Every week, there is a new forum post/YouTube video about the decline in players in FF14, all citing various reasons. Things like the decline in story quality or non-engaging content that can't keep people for long periods of time. However, I'm here to tell you the REAL reason for FF14's player decline.
The cashshop NEEDS to be featured in-game and preferably with in-game pop-ups and link you directly to the cashshop. With Yoshi P's recent statements blaming the "cost" of adding a feature like an easy mode to the forked tower, it is clear that they need more money. So, along with featuring the cashshop in-game, I will be going over possible revenue streams the FF14 team could look into.
- More paid cosmetics (Mounts, outfits, emotes)
- A lootbox feature that can reward gil and in-game items the main prize would be exclusive mounts (think Squeal of Fortune from OSRS and gacha-type games)
- An option to pay for in-game gil (think wow token or bond from again OSRS)
- More events dedicated to producing FOMO to keep players subbed for longer
- An option to pay for in-game items used for crafting (to cut down on time having to gather too!)
- An increase in subcost (it's been a long time, and it deserves to go up with all the content we have access to)
I believe all of these changes could provide FF14 devs with ample funds to continue developing the game and make it even better for everyone. Most importantly, if you aren't playing, you could also still keep your sub active so the devs get more money to develop with!
Please let me know what you guys think, this stuff seems so obvious too me and I hope someone in SE reads this!
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The cashshop NEEDS to be featured in-game and preferably with in-game pop-ups and link you directly to the cashshop. With Yoshi P's recent statements blaming the "cost" of adding a feature like an easy mode to the forked tower, it is clear that they need more money. So, along with featuring the cashshop in-game, I will be going over possible revenue streams the FF14 team could look into.
- More paid cosmetics (Mounts, outfits, emotes)
- A lootbox feature that can reward gil and in-game items the main prize would be exclusive mounts (think Squeal of Fortune from OSRS and gacha-type games)
- An option to pay for in-game gil (think wow token or bond from again OSRS)
- More events dedicated to producing FOMO to keep players subbed for longer
- An option to pay for in-game items used for crafting (to cut down on time having to gather too!)
- An increase in subcost (it's been a long time, and it deserves to go up with all the content we have access to)
I believe all of these changes could provide FF14 devs with ample funds to continue developing the game and make it even better for everyone. Most importantly, if you aren't playing, you could also still keep your sub active so the devs get more money to develop with!
Please let me know what you guys think, this stuff seems so obvious too me and I hope someone in SE reads this!
Continue reading...