FFXIV's Future

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And here's the point. I read a lot on here about how the game is too easy, how SE isn't really trying anymore, etc. Yet on the forums and subreddits of other MMOs, such as WoW and ESO, they consistently praise FFXIV's accessibility.

But that relative ease of the game is exactly what people here complain about. The very things that have made FFXIV the third-place (corrected) market leader are the things people here would like to see changed. Which honestly makes me very grateful none of you are running SE

Absolutely true. In the AAA video game industry, quality is not as important as quantity. Many people find subjective value in products that have middling quality. In fact, consumers will buy just about anything and be generally content with it. Unless a product cannot be played at all, it’s generally going to be good. In that regard, FFXIV is a bit like Call of Duty or FIFA: give people more of what they want and they’ll be happy. Complexity isn’t as important as simple joy. Or like Folgers coffee and Hershey bars: there are hundreds of millions of people who deeply enjoy those things, despite snobs not agreeing. FFXIV is the exact same way. Just give people a game and they’ll like it and ask for more. Any game, really, as long as it’s not Superman 64. Because as far as I can tell, playing something is better than not playing anything, and if all you’ve got to do is watch paint dry, wouldn’t you play FFXIV?