Quote Originally Posted by ReynTime View Post
I saw the Live Letter with the YouTube chat on. In the japanese channel. When they made the great "revelation" that there would be more hildibrand quests... which they confirmed more than once even BEFORE dawntrail came out, the chat was acting all surprised and like they were giving the greatest gift ever out of the kindness of their hearts.

The average XIV player will still get ultra hyped when the same things get announced for every patch, in every expansion. Like a parody of a star wars fan that loses their shit over seeing AT-ATs or something.
This, so much.

Been noticing this a lot once I started sitting in their Twitch live letters within the past year or two, but the hype spam over the most miniscule things that don't even last longer than a week or have no real tangible impact to the content life of the game ("OMG I NEED THAT MINION IN MY LIIIIIFE!" BEST PATCH EVAR!" "Ooooh the cute new umbrella, UWU") despite how shallow everything else seems really makes it look like a large portion of the playerbase are just as responsible for the stagnation of the game as the devs are, by dint of how easily (and superficially) they are placated by minor and low-effort additions simply because they are new. I know, I know, "not the same players as the ones complaining" and all that, but it really is the meme of the cartoon dog sitting in a burning room saying "this is fine." It's like they forget all of their grievances the moment the devs start jingling their car keys over them. So it's little wonder that the devs keep churning out the same old stuff with barely-new paint slapped on.