FF14 player count reached the lowest point in 4 years. We lost 75% of the playerbase.

[Iedarus]

This doesn't surprise me. My content for this game has just been doing the same stale hallwa-I mean dungeons over and over while mashing 11111 because queueing dps takes 50 million years and parking myself in the Gold Saucer. That's basically been my regular content cause nothing else of substance is happening. Not only are we in a horrific content drought, we also have no fun gameplay to make up for it. Even when Warframe had droughts the gameplay loop and build mechanic was fun enough to play around with to fill the gap. Here, if you want to grind anything fun, you can't because you're locked out of rewards after one playthrough...

Me: "Wow! That FFXI raid was pretty fun and chaotic! I wanna go again so I can have fun and get more rewards for my main job and other jobs!"
Yoshi P: "No."
Me: "Oh, well what do I do now?"
Yoshi P: "Play other games."
Me: "..."
Also me: "HOW THE HELL IS THIS A SOUND BUSINESS PRACTICE!!?"

But hey, I did just get a double mini cactpot so I guess that's neat.