Discuss : is ffxiv in trouble

[sindriiisgaming]

Meanwhile, all the newer players have plenty of content to sink their teeth into and don't have some past that they yearn for as if they are Emet-Selch.

this is candle burning at both ends and will eventually expire,
also its a false pretense. it implies i want a return to the past, but its a past i wasnt part of. what i want is innovaton

The majority of people on the forums tend to be... veteran players, who have burned through all the content that they are going to and came here to complain they are bored. Humans don't like change, so naturally, said veteran players will constantly complain about how things have changed from when they started.

So if you go into the game itself it's more likely to be a balanced mix of veteran, casual, returning and newer players.

except thats NOT what im seeing

because humans often don't like change

in this instance, id like change

[Lyth]

I think it's worthwhile to engage with well thought out opinions. Unfortunately, a lot of forum regulars eventually get addicted to reactions rather than conversations. Asking if the sky is falling is a great way to score on engagement metrics, but doesn't really have enough specifics to go off in terms of discussion content.

I wouldn't know what to do with FFXIV's sales figures. I hope they do well, but it's also not my problem either way.

[Colt47]

Well, the other piece is the change to a 2 minute meta and how it plays with the stats. We had more customization to the jobs before this point thanks to skill / spell speed lending to different playstyles on jobs. There was always a preferred way to play before but the 2 minute meta kind of increased the gap a lot. But given the preference for OGCDs now and the waning usage from design changes to tenacity and piety, I'm surprised we still have MP as a resource. :P

[Swordsman]

What do you predict will happen to 14 in 3 or 5 years. Do you think it can change? Or will. Do you think the games health is impacting the mogstation too?

What could the devs do to improve the game? Or are people blowing things out the water? I'd love to hear your thoughts

In 3 to 5 years I think the game will still be fine. Yes, the game needs improvements and there will probably be less players, but I don't think FFXIV will completely die until much much later (maybe 10+ years from now?). I'm sure SE will continue to release small bits of content here and there to keep the game alive, at least for the next few years.

[Erinellza]

FFXIV is not in trouble, updates confirmed for 10 more years, it just came out on Xbox, we're getting a graphics update, new expansion, etc. If it were in trouble, they wouldn't bother. People always come and go in MMOs but I think the population will mostly stagnate in the next few years.

I think XIV will only lose a significant amount of players when we completely stop getting new story/content/patches (aka maintenance mode). But that won't happen anytime soon.

[DiaDeem]

Game is fine. Skull and Bones is in trouble. Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is in trouble. XIV is not.

[Maltothoris]

I would not say that the game is in trouble but the cracks are there that could easily hurt it if not checked I would in maybe 3-4 years.

[ChrysOCE]

Nah, game is not really in trouble. I hate the direction some of the content has gone - EW relics, EW alliance raids, what IS turned out to be, healer (lack of) design, pvp balance, the intensification of solo play in an mmo, the EW Blue Mage lack of actual content update that had Blue relevant for a few weeks and then died out again, the godawful patch story.
I'm not going to cancel my sub over it. And if there's something on the shop I want to buy, I'll buy it.
I don't have anything in particular against Yoshida. But his time has probably come. Put in a succession plan or something. Though, based on patch performance, it's not like the other staff really carried the load while he was off on his FFXVI adventure. I always hated the argument of "if you don't like it, unsub". But I will unsub when I don't like it. Or, probably more accurately, when enough people I know stop logging in.

[Colt47]

The problem with the expansion and the game is the implementation of cross server play. To give a real example of the impact: I am rank 10 in island sanctuary and am just now starting the journey to rank 20, because I literally couldn't enter the sanctuary. Due to scheduling, I was always stuck on Aether to do savage with various groups so it wasn't possible to even so much as come in to check the work schedule. There's no way to catch up on this content since it is a time gated thing like a phone game, so someone starting now likely has to go hit rocks for hours just to make rank 20 in time.

The other problem is the market boards. It created a situation where most buyers of goods are going to one set of servers, while the people who make goods and can sell them are stuck on the same servers they made characters on. Things are way less fluid on Crystal and Primal then on Aether, and a lot of the items that are the kinds of things people who play casually would sell, sell for way more on aether than crystal or primal.