FINAL FANTASY XIV Online: FFXIV Has A Massive Community Problem (Workarounds)

The problem

I've been playing FFXIV since the 2.0 Beta back in middle school. The game has gone through countless states since then, some good, some bad, most mixed. Evercold looks to create a new state, highly shaking up the combat formula (highly in square enix terms..) and changing a lot of the game in an attempt to bring player numbers back up after a pretty steady decline throughout Dawntrail. There…

What players suggest

Hey they're coming out in force! Anyway since nothing in it lines up with reality can someone explain to me why In From the Cold had to be basically removed? Or why BLM had to be reworked into current Summoner with all risk removed? Anyone have any clue why Summoner got changed to a 1 button class? Why does it seem like post-covid every single update that features any difficulty is ♥♥♥♥ on by…

A lot of the changes likely originate from 2016 in terms of leadership decisions and resulting change in personnel and expectations. While the disastrous Blizzard hires might finally have been gone last year, their legacy of having steered the ship for years remains. The original poster is 100% correct, the game changed, the community changed, the game changed, the community changed. We're at a…

I mean classic versions have now worked for multiple different games and from what I'v seen and heard about current 14 especially if evercold changes are exactly as I think arr classic would not be a bad idea for the players and the company. I would take it any day compared to the current game just to get the gameplay and systems back and as I said this would be very easy for them to implement.