Do you think the game will ever get better and if so when?

[Gurgeh]

It's funny you should ask, because until yesterday I consciously thought the answer was
"yes, but how long will it take to get significantly better, and will I still be bothered enough to give it another chance".

However I'm wondering if subconsciously the answer was "no I don't believe it will get better", because I'm about to roll into my 2nd unsub in 3 months, and today suddenly I wake up and my conscious answer is "No"

I played on NA for 2 years and loved the "vibe" of the people.
I played on EU for two years and until DT I loved the vibe of the people and sprouts were a big part of that.

Now the vibe of the whole social game everywhere has changed and it doesn't appeal to my personal tastes at all. It has been a microcosm of Darwinian evolutionary theory. The grames problems has filtered out certain types of players, and in survival of the fittest this is what's now left. "Your burnt out"."Take a break ".'i guess it's not for you"."play other games". Everytime someone said that a bunch of people were listening, and they have it serious consideration and they left.
A player that leaves, leaves for good 'until' 'if' they come back.

The game has sprouts. But I think they are very largely console players. Probably a lot of Xbox. Their attention span on the game is limited, 'and they don't use in game chat at all'. It basically doesn't exist for them except for 3 words of twitch chat shorthand.

Rarely do people want to help each other. Yes, occasionally but (and here we go) but only if it's the scheduled help they offering, not the help or company your inviting them to in chat. Which is fine. But it's not part of what I enjoyed.

The people and community have changed. That's what I liked about the game, and I don't think that can be fixed now.
Not unless they change their priorities/values, and do gargantuan amounts of dev really expensively. And that's just not going to happen.
Even then the social shift change back will be slow. The type of player/personality that was like minded (wants to approach my kind of content my casual kind of way - just have fun) has lost hope and forgotten about the game. Getting their 'hope' back that's it's worth investing in the game month to month again I think is very close to impossibly hard. It's not impossible but I think it's now impossible hard. It's going to take huge resources and years.
SQX you need to take a risk and invest medium to long. Or it's game over. A short term investment isn't going to cut it now, a short term return just doesn't exist in this marketplace.
You've fckd it up I'm afraid.
And the reality is that risk if you take it, yeah, it might go bad. Gaming is just perilous
I think Square Enix need to consider themselves the "dead man walking" already.
And this is their only appeal to save themselves from the shareholder/receivers electric chair, but it might not work out happy for them. Do or die.