The OFFICIAL "I intend on Quitting, and here is why" Thread

Yeah, pretty much what I got to. I really just didn't have it in me anymore to go back and play the game how it was in the 75 era. I think about coming back now and then (I still have my mule account) but the only job I want to play is COR and the way the game is designed, being only one job isnt going to be all that fun.

I know there are people who hate how easy abyssea was, but I enjoyed it because I felt I could not play for a few days and not really feel like im falling behind. With bad drop rates and random number Generator, i just felt like if I wasn't grinding every day, I was falling behind.

Plus it got to the point again for me where it was like, "great, I FINALLY got this item, well wait, now what do I use it for? more VW? other events I don't really care to do?" Add to the fact that most people I played with would get butt hurt with me if I wanted to not play for a few days and not really having people to hang out with anymore, figured it was just time to call it quits.

I also notice i keep referring to FFXI as a game still.

I doesn't even feel like a game anymore. Games are suppose to be fun, FFXI feels more like I'm trapped in a Dark room, Told to open a Door, Except theres 250 Doors, one of Them is the exit, And the others Have Shotguns behind them triggered to go off when I open it.

The reason theres 250 Doors is because theres going to be 250 People put into the room, So for Balance, Theres a large number of doors, so that only a few people out of the 250 escape with their life.

But the extra balance-trick is, They only put us in 1 at a time, and they close the doors and mix them up after each person is sent in, to Achieve maximum Balance to Dead-people ratio.

Honestly, one big reason I even kept playing was because I met my current g/f on there and she works overnights so I used to stay up with her and play while she was at work. Now that she likes to do other things at work with her time (cross stitching, playing SNES games, etc and I actually got back into playing Wii and PS3, there was just no reason to bother anymore.

I had forgotten how fun it was to play games that was enjoyable, and not feel like a job.

The days when this game makes me go "bleeeeeh" seem to come along a lot more often than before. A LOT more often. I don't multi-box, I don't fish(bot), I don't have the "right" crafts leveled - and these days all I seem to do is work my ass off (note: work, not play) to raise gil for heavy metal plates. It's left me fed up, disillusioned and disappointed, and if I do ever finish my GA I sure as hell won't be working on upgrading any of my other empyrean weapons past lvl 90. The new nyzul sounds to me like just another voidwatch-like event where shit's totally random and luck-based, not even tempted to try it.

My friends are the main reason I'm still playing. But there's hardly a day now that the thought of quitting doesn't cross my mind. And who knows, maybe I'll do just that instead of torturing myself further.

Two weeks on a login protest now, when the bst nerf comes it will be final.

It makes me really mad reading this thread because I feel the same, I really love this game and don't want to leave it but with such incompetent people running it now it's a really hard sell. This game is not fun to login to now (trials we can't do, WoE which is terrible, VW which never drops anything and now Neo-Nyzul looks to be worse than them all, and this after they see the outcries that came before..they still make the same mistakes), they changed the game into something amazing with Abyssea and then took a giant dump on it with these new people running it since then, they just have no idea wtf they are doing and how much the playerbase has changed. They really do think they can just pretend Aby didn't happen and take us back to old FFXI, infact I take that back...this isn't old FFXI it's 10x worse with their blatant and horrible time-sink tactics at a time when very few people want that kind of abusive/unrewarding game again.

Sadly, very much like with XIV they won't see the massive damage they are doing to this wonderful game till it's on it's death bed and has a vastly decreased playerbase (most players won't post here, they will simply stop logging in), they never really listen and they will never accept that maybe their ideas are bad..ever..even if it destroys the things they are working on (see FFXIV). Abyssea revived it but they see it as bad content and shy away from it as fast and far as possible, quite the stupidest thing I've seen in all my years playing.

Square did 2 amazingly stupid things over the last few years, release the laughing stock FFXIV and creating an amazing expansion lifting almost everyones spirits and then knocking away the amazing improvments they made. If by some miracle they manage to salvage FFXIV I hope disgruntled XI players keep in mind just how quickly they turned XI back into crap again, and how easily they could do the same over there.

Last update was bad, last 2 were lame but this one took the biscuit. The fact they were worried about congestion on neo nyzul shows how far out of touch they really are.

Yeah, this update really was the last straw for me and I cancelled both my accounts. It consisted nothing but nerfs for my favorite jobs and an event that showed promise that was ruined by more luck based crap.

Its no coincidence that this change in direction coincided with the announcement that XIV wouldn't be ready for another year. We are being taken for a ride with horrible time sink events/quests and an understaffed dev team incapable of churning out rewarding content, yet still paying full price to play the game. The thrill is gone for me with this game. There is no "see you in a few months" and its become quite obvious that no amount of complaining on these forums no matter how eloquently typed will sink into their heads. The only answer is to stop giving them money.

There are somethings I believe we can place the blame squarely on Square. But for the most part? I think you can blame your fellow players.

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Originally Posted by Trisscar

There are somethings I believe we can place the blame squarely on Square. But for the most part? I think you can blame your fellow players.

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I don't get how my fellow players can be blamed for jobs being nerfed. I don't see how they can be blamed for voidwatch - which could be a great event but has the most stupid and aggravating reward system ever (and the promised "fix" to it is stupid too, whoever thought up that idea can stick it where the sun doesn't shine). I don't see how they can be blamed for idiotic empyrean/mythic/relic trials (some more idiotic than others). I also don't see how they can be blamed for neo-nyzul - another random and luck based event.

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Originally Posted by Tamoa

I don't get how my fellow players can be blamed for jobs being nerfed.

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really, you don't see how? Who exploited BST to death to get what they wanted? Your fellow players. Who griped and complained and kvetched about it to the point that Square decided to nerf it? Your fellow players.

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I don't see how they can be blamed for voidwatch - which could be a great event but has the most stupid and aggravating reward system ever (and the promised "fix" to it is stupid too, whoever thought up that idea can stick it where the sun doesn't shine).

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Sure the reward system on LW is entirely Square's fault, but who are the ones who keep on plugging away at it in hopes that they might just might 'get lucky'? Your fellow players.

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I don't see how they can be blamed for idiotic empyrean/mythic/relic trials (some more idiotic than others). I also don't see how they can be blamed for neo-nyzul - another random and luck based event.

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If you can get people interested in going to the events then there's no reason why you can't get it done. But who was it that lost interest in the events and abandoned those events in the first place? Your fellow players.