Discuss : is ffxiv in trouble

[strawberrycake]

So we live in 2024, and what I hate the most of people within the XIV community is that they simultaneously praise CBU3 and SE for everything that they do, while also acting as if sorting through a forum they created for information is the hardest thing to do, or gauging the player base for information about what they're currently doing/playing,what they'd like to see is the hardest thing to do. You can't act like they're a better set of devs if they can't figure those basic things out, like any other dev.

XIV isn't dying, thats a massive leap in logic and I feel that leap came from the fact that anytime a person has simply expressed distaste of the current set of content, it's met with people leaping to the idea that said person thought the game was dying because of it. And yes there have been a few of those people, but they are not the majority. But, BUT, the massive lack of direct attention from CBU3 is what exacerbates the already apparent issues with the game. Factoring in Yoshida wanted all of this to be this way for people to play FF16 (he said so in an interview) as the massively idiotic choice it was given not everyone owns a PS5 or even wants to play it, means he actively screwed over a large chunk of his own playerbase for the sake of another game.

This is what I mean by I think management for this game and other products isn't the greatest and needs to be looked at from a new perspective within in the playerbase. These are the type of choices he should come to the community at large with, not making them for us. Imagine if players didn't have so much faith in him, it could have costed him a large amount of people playing.

We need to stop making excuses for this type of behavior and thinking and lack of consideration of us.