>>536054294
>They improved the performance, but not in good conscience to recommend.
Fair point. I'll probably still give it a try and see if its suitable enough to run (a crash here or there is okay in my books) on my PC. I've tolerate shitty game updates because of games like Dead by Daylight breaking everything and having to wait weeks or months for them to fix it.

>Should I resub back to XIV? Haven't touched it since 7.2
In my personal opinion, I would give it a try when they release 7.35 with the Deep Dungeon and the Monster Hunter collaboration. Try that content out for a few weeks and then GTFO until January or February. There is no more game content being dropped for the remainder of the year, except for the Christmas and New Years events.

>>536054553
>It's fucked up how we normalize having shit unoptimized games
You need to blame "Early Access" games for setting that precedent years ago. Dead by Daylight, despite being out of Early Access for years, still behaves and operates like an Early Access game to this day. Yet, corporations (no matter how big or small) know people will buy their slop at the end of the day.