The Perfect Response to "Take a Break"

[Noumenon]

Respectfully, I have been playing other games most of Endwalker. It is impossible for me to burn out of a game that I am not playing. But that doesn't seem to stop people from misunderstanding the nature of the situation.

That's simply an unfathomable thought for them. They cannot imagine that most players have already quit and no one is actually playing the game anymore

[Jojoya]

That's simply an unfathomable thought for them. They cannot imagine that most players have already quit and no one is actually playing the game anymore

And you don't seem capable of logging into the game to see just how many players are active.

Especially now the patch notes are out. My Diadochos sales exploded today, I'm restocking all my mannequins.

[aveyond-dreams]

That's simply an unfathomable thought for them. They cannot imagine that most players have already quit and no one is actually playing the game anymore

My understanding is that the endeavour to attract new players is also starting to flounder, which would be entirely predictable. The early game experience just isn't fun, and the recent marketing tactics with those tutorial videos that came out a while back and the lack of anything interesting in the Dawntrail trailer doesn't make for a game people are excited to play.

It's normally a good idea to show off the party so people can have an idea of who the characters are, but if you showed me the Scions and told me they were my party I would just play something else. Y'shtola looking like a basic catgirl, Thancred and Urianger looking out of place, the sheer horror factor of cgi G'raha Tia, and then the twins. I struggle to come up with an instance in which a cast has turned me off this badly before, and I imagine people who haven't tried FFXIV in its current state feel similarly.

The characters people would often get excited for are ones like Emet etc. but without their presence there's not much draw to the game now that it has abandoned its setting and more compelling characters in favor of nothing.