Quote Originally Posted by HyoMinPark View Post
Yeah, it’s probably a bit easier to understand if you had been playing probably a little bit longer. I don’t think that makes your opinion less valid, but I think it would make it easier for you to sympathize where some of the content criticisms are coming from simply from experience.

I started in Nov 2015, so I’m not an ARR veteran or 1.0 veteran, but I have friends who have played since 1.0 or ARR Beta and some of them are in the same boat as I am. One last night said that he doesn’t even know if he’ll be around in 5.0, and he’s our static’s MCH. Our SCH said that he, too, doesn’t know if he’ll continue on in 5.0. The stagnation that the game is feeling right now is having a negative effect on the playerbase, and I hope that the developers can rectify it. Sometimes I feel like they are more concerned with bringing in new money instead of retaining their veterans.

I’m not a game designer, so I’m not saying that things I would want are the things necessary to improve the game for those who feel disenchanted. And some, you may not be able to change their disenchantment. But I think that something does have to change; if 5.0 is a carbon copy of the previous expansions, I don’t know if I’ll make it through. And I would rather not lose the sole game I play, because FFXIV is the only MMO I have ever played, and the only video game I have played for extended periods of time—I’ve never been much of a gamer, and it surprised me that FFXIV hooked me the way it did.

So, hopefully something changes. And hopefully for the better.


Sidenote: I wasn’t saying that you specifically would disregard my opinion because I’m a raider; I apologize if it came off that way. But it seems to be the “cool thing to do” to disregard the opinion of a poster simply because they raid. Because “lul raiders” or...whatever.
Don't worry I understand(at least a little bit enough),cuz I felt a similar stagnation when I used to play something like Overwatch(not an MMO but the drought and stagnation for that game pushed me away)


At least your complaints come from a place of geniune love and concern for the game unlike some of the over the top toxicity that can be found in a lot of game communities on reddit.

XIV is the only other game beside Smash Bros that I put over 500+ hours into and it's one of the few games that made me so addicted to it that sometimes I play 10 hour sessions during my off days.So I hope for both our sake and every XIV players out there that things would improve by the time 5.0 rolls around