FFXIV population decline continues

[Clockworks]

It's just a drought numbers will pick up when there's reason for them too. Until then I'm still gonna be playin.

a "drought" lmao

its the beginning of the expansion......

[innis31]

a "drought" lmao

its the beginning of the expansion......

And isn't that sad

[Luca_]

As a "hardcore" player:

- Cleared the tier in August. It's now January. Savage loot and tomestones still have the same weekly lockout as when the tier released.

- The only two new pieces of content since then are FRU and Chaotic, both of which are unappealing to me for different reasons. I have a static for Chaotic but we couldn't even play because of the server outages this weekend. Yay.

- Job balance is somehow atrocious while job design is more homogenized than ever before.

- There's literally no reason to gear alt jobs or even finish getting my main BiS, which is off by 2 pieces, because there's nowhere else to use it.

- There's no reason to do Extremes other than to grind for mounts that won't be purchasable for... what, another year?

- Dawntrail is the only expansion to make me wish I had skipped the cutscenes after finishing it because I was so angry at all the time I'd wasted waiting for it to get better. I hate the story and have no desire to engage with it or discuss lore and theories with my friends like I did throughout Endwalker.

The only reason I'm still subbed is because I'm babysitting my dead FC and its large house, but I'm caring less and less about that as time goes on because paying $13 a month for a virtual house in a game I barely play is pretty stupid. Not too hard for me to imagine why casual and midcore players are having an even worse time.

[CaedemSanguis]

im a HC raider (M4s day 2) and my static started FRU yesterday (december vacation) we're nearly on phase 3 with 6 hours raid time

even with me being a hc raider who do all pve content, i've unsubbed for 4 months since DT release, I really dont understand why casuals keep their sub, each casual should sub only 1 month per expansion, but guess what they dont, and to me they really deserve to be treated like that, why bother doing content for casuals when they keep giving money ?

[Kahnha]

If yoshi P was your friend on top of "take a break if you are burned out" they would add "your sub is paused when you are not signed into the game"

maybe then they would be motivated to patch the game more than every 3rd of the year xD

in end long patch cycles and same formula we got 5 years ago is what's cooling interest in the game maybe the game should be free to play if they want to be slow about adding contents to the mmo.

just to do some math a person pays 15 usd sub for 10 years that guy paid 1.8 grand why nickel and dime them over outfits? if you got a group that paid more or around that much that are saying do better why are you not listening when they are not pleased with your writers? ?

and that's the thing if DT's story was good no one would be noticing this type of stuffs to begin with your mmo boasts an award winning story Yoshi P stop being fine with mixed reception to the story.

in end we'll see, been thinking to be done with this game after EW anyways hope it does better since XIV has been a long tme favorite since... 2016 but square has been on a tear of poor choices NFTs, broken up remakes, over priced slop games, likely out of touch Fossil CEOs, single player mmos list goes on...

[AvoSturmfaust]

And yet again people bashing the story, yea it isnt great but PLS STOP doing like ffxiv is the big story mmo with the best story which has now a bad story, no it isnt, we had TWO good expansion HW and ShB everything else was trash,

ARR - Trash
HW - Good
SB - Trash
ShB - Great
EW - Trash
DT - Trash

we have more trash story expansions then we have good ones, so why is there now a issue that DT is bad? its nothing new.

[Erzaa]

And yet again people bashing the story, yea it isnt great but PLS STOP doing like ffxiv is the big story mmo with the best story which has now a bad story, no it isnt, we had TWO good expansion HW and ShB everything else was trash,

ARR - Trash
HW - Good
SB - Trash
ShB - Great
EW - Trash
DT - Trash

we have more trash story expansions then we have good ones, so why is there now a issue that DT is bad? its nothing new.

Uhm... no? I disagree?
ARR - Alright (especially with some of side quests having some truly bleak storylines too!)
ARR Patches - Good (but dragged down by alot of pointless quests inbetween)
HW - Amazing
HW Patches - Decent
SB - Good (bogged down by a boring antagonist but overall good story)
SB Patches - Alright
ShB - Amazing
ShB Patches - Decent
Endwalker - Great
Endwalker Patches - Alright
Dawntrail - *vomit*

[Nero-Voidstails]

im a HC raider (M4s day 2) and my static started FRU yesterday (december vacation) we're nearly on phase 3 with 6 hours raid time

even with me being a hc raider who do all pve content, i've unsubbed for 4 months since DT release, I really dont understand why casuals keep their sub, each casual should sub only 1 month per expansion, but guess what they dont, and to me they really deserve to be treated like that, why bother doing content for casuals when they keep giving money ?

without those people you wouldn't have a game be a HC raider on haha remember that more then 90% of the player base is casual and you also have roleplayers midcore players that have been left in the dust since endwalker

[JackRazor]

Nothing surprising, this company has shown times and times again they are absolutely out of touch with the entire playerbase, and the playerbase keeps defending their terrible decisions.

Can you clarify this? If the playerbase agrees with / defends the company's decisions, wouldn't that mean they are in touch with the playerbase?

[Exmo]

Can you clarify this? If the playerbase agrees with / defends the company's decisions, wouldn't that mean they are in touch with the playerbase?

That's a good point