Summa Militum wrote:Did you ever stop to wonder whether or not the community collectively brought this silence upon themselves?
After some thought (after letting this post irk me) I've decided to address said post (anew).
Did we bring the silence upon ourselves?
Well let's see. After living the "soon tm" meme for a good year, after being trolled by Devs about upcoming features and changes, after all the glitches and bugs, mounds and mounds of glitches and bugs (some of which you still deal with today), after massive and seemingly random swings in the balance of the game from month to month with no progress what so ever towards the goal of overall balance, after CCP actively pumping up the forums for months about FF14s big announcement for Dust, and after that announcement being about 35 seconds of "aside from a few patches for stability sake, all work on Dust will end, buy a PC and get ready for Hi Res Dust (Project Legion)", after Dust players flew out to whatever God awful country whose name escapes me to attend FF14 for a solid gut punch, and after the Devs had nothing but smart mouth, butthurt comments for the playerbase in the ensuing forum rage........gee I don't know.
Did we bring the silence upon ourselves Summa? Or more accurately, did we bring the silence upon the current playerbase? What do you think Summa? What's your "hot take" on the matter?
The f*cked up part about all of what I just listed (and there is plenty more) is that if CCP didn't pull the whole Project Legion stunt, and did everything else exactly the same, a majority of those who left would not have left. And aside from the every day forum b*tching (this is the internet, it's unavoidable) there would have been no massive forum rage, no list of biomassed mercs.
Being a business, I understand their goal is to make money. They obviously felt the right move at the time was to gear up for Legion. We all know now it wasn't. The problem was the grimey, underhanded, downright sh*tty way they went about it. In the months before FF14 they were pushing aurum and packs HARD. Like really hard. While at the same time flaunting the gigantic, mysterious Dust announcement to come. Let's all remember that the official word on the transfer of anything from Dust to Legion was "........uuuuuhhh........*cough*.......we uuuuuhhhh......we'll see".
So I don't know Summa. Did we bring the silence upon ourselves? You tell me.