How to deactivate my account?

I don't want to play FFXIV anymore, and I want to deactivate my account including my subscription. Any idea how?

Violate section 3.3 and a GM will do all the work for you.

if you use steam, go into the game settings, remove payment method and deactivate.

if you use SE go into mogstation, under Manage Service Options you can deactivate your subscription and account.

best of luck in your journey

1: click "Manage Service Options"
2: then click "Cancel Service Account" just under your Service Account Status

If your wish to perma delete your account just go through the normal process for deleting your square enix account.
Sorry to see you go

Oh that's sad
Why you don't want to?
If you really want to deactivate it, you can find detailed info here: https://support.eu.square-enix.com/f...vice%20Account.

You have to go on the Mog station and go to your account then scroll down you will see it

How to Cancel Subscription
https://support.na.square-enix.com/f...22&id=496&la=1

How to Cancel Account
https://support.eu.square-enix.com/f...20&id=612&la=2

While I've never done either of these things, hopefully these links and the other posts are enough to help you out. Just to be on the safe side I would cancel the subscription before I canceled the account. Best of luck!

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Oh that's sad
Why you don't want to?
If you really want to deactivate it, you can find detailed info here: https://support.eu.square-enix.com/f...vice%20Account.

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Not much reason really. Just very disinterested with the game and it's ambiguous lore. Thinking in going back to ESO.

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Originally Posted by Moogly900

Thinking in going back to ESO.

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It's fine! good luck.
ESO have an amazing atmosphere and lore too...unfortunately i didn't liked that much because the progression is excessively free..i don't feel like a real progress, lol.
Have fun!

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Not much reason really. Just very disinterested with the game and it's ambiguous lore. Thinking in going back to ESO.

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What ambiguous lore? We're partway through the story still; it would be stranger if there weren't still some unsolved mysteries.

I'm honestly confused what would be offputting about it.

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Originally Posted by Iscah

What ambiguous lore? We're partway through the story still; it would be stranger if there weren't still some unsolved mysteries.

I'm honestly confused what would be offputting about it.

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They’re talking about the lore behind the term beastman, I believe.

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Not much reason really. Just very disinterested with the game and it's ambiguous lore. Thinking in going back to ESO.

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I alternate between both FFXIV and ESO, personally. FFXIV scratches my itch in terms of combat, though I've been disappointed with the direction of the story for a while now, especially with the excessive hero worship, the lack of lasting consequences for the protagonists, the Scions and City State leaders overstaying their welcome and genuinely compelling/morally grey characters being shuffled away/killed off.

ESO simply has a bigger, more immersive game world to me. I don't like the combat nearly as much in it, though. So FFXIV wins on that front. (Though at the same time, being able to sneak around and steal stuff from NPC's is pretty satisfying and something I wish we could do in FFXIV...)

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What ambiguous lore? We're partway through the story still; it would be stranger if there weren't still some unsolved mysteries.

I'm honestly confused what would be offputting about it.

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Have you not seen the OP's whinging in their lore forum thread?

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I alternate between both FFXIV and ESO, personally. FFXIV scratches my itch in terms of combat, though I've been disappointed with the direction of the story for a while now, especially with the excessive hero worship, the lack of lasting consequences for the protagonists, the Scions and City State leaders overstaying their welcome and genuinely compelling/morally grey characters being shuffled away/killed off.

ESO simply has a bigger, more immersive game world to me. I don't like the combat nearly as much in it, though. So FFXIV wins on that front. (Though at the same time, being able to sneak around and steal stuff from NPC's is pretty satisfying and something I wish we could do in FFXIV...)

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The only thing ESO has going for it is 5 main titles, a couple mobile games, some series spinoffs and such backing it's lore up, and I'm not a fan of ESO being canon because it's just absurd fan service and retcons existing stuff to make it's BS fit.

I detest retcons and the lore in ESO is squiffy at best.

That said, the elder scrolls series *is* bigger, if only because each game in the FF series for the most part, are individual stories independent of each other. Never played a FF game? That's fine, don't need to!

To appreciate TES games you need to play all of them. Which I have. Embarrassingly enough.

If I were you I'd cancel my sub but not my account. But hey, you do you.

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Originally Posted by Theodric

I alternate between both FFXIV and ESO, personally. FFXIV scratches my itch in terms of combat, though I've been disappointed with the direction of the story for a while now, especially with the excessive hero worship, the lack of lasting consequences for the protagonists, the Scions and City State leaders overstaying their welcome and genuinely compelling/morally grey characters being shuffled away/killed off.

ESO simply has a bigger, more immersive game world to me. I don't like the combat nearly as much in it, though. So FFXIV wins on that front. (Though at the same time, being able to sneak around and steal stuff from NPC's is pretty satisfying and something I wish we could do in FFXIV...)

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I do get an itch for ESO from time to time. But last few years I read the cash shop has gotten so bad and server support seems to be minimal hence there is a lot of server lag. is this true?

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Not much reason really. Just very disinterested with the game and it's ambiguous lore. Thinking in going back to ESO.

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Just skip the cutscenes and try the endgame. FFXIV is not all about lore. I myself started skipping cutscenes because too much content is being locked behind MSQ. I initially didn't mind the story and I was watching cutscenes, some were boring others were a little bit more interesting, those were usually at the end of an expansion. I started skipping because I was already level 80 WHM just from doing dailies and I was at level 51 MSQ. For heavenward I watched only those with voice acting. For Stormblood I skipped all. For Shb - cutscenes with voice acting again.

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I do get an itch for ESO from time to time. But last few years I read the cash shop has gotten so bad and server support seems to be minimal hence there is a lot of server lag. is this true?

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I haven't noticed much lag myself. Though I play on the European megaserver so it might be different elsewhere. I also tend to play in short bursts, logging on to do a quest or two every once in a while so I can soak up all the lore/thoroughly explore the environment for each area.

I dislike the cash shop being the way that it is, especially with how many offers are limited in their availability but FFXIV isn't immune to that - it just locks such items behind merchandise with special bonus codes.

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Originally Posted by Imora

The only thing ESO has going for it is 5 main titles, a couple mobile games, some series spinoffs and such backing it's lore up, and I'm not a fan of ESO being canon because it's just absurd fan service and retcons existing stuff to make it's BS fit.

I detest retcons and the lore in ESO is squiffy at best.

That said, the elder scrolls series *is* bigger, if only because each game in the FF series for the most part, are individual stories independent of each other. Never played a FF game? That's fine, don't need to!

To appreciate TES games you need to play all of them. Which I have. Embarrassingly enough.

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I guess the retcons don't bother me much because FFXIV has done the same thing - such as the handling of Garlemald and merging it with the Ascian story rather than allowing it to exist as its own thing. Or how there's now suddenly a cure for Tempering and Primals are even less of a threat than they've been for a while.

If one of the upcoming MMO's happens to do well and takes its story more seriously and consistently, I'll likely swap one or both current MMO's out for that.

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Or how there's now suddenly a cure for Tempering and Primals are even less of a threat than they've been for a while.

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Gotta make room for new threats, whatever they may be.

Just delete the sub, no need to delete account. I wouldn't just in case you want to come back someday.

Meanwhile enjoy your time in ESO. I'm slowly working on a magicka nightblade to solo content for some reason.

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Originally Posted by Moogly900

Not much reason really. Just very disinterested with the game and it's ambiguous lore. Thinking in going back to ESO.

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Can I have your stuff?

Just thought I'd get that in first. :D

I'd just cancel your sub for now.

That way, should you get an itch to see if things have changed, you don't have to start back at square one with the game. Especially if changes are more in the end game area.

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Originally Posted by Imora

The only thing ESO has going for it is 5 main titles, a couple mobile games, some series spinoffs and such backing it's lore up, and I'm not a fan of ESO being canon because it's just absurd fan service and retcons existing stuff to make it's BS fit.

I detest retcons and the lore in ESO is squiffy at best.

That said, the elder scrolls series *is* bigger, if only because each game in the FF series for the most part, are individual stories independent of each other. Never played a FF game? That's fine, don't need to!

To appreciate TES games you need to play all of them. Which I have. Embarrassingly enough.

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To be fair i feel like the lore of ARR is rushed just to fix the game. Heavensward was the first real experience. ARR is like a big compilation of many elements related to the FF universe. Really excited to see Endwalker.

FFXIV doesn't have that great a story. There are flashes of goodness here and there - especially in Heavensward - but, overall, it's far too heavy on the expositionary dialogue, and is rife with scenes where we are told and not shown.

Final Fantasy's best characters were always either a) those with no powers at all (Locke, Edgar, Edge, Kain, Ramsa, etc.), or b) those for whom their powers were as much a curse as boon (Terra, Celes, Cloud, Aerith, Rydia, etc.). Unfortunately, the Echo is a massive supernatural force (essentially giving the player-character a direct hardline to Eorzea's equivalent of God) with no downside other than pitting our toons against a succession of clumsy baddies who are casually shown the door. We don't struggle, we don't lose, we aren't ever accidentally responsible for death and mahem... we just drift easily along from one victory after another, with no long-lasting consequences to ourselves or the world around us.

There has never been a classic hero's arc in FFXIV - never. ARR tells us by the end of the first act that we are the 'chosen one,' and from then on it's just a landslide of one massive success after another. Even Shadowbringers' feeble attempt to turn us into a ticking timebomb of sorts just sputtered out into nothing. Oh, you might accidentally become some terrifying ultra monster? Yeah, no, lol. Not happening.