FF14 player count has fallen off a cliff and is now at 2019 levels (3/16/2025)

[kajv95]

Hmm...

Cheez, honey, they're on your side. The "XIV Movement" is 100% pure trolling and making fun of the people who do genuinely argue that the game is "just returning to normal".

[BigCheez]

I've seen this argument a lot and I'm explaining exactly why it's stupid.

[NanaWiloh]

That's not a problem, they're just playing other games, they will come back when they feel like it. Everything is going according to the plan.

I was playing another game Xenoblade chronicles X taking a break to do chores and roam the forums a bit. :P

[Ranhansha]

That is what they should definitely do.
XIV runs a good engine written upon bad coding, as I understood. XIV also stores a massive amount of useless data on servers which prevent QoL features, the same that are delivered by using plugins.
It’s really a mess.

Nuking the game to build a new one while keeping in mind everything went wrong in this one is not a bad idea…while there is still time.
I mean, the trend is not positive.
8.0 will be a failure as Shit-trail.
Job rework will be what we already know, a not-final dumb homogenisation of all jobs which will continue down that road till the end of time.
Patches cycle won’t change.
The formula will be the same.

IMHO, dropping a an A-bomb on Eorzea would be poetic.

Yeah, cause the coding is the source of all evil. It's what's preventing them from giving vieras and hrothgars hats for 6 years, or what made them take an extra month for patches or decide to leave the casual content for almost a year after the expansion release or create the worst, most uninspired expansion ever, or keep players hostage on account of housing.
They just kill their game on purpose and code has nothing to do with it. They simply don't feel like fixing it,

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[Mirau]

I really hope going forward (8.0 onward) they begin to reintroduce RPG things back into the game so that the current population whose used to the game can adapt to a more complex game as time goes on. It's understandable why they pruned things and made it all same-y because they wanted the onboarding to be as smooth as possible - which I'm sure it did. But now the issue is the variety in the game is rather stale and there is very little once you hit the end-game.

Gearing, ilvl upgrades, optional end-game paths, M+ equivalent, better zone events, etc.

[Kazuke_Miso]

Cheez, honey, they're on your side. The "XIV Movement" is 100% pure trolling and making fun of the people who do genuinely argue that the game is "just returning to normal".

"Returning to normal" = "freefall to 1.0 levels" for those white knights lmfao

[Shezza]

I hope the game continues the downward trend.

[Kaurhz]

Part of me is actually hoping for this -- For the time when all of us 'malcontents' and 'doomers' have nothing left keeping us here, whether that be long-term friends, housing, and just steadily fade..

To where the MogStation items get more aggressive, where the mount rewards (Like Shadow Keeper) aren't in-game rewards, but continue to get funneled into MogStation (Again, see Shadow Keeper)... Where additional retainers are no longer one of the few 'Pay-to-Win' elements in the game, and where they start praying off purchasing relics, actual end-game worthy gear etc.,

Because as far as I am concerned, they would probably sooner do the above than make even rudimentary changes to a formula which as time goes by only grows increasingly stale.

[Kohashi]

They've convinced themselves that they are engaged in a noble crusade to save the game by continuing to complain in the forums.

while nobody gives a flying fuck about it and it's all an echo chamber that nobody takes seriously.

Fixed it for you, now it's spot on.

[Kaliesto]

It's ok, only the toxic and negative people are leaving. Like the flood in the Book of Genesis, all the unclean ones shall be swept away.

We will have a glorious world full of smiling people happy to receive Yoshi P blessings. We will all hold hands and dance, celebrating the death of the true evil: Consumers demanding to get their moneys worth.
Once the process is done FF 14 will be worthy of the title "Best community ever". Trust the plan.

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