I get that it seems like an exaggeration but there's a lot to ff14 that can't be summarized simply or easily. The headline is spot on.
The community at large is worried if the next expansion fails.
MMOs are costly to develop, Square Enix has shown time and time again that their funding goes towards everything they have except FF14. Even the most casual players joke that FF14's "ten devs" can't handle x change proposal.
The game has a lot of technical debt, and many issues have existed for a long time with the game server design, and that just scratches the surface.
The game's content patch cycle is under heavy scrutiny by the community for being too thin and spread out and having little repeatable content.
I hope SE designs something where my friends and I can dive into and have a repeatable source of entertainment and fun. There's literally nothing like this.
I would expand more but this could turn into a very long rant about current systems that are strangely socially punishing (punished for playing with friends).
where are her cat ears ?