What would you do?

[StrejdaTom]

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This is all beautiful and nice but..
We loyal players who are with FFXIV from start have put incredible amount of money into game (especially with the new nice addition of cashshop) and if its team lacks manpower it is only because SE is draining the money for their other products (*cough* FFXV *cough) which aren't even going to be as profitable as FFXIV.

FFXIV doesn't deserve kickstarting anymore. Cash shop was kickstarter, where are the money? EU datacenters? Well, they should have been here from start, not after 2 years of subscription + base game + expansion + 1 year of cash shop.

I definitely respect your love for this game, but we aren't their cows to be milked 24/7.

To the topic if I was SE:
I would slow the pace at which the new gear is getting obsolete.
I would add more gearing diversity, a few stats just aren't enough, special passive effects pls.
I would make all PvP maps viable (same level, same rewards), I would make PvP gear viable and I would make real leaderboards.
I would add NPCs to LoV matchmaking so it would work like chocobo racing, yes, tournaments would be easy, but they would atleast be doable.
I would create timesink replayable content that actually has some use - 2M XP after level 60, get one talent point, put it either into talents or stats etc., yes, nolifers would be op, but they would have stuff to do.
I would introduce horizontal progression and during patch cycles (like 3.0 - 3.55) wouldn't shift iLvl by more than 20. All 3.X content should be viable untill the end of 3.X cycle.

I would stop being so greedy and I would put some of the money back into game. We obviously need bigger battle/encounters/itemization teams.

But yeah, viable timesinks were already suggested many times. Unfortunately casuals always deny them because they are too afraid of being kicked from PF parties, so most of the stuff will be always about glamour or useless stuff. We cannot have deeper itemization, we cannot have talents.