Predictions for OC/FT Live Letter

[Kozh]

Of course I never join this sort of thing, it repulses me, but it was Jeeqbit who informed me it makes the fight trivial, hence my use of quotation marks.

I have no doubt that a call-out party is easier than pugging it, as you say. Again, to me the whole operation is simply pointless.

Honestly I don't get this kind of mentality. I am as bad at social as I can be, but even for me discord like that is fine. If you're joining big discord like the Balance, for example, ofc it tends to have drama. Heck, it's not even exclusive to raiders, as casual discord will do have drama as well.

You all took this too seriously. It's just callout discord for a freaking mmo games.

[Mawlzy]

Honestly I don't get this kind of mentality. I am as bad at social as I can be, but even for me discord like that is fine. If you're joining big discord like the Balance, for example, ofc it tends to have drama. Heck, it's not even exclusive to raiders, as casual discord will do have drama as well.

That comes as no surprise.

You have expressed rigid views on how the game should be played, and puzzlement that not everybody shares those views.

I'm glad you have found a form of engagement that works for you and that you enjoy the game. But one of the features of a good MMORPG is that it provides almost as many ways of engaging with it as there are players playing it.

FFXIV has met that threshold in the past. It no longer does.

[Supersnow845]

People also are intentionally ignoring that the discords give you as much engagement as you are willing to get out of them. Back in SB I joined the fledgling BA discord on light and mutely silenced my mic enough times to get some elemental gear and my ozma mount then left

I moved back to aether in ShB and joined ABBA, I decided to try and be a bit more active on ABBA and started to learn how to call BA and host runs. By the time I finally “retired” from BA about midway through EW I had hosted hundreds of runs. Met many people who I still talk to today, had lots of people who would ping me when ABBA’s queues were full but nobody was hosting because I had a habit of always doing ad-HOC runs, was even the one who hosted the run mr happy streamed for his completion of BA.

And this was only because I decided to try to be more sociable when I joined ABBA. My experience in BA could have ended with just my mute runs on light in SB

[Khryseis_Astra]

OC hopes? A story mode for the current Tower and its mirror in the next zone, along the lines of CLL/Dalriada/Del Reg Normal from Bozja. One cipher paid at the reliquary gets you in, first come, first serve. Rez restrictions removed, difficulty set to story mode. Current Tower becomes Savage mode, with full PF support. Probably not going to happen, but that would be the ideal for me.

Cosmic? I don’t really have many complaints, except I think GP should be reset after completing the gathering missions, so you don’t have to wait for it to build back up to start the next. Much as I’d like to see the next planet(s) have a more Diadem-like gathering loop, that also probably isn’t going to happen. I do hope they add some “exploration” to the next zones though… it’s in the name and all!

[Deedlit]

Sub numbers being way down. Not that they'd tell you.

[CapaxInfiniti]

Honestly? What could you possibly expect?
The game is circling the drain, but they are in no way going to say that. No one would. There's not a single company out there that would even hint that there's a problem and the playerbase is in freefall.

Hopefully they announce that the rest of Dawntrails patches are cancelled so they can release the next expansion to try to fix this disaster sooner rather than later.

[Kaurhz]

I'm not sure why anyone would trust them to make the next expansion great when they botched this one so bad.

It's like how some people keep wanting them to sundown Final Fantasy 14 in general and get started on the next Final Fantasy MMO. Like... did nobody remember how THIS one panned out? What possible faith is there to put into the next one? Hell, from the sounds of it they can't even get enough money or manpower RIGHT NOW.
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Tbh...

I feel like if this game can't even get the appropriate funding to do all the things it should be doing for a game panned to have a decade worth of planning behind it, then the possibility of actually getting a substantive new FF MMO is very very slim.

All they'll continue to do is wince out as much money from this as they possibly can, whilst routinely searching for more ways to make the entire development pipeline conform to a spreadsheet.

That being said, and to be honest the more I think about it, the more I find myself wondering whether all of this was just sheer.... 'accidental' success/