Still have tons to do but in no rush to do it. Yeah a lot of the stuff is stale os mostly running stuff with friends but other games do pull me away from time to time.
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10-14-2015, 09:52 PMruskie
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10-14-2015, 09:55 PMKajukai
Mostly raid tbh.
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10-14-2015, 11:48 PMLone-wolfe-02
Friends tbh.
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10-14-2015, 11:56 PMAlahra
Esoterics and Red Scrips, mainly, plus the fact that I still have about 5 months on my subscription left, and that I know I won't be happy in another MMO anyway, so I might as well stay on top of this one.
I do play a lot less than normal lately, though. Definitely ready for 3.1 to get here. -
10-15-2015, 12:48 AMOzreth
I'm only lvl 32 and that's after having come back from several years off after stopping during 1.0. What's this talk about "Eso" and "glamour"?
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10-15-2015, 12:52 AMRisvertasashiEso is endgame token currency used to purchase gear. It has a weekly cap. Glamor is the system for making a piece or armor look like something else (essentially allowing you to customize your character's appearance).Quote:
Originally Posted by Ozreth
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10-15-2015, 01:06 AMMistyMew
Definitely not totally happy with it, especially lolhousing but, I do log in each eve for an expert roulette.
I cap crafter scrips on Thrursday and poke away at gathering ones a few min at a time.
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10-15-2015, 01:21 AMEnthy
I log in mostly to collect glamour items... but inventory limitations will be the end of that soon. :/
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10-15-2015, 05:47 AMGilthas
I login for 10 minutes on Saturday mornings to buy a Jumbo cactpot ticket and 3 mini-cactpot tickets.
I'll probably play for a few hours to do the halloween event if my subscription doesn't run out before then.
I'm just waiting for 3.1, and hoping beyond hope, that SE will drastically reduce the grind that the game has become and let people actually enjoy all the content the game has to offer. -
10-15-2015, 05:50 AMAskaRay
Well, the game isn't perfect...but honestly no game is (except Majora's Mask of course hehehehehe cough)
But as long as I'm enjoying myself I'll log in. Like, I finally fully leveled AST on my main so I can now be a shirtless healing catboy again. And I just started playing around with my Au ra alt and she's soooo cute, I just stand around and emote half the time with her..... -
10-15-2015, 11:28 AMOzrethThankfully I enjoy a nice, long grind! But I'd prefer it be levels that we are grinding for the long haul, so people would slow down and enjoy the game all the way through.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gilthas
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10-15-2015, 03:09 PMZeonx
Honestly I don't know why I do, seems like everything is the same thing since the launch and nothing changed.
Dungeons
Fates
Quests
Job quest
Coil switched to alexander
Hunts even in expansion but different points
1 gear set obsoletes as soon as another gear comes which makes getting that set pretty much worthless and you wasted most of your time either getting half of the 1st set and not finishing it.
flagging up is becoming more like FFXI in 2006 the 30 minutes to 2 hour wait and flag down and log out.
what keeps me here is nosalgia I guess, some of the fights like ultros and gilgamesh and old music I just want to see something new added to get gear or something fun to pass up the time like NM's or games added to golden saucer.
other than that I feel like I stand here after im done doing dailys with nothing to do but twiddle my thumbs and waiting for 3.1 -
10-15-2015, 03:44 PMDemogulus-Veisef
I'm getting married so that's 1 reason why I keep playing, 2 would be EX roulette even though i'm not happy doing it every single day, but I want to be able to get another full ilvl 200 set for my DRK I already got full ilvl 200 gear for my DRG.
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10-15-2015, 04:01 PMKuwagami
I stopped playing 2 weeks ago due to acute AS3 syndrome (i.e. extreme burn out due to raiding). I just came back yesterday to say hello to the friends who are still in the game and do some unsynch'ed content with them.
I haven't capped eso in a while (In fact, I've capped only 2 weeks since eso came, and I've spent nearly a month at 0 tomes per week now).
I guess what's keeping me in game is just the fun of doing old content in a improbable set up. now I want to level up my WHM and try to solo T5 as I've seen you can do it. Then I'll try to solo more of these old things as either WHM, SCH or WAR. -
10-15-2015, 04:51 PMGalactimus
Trying to stay on top of the economic totem pole I guess. I've always kept myself in a position where I can fully take advantage of every new system they add to the game. Mainly housing, gardening, crafting, and gathering. I was the first on Excalibur to mass-market Hive and Expanse Bardings, Thavnarian Glamour, and Purified Coke. I built an outrageously large customer base through trustworthy transactions where I'll synth anything for 90k + materials. Word of mouth also has had quite the steamroll effect.
However, all of this requires me to log in every single day to maintain the customer base, adjust the market, and put foresight and unpopular systems to good use. And so I keep logging in (^_^ ;; ) -
10-15-2015, 04:53 PMDhex
My SO - the cool folks in my FC and raid group - and the hope that they will improve the game.
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10-15-2015, 07:37 PMVydos
I'm just unable to log on since at least a month if not more. I really want too though. But at the moment, the game is feeling like a chore to me.
- Get home from work
- Log in
- Do roulettes. Which takes more than +1 hour. +1 hour I always feel I could have spend doing something better.
- Log off or spam more dungeons to try to cap tomes earlier.
I still have jobs to level to 60 though. But again, doing that is more of the same thing. Either grind FATEs like a mindless zombies or repeat dungeons until I fall asleep mid dungeons due to boredom (which sometimes actually happens).
I really love the game though. But I'm not blind enough to not notice, that I'm basically repeating the entire 2.x tome, gear, leveling grind all over again. But this time, I don't feel compelled to get the best gear. Because I know that a few patches down the line, it will become easier or worthless to get them(besides for glamour). -
10-15-2015, 07:51 PMZojhaAnd that's the sole reason I am doing my expert roulettes in the first place. Three ESO chestpieces, two gloves, one head and not a single useful item like the weapon or ring.Quote:
Originally Posted by Vydos
Gotta do more of the old content as well. High allagan accessories look really neat and some of the dreadwyrm stuff too. On that note: There doesn't seem to be a single T-shirt like item in the game. Boo! I just got the ramie trousers because they looked roughly like jeans and now I can't get a good top piece to go with them :/
Uh...yeah, you can probably guess at least one of the reasons I play. But then again, I'm not that vet yet anyway. -
10-16-2015, 02:50 AMGilthasThe problem isn't that the game has grinding, the problem is that every single thing is a grind forcing people to either focus on a single piece of content or never achieve anything of note.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ozreth
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10-16-2015, 10:05 AMTizzy_Tormentor
Me and a few friends are taking a break until 3.1 comes out, I used to log in to do my daily roulettes and cactpot, but I haven't even had the motivation to do even that.
No biggie, when 3.1 comes along, will gear up either Tank or Caster with Void Ark and use my Eso for Machinist, I might focus on a relic or 2 depending on how they progress. -
10-16-2015, 12:52 PMMagis
To be honest, I haven't logged in a month.
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10-16-2015, 04:45 PMJamein
Nothing really out right now, the MMO market is stale. WoW is not fun for me anymore and Wildstar was a failure.
As soon as something half decent comes out I'll head to that, FF is just a filler now, the game doesn't have much to do in terms of progression.
Capping eso's by wednesday/thursday then not logging in unless it's to raid the same 4 savage raids. Can't say I care much for golden saucer or things of that nature. Relic will at least give me something to do. -
10-16-2015, 06:11 PMKio
I love games where you can slowly tick off a list of goals. So I usually wake up in the morning and feel energized to accomplish something. I'll get that achievement I'm close to. I'll level this job to 60. I'll get that item I might need. I'll max out these tokens in case I need them for the future. And so forth. I'll log on then instantly remember what a pain it is to do most of these things. Immediately I'll become bored or distracted and end up logged in but not actually at the pc the rest of the day. I log on every day but my total daily playtime is probably 15 minutes at max, maybe 20 if I bothered to do expert roulette with my friends.
I don't think it's the game design completely to blame, I think it has a lot of really respectable work has gone into it. But I'm the type of person whom doesn't like the be challenged, and rather just get something for the time I put into it without it being overly redundant. For instance, I used to like gathering because I could walk up to the node which is always there and get the thing which it always dispenses. I don't gather anymore because the red script system is complicated and time and risk based. So I don't really play anymore since the gameplay shifted into something not appealing to me personally.
What keeps me subscribed then? Mostly because my husband and friends "play" although they mostly just do the same thing I do. Log on hoping to accomplish something but don't feel motivated to do anything more than stand around while they're really browsing Reddit or playing another game. The story telling has immensely improved in 3.0 over the previous iterations so I played quite heavily to experience the expansion story while it lasted and I guess the rest of it is FF nostalgia. It's exciting and fun to see things like a Gilgamesh battle thrown in with the original theme song. I was really disappointed when they created Ravana because it means they missed an opportunity to interject more classic things like The Magus Sisters.
I think I would be more interested and invested in the game if they brought back the player surveys. I don't feel like they are listening to or consider the interests of other markets outside of Japan again. It gives me bad flashbacks to how customers were treated back in FF11 days and is another thing on my pile of reasons why I could easily unsubscribe. -
10-16-2015, 08:56 PMCraiger
This whole depressing attitude around here will change when 3.1 comes out...
The game have followed similar formula for some time now, and people didn't complain before (not nearly as many at least)... 3.0 just doesn't feature a lot of the content that was in 2.X.
The early parts of 2.0 was exactly the same as now... People where whining, and while it was for a good reason, it kinda stopped once more content came out with patches. The same thing will probably happen now. 3.1 brings us Void Ark, more dungeons, new primal, Relic quests, airship exploration etc. The game is gonna go back more to how it was before, and it will get even better with 3.2.
I'm not saying SE did a good job with 3.0, or that their formula is perfect (or even good), but a lot of players are overreacting I feel.
When 3.1 comes out, there will be more to do than we have ever had before in the game, and I doubt everyone just got bored of that content all of a sudden. Many have played since the release of the game, so why would it all of a sudden make everyone leave? I can understand that some people leave when the game doesn't develop over the years, but this suddenly? nah...
As for the question... Currently I'm only coming online to cap my Eso, raid and talk to friends.
I've felt like that before too, but I've just accepted to like FFXIV for what it gives me. I don't do anything in the game that I don't like, just to keep me busy for example, and I accept that the game isn't perfect.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jamein
The reason I do that, is because the reality is... There are no half decent MMOs coming in the near future. Nobody is working on anything that will be out soon. Everquest Next doesn't look like something good IMO, and who knows when that will be out? looks like they scrapped everything they got, and are starting over.
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10-16-2015, 09:00 PMTwilite
The wife, and my own personal goals.