What's the point with that quite lackluster story in Endwalker?

[MoofiaBossVal]

It's the one year anniversary of the thread. 754 pages and over 7,500 posts! Hopefully the feedback here have been relayed to the devs, though with the people currently in charge of English community management, the lack of any interaction with SE employees on the English forums, and how "surprised" Yoshi-P was at certain questions that seems doubtful. Seeing people unsubbing from the game over the past couple dozen pages... no doubt this game will follow in the same footsteps as WoW and many other subscription MMOs where people become disinterested in the game and leave and their voices go unheard, with the devs only seeing the opinions of the diehard fanboys who stay. You have to be a subscriber to post on these forums after all. Not sure how long I'll stay. The state of the video game industry is abysmal (actually entertainment in general, be it comics or movies or anime). I can count the number of games that came out within the last five years that I was excited for on one hand. And I've just about played almost all of the old games that appealed to me. I own a few games I haven't gotten around to yet but I'm not feeling particularly motivated to play them. Moving closer and closer to the bottom of the barrel here. Only still subbed because FFXIV is one of the very few modern games that vaguely appeals to me. I might just quit gaming altogether and find another hobby.

I really hope things improve with the next expansion, but I'm not holding my breath. That my be my exit point. IDK.

[Carin-Eri]

It's the one year anniversary of the thread. 754 pages and over 7,500 posts! Hopefully the feedback here have been relayed to the devs, though with the people currently in charge of English community management, the lack of any interaction with SE employees on the English forums, and how "surprised" Yoshi-P was at certain questions that seems doubtful. Seeing people unsubbing from the game over the past couple dozen pages... no doubt this game will follow in the same footsteps as WoW and many other subscription MMOs where people become disinterested in the game and leave and their voices go unheard, with the devs only seeing the opinions of the diehard fanboys who stay. You have to be a subscriber to post on these forums after all. Not sure how long I'll stay. The state of the video game industry is abysmal (actually entertainment in general, be it comics or movies or anime). I can count the number of games that came out within the last five years that I was excited for on one hand. And I've just about played almost all of the old games that appealed to me. I own a few games I haven't gotten around to yet but I'm not feeling particularly motivated to play them. Moving closer and closer to the bottom of the barrel here. Only still subbed because FFXIV is one of the very few modern games that vaguely appeals to me. I might just quit gaming altogether and find another hobby.

I really hope things improve with the next expansion, but I'm not holding my breath. That my be my exit point. IDK.

Whilst I see your point, I will say this much. Speaking from experience, at least they're listening at all. Quite a few games in the industry who only understand, or care about, communication made via Credit Card.