Quote Originally Posted by sindriiisgaming View Post
There's allways a catch to free games. Either they're paid like osrs and basically bully you into subbing by giving u nothing or they're just empty with 1 dimenal content cycles
And yet Honkai Star Rail has given me more (and far far higher quality) story, events, and new things to do in 2024 than FF14 has in 2 years. I've spent $0 and gotten so much for it, it's kind of ridiculous. There's no need to get into "well they do this while sweet angel FF14 does this" because at the end of the day the result is all that matters from a consumer perspective. The MMO portion (social aspects, standard appeal of basic MMO structure) is the only thing that's keeping me subbed, because tbh I don't feel like I can get it anywhere else like I get it here. That's....not a great reason for people to stay subbed, so people are unsubbing lmao. Don't feel like you need to go to bat for the billion dollar company - you should expect them to provide you with a service equivalent to what you're paying. When they stop doing that, stop paying for it. People come here to complain because they see something they love eroding away and they desperately don't wanna see WoW2, Destiny 3, or PSO2:NG2 happen.

Also, in terms of how they spend our sub money - I read their earnings reports and I see where the money I'm paying them is going. I can even calculate approximate dollar values that I personally contributed to the development of projects outside of FF14, and I gotta say I'm not really pleased with how it's looked these past 2 years. So if I feel compelled to say something don't you think it's my right? Once HSR starts charging me a sub I'll start to care more what they do w/ that game. That's the difference you're missing.