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

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I would love anyone to explain how dawntrail “leans too heavily on western social issues”. Like what does that even mean?

DT was bad because it was a bad ripoff of 9 with unimaginative writing and badly written characters that took up too much screen time. What on earth does that have to do with “western social issues” and why part of DT’s writing do you think is smothered by writing “by committee” rather than just generally poor writing



The JP playerbase are the people happiest with the overall balance of the game right now, not sure how that’s western audiences fault

You know exactly what it means. They just don't want to say the quiet part out loud so they are dog whistling. Was especially clear when they brought up the Atlus stuff.