What would it take to make you unsub from xiv

[Lunaxia]

I already have. I came back briefly to join in a fight, but I've logged in about three times over the past three or four months.

This game just has nothing left anymore. It's a shadow of what it once was in every respect; gameplay, classes, community, content, writing, story. Despite the clear increase in profit and popularity from ShB's success and ridiculously expensive Mogstation items that you can still only use on a single character, basic issues like Viera/ Hrothgar headgear, the god-awful housing system and bots taking over the marketboard continue to go unaddressed and are now starting to take the piss. The final straw was their attempting to manipulate players into staying subbed during this appalling content drought for fear of losing their homes. It's just disgustingly greedy. Like, EA levels of greedy. They're packing more of a profit than they ever have and and are giving less than ever in return.

But why would they? Why bother continue catering to older fans whining about time and resource heavy issues like jobs and content when they can make piles of money appealing to the low-rent RP crowd who are happy with costumes, stripper poles and dance floors? Why put the effort into crafting decent writing when Estinien doing push-ups generates all the media engagement they could want? It's classic SE behaviour, now they no longer need to pander to fans to keep the subs up.

The game as it was has long gone. It's moved on, and so have I, and in the process remembered that games should be enjoyed, not tolerated.

What would it take to bring me back? Nothing the devs would be prepared to do lol, short of another Dalamud falling on Eorzea.