7.0 doomium has got to stop

[AwesomeJr44]

I mean this isn't as surprising as people make it sound — very few people write letters to Kellogg's gushing about how much they love Cheez-Its, but if there's a formula change and people suddenly think Cheez-Its taste like feet, they'll be a lot more motivated to make the effort to write something. (And/or start scalping them to the ERP crowd in FFXIV PF ads.)

I don't find it surprising at all. But if every 'positive/anti-negative' thread is going to be made purely for damage control or taking shots at other threads, then people should stop crying foul when those threads get called out for the ulterior motives behind their creation.

[Eorzean_username]

I don't find it surprising at all. But if every 'positive/anti-negative' thread is going to be made purely for damage control or taking shots at other threads, then people should stop crying foul when those threads get called out for the ulterior motives behind their creation.

Well the obvious "counter-threads" yes, but if you trawl through the General list, there's actually plenty of "positive" or "neutral" or "I like this, but want an improvement" threads that don't seem to be a direct response to any specific "negative" thread, so I think the generalisation is a bit overly-broad.

Strange how that frustration builds.

Yeah sure, everyone's free to express themselves how they want to (within the limits of whatever RNG moderation occurs here, I guess).

I'm just saying that those types of "rageface meme" threads tend to be most likely to trigger a rebound because, by their nature, they're more likely to incite a strong emotional response in people who don't feel the same way about the situation.

[Rufalus]

I honestly don't understand why some people choose to keep suffering (and wasting money) over a game they dislike. Maybe they just enjoy the thrill of having something to complain about.

The competition is either so much worse or so different that it doesn't satisfy the same itch. Beneath my endless critical feedback is the hopium that they knock it out the park on Friday with the expansion reveal.

[AwesomeJr44]

Beneath my endless critical feedback is the hopium that they knock it out the park on Friday with the expansion reveal.

[Renalt]

I'm not really doom posting...I'm just not liking the direction things have been going but I did once love the game and I hope 7.0 kinda rekindles the embers?

I mean yeah if I don't like it I won't be around to make post after post after post saying I hate it. I'm not about that life. I might say a "farewell" post ( I know everyone loves those. I know a certain few will enjoy mine ) but I will keep an eye on FFXIV news and if anything catches my eye...I'll be back.

But who knows maybe 7.0 will be great and I'll be back to cursing the post limits again.

[IckeDerTyp]

We'll find out how much simpler things can be, won't we? :3

If they bring back two dungeons per major patch, I'll be happy~

[KageTokage]

I'm not going to assume 7.x will be outright bad, but I do feel like it's going to nonetheless make or break the game for a lot of people going forward because many have expressed feeling a bit tired out by the game's sparse and predictable content cycle and they're starting anew storywise which means it's important that they get people hooked on whatever they have planned...assuming they're even opting for a persistent story arc instead of more self-contained plots.

[Rolder50]

I enjoy that this forum has likes, makes it easy to see when people get ratioed.

But anyway, there wouldn't be as much doomium if the game was heading in a good direction, so yknow

[DixieBellOCE]

SNIP.

Lets break this down.

1) People are fearing that 7.0 will go down the same route that Endwalker has taken, with content releases that will never stand the test of time, and outside of the first few weeks, will be dead on arrival.

2) People are not posting because they hate the game, the Diehard fans are the people that are losing their minds because the MMO they love has been watered down to the level of a Chinese mobile game.

3) FF14 will continue on it's current path, there is no doubting that. 7.0 will release, the playerbase will grow exponentially and new servers will be added(And then left to die because nobody wants to actually be on them, other than to own a large/mod house). A few months in ~30% of the playerbase will have quit playing and the game will settle back down to the same numbers across the board, because there is zero engaging reason to log into the game throughout the downtime between major patches.

4) CBU3 certainly did create one of the best MMORPG's out there, but they also started catering that MMORPG to a Single Player audience, and the game has lost it's MMO flair and gone down the sad and lonely path of single player driven content.

The game does have major glaring issues, and the foremost one is Player Retention. They developers need to create content that lasts longer than the patch it is created for in order to keep people engaged with the game.
The same can be said for Raiding, After 10 years, it has become the same bland cycle of Raid, Gear, Unsub. There needs to be engaging content for those players to continue playing the game too.

As i have said before, When an expansion ends, all the current content gets passed down to become 'backlog' casual content for people to consume during downtime.
Endwalker is an anomaly because the backlog of content getting passed down is next to nothing. The content was designed to be done once, then go play something else.

XIV will not die (even if places like materia feel like a wasteland during the small content drops), and there is no need to worry in that regard.

[Supersnow845]

I’ll continue to doompost 7.0 until someone (probably yoshi p) says they have realised they made an error with healer design and begins to attempt to course correct

Think 7.0 won’t have a new healer, who’s gonna fill the queues of the 2 new DPS classes introduced when you can’t Bozja your way to 100 like you could with RPR this current expansion

I don’t think enough people acknowledge how much SGE not being DOA is basically the glue holding the entire game together right now because the only content you can do without a dedicated healer (as set by the game not say WAR replacing the healer in expert) is variant, eureka, Bozja and if you are a real maniac deep dungeons

What’s gonna happen when the entire 7.0 is like the launch of 5.0 when I could get literally any instance I wanted to pop at any time of the day just by queuing as a healer because the roulettes were just that starved of healers