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

[Ziyyigo-Tipyigo]

Then why you still here?

Me personally? I misremembered my Crysta balance, turns out I still had enough sitting there to pay through this month. I'll be gone come February 28 when they try to bill my account again.

I haven't logged in since January, and then I only logged in once through the entire month, just long enough to update my linkshell's /lsmes concerning my leaving. Before that, I haven't actually sat down to play since early December.

And it's not like I missed much; my social linkshell, once over two-dozen strong, has dwindled down to at most four participants.

I've never been either a "bleeding edge l33t" or "endgame" player, so it's been a very long time since I've seen new content that appeals to me more than, say, coming to these forums in the half-hearted hope that I'll find something worth reading. And this is a bad sign for S-E, as I can find fora online for free, while it costs $12.95/mo to be bored in Vana'diel.

Oh, sure, I loved the game, but for me the game has been going downhill since the launch of WotG. That was certainly a very high point to come down from, but the experience for me has become steadily and consistently poorer since then. It took hours for the Titanic to sink, and job tweaks that could have been done five years ago accomplishes little more than rearranging the deck chairs.

So... yeah. Barring a miracle, my FFXI character joins my abortive FFXIV character in about a week. I'll remember the game fondly, but memories are all I have left any more regardless.

[blowfin]

A couple of reasons for me. Some sort of mistake had my account temporarily suspended without reason for around a week around the Christmas break. No emails or notification from SE as to the reasoning, just a "suck it and see" response from support. A wonderful Christmas gift. Then I had a dramatic realisation after signing up for SWTOR and actually having a great deal of fun. I realised that I hadn't had that same level of enjoyment in FFXI for quite some time. So apart from logging on once in January to check if my account was back up, I haven't bothered to log on since. Paying via topping up Crysta has also made it that much easier to stop handing over my cash!

[Rewyen]

I came back in late November after a two and a half year hiatus. I had so many fond memories of this game. Several of my closest friends I met here. As time went on, I missed my friends and our ridiculous adventures. We did some crazy shit just to have fun. Throw on a Lv. 1 and run from Sandy to Bastok naked in Sprint Shoes only, LS Brenner grudge matches, survival mode (take a low level and no weapon and see how far we could get in a ridiculously infested area like Bostonieux Oubliette), and we always were up for a hunt. That, sadly, is what I expected to come back to... And all I got was a ghost town with a few frumpy old men sitting on a dried up old porch throwing empty beer cans at tourists. Maybe three people I played with are still on and 99% of the time they are AFK. Everyone else acted like anyone lower than 90 was a total n00b. I watched people ask for help and get no response. Then I would help them and notice a week later they cancelled their account because people were just too rude. This game is just not friendly or fun anymore. And the best way to prove this is to watch how many people quote me and explain to me as rudely as possible why I'm a dipshit and should just quit.

Someone tried to suggest a function to allow a mode that reverts the old, pre 75+/Abyssea exp system and people attacked that like those of us who actually had fun playing this game were a bunch of diseased monsters because we dared to challenge to make this game fun to play again. It's not. Even those who say it is, think about it for a minute. What do you log in for? To play with friends and have fun? Or to stand by while you wait for other people to help/fight you for something you need for a fictitious weapon that no one really cares about. R/M/E is like a class ring. They are pretty, but it's a lifesink that holds no meaning other than an accomplishment; its an annoyance and once you get it, then what? Nothing. THAT is why the old way was better. Yes, it was mind numbing at times and took forever, but IT TOOK FOREVER. Once upon a time (unless you were one of those who played 22 hours a day) it would potentially take months to get ONE job to 75. Now people can knock out 99 in like two days and get all the crap they need for it. Money and exp falls from trees now. Four years ago, if you had over 50k, you were rich. Now you can just sell Voiddust and make five times that in five minutes. There is no challenge. No motivation to succeed other than to wake up one day and realize that you are playing a game in which your sole purpose is to flame others who are just being honest. You know I'm right. This game IS NOT fun to play anymore unless you happen to be relatively new, and even then, once you realize that no one really cares anymore, you'll quit.

So SE, fellow players- You have two options. Continue to add crap no one wants/log in and do the same old tired crap day in and day out and get frustrated the whole time you are doing it, OR LISTEN TO THE DAMN COMMUNITY AND MAKE CHANGES BASED ON WHAT PEOPLE WHO PLAY THIS GAME AND DON'T WANT TO SEE IT BECOME A MEMORY SUGGEST. Throwing on a filter is not making the game better. Nerfing a job is not making the game better. And players, think back to when you first started, be it a month ago or eight years ago. Remember how it felt the first time you killed a rabbit, made a friend, traveled to the Dunes, broke your first limit, got your first merit, stepped through your first Maw, waited on the damn boat for 45 minutes to see Whitegate... remember these things. Those are what made you play all this time. And you wouldn't have gotten there without other people by your side. Do you want to be able to do that again, or are you content on living in Vana'Diel, which has since become the front porch of an old age home?

[deces]

This game truly is becoming a Final Fantasy for so may.

[Vaash]

Rewyen:
Thank you so much for saying everything I have been feeling ever since Abyssea came out. SE has made this game TOO EASY. The only people that would say otherwise are the people that started playing AFTER Abyssea came out. I miss actually having to work for completion on anything. All you have to do now is have someone go into Abyssea and kill a bunch of mobs for you to get you to level 99. "Oh no I have to solo my job to level 30 because no one parties with random people anymore in the dunes just to get this job to 99, but I am going to complain when I can't get something done because I have no idea how to play my job to its fullest." 90% of the player base just levels up SMN or BST now just to solo NMs inside abbysea so they don't have to deal with other people. SE needs to quit trying to make this game more solo oriented and go back to actually having a full linkshell to do something like Ultima used to take.

[Ravenmore]

Rewyen:
Thank you so much for saying everything I have been feeling ever since Abyssea came out. SE has made this game TOO EASY. The only people that would say otherwise are the people that started playing AFTER Abyssea came out. I miss actually having to work for completion on anything. All you have to do now is have someone go into Abyssea and kill a bunch of mobs for you to get you to level 99. "Oh no I have to solo my job to level 30 because no one parties with random people anymore in the dunes just to get this job to 99, but I am going to complain when I can't get something done because I have no idea how to play my job to its fullest." 90% of the player base just levels up SMN or BST now just to solo NMs inside abbysea so they don't have to deal with other people. SE needs to quit trying to make this game more solo oriented and go back to actually having a full linkshell to do something like Ultima used to take.

Because killing kirin for the 100th time was so much better or killing the same crabs bettles and little pink birds over and over for 75 levels. Also Ultima never needed a full LS you didn't need 18 people for 90% of the old content. But hey if you think your hardcore love grinds go play EVE and see how hardcore you are.

[Aldersyde]

Rewyen:
Thank you so much for saying everything I have been feeling ever since Abyssea came out. SE has made this game TOO EASY. The only people that would say otherwise are the people that started playing AFTER Abyssea came out. I miss actually having to work for completion on anything. All you have to do now is have someone go into Abyssea and kill a bunch of mobs for you to get you to level 99. "Oh no I have to solo my job to level 30 because no one parties with random people anymore in the dunes just to get this job to 99, but I am going to complain when I can't get something done because I have no idea how to play my job to its fullest." 90% of the player base just levels up SMN or BST now just to solo NMs inside abbysea so they don't have to deal with other people. SE needs to quit trying to make this game more solo oriented and go back to actually having a full linkshell to do something like Ultima used to take.

It's funny you feel that way. I'm of the opinion that SE has totally turned away from solo and low man content with their focus on large scale events such as voidwatch, legion, and the new magian trials for relics. I don't think you're going to see a lot of progress wandering into neo nyzul solo or duo either. There's a lot of "challenging" content, too bad it's against a random number generator.

The hardest thing about large scale ls events in the past was finding a sufficient number of intelligent people to do them with. Or in the case of old school dynamis, staying awake for 3-4 hours.

[Vaash]

Ravenmore, I believe you missed the point I was trying to make, but that is alright. I never said it was bad that they have come out with new content (trust me I had my fair share of Kirins an meripo's), or the level increase was bad, and by saying Ultima took a full alliance was what they call an exaggeration. Yes I do miss the level grinds because it gave you the sense that you accomplished something not just having gil to toss around by paying for leech spots or knowing the right people. And since I was posting this in the "Why I intend on quitting" forum, thank you for the idea about EVE, maybe I will look into it.
Aldersyde, I do agree that they are coming out with better content for the masses. I am talking more about Abyssea related stuff. 90% of the NMs in abyssea can be duo'd or solo'd and anyone with enough cruor can just brew the things that they want dead. I miss the intelligence factor that the old content used to take, not the mindless punch fest most of the new stuff takes.

[Ravenmore]

If yu like grinds and working for large groups you'll love EVE.

[deces]

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