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

[Oanomochi]

I had to do a survey like that before getting out of the military. I told them what I really thought and how I really felt. I wish I could see my C.O.'s face when he read through it.

I was in the Army too. Your C.O. prob could care less. Next man up. But when I left my 1st Sgt. met me at my truck, gave me a hug and told me to call him when I get back home to make sure I made it there ok. Brass could care less but the NCOs are family. Brotherhood! Wish I never left actualy.

[Rewyen]

I was in the Army too. Your C.O. prob could care less. Next man up. But when I left my 1st Sgt. met me at my truck, gave me a hug and told me to call him when I get back home to make sure I made it there ok. Brass could care less but the NCOs are family. Brotherhood! Wish I never left actualy.

I'll back that statement. I saw my first CO not too long ago and he didn't know who the hell I was. My XO was different though, but I think that's because we tied his laces to a cot, sealed the tent and tossed in a MRE bomb. Push ups were totally worth it. NCO's are more real. My NCO's had my back for anything, likewise, when I made E-5, I would always have my squads back. I miss that.

[Aldersyde]

To get my last pay check I had to do a exit survey at my last job. It was to help the company know where they went wrong in keeping you around. It had one box for the reason and then more for ways for the company to improve and retain employees. Thats the line of thinking that if SE knows where the lost the player they can fix it you know other companies pay out the butt to get other compnies to do that.

That was my thought, this kind of being like an exit interview. Unfortunately, I don't think they will benefit from it because I honestly do not think they want to improve FFXI. I'm pretty convinced their concept of "balance" is to make the game play of FFXI suck as much as the game play of FFXIV, then hope that people will come over to it just because it has shiny new graphics and new stories.

On another note, companies (at least in Canada) cannot pull that "we're keeping your pay check until you do an exit interview" crap. A few years ago, a company that was absolute hell to work for tried that on me and I told them they did not have a right to waste my time without compensation any longer. I walked out of the office, called the provincial labor standards board, stated the problem, gave them the number of the human resource rep, and three days later had a check in my hands via courier.

Fuck giving companies suggestions on how to better their work place environments when they had no interest in doing so while said employee was actually there.

[Malamasala]

Personally I would have quite years ago. But I have this investment fallacy. I've paid so much, that I'd like to play at least one month of a good FFXI. It is just that it never gets good, so I keep investing more money, and feel even more that I need to stick around until the first good update hits.

Kind of silly really, that I'm only playing FFXI still because it is bad. If it had been good, I'd have quit. I guess SE already know there are plenty like me, and they purposely just do worthless updates.

[Runespider]

It's quickly getting to the point where the team in charge right now are so stuck on balancing everything they are forgetting this is supposed to be a fun game, the abyssea team got that. Whoever we have now doesn't.

That is what will make people quit.

[Raborn]

I'm not planning on leaving anytime soon, there are numerous things I'd like to see change in FFXI, there are numerous things I'd wish hadn't changed in FFXI, But I've finally achieved a balance and am playing with a very good, and very nice group of friends whom I wouldn't trade anything in the past I've done or achieved for.
When I finally do quit, it will be because there is absolutely nothing left to accomplish story wise, grinding was good back when MMORPG's first came out but its time to give the grinding a rest, FFXI was a grind game, and is starting to become one again.
We need to cut PS2 off of our market, what type of contract did you guys sign? Cut XBOX, Keep 360 until it becomes a burden, make new expansions, make more monsters, make new story lines, get people involved, give nice stuff for accomplishing goals.
Most of all make new areas to explore, or don't cut PS2 just make it so that they can't get the expansion unless you play on PC or 360 (I'd do away with 360 entirely, I can't stand consoles for online gaming other than FPS, 360 has enough issues already).
I'm probably pissing off half the player base saying screw 360, but I don't care, its the truth, you'd be holding the game back too if SE had cut PS2 a few years ago.

[Aldersyde]

I'm not planning on leaving anytime soon, there are numerous things I'd like to see change in FFXI, there are numerous things I'd wish hadn't changed in FFXI, But I've finally achieved a balance and am playing with a very good, and very nice group of friends whom I wouldn't trade anything in the past I've done or achieved for.
When I finally do quit, it will be because there is absolutely nothing left to accomplish story wise, grinding was good back when MMORPG's first came out but its time to give the grinding a rest, FFXI was a grind game, and is starting to become one again.
We need to cut PS2 off of our market, what type of contract did you guys sign? Cut XBOX, Keep 360 until it becomes a burden, make new expansions, make more monsters, make new story lines, get people involved, give nice stuff for accomplishing goals.
Most of all make new areas to explore, or don't cut PS2 just make it so that they can't get the expansion unless you play on PC or 360 (I'd do away with 360 entirely, I can't stand consoles for online gaming other than FPS, 360 has enough issues already).
I'm probably pissing off half the player base saying screw 360, but I don't care, its the truth, you'd be holding the game back too if SE had cut PS2 a few years ago.

Except the community reps have already said that the PS2 does not stand in the way of new expansions or new stories. New monster-types have been added to voidwatch (mantis, harpy, and the six-armed skeleton thing), so the PS2 isn't the issue there either. The issue is the willingness on the part of SE to actually want to put some creative effort into this game to make new expansions, stories, monsters for FFXI. That's not going to happen unless/until FFXIV irrevocably fails. I don't expect anything big to be added to this game until version 2.0 comes out and the verdict comes in on whether people will actually come back and if it's a game worth playing.

[Karbuncle]

Think I'm going to go ahead and Bump this wonderful thread to say I'm pretty much about done with this game now.

0/I lost count after 300 on Toci's/Mekira. I'm tired of the Voidwatch System, I'm tired of getting Chakrams and Mantis Eyes, which I've probably gotten 30+ of. I'm tired of Stupid gimps going 1/2 or 1/1 on the above mentioned bodies, Let alone the ones who can't even use them.

That combined with the direction the new events are taken (Bad drop rates, Random Number Generator, Etc), And the direction the Dev team is starting to take (back to ignoring us, not listening, continuing with their "Vision" regardless of complaints, You know, the entire Reason FFXIV Crashed?)

this game is just getting disappointing. I mean, I know some people love going back to artificial challenge and dumb restrictions on content clearly meant to bottleneck it a bit longer... But I think I'm just getting too old to want to Sodomize myself for the next piece of E-peen armor.

Straw that broke the camels back pretty much...

When my Account runs out of Crysta, I doubt i'll Fill it back up...

[Kimble]

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.

[Karbuncle]

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.