So Why Did You Quit? (and Still Read FFXIAH?)

early erectile dysfunction from lack of regular blood circulation

What makes horizontal progression fun is that you can do wide variety of different content for progression. For example, if you want to grind 200m for a rema, you can do dyna D for unlock/gil, omen for gil, ambu for gil, or you can solo salvage for gil, join seg farm for gil. There are more than one way to farm your 200m for your rema which makes the grinding less boring.

I personally feel 4-5 content that co-exists and drops newest relevant gears would be ideal for a horizontal progression game. 2 is not enough for me personally.

I mean, I don't disagree with this in theory, but what dev team do you think they have that they could've made 4-5 new content to do to grind your weapons?

I guess they could make things tradable/sellable, in which case you can just use gil from any event to buy the stuff for your prime/ody gear, but like...my god is it so lame (imho) to get gear through gil.

It doesn't have to be buyable with gil, it can be currency or ex/rare from different newer content.

SE is not owned by Chinese....=.=

Wait, what?

If sitting at your desk does this, wouldn't every single white collar male employee have this issue?

I have paid a sub continuously since PC retail release. I have never taken a break from paying, even when I've taken a break from the game. I paid for several until recently, when I finally made peace with the fact that I wasn't ever going to triplebox again.

I'm gonna tell you something now, something real, and true, that you will not and probably can not believe, but: I want XI to return to glory more than anyone. More than you, more than <insert whoever you like here, but I won't because it'd be rude to name-drop>. I am number *** one on those particular power rankings, and I don't give a ***if you believe me or not, because it's 100% the truth. I had some of the very best moments (non-wedding/childbirth division) of my entire life, and made friends who I still talk to, to this day. I've hired some of them professionally. XI made my life substantially better in multiple ways, and the burning in my heart for its revival exceeds any emotion you have ever had.

But I can like more than one thing, and I can do math. You don't seem capable of either of those.

You keep tossing out things about XVI for some reason; I don't really understand why. XI's fate was written when the Salvage bans happened: you can't nuke a sizable percentage of your most accomplished and active players, especially in a game that rewards slow-burn achievement as much as XI does. SE didn't understand what they were doing, and we can't really know if it would have stopped them even if they had. But everything since 2009 has been steadily trending downward because the population never recovered after that, not in any real way.

So anyway, I don't know why you hate a game you haven't played, or a guy you haven't met, or any of that. I can't really discern your motivations for anything you do, if I'm being honest. All I can do address your words and your actions, which are unhinged beyond the point of parody. So like, as a person? I don't think this is healthy for you, and you should find some other way to spend your time.

The problem we face as a community playing a long running game is the company simply does not care in general for any of us, your passion and loyalty for something isn't rewarded or valued. If they can give you less and you will stay, they will give you less and that's as simple as it goes because it's all about the money. Why give someone 10, when they will take 5 and be angry but still keep paying? Buisness 101, straight from the playbook of Blizzard entertainment right before they alienated their entire fanbase.

I value the developers, but I do not value the guy in charge of the division making these money choices becasue he just sees us walking wallets and that's as deep as it goes to him.

When they give you less you have to be willing to give them less money in return, cause if you don't you're admitting they can do whatever they want and you're staying regardless. That's a terrible lesson to teach a corpo suit.

Same with the cash shop stuff, if they can sell you a desired mount instead of giving you it in the game as a drop from content they will do that, cause you're not only going to stay and pay the sub on XIV whether you're mad or not but you're (or enough others) are probably still going to buy it for $35 while being mad too.

You being mad and them making more money > You being happy and making less money.

If anything we have an opportunity here to display our displeasure at a point where it actually matters and will be noticed, becasue if ff16 underperforms as it's looking to they are going to want the other games to carry the losses to make it look less of a disaster. The executives are laser focused right now on the profits and losses of this division due to the ff16 gamble, if you ever wanted to unsub or pay less to show you're annoyed now is the time to do it.

I normally pay way way too much on this game over 6 accounts and multiple AMAN mules, and I've cut back to 1 account at the bare minimum level of support since the producer letter and I'm just going to do other stuff for a while.

Sortie sucks, the removal of developers sucks and VR was honestly cheaply made to a level we have never seen before. I hate to say it cause I really care about this game but maybe the general sentiment of this thread is good and needs to happen.

edit: i was mistaken about SE being owned by a chinese investment fund. Confused my facts. However, they did have a lot of chinese cash funding a lot of their ventures into china but that seems to have gone away.

hes just giving an opinion and one that makes a lot of sense. They are def scaling back on XI and cutting corners everywhere

it does more than make your peepee soft. Sitting for prolonged hours is a faster way towards death than a lot of bad habits like smoking.
https://theheartfoundation.org/2019/08/10/is-sitting-the-new-smoking/

I quit cause this site isn't updating all the new RMEAs I've made lately.

That Spanish sentence made little sense.

That aside, the sitting thing is only an issue if you don't get up every other hour and at least stretch or make a habit of exercising regularly. That's why standing/height-adjustment desks are so popular. Allows you to be active to some degree.

I’m a student.

It making any sense is good enough. :p

Edit: I did realize I put más in the wrong place.

The sentence reads as "when you have two more years because of university", but it sounds disjointed, because it reads more like you gained two years because of it (which one could argue that long-term effects of bad posture/sitting for too long could be like aging faster, but that's a reach). If you meant "when you have two more years to go" it'd be more like «Cuando te quedan dos años más de estudios universitarios...»

The more you know, etc.

If you meant "when you have two more years to go" it'd be more like «Cuando te quedan dos años más de estudios universitarios...»

«Cuando tienes dos años más por universidad…»

Well, I’m figuratively screwed.