The Great FFXIV Exodus of 2024

[Visthra]

How can cosmic exploration and beast master be "the usual mind numbing stuff" when we literally know nothing about either of them and the lessons they learned from previous iterations?
Reading comments like that just makes it obvious that people will just never be happy with what they get.
Quality of life stuff are also probably the most requested thing from the community the last few years (mainly improvements to glamour, of which we had a first step in 7.1).
And even if they added a relic grind in 7.0X already people would still not be happy about it because "meh I played this new map for 500h and got all the weapons and now I have nothing left to do".

Also, some of the things they did in 7.1 were steps in the right direction. New hunt mount, New scrips mount. Adding stuff like this is what the game needs. Incentives running the old/existing content.
Like IMO instead of adding the new relic earlier they should add old relics for new jobs. (The fact that going in Eureka with any job that came out in 5.0 or later is a debuff is incredibly stupid to me)
They should also make the 2.0-4.0 areas have the shared FATE system to bring more life there. They should have a way to incentivize people to go in the old deep dungeons more often. Also same for old treasure maps.
They should re-enable the Ishgard restoration ranking with a weekly reset. They should add new rewards to buy over there in Ishgard as well.
There should be a weekly/daily bonus for going on an ocean fishing trip.
They should have added PvP rewards (there is a thread complaining about that).
Rival wings should get some love.
Rolling the unreal fights out of the game also makes no sense.
They should figure out what they want to do with Grand Company and add rewards to buy with seals.
Etc

I really like your post and agree with everything you mentioned. Shared Fates would be nice to have in the earlier areas. It wouldn’t solve the problem, in fact it would be a drop in the bucket… but it would be something

[Yoyoyako]

Returning player here, queue is instantaneous with my white mage, server usually is congested by ~20 players.
It doesn't mean there's no such exodus, but the game is still very healthy.

I have no "reason" to come back, I was bored and thought "hey, that was a fun game".
I'm newbie too so that may be a factor in my perception of the community's health

[CNitsah]

Returning player here, queue is instantaneous with my white mage, server usually is congested by ~20 players.
It doesn't mean there's no such exodus, but the game is still very healthy.

I have no "reason" to come back, I was bored and thought "hey, that was a fun game".
I'm newbie too so that may be a factor in my perception of the community's health

There is always a "congestion queue", since the implement of the new connection method after the catastrophic Endwalker lauch. You can connect at 4 in the morning and still get a "congestion queue". So that tells nothing.

[TomsYoungerBro]

Returning player here, queue is instantaneous with my white mage, server usually is congested by ~20 players.
It doesn't mean there's no such exodus, but the game is still very healthy.

That is a anti-DDOS measure to slowly funnel logged in players into the server. You have to be on absolute dead dead times to potentially not run into one of those.

[GrizzlyTank]

So many games, so little time.

No need to lock yourself down to one game.

[AnnRam]

So many games, so little time.

No need to lock yourself down to one game.

Then don't ask for a subscription if you're not going to deliver updates/events often.

Remove it and then we can talk.

[Nihility]

it's kind of the cycle of life for corporate run stuff

has something special that builds a following
higher ups take notice of popularity and get involved
slowly over time everything special gets replaced with the generic to aim for more mass appeal
people lose interest because everything has become so generic

[Elizabetha]

it's kind of the cycle of life for corporate run stuff

has something special that builds a following
higher ups take notice of popularity and get involved
slowly over time everything special gets replaced with the generic to aim for more mass appeal
people lose interest because everything has become so generic

It's late-stage capitalism. There isn't a single industry, into which I have put money as a customer, that is not falling into this trap.

It's been 20 years since I told myself, "If you like thing from Company, and Company gets bought, then say goodbye to thing."

Coders care about making good games. Investors care about making good money.

[Hyperia]

How can cosmic exploration and beast master be "the usual mind numbing stuff" when we literally know nothing about either of them and the lessons they learned from previous iterations?

Cosmic is Ishguard Restoeation but on the moon. It’s crafter / gatherer content.

If BLU is any indication, BST will be a grind to 100 job and idle till next level increase unless it can be used for Moogle tomes.