All The Doom Threads Are Strange To Me

[KayRadley]

(Character Limit)

That's just this forum in a nutshell, and I can guarantee you every single "Doom Thread" is made by someone who has kept an active sub and has played through every expansion.

They are a vocal minority. Pay them no heed.

[Troxbark]

THE DOOM IS NIGH, SEND ME YOUR GIL TO FIND ABSOLUTION.

[Metalface_Villain]

If that quote is as true as you claim why do you play the game? Why does that person play the game? I have been playing since 1.0 and like the op find things to do and enjoy in ffxiv every single day. If you are unhappy do something you enjoy. Stop spending your entire existence incessantly complaining about things you cannot change in life. You may actually find something you enjoy.

that's a bad argument, people not leaving doesn't make those statements untrue. ff14 has many flaws but that doesn't mean that it also doesn't have good things, people can for 1 like those things and stick with the game for that, that doesn't make their complaints for the other stuff invalid. people also keep playing for the same reason people did with wow, because they invested a lot of time in this game for so long and have an emotional tie. i personally came with the wow exodus and because wow was so bad at that time and because ff14 was still new i had a lot of things to do and didn't feel the flaws, now i have nothing to do and this is actually my last patch. the main reason i played for all these patches tbh in ew was because of ocd "forcing" to complete all the relics but after seeing how they all look the same and not that good (in my eyes) i won't bother even with that. so i guess you're wrong either way xD

[Rhael]

Nobody is arguing the game is actually dying, but people are arguing the game they want to play is dying, which is a totally different argument

The game I want to play died over a decade ago. FFXIV is just currently the only viable substitute. FFXIV has always been extremely anemic when it comes to content. It's why I took a long break for the middle third of every expansion cycle from ARR through ShB. The fact is, this discussion is only getting so big just now because the massive influx of new players the game received during ShB simply didn't encounter this problem until now. Now that they've been here for a few years and the veil of being a new player has been lifted, they're seeing the game as it actually is. It shouldn't have taken a decade for this discussion to happen, - and I'm amazed it didn't happen earlier (such as way back mid-hw) - but here we are.

[Shanyrafyre]

I THOUGHT ABT THIS

[BarghastTimes]

I honestly feel the same, and I think I'll go back to Everquest after this because at least there's content and a community that listens and gets decent QoL changes put in place. They don't scream bloody murder when you hint the game isn't perfect. Or blame everything on some nebulous form of the game from 15 years ago and how impossible it is to change anything. "Oh, well because 1.0 that's impossible and we should just accept to be miserable. I like giving my money to Squeenix so they can waste it on pointless GACHA games and titles they cancel in a week."

Etc etc "Don't let the door hit you on your way out." And "Well this game isn't for you clearly." < Great way to build a community folks, or even keep one going.

[KageTokage]

It doesn't feel particularly encouraging to me that there's no indication any of the core gameplay content is actually getting improved; just assurances that it's going to be there (As per usual).

Making bold claims about this being comparable to an "ARR 2.0" doesn't hold much water when most of the confirmed updates are strictly cosmetic thus far.

I suppose that might change, but considering history...

[Turtledeluxe]

It seems well agreed upon that in an effort to become not like WoW/more like a single player rpg, the game forgot that it's a sub based MMO, and thats a bad thing.

[Scruit_Bigtime]

This is entertainment, not a job. If I want to repeat the same thing every single day for months or years on end, all I need to do is go to work in the morning.

you might want to reconsider playing an MMO then

[Erzaa]

you might want to reconsider playing an MMO then

Thank you for your input. I'll give it due consideration and then toss it in the garbage where it belongs.