The Content Cycle needs to break.

[CapaxInfiniti]

It's absolutely not going to break or to change until leadership changes.
That's all there is to it. You can say otherwise all you want, but the problem lies with leadership.

When the leadership is completely out of ideas and has nowhere to bring the game, thinks characters like Wuk Lamat are great, and sees nothing wrong with the direction things are going, it's time to change leaders.

XIV was saved because leadership copied wow, and turned this game into something better than wow.
This time they have nothing to copy, and are just actively making the game worse.

It's time for a new head. Period.

[Unnoh]

At this point I simply believe that they just don't care.
I feel like they have taken the player gratitude, optimism and loyalty as granted and that made them lazy, to the point of putting an inexperienced writer to work on the MSQ...
Shadowbringers was THE hit and since then, they are trying to mold every single aspect of the game into blueprints so they can minimize develop time and just block build the game. (DT is literally ShB made bad)

Dungeons for example, since they made the current blueprint, every single one was and will follow it, because the producer doesn't want the player to take longer to finish it.
This movement of making the game less and less complex and more and more standard is killing it, killing class design, killing quests design and killing enjoyment..

And the "Go play another game" speech is disgusting! Why should I? I bought a game and I pay a monthly subscription to play it, it's no favor at all to make content for the playerbase, it's what is expected.

And commenting on WoW, it had 2 terrible expansions because of a leader who tried to put systems into everything, but even a it's worse, they did not stop trying new things. SE needs to leran a bit more from them...

It's absolutely not going to break or to change until leadership changes.
That's all there is to it. You can say otherwise all you want, but the problem lies with leadership.

When the leadership is completely out of ideas and has nowhere to bring the game, thinks characters like Wuk Lamat are great, and sees nothing wrong with the direction things are going, it's time to change leaders.

XIV was saved because leadership copied wow, and turned this game into something better than wow.
This time they have nothing to copy, and are just actively making the game worse.

It's time for a new head. Period.

This is sadly true... be it arrogance or compancency, Yoshi P is losing his touch for this game =[

[genuine_stranger]

It's absolutely not going to break or to change until leadership changes.
That's all there is to it. You can say otherwise all you want, but the problem lies with leadership.

When the leadership is completely out of ideas and has nowhere to bring the game, thinks characters like Wuk Lamat are great, and sees nothing wrong with the direction things are going, it's time to change leaders.

XIV was saved because leadership copied wow, and turned this game into something better than wow.
This time they have nothing to copy, and are just actively making the game worse.

It's time for a new head. Period.

I think FFXIV is going through the same thing the entire entertainment industry, and specifically the gaming industry, is facing right now: simplifying everything and dictating what people should enjoy.

Most of the major studios don’t engage with their fanbase at eye level anymore. Instead, they sit on their high horses, sniffing each other’s farts and convincing themselves it smells like roses.

This is also why so many big-budget games struggle to turn a profit or even break even. The trust these companies once built is eroding as they focus on pandering to the lowest common denominator. "Don’t make anything offensive, don’t stress the player out, keep it cozy and safe, no complexity allowed." The list goes on.

They’re trying to sell their games to the Twitter crowd - people who, ironically, aren’t even that interested in video games beyond pushing their "message."

Bless the indie scene, though. Sure, there’s a ton of garbage, but every now and then, you find a gem that shines brighter than anything from the big studios.

Anyway, Square’s entire company ethos would need to change. Swapping out leadership would just give us new faces, but the underlying problems would stay the same.

[Sililos]

Glad someone summed it up, at the time of posting on OCE, theres ONE PF group and its someone trying to do MSQ.

Duty finder? Every roulette is "More than 30 minutes".
The playerbase has just outright died in DT and im kinda over SE's copium that things are fine as is.

On US servers i had too much lag to run Savage, but there was always active content 24/7. On OCE, we seem to get 2-3 hours of prime time a day thanks to nobody having actually transferred here and stuck around, I cant blame them as leaving my US FC for better ping was one hellova difficult choice to make.
I also cant really transfer back as it would mean giving up anything remotely close to the games primary content (Savage) since SE are so dead set on pumping most the games funding into it over content EVERYONE can do.

No matter. Im just tired of logging in and having nothing to do, let alone not being able to get groups for content i want to do.