I just wanted to say that the developers are doing a great job! I love this game, and I wish I would have heard about it earlier. I began MMO in 2009 with wrath of the lich king on WoW. I stopped playing WoW full-time in 2014, and I was bored for years. I only heard about how good FF14 was doing when there was a big insurgence to FF14 around the time that asmongold was trying it out shortly after the blizzard drama. (I had no connections to tell me about this game. I was disappointed with almost all of the games that I was finding.) I also only found out about asmongold playing at the time, because it was recommended on my youtube, as I didn't regularly watch him. I have begun to love this game, and it feels like I have a healthy relationship with it. I don't have to keep playing, and I can always come back to it when I feel like! There is no constant demand for me to constantly improve my character or be left behind (except at the beginning of these raid patches). I've had fun all along and have run into many great veteran players along the way who have shown me the ropes. I have also run across a few who believe they are better than everyone else, but soon enough, I will put them to shame in their own preferred content and laugh the whole way. I only wish it was easier to do so, seeing as how I don't have the same work schedule I had in the previous decade and I also do not desire to run with the hardcore players, despite knowing that I full well can. Either way, it's been fun
thank you, ff14 team!