CBU3 has abandoned us

[Myrany]

There are circumstances where voting with your wallet works.

If enough people with similar issues to you all leave at the same time a game company will notice. What they do about it is up to them. If they do not fix what you feel is wrong with the game it is safe to assume either loosing a few subs costs less than fixing the problem or you just no longer are the target audience of the game going forward.

I strongly suspect SE is focusing on new players atm. It is the perfect time to do so with the 10 year anniversary and the start of a new story arc. Without new blood the game wont survive another 10 years. Also New players stand to spend the most money going forward as they don't already have all the extra stuff a veteran has collected over the years.

In a year that focus could shift. A wise company does not focus ONLY on one group forever.

The other way voting with your wallet works is that if you really are that upset or miserable with the game direction it is simply foolish to keep playing it.

All those staying because of a house or thing x, y or z while complaining constantly about not liking the game anymore I just will never understand. You have your reason for staying, your house (or thing x,y or z). You made your choice. You already know after all this time your gripes with the game are not being listened to. So you can't be upset enough that you will give up the other things. You are just cash cows for SE. You have shown you will not withdraw your funding so why should SE bother catering to you.

As for myself I have enough fun every time I log in that I am not going anywhere. Is the game perfect? Hardly. For myself the point to walk away comes when a game is no longer fun for me personally. When it stops being fun I am out the door.

[Atelier-Bagur]

There are circumstances where voting with your wallet works.

If enough people with similar issues to you all leave at the same time a game company will notice. What they do about it is up to them. If they do not fix what you feel is wrong with the game it is safe to assume either loosing a few subs costs less than fixing the problem or you just no longer are the target audience of the game going forward.

I strongly suspect SE is focusing on new players atm. It is the perfect time to do so with the 10 year anniversary and the start of a new story arc. Without new blood the game wont survive another 10 years. Also New players stand to spend the most money going forward as they don't already have all the extra stuff a veteran has collected over the years.

In a year that focus could shift. A wise company does not focus ONLY on one group forever.

The other way voting with your wallet works is that if you really are that upset or miserable with the game direction it is simply foolish to keep playing it.

All those staying because of a house or thing x, y or z while complaining constantly about not liking the game anymore I just will never understand. You have your reason for staying, your house (or thing x,y or z). You made your choice. You already know after all this time your gripes with the game are not being listened to. So you can't be upset enough that you will give up the other things. You are just cash cows for SE. You have shown you will not withdraw your funding so why should SE bother catering to you.

As for myself I have enough fun every time I log in that I am not going anywhere. Is the game perfect? Hardly. For myself the point to walk away comes when a game is no longer fun for me personally. When it stops being fun I am out the door.

what boils down to, you play the game when the game is good for you and you stop playing it when the game is giving you more frustration than fun. That threshold differs between player to player and I suppose it isnt fair to fully judge them based off of forum post venting; but most of the time it does come across that way and the simplest solution is to quit wasting your breath and stop giving SE money on a product you dont enjoy anymore. There's no point continuing providing feedback in a state of a game that you feel has stagnated even with your criticisms early on. The best step to want to have business men to start listening to your direction is to stop providing money to them as that is a lot more noticeable than somebody participating in the perpetual echo chamber. It's why 2.0 happened, its because SE realized from the abysmal playerbase that serious change had to happen.

Speaking with your wallet does more good than harm in the long run.

[Rolder50]

I strongly suspect SE is focusing on new players atm. It is the perfect time to do so with the 10 year anniversary and the start of a new story arc. Without new blood the game wont survive another 10 years. Also New players stand to spend the most money going forward as they don't already have all the extra stuff a veteran has collected over the years.

Even if they are focusing only on new players, I'd argue they aren't really even doing a good job of that. The biggest barrier to entry for *retaining* a new player is the massive MSQ that you have to go through in sequential order. No matter how good the story, people are going to get burnt out and quit if they are doing it for dozens of hours.

In my opinion, if they want to retain new players, they need some way to skip parts of the story without putting it behind a paywall.

[Striker44]

Even if they are focusing only on new players, I'd argue they aren't really even doing a good job of that. The biggest barrier to entry for *retaining* a new player is the massive MSQ that you have to go through in sequential order. No matter how good the story, people are going to get burnt out and quit if they are doing it for dozens of hours.

In my opinion, if they want to retain new players, they need some way to skip parts of the story without putting it behind a paywall.

Isn't that what SE has already suggested they're doing for DT?

[Jojoya]

Even if they are focusing only on new players, I'd argue they aren't really even doing a good job of that. The biggest barrier to entry for *retaining* a new player is the massive MSQ that you have to go through in sequential order. No matter how good the story, people are going to get burnt out and quit if they are doing it for dozens of hours.

I think many are either forgetting or didn't hear which type of new player they're trying to focus on.

The long time Final Fantasy franchise fan that has had no interest in playing a MMO. MSQ certainly wouldn't be a barrier to them.

Whether the changes they're making will attract those players, I don't know. I'm not a franchise fan. Certainly they can play through most of the MSQ solo now but they're still going to hit a roadblock on most of the trials unless SE does something else to handle those.

Isn't that what SE has already suggested they're doing for DT?

They had said in the past that they intended to create a new starting point. Some of the more recent interview comments seemed to have backtrack on that.

I'm not certain what their plan for addressing length of MSQ is anymore.

Today my 700+ days of subscription streak ended. Its not much compared to most players but to me its big. I started near COVID era where I found this game to be the only reason to get up because at the time I got sick.

Fast forward a few years later, my emotional attachment to the game can only help so far. There is no content.

What were you doing in previous expansions during the same "no content" or is this the first expansion where you've reached level cap before the expansion ended?

I've talked to a few people that are starting to feel bored and asked them what they would be doing in past expansions and they told me they would be leveling additional jobs. They finally got everything to level cap this expansion for the first time and so that's removed part of what kept them busy in the past.