Comments by "Miriam Weller" (@miriamweller812) on "FREE GAME! Asmongold Reacts to FFXIV So Popular It STOPS Selling" video.
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FFXIV does not have server probs because it's popular, but because Square is so fucking greedy that even after years the USA does not even have 10% of the servers WOW got and not even 5% of the EU servers.
It took them TWO years to give us EU players servers,, while the game was all this stime close to unplayable with over 1000ms ping and worse. You get what this means in a game there is mainy build around dodgign AoEs - and you saw the marker and animation often enough at a time when on server side it already hit you.
The game got housing. A bit over 5k plots for players AND guilds (meanwhile, was far less over the years, it always takes AGES till the devs do ANYTHING and often enough it makes things worse or don't really solve them) per server. Means, there is a direct impact on a quite big thing in the game from how many players there are on the server = how many servers there are for the players to choose from.
Japan got less players than the USA. But Japan got 32 servers while the whole USA (and that means whole america, south and north and everyone around) got only 24(!). And EU? In WOW and other games, the EU got just as many servers as the USA or at least around that. In FF14 EU only got 12(!).
This leads to the situation, that on EU and US server you got 50% more players than on Japanes servers - and that was BEFORE ther marketing campaign to bring in new players to sell all the year old content and their mogry shop items to. It's of course even worse now.
Did they even try to solve the housing problem? Nope. They never did in all these years and still won't do. Why should they? If the people they tricked into the game now with influencers lying about it, finally get it, they will just replace them with new players or shut it down, because they made enough money with it.
Square is a terrible and absolute greedy company. When I started, there as a game that had its flaws but you could still effort from the devs. But since SB, content is cut, everything is made more and more shallow and mainly copy/paste. Looking at Endwalker, nothing hat changed in that direction at all. They just laugh about the new players they lured in and how those fall for all the lies about 'caring devs' and alike. All us old players know, because it was a fucking running gag, that the devs don't care at all. It's purely random, that they do something that was also voiced be someone else.
PvP is a mess since start and they just made it worse. DIadem was bad at start, it took same ages to 'fix' it, what just made it worse. Now it's just a dumb standard gathering map - while it was better or gathering in the first version, because there you could at least get useful stuff, not just for some dumb mini event grind. They made the game worse and worse over the years. That's why they needed the marketing campaign, because even people like me who stayed loyal longer than most, could not take their shit anymore.
New people praise Goldsaucer. That thing is from early 2015(!) and they added very, very little to it since then and did not care to improve and fix things in it. Even something like GoldSaucer, that would be easy to work with and improve - especially the prices, does not get much love. Square does not care. it wants to make money with as little effort as possible...
And why put for example old event stuff into the Goldsaucer, when you can sell it on Morgy Shop for real money?
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