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How they determine an active character is flawed since it ignores certain types of players. If you have all jobs leveled, or only play a single one, and have the highest ilvl of gear that you're going to get until 7.2 means that you're now being excluded.
stop supporting and subbing on this scam of a game ! you are getting less and less for dollar every single expac.
Still waiting on Viera hats. . .
It's like any other big brand media in japan. Once they feel they've established a brand enough, they always fall into that carefully crafted formulaic complacency, where it's always a then b then c then d, rinse and repeat.
Pokemon is another great example. They're so formulaic, they ALWAYS have to have a Pikaclone in the game, they ALWAYS have to have a new gimmick even though people loved mega evolutions, etc.
Game bad, devs lazy and unwilling to change. As a free game it would probably be fine; but they insultingly want a sub fee for no budget and no effort.
They fast tracked and destroyed every storyline… what did they expect?
Dawntrail was the worst expansion of any major MMO to ever release. It's time to drastically change things up. The combat needs to be be changed to feel more dynamic, jobs need to actually play differently and feel unique. Rotations needs to be less strict and by the numbers, It needs to be less spergy and spammy. It's old now.
The game is just boring unless you do high end content. The only thing keeping me subbed is RP and even that is becoming harder and harder to justify keeping my sub for that.
I really think influencers just ride other people's success, and then start advocating for their failure so they can milk that too.
Then, the cycle repeats with the usual "XYZ has come back!" even if it is substantially the same as always.
get rid of Wuk Lmao, and the game will get better 10 fold
It irritated me, when I did this last bit of story, how they ruined koana.. they turned him into wuk jr.. he wanted nothing to do with the hhetsaro way of life and magically after one encounter he's willing to die for an animal he didn't give a shit about 5 seconds ago… just horrible and unrealistic.
Time to jump to guild wars 2, the game values my time and investment. Although it is a pretty long grind.
I only logged in this month to keep my house alive and I can't even be bothered with that in future. My next login will be to pack up my house furniture onto retainers so they can go to sleep for however long, if ever, it takes for Square Enix to git gud again.
YoshiPがコスト問題だと言い訳するのを見るのに疲れた 😡 現実は再投資をしないんだよ?
Hey, maybe with all these people dropping off I'll finally be able to get a house.
I HAVE BEEN WAITING OVER FOUR YEARS FOR A NEW FIELD OPERATION
Honestly DawnTrail is by far the best thing to happen to the community. Its a gift that keeps on giving and honestly we need to apologize to some people who were pointing out the major flaws in XIV from combat to content.
The story from ARR to EW covered up all the major issues XIV had for a decade and now with DT's story laying a royal stinker (both in plot, personality and overall delivery) it roughly yanked the rose tinted glasses off.
There are issues with XIV from structural engine issues, content and even story. Then its also exposed Square Enix as a very inefficient company that cannibalizes its best sellers to fund projects that will eventually get canned. That often promotes people who fail upwards, rewards incompetence and often refuses to bring in fresh development talent.
Imagine how many fewer players this is if you actually factor in how many people log in once a month to keep their house, do the latest event quest, and don't do anything else…
That was the most abrupt video ending lol
The fact that it takes minimal effort for the tracker to consider you active and you still see the large drop off in active players makes it very telling.
CBU3 were working on/making 11, 14 and 16 at the same time. They've been helping on other projects too like Fantasian. They too have changed focus away from 14 – I don't think 16 was as good as it could have been because of DT and I don't think DT was as good as it could have been because of 16.
How the tables have turned, Ive been complaining about jobs and gearing since SHB. The more people stop playing, the more they realize, who the thunk?
Any players who ever thought this game is doing fine as it is (even dating back to years), this issue was inevitable. This was not going to be "fun" forever. FFXIV hit the peak, now its all downfall from here. The game will go complete maintenance mode before too long.
Yoshi obviously moved on and gave up on the game, it shows.
I love this game a lot but I'd be naive to believe things aren't stale and lackluster. So much potential yet everything falls by the wayside in favor of tried and trusted but bland content. I'm a casual player, so more solo content is good for me. Make the open world livelier and add hidden stuff, puzzles, quests, and solo dungeons, more things for the casual player. For alliance raids, maybe give different alliances different objectives to fulfill. How about allowing hybridization of jobs? Allow us to experiment and mix things up because SMN and BLM are always never picked in favor of PCT. Im just spit-balling here, but there's so many options available.
this game is so cooked lol
If the Bozja-esque content isn't god's gift to MMOs I really have to re-evaluate paying IRL money to maintain a virtual house. I went from playing 30+ hours a week to less than half an hour a fortnight. Fond memories of ARR to Endwalker are eventually going to be insufficient to stop me cancelling.
Let me post why I’m not playing FFXIV right now.
First off, I didn’t like the writing in DT for the most part. The last part of the launch MSQ was interesting, the little bit that hinted at where the story might go was cool. I love Azem lore.
Secondly, while I love the graphic update it is pretty taxing on my PC which isn’t even that old. I remember my PC shutting off when a rendering large group of trees and players. It got really toasty. Now my pc doesn’t work anymore and I can’t repair it. My laptop that used to be able to run it can’t anymore because of the new system requirements. While other mmos do run on my laptop.
Lastly (not really but lastly for this post) other mmorpgs are fun. WoW is fun again. LOTRO is surprisingly fun too. Im a bit mad at myself for not giving is a fair shot sooner.
I remember when WoD was at it's beginning and ppl started to get bored to sit in garrisons and check missions on all of their alts, I was concerned and talked to my mutuals, like guys, I feel there's a problem.
And everyone was like, no, it's ok, you're just being dramatic.
We know how that ended.
I hope, FFXIV will never meet their Shadowlands.
Im subbed atm but i havent bought DT and just doing old content casually but might unsub after im done with my current commitments. I might be back after 7.5.
Feel like the devs have become complacent . It’s like they are just relying on the popularity of previous expansions to keep drawing players . There is so much stuff they can improve on , 1 thing I wish they would do is put more focus on pvp. Proper rewards for ranking up (limited skins or mount ) remove all the crowd control skills , new fair pvp modes . Idk really hope the game improve bc at this time I’m only log in to do raid night with friends and that’s it .
I don’t even know how to feel about it now like this is the game I love playing but with dawntrail it just fucked up that love and it’s just apathy now. If things don’t change by like 7.3-8.0 I’m done and never playing again
Yes! There are a lot of people who would be happy for the game to collapse back to HW levels, and just want complainers to be silent or leave. Selfish people. — I knew that Zepla was onto something in Endwalker. But I thought the dev expectation was unreasonable given COVID, and I'll be honest the moving on I put down to Ukraine draining Zeplas reserves of energy to make up the difference. However, I never realised just how on point Zeplas concerns were. I just thought things would get better as COVID went further into the past.
I am curious to see what numbers look like once we get to the next expansion. We had a huge hype bonanza going into EW which was a combination of content creators bringing players into the game from WoW, Wow refugees etc.
Now WoW is booming again with some positive changes, and hype has faded. It really feels like a sort of "market correction" to me. The player fall off has always been a problem with FF14, the casual audience ( I am one), finishes story, does a few raids, then falls off till next patch. I used to be a fan of crafting and gathering, but, since the removal of HQ ore, mining just doesn't feel the same anymore. I know that seems like a small thing, but, there was an element of dopamine when you got HQ ore.
FF14 is dead to me. Was so much fun in the first years but now it go so homogenized I can't take it anymore. Complete braindead experience for toddlers.
I would try wow if they made wow for PS5
We need Miqote!
This is the first time since i started 5years ago that i canceled my sub and just dont wanna play. DT story made me regret buying the expansion for the first time, but i could deal with it kinda. It got worse with me making new bad experiences with the community, also wanted to try harder content just to get pressured of others, forced to watch guides, and noticed more and more people in pf judging me for bad dps. So i gave up the hard content too. I went back to simply being a omnicrafter.. noticed that the crafts since DT release are also so easy.. new recipes? Crafted with old macros, ezpz. So i finished that quickly too. So atm i felt rather lonely and like i had no goal in the game. I’m also without an fc, hard to find one where i am. I was in like 7 and always left because people were weird, when it wasnt love drama, it was a modder only fc and when it wasnt that.. people acted weird.. like having alts and spying on other fcs.. all this together made me quit for now. I really wanna play, i do, but this experience isnt worth the price for me. Maybe its just me, maybe i overreact or i’m just really unlucky.. (sorry atm english isnt ma strength, but i tried to explain ma current experience as good as i could)
16:31 those kinds of people make other people leave too. the "shush" hivemind in ff14 is one of the most corrosive and toxic behaviour i've ever seen in any community. there is really something special about people who just neglect facts and want others to think the same as they do. certain mentally unstable groups of people do that.
For me, it wasn't even about the story and DT launch content being boring (although that was true). It's the fact that I already went back and did a lot of the old content like Bozja, Eureka, and Deep Dungeons during the Shadowbringers and Endwalker x.5 patch.
I started playing late Stormblood, so while I might have tapped the legacy content well a little sooner than some people. But I'm sure a lot of the people who started during Covid are starting to run out of old content to do to kill time, which is forcing Dawmtrail to stand on it's own.
damn cool story, anyways heres 5 new outfits that you have to buy on the mogstation
I think the dev team needs to do several things for. 1, Retcon or delete Wuk Lamat to be a better and more interesting character. She is not interesting enough the be the central character (she was okay in the beginning). 2, Stop mixing casual content and harder / hardcore content. To make dungeons in DT harder was a bad idea without giving it it's own queue. Casuals want easier, hardcore wants harder, fine, just give both what they want. 3, Make the open world more interesting for core players.
For me, DT is the final mishap. It cannot happen again. The comming content has not only to be radically improved storytelling but also goddamn MORE of it. DT was laughable in actual interactive player content.
The next expansion has to be on par with pre-DT expansions, otherwise the game is just dead for me. I will not suffer through something like DT again. It's amateurishly written and executed. Characterisation doesn't work. Heck, even music doesn't work for me.
But, I do not see any of the devs seeing these flaws. Whatever caused this huge drop in quality has to go. If that is part of the dev team or whoever pushed it in SE management, or even Yoshi not seeing these issues.
The only thing keeping me subscribed right now is the guild I am in. I am not really interested in the current content. I haven't played 11, I don't get the references, I don't see the item design of the alliance raid with tinted glasses. It's terrible in my eyes. And remaking old content only for higher difficulties is just… like, WHY? And in the same way a lot of old issues persist.
It feels that the devs being Japanese becomes an issue here, in the same way as if they were German. Unable to adapt, to change, to do things differently and to be self-critical about it. And if they see it, they keep it under wraps. And I do hope they do. I do hope SE is to actually blame for the lack of storytelling, bad writing etc.
Things have to change. DT cannot, I cannot emphasize this enough, cannot happen again. For me it is not about taste, or liking characters or not, it's about the absolute amateurish execution of most of it.
can't agree more, FFXIV has so much potential and SE literally needs to step up their game
I feel this comes with the laziness of SE. They extended release time frames sue to covid, but never went back to the old schedule. Add in that all of theit events are 0 effort rubbish now and a lackluster story that's main story mechanic is to lead NPCs from point A to B …its not entertaining to play and terribly boring to watch people play.
Making early content too easy means people miss out on mechanics and bigger dungeons are now straight line walking simulators. What are people gaining from playing watered down content?
Maybe they should focus on content vs rolex collabs or having a random guitar release.
The issue is the lack of new early content this expansion. I went back to running ultimates, which I said I wouldn't do since they burned me out a few years back. I want micore content or some brainless content to run just to vegetate after work. I already finished bosja and Eureka, so that's out of the question. I don't like deep dungeons they're just not fun for me. Dungeons are boring, so I only run my dailies to level alt classes. I could mount farm, but I'm burned out from that. I still do weekly savage. I need something else to do though, maybe I'll pick up fishing.
I quit a year ago, I don't want to repeat the same content a million times to be able to do savage!
I don't understand what they used the new member profits for? Because dawntrail seemed lazy
I used to be the most consistently subbed person in my friend group (because I did housing decoration for folks, so I had stuff to do). And almost all of EW people would ask me, "Should I come back for this patch?" And almost every time it was, "You could, or just catch up on all of this a month before DT launches." It honestly doesn't feel like the content is worth the subscription price unless you come back and do several patches at once.
I already stop FFXIV during 6.3 patch due to how boring the story is…like why are we speed running the void saga is beyond me.