>>720361076
Investing into woke shit the year people got sick of woke shit is hilarious.
But Beyond that XIV's core issue is that its been doing the same thing for like 13 years now.
No matter how much SE employees cry otherwise on social media, this game's formulas got old, and they got old in Endwalker.
Now, people weren't aware of it at the time, the Endwalker MSQ did a well enough job hiding it from everyone.

Dawntrail came out and exposed it with its Dora the Explorer tier MSQ. Without the illusion of an immersive world, people lost investment. But the core issue remains the game has been like this for a long while.