Why is Yoshi P turning his back on the playerbase that loves this game the most?

[FizzleofHyperion]

Please keep this conversation civil its a healthy discussion and I think its important that this should be discussed since most people who interview Yoshi P really don't bring the important things up maybe in fear of not beeing able to interview him in the future? I don't know... I'm not speaking for everyone ofcourse but to the people who feel like I do. I'm not generalizing but I know I'm speaking for a part of the community that share the same thoughts and feelings I do.

I love this game as much as you guys do or else I wouldn't be disappointed with certain things and this is why I try to voice my opinion. People who wouldn't care would just leave talk bad about FFXIV to others and not recommended the game to anyone.
We are here for the exact opposite reasons. We care we want this game to grow and be something that we can enjoy for years to come.


I've read Yoshi Ps interview and what he had to say about character growth.
Like some of you its very mixed feelings cause some answers went a bit into exageration from his end.
I understand certain things and why they have to be the way they are it just feels that they havent really asked the community correctly.

If this game was funded mostly by FFXI players who had double subscriptions and players from 1.0 who backed up Yoshi P during this games darkest hours (refering to that live letter from many years ago when Yoshi-P told the playerbase to keep the subs for a certain amount of time or the game had to be shut down 2011 If I remember correctly)

Why are we now 3 years later still catering to a group of people that are mostly come and go players?
I'm not refering to legacy players as some V.I.P customers but didnt they want this game to go a different path than its current state?
No I'm not refering to FFXI 2.0 but I'm neither refering to its current state wich feels FFXIV A WoW Clone Reborn.
No one here goes and buy a Street Fighter came because the content of Street Fighter reminds you so much of Mortal Kombat am i right?

I fully agree with Yoshi P that everyone should have fun and be able to catch up but he has pretty much encouraged the customer (pretty much all of us) that we should take a break from the game and come back later for next patch?
Alot of players that took breaks came back maybe once or twice but then gave up on this game because of its repetative cycle of nothing really happening.
We all understand how many players gave up on FFXI because they felt they could never catch up and it shouldnt be like that here!

This game is amazing if you are a new player but eventually even the new player would have done everything and be stuck in this boredom hamsterwheel we all seem to be facing thats an actual chore. Fast levling has been psychologicly proven that it triggers your mind into beleiving that you are continuing to acheive things and keep you busy but due to how fast everything is acheived here you hit that wall pretty fast when you reach your own certain goals.
No one that plays this game should feel that they need to level alternative jobs in order for having something to do that arguement should not even be discussed because you play a main job for a reason.

No game is perfect but this game is lacking midcore content. Everything is either on a very easy difficulty or a very hard difficulty with savage / newest ex primal.

Surely there has to be a way to keep Player A and Player B happy at the same time without having to continue punishing the envoirment for Player A making all their acheivements and progress feel like a waste of time and let down just because of nerfs from left to right to continue to satisfy Player B because they can't play as much but since Player B pays for a sub he is entitled to everything Player A has without putting as much effort in but the only difference is a time frame.

Its also sad that the formula itself is so predictable and you already know that whatever that is currently released will get nerfed and stuff will get useless again so fast. That alone kills the motivation more than keeps the player going imo.

I'm fully aware that this is a business and money is important but is money really that important when it starts damaging your most loyal customer group and slightly starting to kill the heart of the game?

There are so many games out there that pretty much follow the same pattern that FFXIV why must Square Enix be followers aswell?

Final Fantasy itself is such a strong name and brand that it alone can shape players into a different envoirment that gives something different than whats already out here.
Instead FFXIV just keeps giving in to everything thats out there. If Yoshi P keeps giving into the casual community only wont these casual gamers just keep jumping to the next trending MMORPG than sticking here?

Forgive me for all the thoughts and questions I'm just slightly confused myself to why FFXIV wont start taking risks and introduce new things.
Some horizontal progression wouldn't kill this game especially when there are so many players in FFXIV who are not used to the 1.0 content and FFXI content at all that would surely love ideas that are used from 1.0 and FFXI cause at the moment we are using alot of things from almost another other MMORPGs out there but the original flagships of square enix.
We have plenty of times seen and heard things in the novice network aswell as in linkshell chats or in duty finger party groups of players who came him from WoW because this game reminds them so much of WoW.
It really shouldnt be like that atleast from my perspective.

If people love this game so much that they find time to play this alot why should they be the ones getting the short end of the stick for the sake of not loosing someone who bought this game and might stay for 1-4 months but then leave for good?

Just because the Patch arrives today that doesnt mean that the hardcore community will rush through most content the first 1-2 days aside from savage and sofia ex and the rest of community that are int he endgame state might reach there in 3-4 weeks from now and then be back at the repetative cycle with the gears from the new amazing jibba jabba currency thats useless again by january.

I want to play Final Fantasy XIV not Fashion Fantasy 14.

I honestly don't have answers to how things should be fixed but I feel that I belong to a part of a community that has mixed feelings of the current state. I'm a legacy player yes I beleive that I should earn my levels and gears and content should feel rewarding and satisfying. I don't want the mega huge time sink of FFXI but I don't want this World of Warcraft envoirment either and neither do i want this very easy content on everything.
I havent beaten savage contents but I also don't feel I deserve a handout like the current state of the games formula. If I want to beat something or acheive a relic or a specific item it should be on the same conditions as everyone else. I don't feel I need to cry over something thats there for me as an option but I just have to do it under the same conditions and circumstances as I mentioned.


Thoughts?

English isnt my first language so I apologise for all type-o.