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>>542275883
>its lowest numbers ever
>cratering playerbase
While Dawntrail's MSQ is certainly an irredeemable piece of shit, your post is not true. Lowest numbers since Shadowbringers (5.3, covid, free trial meme, etc), perhaps, but not lowest numbers ever. While I do not deny that Dawntrail's MSQ is trash, there are multiple factors at play here including the new ability to hide Lodestones which is how this data is and was collected. It is not a coincidence that the first drop off in the meme shitpost chart happened immediately after this option was introduced. That's not to say that there aren't people leaving because WoW is apparently not completely dogshit again so at least some of those people probably went back, and anyone playing primarily for the MSQ is... well honestly, I think people who play primarily for the MSQ might actually be the Bluesky type of people who supposedly liked Dawntrail, but people who play primarily for content and then secondarily because the MSQ has traditionally been either good or decent - some of those people might have checked out. I know that the main reason I've ever resubbed in Dawntrail is only to keep my house, not to play the game or experience the MSQ, and for a good while there (8 or 9 months I believe) they had demolitions turned off so I was not subbed at all during that time. I'm even considering selling my house now because I already have more gil than I think I'd ever reasonably be able to spend, and instead of looking forward to playing the game when I resub like I used to, I dread resubbing and wonder what the point even is anymore, even if I do end up finding something to do in the game to enjoy my time because the battle content has actually been pretty good at least.