I played FFXIV since beta..Yea 0-50 was great on FFXIV... END game was fun in the beginning because you knew the game was new so there was little content so you didn't mind doing the same thing over and over. It is not new anymore and there was a expansion and there is still nothing new. It is cookie cutter dungeons with 3 bosses and trash in between. I feel like the only thing to do in the game is run for tomes to get new gear and the minute you do there is new gear and new tomes. Blah. Boring. The game does not suffer from lack of content, it is updated all the time, it just suffers from lack of different content. After 2 years it is enough So I decided to come back for a while and at least finish the ending story and try to get some of the other stuff I have not completed done.
So the one thing in FFXIV was the relic. ok you work your but off for it and then they just end it and have some quested gear that is better.
So now they have a new relic but it is garbage it is like 180 when the current gear is is 210.. WTH Then you bust your but to get it to 210 and they already announced gear that is better in the next update.. The relic should be the best gear in the game... Nothing gear wise is good for more than a few weeks, you never get to enjoy the gear. I mean in FFXI I have gear from 50's that is still good.. That was the final thing for me.
The games does have some good stuff.. Crafting and gathering is better, way better..
The more I play FFXI again the more it feels like it needs a face lift.. Yesterday I was trying to compare gear lol and you cant. The whole interface is clunky.
If they moved FFXI to FFXIV engine it would be sweet.
Anyway I am back, Even though the game now feels a little old and clunky and allot of the areas I used to enjoy are dead. I am still having more fun in FFXI. There is just such a variation of stuff to do..
I just wish SE had a upgrade path that fit the FFXI players before closing it down. FFXIV is not it..