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What is it with FFXIV quitters taking a jab at the game whenever it's in a lull/slow patch or when there's drama?
It's the equivalent of kicking someone while they're down.
It's so cringe… It's almost like they haven't got over quitting the game.
"JuSt CoMe BaCk To ThE gAmE!!" smadge
Low hanging fruit from them if ever i seen it.
Pixelated grapes even. lol
The next step is to just see the tittle and thumbnail then scroll pass them.
it's funny, watching a bunch of negative ffxiv videos kinda got me to start playing it again.
Ahh.. yeah.. Lynx Kamelli the average "No one watches my boring WoW Content thats the reason why i start with FFXIV to bait clicks"
God bless you Xeems
did he react to the full video?
Ppl can say all they want that the game is dying, but the fact of the matter is that after playing the game for over 2 years now I still have plenty of things to do that I enjoy in the game. This coupled with the fact that more and more new players start the game lately means that frankly the EW content drought barely matters for the games overall life. I don't say this to excuse the EW content drought, I do wish there was more to do, but I do say it to point out that "ffxiv is dying" is just not correct.
When I saw the title I was like “not this sh*t again”. Then I saw who posted it and got curious if he is back. And when he said he is no longer playing I lost interest. Yeah sure his points are valid, but the fact that he is no longer playing and all that he is saying is based on other content creators, patch notes, or reddit, it would only look like he’s trying to farm views/likes.
Enjoyment of something isn’t based on other peoples opinion.
Based baldo take
When the recent lucky bancho reports active character population goes up and people calling this game dead 😂
I think it's just all the people who jumped on the game during shadow bringers when it was the darling of the internet, who have now done all the usual stuff like leveling your classes, done extreme's and yadda yadda and now are really exeperincing the end of an expansion for the first time.
the numbers will continue to dwindle down slowly until it's just the MMO Addicts, ERP & Gpose Addicts and the newbies who are still doing the regular stuff until dawn trial drops and then the game will exploade and the cycle will repeat.
Think anyone who makes content about XIV dying or etc is full of copium.
That guy have a guide for healing….. dungeons…… not criterion or the savage ultra mega hardcore look at me mom version. Dungeons.
THAT'S MY STRUMMER!
But seriously, all these people making the saaaaaaame video, saaaaaaaaame complaint, saaaaaaaaaame end of xiv, saaaaaaaaaaaame same.
I feel like Lynx kamelli pops out like Rita Repulsa every time there is a lul in FFXIV
OMEGALUL
As someone who only plays like 2Hours a day because i have a job, i don't care if the content of the game is the same recipe at each patch, 1 dungeon+One alliance or Raid part+More MSq. I'm happy with that, i don't care for MORE CONTENT. I don't have time to play like 10 hours a day like those youtubers influencers etc… Ofc they are bored.
did he end up watching the video? i would've liked his input, especially because lynx put him in the video
Actual nonce
Every players that played pre Asmon know when the dev say go play something else its not BS, most come from WoW where player retention is everything so all systems are made to be grindy AF, if you miss one month might as well come back next expention
could someone make a sound bite of the mic adjustment, would make a sweet text sound
"where do u think you got the idea?" xD gatekeeper of whining
The game isn’t dying, the title is pretty much clickbait.
He does make a lot of good points in the video though, that I’m sure Xeno would agree with. But the average player doesn’t care about these, primarily the game being dumbed down etc, hence the game is going to continue to do just fine.
To be fair, his video isn't about the game dying, but more about how the game fails to deliver and the playerbase handwaving any complaints that need to be made.
Stuff like reducing Job difficulty to the boring state they are, while the playerbase is still terrible, makes that a completely pointless decision by the dev team.
The fact that the games player count has tripled since Heavensward, but we dont actually get MORE content, we just get shuffled content, and resources moved to another.
The game makes SE so much money, and none of it gets invested BACK into FFXIV, despite how much it grows.
That are content design is getting stale, with how easy tank and healing is, and how fights are designed.
He points out that the game is still successful, but it delivers content to one side of the playerbase, but not the other, when that wasn't always the case.
Wow, what a Jerk, didn't even watch the video and already critizing him.
Okay, the title is completely clickbait,
and FF14 won't die even if the game offers us the same stuff as in Endwalker,
but most of the points he mentions in his video are simply true,
and I think it was worth watching it without paying attention to the drama in the first 30 seconds.
After all, these are things that many people are aware of, and it's not something new.
But we have to admit that the majority of his points were good, and even someone like Xenos would probably agree with almost everything.
Game isn't dying. Content just isn't worth doing. Engagement peaked in Heavensward. The streamlining and gutting of meaningful gameplay started in Stormblood and gets simpler each expansion. The main draws of current XIV being underwhelming is content is either too easy or too hard with no middle ground with arguably terrible rewards for both. They phone in each patch with Dead on Arrival additions that rarely keep your attention for days to a week instead of months at a time. And personally their poor gearing system.
All you will have left playing is new players and the most loyal Veterans. The other players will come back for the new expansion, play through it then unsub again as FFXIV is primarily a story driven MMO and Endwalker has a lot of pacing issues on that front. Which is partially because of switching to mediocre journeyman writers and dividing staff for Clive Adventures in FFXVI.
A lot of the newer content is just the same thing they gave you and it isn't all that exciting. Vet players are getting bored so they leave to play a different game that'll respect your time.
The best content XIV has put out is the drama and not the game itself. I was more excited about the doom and gloom, exposure of streamers being cheaters to optimize their Raid Runs.
I'm holding out for 7.0 to change things around but I really think they have so many new players they will focus more on catering to them then jaded folks like myself who are more interested in addressing flaws the design philosophy of the game currently has.
It's another cycle of New player enjoys the game but will never reach the endgame. And Vets are at the endgame and see the gameplay loop for what it is. Do dailies then log off. And you can probably get away with just doing your dailies weekly.
Besides when the next xpac launches there will be a catchup patch that completely removes the grind anyway so why bother doing the content now? Play smarter not harder.
Instead of spending months gearing up your classes it'll just take a week or less to gear up every class when Dawntrail launches.
The only thing that'll kill 14 is square enix going under and that's assuming they don't get bought out by a mega corp which they would then still keep 14 alive
I'll say I watched probably about the first third of the original video and the fact that it starts off with him deleting his character sporting an ultimate weapon was just pretentious to me. If your hope is that the game will get better then why would you delete your character?
Like unless part of the enjoyment for you was leveling a character from one to max, which doesn't seem to be the case. What point are you trying to make with starting the video? That way it makes it harder for people to take what you say afterwards at face value even if there are valid points because it shows that somebody who really cares about the game wouldn't delete their character because they would hope it would get better and they would return to the game at some point and pick up where they left off.
Everything about it is click/rage-baity to me which is why when he started talking about how the ebb and flow of combat and raid works no matter what type of content it is and that it's all uninspiring and unoriginal that I ended up checking out of the video.
baited chat EZ Clap
Some influencers just clearly need a reality check. People watching them or even looking up to them doesn't necessarily means they're waiting for their opinion on everything. We don't need to be told that they're not having a fun in the game anymore so some kind of movement should be done. Everyone has this line at a different place. From previous videos of that dude I got a feeling he was expecting to get fulfillment from hardcore content only, meaning he was beyond saving long time ago.
Also this might be flash news for the zoomers out there, but you are never ever going to make a difference. It's either:
– devs are already good at picking up feedback from the people, can sustain the game themselves for years and your screeching on the internet has no value or,
– devs are stupid like WoW devs, don't know what to do and also are unlikely to even consider extracting any meaningful feedback from the players.
Creating some private echochambers in social media as avenues to provide feedback (because you are obviously more important others), is just copium to protect your perceived livelihood.
It's also very funny to watch ex-WoW players to make this mistake again lmao.
Kind of wish Xeems would've at least watched it, because it does have a lot of valid points. I do think people saw the title and thought "Oh it's another FFXIV is dying video!", when it wasn't that at all. I do agree with a lot of the points he makes, just because he doesn't play really anymore and skips story, doesn't mean his opinions are invalid. I have friends like that (casual, end-game proggers, Ultimate clearers) and I do agree with a lot of the opinions they have, this is coming from a hardcore casual player that simps a lot for FFXIV at times.
Did he watch it ? Because it's not about player count decline or something like that
I think he would agree with the most points of the video about how the game changed
Sadge moment