Is there a point in caring about the game?

[SWATomega]

So this is my thought process and this is a layered over several things on top of each other. Lets start where we came from, Endwalker. That was to be the conclusion of the original 1.0 story, ARR for most people. It was to be a climactic conclusion to this 10+ year journey. After EW we got the 5 part mini story of Zero and the 13th while we for the next expansion. What we have is a fragile emotional anchor that was freed, we had our character's main journey end and we as players were looking to the next journey the next big boss.

That is an issue the problem is most if not all story hooks were resolved or finished, Dawntrail doesn't have anything to attach to continue on plot-wise, and the ends are all tied up. So a new story and foundation needs to be made to keep us the players entertained and interested. This is where Dawntrail gets shaky and it isn't 100% the writing's fault, it can also be the mental state of players at the moment and time. We had the anticipation that Dawntrail would be better than Endwalker and some even said Shadowbringers. So we got a buildup to disaster, where we got the game slowing down to build the start for the next ten years, writing that doesn't live up to expectations, and we got players who wanted something better than Endwalker/ Shadowbringers

So we got the Dawntrail reception, which is lackluster to the community that spoke up and it has a mental cascade effect when people begin to agree. So we start to latch on to things that is bad about the game or don't like, we as humans are attached to negative things a lot more than positive ones. The small issues become big issues, and repeated complaints become being ignored. We then try to shift the blame, and the one in the crossfire is Yoshi-p, who is the face of FFXIV, so we have people take their anger on him. Some even targeting voice actors with hate and negativity, or even characters that are probably not that bad are now big issues.

As of now, the community that uses these forums it does feel they are on a warpath, believing the game is unfixable and wanting to nitpick everything. We have those who are "quitting" the game or unsubing but are still active on the forums. And we got those who just string up things to cause heat or fire in the community. I will say there are some good criticisms but we also get baited posts to cause fire and problems. The Black mage changes are the newest topic to latch on to, but im not a black mage player so I don't have the passion compared to others. all I will say is, i will wait to see how it fully plays out in 7.2 and post-patch. It might just be a temporary thing till 8.0, I don't know.

I have played this game since 2.0 I have seen this game go through the good, bad, and ugly. When players are angry, it is because they care and are passionate about the game. They will nitpick, and point out things that are grinding their gears because they want change.

[Kaliesto]

So this is my thought process

I would say not everything is resolved, still plenty on the map that we never got to go there as of yet.

Heck we didn't go to Koshu in Hingashi during Stormblood (which was odd) and among other odd places that was locked off to us.

[Kazuke_Miso]

I would say not everything is resolved, still plenty on the map that we never got to go there as of yet.

Heck we didn't go to Koshu in Hingashi during Stormblood (which was odd) and among other odd places that was locked off to us.

They'll just find the cheapest way of resolving these plot threads which is dump it into a Variant dungeon LMAO