Is no one happy?

[OdinelStarrei]

Huh?

Yes. I am going to call that one petty and tiny. If you were stuck with one hair style then I would get it. You aren't.

I have no idea what you are talking about with the first bit. I am casual, after all. I also am still probably new enough to not care, at all, about reused gear and if something is undyable I either wear it as is, or find something else. Quite petty and also tiny I would say.

I would be lying if I said I had heard zero complaints of jobs being "dumbed down" in game. But Ive also heard plenty of people saying "oh yeah I like the new AST for Endwalker" or more recently, SAM lost an ability or something? IDK, but again enough people Ive talked to in game who either didnt know about this or did not care, that im gonna go ahead and slide this one over to tiny and petty too.

Who are you to straight up marginalize what people care about? As if your personal anecdotes are going to make the game more fun for me, or return the game back to how it was in HW/SB. Do you even understand that vast amounts of the good things about FFXIV are the direct result of people in the community voicing concerns and the developers ACTUALLY RESPONDING before things reach a breaking point that cause people to unsubscribe? How do you even think 2.0 happened?

This is the same garbage happened to WoW, a slow gradual slide into worse class design, a story that makes less sense, a complete disregard for sections of the playerbase, and people who say "NOTHING IS WRONG, YOU ARE TOXIC" it's literally the exact same thing.

You people need to realize that this "amazing, top tier" mmo was BUILT off the playerbase that was here before you WoW people came in and started fellating the dev team for treating people like basic human beings. We already had a problem with idolization and overcentralization around a single person compared to the hundreds it takes to make this game. Now that a developer isn't straight up urinating in your mouth, you're blind to the ACTUAL issues that a lot of us have been fighting against for half a decade for the sake of a better game, such as the latency, job design, or botting problems. The game is still good, but it CAN be better! I'm not going to settle when we've been in better, more fun spots in the past.

You don't need to be casual, or hardcore, a veteran or a new player to grasp this. If you can't even empathize, at a bare minimum, sympathize with those of us who feel like the game we have loved for six or more years is constantly being eroded away, or those of us that mourn the complete deletion of entire jobs styles and systems that we were really attached to, or for those of us that fight and expect more from our game that "better than WoW lmao" than then you really do belong in the Reddit echo chamber. At least we try to get things changed for the better in this trash heap of a forum.