Quote Originally Posted by Theodric View Post
I'd also note that it won't really change if you move over to a different MMO but don't take a stand - because much like how WoW gradually collapsed upon itself by appeasing those who didn't actually like a lot of what had been established, if FFXIV ever falls out of fashion the same people who demand everything changes for their benefit will just move to whatever the new, flashy thing happens to be.
I've been making a stand for a few years and I'm fairly certain at this point I'm just seen as that one guy who's always grumbling about something. I'm sort of getting tired of it.

I feel like FF14 used to be designed for players like me, but slowly rejected that type of player and now caters to a different audience. I like investing in an MMO. I like when a game treats me like I have a functioning brain, gives me things to earn and work for and really rewards playing well. I just can't get into the fast-food game model where most content is made to be cleared first run, most rewards are almost handed to you, you don't need to play well and it's considered fine that crafting and gathering is worthless because everyone can buy cheap items on the market. Nor am I really excited for the next decade of the same jobs, same 3 corridor-3 boss dungeons and same FATE's/Eureka/PotD reskins with different names.

But countless hundreds of thousands of people love that. So I think the best thing is that another game picks up the audience FF14 dropped, starts over from scratch and let the current playerbase keep this game. It's far too late to do a full U-turn without an uproar.