Reverse WoW exodus

[Kranel_San]

I didn't buy Dawntrail because I didn't like how it looked and didn't have faith in the developers, I was going to wait. And sadly I was right, I'm not satisfied with what I'm seeing in gameplay or narrative.

My bf got it, hated it, and ended up putting it down at a certain point where you have to walk around a big empty places turning off things. He went back to playing WoW, even. Which is bad. He isn't a long time WoW player or anything either, but I also think I'm going to check it out too to play with him instead of on FFXIV.

So, how about a reverse exodus? To anywhere really, any game you'd rather play than Dawntrail. May as well make it a boycott. No sense in wasting my time forcing myself to play something I don't care for like Dawntrail. The FFXIV fanbase is pretty blindly loyal though.

I'm glad Dawntrail tripped, because WoW newest expansion looks promising.

WoW have been trying to perform better these last few years to restore the players' faiths and the numbers. Now it's FFXIV turn to do the same.

Competition leads to quality, and quality leads to satisfaction. Dawntrail tripped, so that 8.0 can be much more successful, or another catastrophic disaster that might mark the second nightmare era of 1.0

[TDawnstar]

WoW have been trying to perform better these last few years to restore the players' faiths and the numbers. Now it's FFXIV turn to do the same.

I doubt it's even possible. The resources are not even remotely comparable between the two, I am afraid.

[Voidmage]

I doubt it's even possible. The resources are not even remotely comparable between the two, I am afraid.

I don't know.
What CBU3 lacks in funding they have in goodwill of the players.
FF14 devs don't have to do much for the people to be happy just stop stepping into poop which they did quite a bit lately.

My opinion on all this:

A strong WoW is the best thing FF14 can have right now. The game has gone quite some time without any real opposition and it shows in parts.
There was a certain air of superiority in EW and thinking like they could do no wrong and the players would just eat it up.
They have already admitted fault with the combat design in dungeons, overcasualisation and lack of stuff to do in EW. Even their golden cow of job design was admitted to be wanting (what they do with that is to be seen).

No matter how much Yoshida want's to sell that as their own ideas in interviews ("we fell asleep in dungeons", "we think jobs are to samey") it was due to feedback in EW that got louder and louder and culminated in content creators.
DT's story for example might be a leftover of that.

So yeah, I think it's good they get competition again even though I will stay with this game for the forseeable future.