FFXIV population decline continues

[Obi-one]

it wouldnt be as bad if you werent required to dc travel to raid...

[hydralus]

I'm just memeing bud, I don't really care that much.

I stopped paying a while ago. I'm only here because someone else paid for me to be here and wouldn't take no for an answer. Dw, I'll be gone again at the end of the month
Unfortunately means I'll not be able to participate in the relic stuff, but I'm not too bothered.

I still don't think a multiplayer game that just so happens to have a chat room attached to it is an MMO. Your metric makes Monster Hunter Wilds an MMO.

You don't care and are memeing but you're still arguing like you do care. Strange!
Anyway, monster hunter wilds doesn't have a shared persistent world (which if you bothered to notice was an important part of my metric of what an MMO is). So wrong yet again.

[kajv95]

You don't care and are memeing but you're still arguing like you do care. Strange!
Anyway, monster hunter wilds doesn't have a shared persistent world (which if you bothered to notice was an important part of my metric of what an MMO is). So wrong yet again.

Hey man, I'm getting value out of the sub this way atleast

Love that you're actually embodying this image word for word though.


Anyway sure, FFXIV has a shared world with nothing in it. Go into a resetting timed instance to do literally anything. Truly the peak of mmo, 11/10. Shared world so cool! Wow!

Do you also consider every game with text a visual novel or what?

[Rithy255]

I really like the direction 7.2 MSQ is taking, if they can continue with that level of quality and release more content to do for all play styles, players will return.

I skipped the msq this time around I'm completely not wanting to deal with DT story, though I have heard good things from it I'm just very checked out with the current msq that even now it's a bit of a hard sell.. maybe ill give it a try but I have been so done with DT's story.

For me they will have to up the quality of content, I'm most looking forward to 7.25 and i think ill be more invested for a while but I don't know if it will retain my interest for more then a month, they will have to really pull off something worth while.

My main concerns with replay value is that if theirs no job variety like as of current I feel theirs no real reason to repeat content itself, as I think jobs should offer me a unique gameplay experience to each content, but currently I do not feel that at all, I feel like all content is just designed around dance fights, which can be fun but don't offer me any reason to replay it once it's done.

[Rinoa_353]

I skipped the msq this time around I'm completely not wanting to deal with DT story, though I have heard good things from it I'm just very checked out with the current msq that even now it's a bit of a hard sell.. maybe ill give it a try but I have been so done with DT's story.

For me they will have to up the quality of content, I'm most looking forward to 7.25 and i think ill be more invested for a while but I don't know if it will retain my interest for more then a month, they will have to really pull off something worth while.

My main concerns with replay value is that if theirs no job variety like as of current I feel theirs no real reason to repeat content itself, as I think jobs should offer me a unique gameplay experience to each content, but currently I do not feel that at all, I feel like all content is just designed around dance fights, which can be fun but don't offer me any reason to replay it once it's done.

I understand and I agree that 7.0 and 7.1 were very lacking compared to the quality we have been used to for years. But I still would recommend you play the 7.2 msq as the story focuses on us, the WoL once more and that's one of my biggest gripes about 7.0 in general where I felt the WoL was a background character. There is also great character development that felt good too and I also enjoyed both the new dungeon (gave me FFXIII Fifth Ark vibes) and the trial.


Yeah, I hope they keep releasing diverse content for all different playstyles and I also have high hopes for the rest of the 7.2x patches as well in terms of content and hope it keeps improving going into 8.0.

[kajv95]

I understand and I agree that 7.0 and 7.1 were very lacking compared to the quality we have been used to for years. But I still would recommend you play the 7.2 msq as the story focuses on us, the WoL once more and that's one of my biggest gripes about 7.0 in general where I felt the WoL was a background character. There is also great character development that felt good too and I also enjoyed both the new dungeon (gave me FFXIII Fifth Ark vibes) and the trial.

For me, my problem with "7.2 is good again" is that the damage is done for all of DT pretty much. At this point, no matter how good any story told in Tural/S9 is, the setting itself is so utterly unbelievable and devoid of meaning to me that, as long as the story is set in these places and as long as it relies on factors from 7.0/1, it's never going to hit for me no matter how hard it tries.

That's not to say you can't enjoy it. We're different people. But I would highly recommend against recommending that people who are checked out with the story return to something they're actively disliking right now, because it creates nothing but bitter feelings if they end up not enjoying the story they were told "is better now". That's what happened for me with 7.1 at any rate.

[Qyoon]

I'll make sure to tell that to the hundreds of people I see roleplaying, advertising for raid groups, and going after hunts in a persistent world.

Feels more like a multiplayer game when the numbers of players is so low that you have to change data center to find a group lol.

[Kytrin]

I understand and I agree that 7.0 and 7.1 were very lacking compared to the quality we have been used to for years. But I still would recommend you play the 7.2 msq as the story focuses on us, the WoL once more and that's one of my biggest gripes about 7.0 in general where I felt the WoL was a background character. There is also great character development that felt good too and I also enjoyed both the new dungeon (gave me FFXIII Fifth Ark vibes) and the trial.

Aye, it's an improvement for sure, one I was very pleased to see, but I remain skeptical about them rescuing the story for Tural at this point. Even Stormblood (which objectively had a weaker story due to the split between Ala Mhigo and Doma) didn't evoke the reaction I've had to 7.0 and 7.1. There's a part of me that is hoping they can pull it off, but there's another part of me that is just ready to hit Meracydia or whatever the name of fantasy Iceland was lol.

I suppose we'll see what 7.3-7.5 bring...

[Larirawiel]

The decline continues:
https://luckybancho.ldblog.jp/archives/59200105.html



Cheers

[AlucaDragonheart]

For me, my problem with "7.2 is good again" is that the damage is done for all of DT pretty much. At this point, no matter how good any story told in Tural/S9 is, the setting itself is so utterly unbelievable and devoid of meaning to me that, as long as the story is set in these places and as long as it relies on factors from 7.0/1, it's never going to hit for me no matter how hard it tries.

I absolutely agree, I'm tired of all this sci-fi/technology stuff, I'd love for us to just go back to areas like Eorzea/Ishgard again, because I just can't vibe with the sci-fi stuff with Solution Nine/Alexandria.