I want to play *This* game

[aveyond-dreams]

No, you just don't get it, you have to play the other games™ to enjoy this game!!! Take a break, lose your house, your FC, your friends, just so you can enjoy this game better when you come back, don't you get it?!!!!

That's the thing though, with the games that are set to release this year and the utter state of FFXIV...there really is a high chance that after 6.4 I just don't come back if Hiroi doesn't deliver an ending to Pandemonium that is at the very least "passable" without the sort of thematic mess the base Endwalker msq subjected us to.

There's no content coming out until 7.0 that I can see myself doing anyway after these raids, certainly not the last Myths instalment with the open sesame femroe scholar or anything else the junior writers who created 6.1 have touched. How on earth did we go from the sort of patches we had in Heavensward and Stormblood to this? From both a content design and writing perspective, it feels like a change for the worse in every possible way.

Anyway, given FFXIV doesn't feel like FFXIV anymore, I may as well try out FFXVI once it arrives. I just want a game that takes itself seriously and feels fun, and hopefully FFXVI will accomplish that with Heavensward's writer and soon as I unlock Shiva and Bahamut's eikon movesets. All the passion that used to be behind FFXIV clearly has all gone over to that game. Meanwhile these patches all feel like they're done as a last minute task without much care put into them.

The winning number is 0.

The bugs that TOP launched with.

Books falling on Y'shtola's head and the thrilling character that is Zero.

If this is all the game can offer for the next 10 years then I'm not sticking around for this ride. All of it feels like a massive betrayal. With the added bonus of seeing the longstanding content creators who mocked me in the past finally waking up to the fact that things are not ok. Congratulations to them especially, if they loved this game so much they should have been the first to call out Endwalker's problems so they could actually be fixed.