Genuinely, What am I missing?

[Kazuke_Miso]

I have not been able to get any friends into FF14. People are turned off by the gameplay, and then the question comes up of when we will actually be able to play together. The answer is that there is no real meaningful content to do together until they beat Stormblood's story and unlock Eureka, which is 200+ hours into the story. That is a massive time commitment for anybody with a job or a family. In that same time frame, people could have started and completed several much better acclaimed JRPGs and VNs (classic Final Fantasy games, Xeno series, Trails, etc). Or we could have played a different multiplayer game and had spent most of those 200 hours together. It is also a bad idea to to tell people "spend lots of time doing this thing that you do not enjoy right now, in the hope that it will "get good" much later on.

Everything you've said is 100% true, and this one in particular is something that people keep forgetting.

This game is horrible for new players. The game is literally a glorified visual novel all the way until endgame and yet Yoshi P expects that their tinkering and trimming off the edges, sanding down all the friction is going to magically get new Fortnite gamers into the game??

It's insanely stupid and speaks to how SE as a whole has lacked vision for nearly two decades now. They just chase trends without understanding the trend and without even understanding their own products. That culminated in the disaster that is FF16, which pissed off traditional FF fans and yet failed to attract hardcore action game fans since it was so braindead and unfun. The only thing CBU3 knows how to do is create meaningless spectacle.



Spectacle over gameplay, I wonder who was the person who once criticized that!