Brian from Work 2 Game is leaving FFXIV

[Carin-Eri]

It's called getting older. When you're in high school most, if not all, of your friends play video games regularly. Once you hit college, many of them stop. Once they graduate college and get jobs, even more stop. Once they get married, even more stop. Once they have kids, even more stop. Ultimately there are far fewer players from your generation who are left to play with you. Naturally the community is going to feel different when the majority of the players don't like the same music you do, didn't watch the same movies you did, and don't face the same problems you do.

You can huff the copium and chalk the changes up to made up concepts like "toxic positivity," but the fact is that the internet has brought many elements of society that previously had no contact with each other together. The "dirty jokes" and the disparaging remarks that used to seem funny to your buddies are not as funny when they're at the expense of people whose company you now regularly enjoy. I, for one, prefer "toxic positivity" to the mean-spirited community that I grew up in and to the elitist jerks who design WoW. I don't have to be mad at my fellow players all the time to enjoy my video games.

The fact is that Brian finally acquired the perspective to recognize that there is far more to life than playing video games. Good for him. Someday his kids will be older, and he'll find himself with free time again. He even explicitly said that when that happens he'll likely come back. Most of us will likely have moved on to bigger and better things by then, but I'm sure that many of us will still be around to welcome him back with open arms.

Well, the alternative is this.....:

[Reap00]

Sad to him go but has a life he has to do which is important. Also he has discussed that the community has changed over the years and doesn't feel the same anymore. I been in FFXIV for 8 years and it has changed over the years. Toxic positivity has been rising, constructive criticism is booed off.

There is times I have thought of quitting FFXIV myself. I feel like content has been lackluster for a while and the things people want changed just doesn't happen. If the rate the game has been going will this really last 10 more years? IDK I hope it does but also the game itself has been feeling stagnant.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eh8...el=GingerPrime
I posted his vid if anyone wants to see it

Clickbait troll leaves the game. I don't care and I guarantee you when 7.0 hype starts he will magically have interest again.

[Axxion]

Clickbait troll leaves the game. I don't care and I guarantee you when 7.0 hype starts he will magically have interest again.

Well in his video he did mentions if 7.0 s interesting then he might return. Soo i wont say say it was click bait

The dude has 5 kids and has other interests and obligations, including doing Stand-Up
Even if people wernt toxic, I think he would have eventually left the game anyway.

You should see the other videos when he was talking about 14 on how he was tired of trading on egg shells. I think they are deleted/ private right now

[MagiusNecros]

He will be back for 7.0 probably. He seems to have a thing for New World though. Yuck.

[Cach]

This is honestly really sad.

Left the game, not the family. Just in case it wasn't clear, lol.

This whole thing just reminded me why I have left other MMOs. It's never really a single event or thing, your motivation just erodes with time and one day you just don't feel it anymore. Every couple of year I look into WoW or Swtor or GW2 only to leave a few days later. That's hardly "coming back".

[Deveryn]

Left the game, not the family. Just in case it wasn't clear, lol.

This whole thing just reminded me why I have left other MMOs. It's never really a single event or thing, your motivation just erodes with time and one day you just don't feel it anymore. Every couple of year I look into WoW or Swtor or GW2 only to leave a few days later. That's hardly "coming back".

It really does happen this way and it isn't necessarily a reflection of the product. I had fun in EQ2 and still have friends there and housing projects I'd like to get back to, but I just can't get myself to stay there for long, even when I don't have much going on here.

[Absimiliard]

Breaking news: dissenting opinions now classified as harassment, more at 11.

[vanaii]

Breaking news: dissenting opinions now classified as harassment, more at 11.

That group is doing a lot more than posting dissenting opinions.

[Absimiliard]

Welp, I can tell you from experience there are people on these forums that will happily take their disputes in-game. I used to have my main linked on here. I also used to be very vocal about certain things I didn't like overmuch. This was not a good combination, and it certainly did result in me catching some hell in-game. As this occurred back when people were a lot less... we'll say, zealous, in how they approached subjects on these forums, I absolutely cannot blame someone for wanting to stay under the radar nowadays.

Whether anyone wants to admit it or not, this place has become a bit of a cesspit over the years. Certain people will take just about anything they don't agree with as some kind of personal insult to their honor. It's excessively difficult just to engage civil discourse without it being assailed by at least one person feeling the need to come in and start throwing out bait, insults, or what have you.

[Kozh]

That group is doing a lot more than posting dissenting opinions.

Oh really? You have source on that or are you just talking bs?