World of Warcraft died because the developers only catered to casuals and world prog

[Nekokaori]

Guess what, the majority of your playerbase is midcore. Not casual players who have a panic attack when they need to use more than three buttons on their hotbars. Not hardcore players who clear the tier in 16 hours.

Square Enix is on the same trajectory as Blizzard. The sad thing is that the playerbase refuses to see this because of all the blind hype, and this same thing happened in WoW - people couldn't fathom the thought that WoW could be getting worse.

I believe most midcore players will be happy with healers that can do more than two button rotations, for example. People do have brain cells in this game.

FF14 is clearly not catering to the world prog players. So the problem really is the incessant catering of casual players. This will eventually lead to FF14's decline, when you adjust content schedule and delivery to cater to the lowest common denominator, making the traditional midcore crowd dissatisfied and leave. Only reason this is obfuscated is because of all the influx. This game right now is full of new players that have no understanding of the game and have barely participated in the game for more than a tier. And even then I know plenty of WoW players who have quit after literally just one tier because the drought is even worse than in WoW.

People mock WoW's peaks and falls between expansions, but FF14's drops are bigger, sometimes by 50%.

lol wow didnt counter to casual lol at all it made you waste hours and hours and hours all day every day every night every hour every second if u missed one day you were screwed until the next expansion tbh not only that the only story content in the entire game is locked into raids and all that lol so no wows declain was it only countered to neckbeards and overweight ppl who never went outside.

not even everquest or dark age of camelot was as punishing to "casual players" as wow was lol

also btw casual doesnt mean bad plenty of 'casual players" are on way more than hardcore ones and tbh have way more skill just hate working with others or have social anxiety, or both tbh and would gladly play harder stuff if they could do so alone *this coming from someone who plays plenty of very very very hard games solo and can handle it. I just cant handle ppl lol outside rp or if i have things in common with them