Time to Quit

[Velvet_Lunarfang]

Feeling the same way TBO. I actually haven't even made it through half the EW story for the 1st time too, so probably not for the reasons most people here express.

My big problem with this game is the housing system. SE is making BILLIONS of dollars across dozens of games. They sign these BS anti-consumer exclusivity deals excluding PC gamers from enjoying the new single player FF game that took tons away from the development of this product we pay for, just to grab at MORE money...

Yet they can't invest some MINIMAL dollars in some extra server space for instanced housing, and some sort of basic UI front-end for making friends lists of people's houses in your district you would like to appear in each of the plots in your instance?

Excluding 90% of your paying customers from a key feature of the game because you are too miserly to invest money in servers? Setting up this horrible lottery system (a less foul smelling turd is still a turd) which is just a once-per-week punch in the guts for the vast majority of you players who don't buy gold from farmers and spend hundreds of millions on FC flipping services to cheese the lottery to even have a fair chance at getting a house?

This is an absolutely disgraceful system and the fact they feel everything is perfectly fine has really destroyed my faith in the "we care so much *tear, sniff* public image of this company, I am seriously at the point where it is just time to consciously and emotionally uncouple.

I might stick around for 7.0... but I'm just... not sure at this point.

I feel the same and they got feedback about the previous criterion dungeon and yet again Yoshi changed nothing for the new criterion. I can't understand why people still believe in this guy when he and his team been dropping the ball the last couple expansions

[AlienDiplomat]

I can't understand why people still believe in this guy when he and his team been dropping the ball the last couple expansions

I mean, it's not really like that for me. I still have a lot of respect for the team, YoshiP, Soken, all the creative people who contribute. It is still a really great game and I know they all have had a lot of passion for it over the years. I still feel you get way more content and attention to detail in this MMO than pretty much any other on the market. Certainly a lot more than WoW, "time gate everything to milk subs for minimal content while blaming the customer for complaining about the same team lead basically abandoning all aspects of the game other than spreadsheet simulating min-max raiding."

The thing is, housing is a core component of the game to my way of thinking. You can have the coolest game in the world, but if you neglect an essential core component so that maybe 20% of the population or less even get to participate and just leave it that way for years on end with no word, no communication... I mean think of it like a world class chef making the ultimate wedding cake, with absolute attention to detail given to every aspect, every layer... but then making every layer except the top maybe 10-15% or so out of cardboard underneath the pretty icing.

As nice as the whole thing looks, that is still going to leave 80+% of the guests with a pretty bad taste in their mouth.