Discuss : is ffxiv in trouble

[Supersnow845]

This thread again, It happens so many times.

We are currently in a low content point.
But balmung has a login queue of 10-40 everyday at nearly anytime of the day.

They keep adding servers. Once they start merging servers is the only time you should think the game is slowing down.
God how are they going to deal with housing when they merge servers!!!

10-40 login queues aren’t queues, they are just bunching logins

[Absurdity]

10-40 login queues aren’t queues, they are just bunching logins

This. You get queues at 3am on EU servers which are utterly dead at that time, because the login servers work in bulk.

Does that say anything about the population? No, but the myth that servers are so packed you get queues in the middle of the night needs to die.

[Jeeqbit]

The average active characters increased each expansion by around 200,000. It's no different in EW. It grew a lot more in EW but at the bare minimum stats we've seen (recently due to patch lull), there are 200,000 more persistently active characters than throughout Shadowbringers.

[Canadane]

Given the way the game currently works right now using stb/shb and ew as a point of reference. A

I am just here to point out the abbreviation of Stormblood is SB, not StB.
Games great, have a good day.

[Gordita]

I am just here to point out the abbreviation of Stormblood is SB, not StB.
Games great, have a good day.

I love this comment so much as a long time player, these new ppl all running around calling it STB is grating to my eyes, since it was decided long before shb launch that sb would remain sb , and shb would be shb.

[sindriiisgaming]

I am just here to point out the abbreviation of Stormblood is SB, not StB.
Games great, have a good day.

Then ppl would confuse it for shadowbringers lol

[Gordita]

Then ppl would confuse it for shadowbringers lol

That's what we call a genuine skill issue.

[Rithy255]

is it in trouble currently? No.
Will it be in trouble in the future if it carries on as it is? Maybe?

I think the main issues with the game are pretty simple and have been discussed but ill list my 3.
1. Theirs not a lot of fun content once you finished endgame and done raids (which raids don't even have scaling content you either do really easy or content that's pretty hard), a lot of the content is too spread out for the core playerbase we all have to wait a long time to get new raids, dungeons, general content, I think this issue is also more of a issue because of point 2
2. The Job Gameplay is very boring and samey, once you played one job in a category you've pretty much played all of them, tanks and healers are a prime example of this, If jobs felt different then getting clears or leveling, or doing dailys would feel more fun to do, but currently theirs very little differences which makes me question why we're getting more jobs.
3. Synching down feels awful, most content 70 and under I can't stand personally, the lower the worse it gets, this makes half of the old content just really unfun and a lot of the times you will end up having to do old content over and over if you want to level a job or just if you get unlucky.

The three things I listed generally doesn't effect everyone and I do actually like the game otherwise i wouldn't comment about things i want to see better, I don't think we will have a sharp decline but endwalker launch is most likely the "peak" of ff14 player numbers, personally I hope the game becomes more fun I've certainly been drained from playing tank a role I used to love in SHB.

[samuel101]

With all the content up to endgame content they view as training you how to play your job. As someone who on another account had all jobs to 80 in shadowbringer I agree that the jobs start to feel like just a new coat of paint so are the new jobs every expansion necessary? I thought at one point that the extreme trials were supposed to be the in that slot of endgame between regular raiding and savage raiding but now a days it is often hard to find people to do those fights with as people just wait until the next expansion and do them unsynched if they want that particular mount. One thing I would like to see soon is for there to be relief of button bloat on some jobs. Maybe it is just me but sometimes it feels like I don't have enough fingers to hit all the buttons that I should be hitting and with this game possibly being played on controller this problem must be resolved if they want to keep controller support active.