Remember when this game was good?

[Atelier-Bagur]

what a brilliant and totally not factual chart!

Stormblood was at its peak in terms of content quality.

[Hurlstone]

Ah, but have you considered...

[Carin-Eri]

[DayHealer]

Source: Trust me bro

[caffe_macchiato]

I do, ARR-SHB were good memories.

Bait thread. It's widely agreed that Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker is the best MMO right now and one of the best games ever made. It has a 100% rating on OpenCritic. Pretty much everyone likes it. I cried 12 times during the MSQ. If you don't like it, you can always go back to WoW. Oh, what's that? Shadowlands? Bobby Kotick? Breast milk in the fridge? Fruit bowl paintings? Yeah, thought so. FFXIV won, WoW lost. Get over it.

Mods, please lock. Discussion is over.

[TheDecay]

Bait thread. It's widely agreed that Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker is the best MMO right now and one of the best games ever made. It has a 100% rating on OpenCritic. Pretty much everyone likes it. I cried 12 times during the MSQ. If you don't like it, you can always go back to WoW. Oh, what's that? Shadowlands? Bobby Kotick? Breast milk in the fridge? Fruit bowl paintings? Yeah, thought so. FFXIV won, WoW lost. Get over it.

Mods, please lock. Discussion is over.

OpenCritic somehow manages to be even more useless than Metacritic user scores. It's amusing really.

Impressive how some people cannot see the clear decline in content quantity and quality over the years.

They do. They simply treat any attack on FF14 as an attack on themselves.

[Mithron]

Bait thread. It's widely agreed that Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker is the best MMO right now and one of the best games ever made. It has a 100% rating on OpenCritic. Pretty much everyone likes it. I cried 12 times during the MSQ. If you don't like it, you can always go back to WoW. Oh, what's that? Shadowlands? Bobby Kotick? Breast milk in the fridge? Fruit bowl paintings? Yeah, thought so. FFXIV won, WoW lost. Get over it.

Mods, please lock. Discussion is over.

I don't really care for other MMOs, especially not WoW, I only care about 14 since MapleStory and Ragnarok Online died years ago. So I want to voice my opinion on how much EW is dropping 14 because I want it to return to where it belongs and stop this terrible direction. You're making a bunch of random nonsense statements that don't apply to me or the discussion, and therefore you're the one who should be locked. Having negative opinions about something you love is never "bait" nor should be discouraged. Toxic positivity does no good to anyone or anything.

[Striker44]

I don't really care for other MMOs, especially not WoW, I only care about 14 since MapleStory and Ragnarok Online died years ago. So I want to voice my opinion on how much EW is dropping 14 because I want it to return to where it belongs and stop this terrible direction. You're making a bunch of random nonsense statements that don't apply to me or the discussion, and therefore you're the one who should be locked. Having negative opinions about something you love is never "bait" nor should be discouraged. Toxic positivity does no good to anyone or anything.

Check out the person you quoted's posting history. You were entirely baited by someone who hates this game yet can't bring themselves to stop playing it pretending to be someone gushing about it, and allowed them to successfully accomplish their goal of getting other people to bash those who dare to like the game on this forum.

[Alexandre_Noireau]

Impressive how some people cannot see the clear decline in content quantity and quality over the years.

Every expansion we get less.
And lately some really uninspired stuff, which comes to replace previous content and is done very lazily. Eureka Orthos for example.

The Variant/Criterion dungeons are not bad, but lack a proper reward structure.
And i think thats a big part of the problems, XIV reward structure/gearing process is all over the place, and most content in is completely unlinked from the main path of player progression: Verticality is damaging the game creativity.

[Striker44]

Impressive how some people cannot see the clear decline in content quantity and quality over the years.

Every expansion we get less.
And lately some really uninspired stuff, which comes to replace previous content and is done very lazily. Eureka Orthos for example.

The Variant/Criterion dungeons are not bad, but lack a proper reward structure.
And i think thats a big part of the problems, XIV reward structure/gearing process is all over the place, and most content in is completely unlinked from the main path of player progression: Verticality is damaging the game creativity.

Perhaps because you're erroneously trying to make claims as if they're objective, when all any of us are doing is giving subjective opinions? Personally, I'm having just as much fun now and find the "quality" that matters most to me (namely - story and music) to be just as good now as it's ever been. I'm not getting any less this expansion compared to others. Your results may vary, but that's the point - we're all providing personal opinions. Nothing less, nothing more.