>>532650447
I don't understand why the most dogshit people, like Llamatodd, are spouting the based takes. They're the reason why people don't take the criticism seriously, because if you go unhinged, then you lose all accreditation to your criticism.

I will agree on Todd's negative bits on one thing. White knighting Square Enix isn't going to fix the fucking problem, because people has done that throughout Shadowbringers and Endwalker. Look what that brought us. Literal dog shit that they're finally starting to correct course, because they weren't given the proper criticism. Now we removed the "Yoshi P! You're doing so great!" larpers out of the way, they're starting to correct problems with the game.

I also was reading around on Reddit and Twitter in regards of the player count. It seems the numbers are going down across the board for almost all MMORPGs right now. We might be coming out of the COVID bubble and the player numbers might be leveling out. This might be copium, but it sounds reasonable enough to bring up.

Yet, it doesn't really address the fact we have a TON of people just not engaging with content. I'm trying to do Eureka and Bozja and... it's just mostly dead throughout the day. Hardly anyone attempts CLL/Dal unless it's pinged in a discord.

>>532381117
>hope they turn out okay
Still waiting to hear something back from my cousin.
>don't go saying this stuff.
I'll be frank, I don't really care about people who treat this game and general as Second Life. They're one of the big reasons why this MMORPG is getting a horrible reputation.

>>532380652
>Don't feed the trolls.
It's why I'm trying to take my mind off of the matter for the current moment. I don't have any way to go visit him for now. /shrug

>>532242950
>HOW LONG DO I HAVE TO DEFEND THIS GAME
Bro, you don't have to dick ride Yoshi P.'s dick that fucking hard. Writing off criticisms as "dooming" and all this weird coping shit is why problems will never get fixed. The game has more issues than just shitty writing with the MSQ.

>>532242919
>alternative is doing Elite Marks
>they will likely bitch about that too.
Tell more how you treat this game as a Second Life alternative.

>>532242176
>/xivg/ not bothering with side content
Another Second Life andy detected.

>>532139642
>>532138948
I ain't gonna lie. This makes me want to go back to Highlander. Do you have the link for the Haori mod?

>>532126145
>Llamatodd
Him and a whole bunch of his buddies are responsible for this particular issue addressed in Llama's tweet:
>"DC travel killed PF in NA region"
I've heard him and countless streamers for years tell people "oh, come to Aether. that's where all the raiders come to do raiding." I was a moderator for one of these assholes and got flack for pushing back against that Aether narrative. Besides Asmongold getting people to dogpile onto Aether, him, Xenosys, Arthars, and many other streamers were responsible for that narrative humping bullshit. They cannot say "DC travel" killed PF when they praised the shit in the first place and then begged all their sheep viewers over to Aether.

The community did it to themselves on that front. Before Abyssos, we were in perfect harmony with Primal, Aether, and Crystal having our own Ultimate (maybe not Crystal) and Savage servers. Party Finder was in perfect harmony too. Content was accessible on our servers. Now? You have to go thru several hurdles just to even access the content, because these retarded streamers wanted to convert their servers into their personal cliques. They're the ones who caused that problem in the first place.