r/ffxivdiscussion: What can Square Enix do to help fix the terrible netcode of FFXIV?

[Jeeqbit]

Imagine skipping all the traditional rites of passage, like going to parties, getting laid, etc. for a video game—and not regretting it. It takes a very good-quality product to have that effect on people. Would people say the same for FFXIV?

I've met enough people in the game it has that effect on.

The gameplay doesn’t have the same addictive staying power.

By design. Despite that it has this effect on people still, Yoshi-P is trying to make it not have that effect on people to the degree that many MMORPGs from the past have, by allowing them to be played casually and making it so you don't lose out too much by being away for months.

A good quality product is not something that forces you to destroy your real life to progress in it. A good quality product is something that might make you do that voluntarily when you don't really need to.

And if we have learned anything about World of Warcraft it's that you needed to or you lost out and fell behind.

For example, I don't need to do roulettes every day. But I can because it's fun. I don't need to spam Crystalline Conflict, but I can because it's fun. I don't need to go through Eureka to get all the weapons, but I can because it's fun. I don't need to level all of the jobs, but I can because the variety is fun.

It's not like I can't just log back in after months, click the market board and be fully ready for savage in moments, which is the problem I have heard about in WoW for much of its existence.

[caffe_macchiato]

By design.

You did it! You said the thing!!