The real reason there are even subscribers in 2024

[Striker44]

Square Enix has been a laughing stock of a company for years. It will never get better. Dawntrail will likely be the last expansion for many people before they switch to a different game. The “other MMO” is coming back and its newest expansion has good reviews.

Doubtful. Every expansion will be the "last one" for some segment of the population, while other players will simply rotate in (or back in) and take their place. People doomsayed to no end trashing EW, and what happened? Yeah, DT had the highest pre-sales ever for FFXIV, even beating EW which had been inflated by the "WoW exodus." People will also continue playing multiple games, including FFXIV as one of them.

Square Enix is so incompetent that it likely doesn’t realize how important roleplaying and modding are to its bottom line.

They absolutely do realize that. Why do you think they "outlaw" modding, but look the other way at so many of the mods that exist unless people are mind-bogglingly idiotic and openly broadcast that they use them? Entire modding communities exist within FFXIV that SE recognizes is beneficial and lets alone.

It’s a sad company that only exists to remake old titles, which were made with actual talent.

This is the one part I can half agree with. I wish they would stop with the remakes, especially FF7, which to me is the most overhyped and overrated game in existence. The new titles are still made with plenty of "actual talent," though, they're just made in a different style that simply may not appeal to the same people SE's older games had appealed to.

Now that they killed off the classes and all the old content that made the game great, FFXIV no longer deserves its “mainline entry” status.

They haven't "killed off" anything. Classes still have their own unique flavors, and every single piece of content made for the game is still playable (unlike certain other "popular" MMO's that either completely destroy and remake their world, rendering the "old content" physically gone from the game, or put it in a "content vault" where it's - again - literally inaccessible). FFXIV still has all of the old content available, and most certainly deserves its "mainline" status.

It’s now a small app for making your avatar like IMVU. Fans have added more content to the game than Square Enix has in the past four years.

Oh, please. Comments like this just shred credibility on anything and everything else. The hundreds of PF Extreme and Savage groups, Hunt trains so large they're lagging servers, ~60+ hours of new content released in 7.0, etc.. Seriously.

Though I should ask, now that you've gone from the fake "cheerleader" posting to the utterly bitter posting, and saying things like your opening two sentences...why are you even here? Go play a game you'll actually enjoy (seriously).

[caffe_macchiato]

Though I should ask, now that you've gone from the fake "cheerleader" posting to the utterly bitter posting, and saying things like your opening two sentences...why are you even here? Go play a game you'll actually enjoy (seriously).

You don't need to "play" FFXIV in 2024 as the game basically plays itself. I will stay subbed, I will make images of my character in lingerie, and I will continue to trash this "game" on the forums at the same time. FFXIV is the video game equivalent of a trailer park brothel and it should be treated as such. I'm glad they have tolerance because this is the one thing that FFXIV does very well.

[EdwinChucklenuts]

You don't need to "play" FFXIV in 2024 as the game basically plays itself. I will stay subbed, I will make images of my character in lingerie, and I will continue to trash this "game" on the forums at the same time. FFXIV is the video game equivalent of a trailer park brothel and it should be treated as such. I'm glad they have tolerance because this is the one thing that FFXIV does very well.

Rebel against the system by paying into it. Thanks for helping keep the servers up pal!

[TaraShiro6]

The best opinion in this thread omg