Hmm losing will to play... any tips?

I have been playing ffxiv since 1.0 and I am rapidly losing interest to play this game.

Doing Daily feels like doing homework after work. Ex trial is fun until you clear it and the hype doesn't last very long. I haven't even tried savage but most of other contents are becoming pretty repetitive. I am spending about 2-3 hours everyday on this game but I think I could have more healthier life style if I spend less time on this game...

Anyone else had this problem and care to share thought?

Running things to cap is never a good way to stay in the game. Just take a break from the game, there are a lot of good games out there.

Any time I get it I just take a little break. Earlier this year I took a two month break, nothing is wrong with doing so~

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Originally Posted by skyfox

1. I am rapidly losing interest to play this game.
2. I am spending about 2-3 hours everyday on this game but I think I could have more healthier life style if I spend less time on this game...

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1. take a break and see if you want to come back or move on. there's nothing wrong with that.
2. that is absolutely true and maybe that's what you need to do if you feel this game is barring you from a healthier life style.

....maybe that's what I will do too...

I've had this problem since the beginning of 2.0.
Game is a themepark. You get new rides, you can only ride them so much before
you get bored and lose interests. Sadly, FFXIV has the same rides, under different coats of paint
so I reach more boredom within a few weeks after a major patch. (Not downing the game by the way.
It's just how the pattern of this game since the beginning.) Right now I am leveling jobs
as SB dungeons are more fun, getting to 70 is where my fun stops sadly...

Take a break is all we can say.

This game unfortunately is not designed to be played hard or even mid core for extended periods of time.

I had a guild of 65 ppl about 45 of them quit due the issues you are having, was in the first part of heavensward, game is just not designed for ppl playing 30+hrs a week.

Most the people in my guild now both those who stayed from before and the new ppl have taken breaks or pulled back to 2-3 days a week once savage content is on farm and play other games. FFXIV despite the amount of stuff to do when you look at the whole picture as a newer player, has a massive lack of content problem at current endgame. There has yet to have a patch since 2.0 with truly enough "Relevant Progression" content at endgame for ppl to play this game as a full time mmo. It is one of the main weaknesses of this game and one of the main issues with a casual designed linear themepark in general.

I would suggest trying another game for a bit, if that is not possible for what ever reason I would drop your playtime down to 10hrs a week and play other non-mmo games in between for awhile and then pickup FFXIV game time once the major patches hit and you work to beat content. Doing this will help with burnout and still keep you caught up basically. How FFXIV is designed to be played, love it or hate it.

Instead of suggesting to take a break, which isn't bad to do, we all been there but change your daily chores. It might sound funny, but instead of let's say doing roulette's/leveling alts/other jobs, try something new. For example, go join some party finders or some raid content, or relax and try some gathering/crafting. It might not sound like fun, and in most cases it isn't but after you've done it for a week lets say, switch back to your old routine. All the sudden you might actually start enjoying it again, and while that's still temporary, at least it won't burn you out as much.

I noticed when taking a 6+ month break, that sure you have lots of content to run when you return, however the pressure is much higher because now you need to play the stupid catch up game, and some content will be "old" to that time, making it either unavailable since people don't want to run it anymore, or expecting you to be very good at it. Meaning you will have to put lots of research into that etc, instead of right now still falling in the grace period and could say, I am new/blind run etc. Taking a break should be your last option in my opinion.

This game has no reply value. Once the patches stop coming there won't be any real reason to play this anymore. Since all old content gets written over by new content it's like we never moved. The new stuff gets beaten So quick that people are forced to wait and be bored. There is no long term goal because we start over each patch. So there isn't any value to anything you do. There's nothing that shows how much effort you put in the game because everything gets over written and everyone starts over. The value in hard work is gone and that shiny piece of weapon you worked hard for can be thrown into the trash.

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Originally Posted by skyfox

I think I could have more healthier life style if I spend less time on this game...

Anyone else had this problem and care to share thought?

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Wait wait wait, just to get it: Are you asking us for tips to avoid to Change your life into a better and healthier one?

Well in that case my friend: Potato Chips and chocolate! Especially those potato Chips for sure! Will help to kill any healthy ambition you ever had.

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Dude, just take a break from the game. I do it all the time. Gaming is an activity made for Relaxing. If you don't have that relaxing effect anymore it's just a huge waste of time and you could, as you named it, use the time better.

When you reach that point and it's not as fun anymore, taking a break from the game until the next patch will usually do it.
Of course it also depends, for me I honestly feel the same way but it's the friends that I'll have around that make it somewhat more entertaining, even if it's just coming on to goof off with them.

Stormblood is worth one month of playing. Since you can clear savage so quickly now, it actually means that you could do everything in a month. Then after that, it's just repetitive farming for tomes/gears weekly doing the same thing over and over again. Starting next week, there will not be any significant new content until 4.1 in two months. So for $40 + $15, I've got to enjoy one month of playing Stormblood. Not bad I supposed. It's just like playing a new game. I'm going to stop for 2 months until 4.1 comes out, then resub for another month and so on and so forth.

thank you so much guys for sharing & thought.

Yeah. I obviously lost purpose of playing game. It is just not fun anymore for me.

I take your advise and I decided to take a break and I will see how it goes. I will see you later and have fun in game :)

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Originally Posted by skyfox

Anyone else had this problem and care to share thought?

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My solution was to quit.

I really miss the engagement that TERA had in relation to tanking, because I would do the same dungeon everyday and still have fun. But here it's like meh the boss just autos you most of the time and uses tankbusters at certain times, and you just pop CDs for that. :(

In TERA, the DPS got bored before I did lol.

The moment dailies begins to feel like a "chore," STOP and find something new to do. Capping everything every week can be very exhausting and mind numbing and it begins to become unenjoyable. Find a new activity or take a few days/weeks break to rejuvenate. Nothing wrong with that, and there's no such thing as "falling behind" per se, since everything eventually becomes outdated. Once you accept this as truth, you'll find the game a lot more fun.

As ridiculous as this thread is, let's state the obvious as a valuable life lesson;

If you don't want to do something then don't do it, you don't have forever, spend your time on things you do want to do. And see you in three weeks.

Geez :o

Forcing yourself to play the game when you're not interested/bored is always not good.
Go on a vacation (it's summer!), play other games, or just chill out in movies with friends.
The world of infinity possibilites.

I can understand the OP because even though the new expansion is not that old, I already feel a bit bored at the content. I still like the game (otherwise I would just stop playing completely) but there is simply no new endgame content that I can or want to do. (Raids are not something for me, Palace solo is nearly impossible right now thanks to DC, and I dont want to farm the two primals endlessly for a chance at the wolf) I am not sure why we could not at least get one real new long lasting content in 4.0. I mean I did take my time with the story but that is still over quite fast.

But I have the problem, that I simply cant take a true break because I would lose my ingame house thanks to that and if I continue to pay money for this game then I dont want to just log in once a month to keep the house.

So I do still play it (but not that much like before) and use the time to gather and craft while catching up on some lets plays.

If you can do break without losing anything ingame I would say that its probably better to do so. Not only is better for your enjoyment but it might show SE that they need more diverse content even in the release of the expansion.

Taking a break is always an option.
Or perhaps instead of playing daily, just play one or two days per week - that way you won't fall behind the way you would if you took a total break.

Games are meant to be fun. If you play a lot despite not enjoying it, then you should not play so much

Yoshida admitted in a documentary that the game is designed such that you do not need to play every day in order to keep up. It is designed such that people can put the game down to go play other games and spend time with family. That it is fine if one unsubs and then waits till a content patch.

In fact, here is the part I am talking about, though its the third part of the documentary series.

https://youtu.be/ONT6fxiu9cw?t=12m54s

You will need to turn on closed captions, he says his thoughts in japanese.

I feel ya OP. This game is really boring in the beginning of expansions. There is not much to do besides being a raider or running dungeons. You can level crafters and other jobs, but even that gets boring. In the end this game is all about getting glamour armor. I say take a break until the next patch. The new 24 will be out and relic woes. At least there will be a little more to do during that time.

Take a break for a few weeks. Do anything long enough and it starts to feel like a chore.

I felt like this before Heavensward and took some time off. It really helped. Also, helping new people get started is something I find really fun. I'd be bored to death if I didn't have my friends and my fc "kids" to take care of.

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Originally Posted by Chiramu

Running things to cap is never a good way to stay in the game. Just take a break from the game, there are a lot of good games out there.

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Seriously. I love a good plate of fajita nachos from my local Mexican eatery, but if I had to eat it every day, I'd go mad. And also possibly die from spicy squirts.

I feel your pain OP. Plenty of fluffy candy in the game, but no meat... Sad thing is they have a decent stopgap fix readily available for this issue, but they refuse to use it. Just uncap tomestones (or cap per job) and make lockouts seperate per job. As it stands you can't even play alts as they will always be behind and cannot participate in what content we have to play them in.

but noooooo... Master Yoshi will never let us actually think and decide for ourselves if we want to do that or not...

I get what your sayin tho I honestly feel like if you didnt play every job in the game I could totally see how people would get bored. I feel like the beginning of an expansion is the most boring time in the game , as I was gearin jobs for storm blood and even took a whole month to do the sb msq . Many people where doing the same gettin their 270 gear right up to sb, and within a week they where grinding the new 310 stuff. But I also blame this on 75 percent of the game being dead, with unsync now open to hw. But Ill never leave the game because I truely love my charcter more so than any other game Ive played, but if it wasnt for that , Id prob have a different outlook

Take a break, really.

This is a game, and by definition not something you should force yourself to do.

The only way to play a game wrong is by not having fun with it.

Try new games/hobbies/simply stop for a month or two and then come back if you feel like it - this is not a job or something you are paid to do (rather it is the opposite), so don't see it as an obligation :P

Not sure this game with all the changes is getting boring fast. Items that said was going to add won't be for months still once finish the story gets boring fast. Yoshi needs to retire and pass the torch to new person that knows what gamers want and listens to them on forums.

All theme parks have a busy period and then you will mostly play a few hours per week and that's it. IMO, play less and be sure to play with friends.

unsub for a bit, maybe they will change things where it is not a reskin, different level cap since 2.0 if people do that often enough.

Only play because of friends, if it was not for that i be gone long ago.

If you aren't enjoying yourself when you log in, take a break. I play every single night but I enjoy every second of it. If it's not something I enjoy, I just don't do it. If there was nothing in the game I enjoyed, I would stop playing.

I second the idea of trying something different if you don't want to take a break. Are there parts of the game you haven't tackled yet? Try them out. Ignore your dailies for a day. They'll still be there if you want to do them later or another day. If there isn't anything new you want to try, then don't force yourself to play. You'll just burn out.

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Originally Posted by OmegaFlare

Stormblood is worth one month of playing. Since you can clear savage so quickly now, it actually means that you could do everything in a month. Then after that, it's just repetitive farming for tomes/gears weekly doing the same thing over and over again. Starting next week, there will not be any significant new content until 4.1 in two months. So for $40 + $15, I've got to enjoy one month of playing Stormblood. Not bad I supposed. It's just like playing a new game. I'm going to stop for 2 months until 4.1 comes out, then resub for another month and so on and so forth.

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Just out of interest, since you say it's so easy and all, have you cleared Omega Savage?

It is simply my "norm" to go through stages of intense interest in a game followed by weeks (or months) of almost complete disinterest...meh.

It is just a game, never forget that, one should never spend the majority of their waking life in any game imo.
And op, if (for whatever reason) it isn't enjoyable for now then a break is logical and common sense.

This happens with every mmo I play, it is both the result of my personality/priorities and also due to aspects of each game that to me , are still flawed and become highly annoying :)

I say take a break.
I have never abandoned a game because I needed some time away from it. (only poor developer decisions/ignoring player suggestions drive me away permanently)

Hi, all I didn't expect this many replies! Thanks all for sharing. I will see you when I get back! I set a Real life goal instead of collecting tomestones! (getting a certificate I always wanted)

I would say take a break till they release more content.

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Originally Posted by LalafellDown

This game has no reply value. Once the patches stop coming there won't be any real reason to play this anymore. Since all old content gets written over by new content it's like we never moved. The new stuff gets beaten So quick that people are forced to wait and be bored. There is no long term goal because we start over each patch. So there isn't any value to anything you do. There's nothing that shows how much effort you put in the game because everything gets over written and everyone starts over. The value in hard work is gone and that shiny piece of weapon you worked hard for can be thrown into the trash.

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This was perfectly said, /clap "Reset Gear" Animas , week after week getting 1 piece of gear,hours grinding savage for a new ilvl and all of it rendered useless because a patch just dropped and back doing it all over again and they put a new coat of paint on the same gear and slapped a new ilvl on it calling it new content.

So go play something else. Why is this a topic? Lmao. Ill never understand people who cant fathom that running the same content over and over can get bland. And im guessing you rush to cap the day an expansion comes out, run the 2 new dungeons over and over and then get bored.

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Originally Posted by TankHunter678

Yoshida admitted in a documentary that the game is designed such that you do not need to play every day in order to keep up.

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And then they make a decision that will force people to log in to the game nearly each month. Its a bit annoying.

I can see what you mean. I didn't even rush through the content and I feel like I don't have much more to do until creation reset. I love the game and it is fun but unlike world of warcraft it is lacking in end game content. I am sure once we get a little deeper into the expansion the spark will be ignited again but until then just take it easy and wait until new patches.