everyone and you really should do an about-face before too late.

No. Not, it will not. There is a difference between a one-time release game and something like this. Whenever a big game I've been waiting on comes out, of course I play FFXIV less. But the key difference is that those games end. FFXIV is an MMO and, by definition, does not.

At least, not for a decade or so.

If anything, FFXIV doesn't have as many people playing right now because of the way they're handling content (it being the same exact grind over and over again for the exact same rewards with no real lateral progression, plus other things that we've complained about for some time now) and the fact that two large games (Tomb Raider, Fallout 6...er, 4) just released. I've been coming home and jumping on Fallout more than any other game -- but I guarantee you, my subscription is still active, and I still do log in and play.

[Fortified]

[AzakaTonnerre]

NOTE: The views expressed here are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent or reflect the views of American Players.

"I would be so great for the Final Fantasy 14. You have no idea." - Donald J. Trump

[Jican]

What about Xenoblade Chronicles X?!

[Caitlinzulu]

There is most definatly something to see here, entertainment!

Opening a big bag of yoshido's and a jar of dip before leaning back.