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

[Ravenmore]

lol

/10char

Care to expain what you think is funny. The fact that a product can make a profit and still be considered a failure or that a game could make a profit but still cost the company protentional profits from other products.

[ManaKing]

I don't think I will quit FFXI anytime soon. I am frustrated at a couple of things, but I don't think that is enough to make me quit.

Right now, I am working an extra job, which basically takes all off my FFXI time, except for some on the weekends. So if this is the down point for the next couple of months, it comes at a good time for me, because I am missing it.

I main RDM. If you don't know why that would make me contemplate quitting, then you don't main RDM. Several jobs are very under powered or unattractive compared to others, but they aren't balancing this game in a method that inspires confidence. WAR and MNK needed nerfs? No Duh! You missed NIN, but outside of aby it's not such a big issue. So my question is, why start with the bad news for popular jobs, instead of starting with the good news for jobs that actually need it? There is no transparency on what is coming for the jobs that actually need attention. We have no idea when the jobs that are actually hurting are getting fixed, if ever.

2nd issue is when are we getting new story? We were told Cait Sith and Atmos were coming for SMN. I assumed that we would get new stories with that. I love Nyzul, so I'm assuming I'll actually be able to get people together for that more consistently after they do revisions. I don't mind if SE wants to get more mileage out of current content by making it more accessible like they did with dynamis, but I completely expect new plot lines on something in the near future. This game was semi-story based at one point. The story for aby is, once upon a time adventures were so bored of their own world, that they were willing to go save an alternate reality for the promise of better loot...that's it. There wasn't anything new or interesting TBH.

To voice my opinion of FFXIV vs FFXI, it's simple. The crafting in FFXIV was awesome. What you made with crafting was completely pointless, because the combat was boring and unimpressive and the story line was awful. Anyone that played FFXI at any point can tell you that the jobs in FFXIV are a low point and the game shouldn't be called FF because it doesn't use FF jobs. There are many things that FFXIV failed to achieve for it's players that FFXI got right on day one or shortly there after. Everyone expects FFXIV to be better than FFXI and that is what is going to have to happen if they want FFXIV to ever see the light of day with a profit.

Make a decision SE. At some point you are going to run out of interest in your MMOs if you don't start taking this seriously. I'd rather not play FFXIV because I enjoy FFXI significantly more. If you let FFXI become stagnant and you don't make REAL changes to FFXIV that cater to FFXI players, then you won't be keeping us. I played FFXIV at beta and i played it 5 months later for a month. Both times were complete disappointments. FFXIV at some point may or may not be worth picking up a 3rd time, but I'm not holding my breath and I'm not paying SE a dime until they restore some actual confidence in their game.

[Sharnak]

Ok i'm not quit this game since i play this game more than 7th years and still have friend to play with if i will quit this is my reason.

1. No more friend to play with anymore.
2. Dev Team still use easy way to develop game

- Nerf Job instead Improve other -
- More 16 ppl NM or BC with evilness drop rate - I want to play with friend more than random ppl on events, oh god i can't find any after abby. even VW on first stat we do with only 6 ppl may lose and win but it's fun with friend who care about how many death. But after that It become impossible to lowman so we stop bother with it. Each of us need to go catch random ppl VW. That is no more fun for me so i nv do it again.
- Make only Hardcore base

[Sharnak]

If I quit it's cuz

1. No more friend to play with.
2. Dev team still choose easy way to develop game.
3. Mr T. way come before player base.

And I really wonder why ppl keep flamming on ppl who try to suggest how game developing. I really think ppl who complain about it is show how their like it. (No matter how silly or brillent idea they suggest) It's easy that just play and fun what SE give, and quit when you boring. But only ppl who really love it will sugggest will complain how game must go on. So stop use easy ways say "If you not like it just stop play" It's always choice form start, just good player not choose until it's no more choice.

Please Dev Team, stop thinking this complain is just a ignorable idea. It's was reflex form ppl who love this game. not just play this game for a while for fun. One day if these ppl choose the last choice you will only have ppl who like to enjoy a bit in some time and can quit any time to replace them.

[kewitt]

Well, My hubby and I have stopped payment, We are going out of town. But when we come back there is very little left for us to do.

We haven't played more then 5 days between LB 90 cap and LB 95 cap
Logged on got 95 LB items 1st day back.
Took 5 jobs from 90 to 95 in 2 day.
At that rate, I could likely finish getting all my jobs to 99 in a week maybe 2 tops after breaking cap.
Failed at 95 LB 2 times so far.. last try got NM to like 1-2% dia didn't kill it however.

All Missions done but WoTG only 10 or so then My hubby and I are done that too.
Only about 60 Quest pre 75 left to do then every quest in the game will be done.
Reason for getting God gear is to be able to do story with ease.
At level 95 all the 75 level story is already on easy mode. Post 75 no new stories added.

Current reason to get better gear is only to get better gear. Seem pointless without giving something to look forward too.



I recall taking 5 weeks of my static fighting Aht 44 missions before we finally got win...back with a 75 level cap.
I recall raising then raising Prishe and dieing a second later only to have Prishe finish fight with a wipe and get win.
I recall my 1st job at level 75 meaning something because it took time to do.
I recall So many thing that made me feel good and like I got something done, a pay off for my effort.

Now I just go threw the motions with nothing really to look forward to..

Things I would need to stay interested in FFXI, Another full expansions, honestly with Level caps, that can be done with 4 people casual players nothing to hard but not sol able. Max of one Battle field Mission per Conquest week with about 30 or so Battle field missions. And 3-4 Side quest to do on your own time or LS well waiting for Next conquest week, these side quest could be a CS, or gathering, or even a delivery quest. I would gladly pay $39.95 for this, and more importantly would keep me playing for another 30+ weeks.

[Zaknafein]

I would love to know what % of XIV accounts will go inactive when they start charging for it. That begins on Jan 1st? Maybe that will be an eye opener for them. Honestly I don't wish failure on XIV. I just hate that they thought loyal XI fans would be muscled over to that title. Even if it had launched without any issues I had no intention of walking away from 8 years of hard labor on XI. So I could start from scratch just to get some fancy graphics? Not top on my list of wants. Give me some content, and storylines. A true challenge, and not some epic magian trial grind BS. An expansion with new zones, and a new open end game area like Sky/Sea without time constraint crap. That's all I need to be happy with XI.

Could XIV turn a profit at some point down the road? Possible. Am I willing to invest my free time into a product that choked, stuttered, and wheezed it's it's way out of the gate? A title that won't even live up to the hype of what it should have been opening day until XIV 2.0 rolls around in Dec 2012. In today's MMO market with ever increasing contention for MMO players to fill existing titles, with several monster titles on the way my decision is clear. No way.

Just such a shame that XI has to suffer when a modest investment into it's development would have kept it's user base content while keeping them open towards XIV, because they were happy. How can an error that blatant go unseen?

[Kimble]

Really, FFXI's development started to die in late 2007 sadly.

[Michae]

While Elphy has some good and bad points I do have to side with the xiv not being as bad as it used to be. Esp since there has been leaps and bounds made by the new dev team. And alot of what we have now is in the form of unrepeatable live events. I found this article which I think is more what she should have posted since its from a gamers point of view

http://www.gameranx.com/features/id/...xiv-right-now/

I also canceled but then heard a squeak about a new expansion in the works so I thought perhaps I would wait and see so I reactivated just to be 100% sure I dont loose anything. The bad thing is that I am paying for a game I am not currently playing. Im trying to keep up to date on news tho which is why I am on the forums ^^

I log in, listen to /sh to see whats going on. Aby Aby Aby WoE VW VW Aby VW. I have everything done but a coupld wotg quests, all past endgame has been corrupted or no one plays, the empy weapons are good but getting them is redundant and boring, as is all the rest of anything Magians. So I log out.

Waiting patiently on the roadmap, as we are being charged (minimally I may add) for xiv starting jan 6th I am getting a discount on ffxi for awhile so I suppose I can wait. Still they wont squeeze more than a few more months of billing out of me before I finally put the game to rest and move on, roadmap or not. Either in FFXIV if it keeps going the way its going or I will just play offline. idk we will see

Oh and p.s. I think ffx-2, ffxii, ffxiii and so on hurt the brand more than anything. Those were just aweful games. idk what se has been thinking when they approve some of these games.

[Zaknafein]

Really, FFXI's development started to die in late 2007 sadly.

Yep. They planned to just herd us like sheeple on over to the next flagship title. Oooppss guess that didn't work out as planned. Sooner they accept that reality, and do some serious work to XI instead of running the development brothers ragged the better off we'll be.

[Kimble]

Yep. They planned to just herd us like sheeple on over to the next flagship title. Oooppss guess that didn't work out as planned. Sooner they accept that reality, and do some serious work to XI instead of running the development brothers ragged the better off we'll be.

The game is to old at this point and I think a lot of the damage as been done. Don't really think there is a way to keep it going.

Being tied to PS2 is hurting it a lot as well but nothing you can do to change that really.