These forums are weird

[GaiusDrakon]

You are not FFXIV. It's time that we realize our roles as consumers of a product made by a corporation for profit. If we fail to establish barriers between ourselves and the product, we become victim to a parasocial relationship whereby our money no longer has value.

It's perfect really. The best way to succeed in a capitalist society as a corporation is to act like you're on the side of the consumers and pretend to be best buddies with them. Yoshi P is far better at this than most other devs. While many corporations fail at this and make cringe ads and what is obviously corporate virtue signaling (like all the Pride flags), sometimes there are savants that succeed and enrapture many fans.

Really you can't even blame these people, Yoshi P is too good at his job.

Maybe one day when consumers in the gaming space realize that corporations are your enemy and not your friend, we would get better quality products.

For now, we just have to watch these savvy firms manufacture an image of themselves as something beyond capitalism, selling products that are more than mere commodities to make customers feel like they're engaging in more than a transaction, and therefore willingly pay much more for much lower quality products.

It's not even ironic at this point to say that 80% of FF14 players are paypigs with Yoshi P as the findom papa.