"I don't want to think while I play, so no one should be allowed to."

[RitsukoSonoda]

the issue is the average consumer can no longer "vote" or get anything done with their wallet anymore as long as there's a small percentage of players who hand them a large amount of money they could care less.

and as others have said they were fine with SHB cause they thought it'd lead to something in EW or just be an experiment which wasn't the case, i think we're past teh point of "seeing what the devs do" tbh. especially when we get things like SMN that gets defended with "oh but devs will make it feel complete later or int eh next expansion" cause we should wait for a year and a half for a fleshed out kit? i mean hell our lovable carbuncle is basically useless now, and we have like one thing to think about "can i use 2 ifrit hardcasts/1 garuda hardcast here"?

Hmm... Dumb down the MMO game... continue to put focus on monetizing games via NFTs... Wait... it all comes together now... They're using FFXIV to attract the ppl that would buy video game NFTs... >.>

[MintnHoney]

Hmm... Dumb down the MMO game... continue to put focus on monetizing games via NFTs... Wait... it all comes together now... They're using FFXIV to attract the ppl that would buy video game NFTs... >.>

And they would have gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for you meddling kids ruining their financial outlook.

[Thaciscokidd]

And they would have gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for you meddling kids ruining their financial outlook.

Not entirely ruined

[pikalovr]

Not entirely ruined

imagine seeing bitcoins and NFTs/play to earn games failing/falling/stolen left and right and still even remotely fancying the idea of doing a blockchain game jesus. but then again diablo immortal was attempted and was "successful" soooooo. (which yes wasn't a blockchain game but it just goes to show how far companies are willing to go to make quick bucks and don't care if they hurt their image or anything like that)