Why this Live Letter Matters

[RyuDragnier]

Not sure how anybody can just play only FFXIV tbh. From this week alone, I've played a bit of Elden Ring, Dark Souls 2, Dokapon Kingdom, Dragon's Dogma, Grandia, Divinity: Original Sin 2, and Honkai Star Rail. One cannot be chained down by a single game.

[Heavenchild]

Not sure how anybody can just play only FFXIV tbh. From this week alone, I've played a bit of Elden Ring, Dark Souls 2, Dokapon Kingdom, Dragon's Dogma, Grandia, Divinity: Original Sin 2, and Honkai Star Rail. One cannot be chained down by a single game.

There is more in life than gaming and I don't want to buy so many games. It's too expensive. It's okay that FF14 does not consume extremly much time. But now it's on a state, where there is really not much to do, shortly after patch release. And that's too less. It was not always like this and I really hope that things become better when they are done with 16.

[ForteNightshade]

Not sure how anybody can just play only FFXIV tbh. From this week alone, I've played a bit of Elden Ring, Dark Souls 2, Dokapon Kingdom, Dragon's Dogma, Grandia, Divinity: Original Sin 2, and Honkai Star Rail. One cannot be chained down by a single game.

Most people aren't just playing FFXIV. Even if they don't play other games necessarily, they'll have different things to occupy their time. Speaking for myself, I watch a lot of podcasts, shorts and bounce around to different forums. All while also playing other games just nowhere near as many as you mentioned.

The actual criticism people have is FFXIV has nowhere near enough content to last even a month in a five month long patch cycle. Not unless you're just doing weeklies. Odd numbered patches are specifically bad for this. Case in point, 6.3 will have lasted 19 weeks yet everything in both it and the .5 patch thereafter offered could barely fill a week, let alone nineteen. I don't think it's unreasonable for people to be annoyed they can't get four weeks out of nineteen before they have to "play other games."