Why aren't you subbing to Final Fantasy XIV now that the trial period is over?

[HurtigeKarl]

I have unsubbed not due to end game, but because I only came here to try the game out. I never intended on giving ANY money to SE. They are a horrible company. I bought the game that is enough. Going back to TSW

Yes, because the company behind TSW, Funcom, is a so much better company. They certainly showed how good of a company they are with how they handled Age of Conan.

Yessss, you are so right, FUNCOM is so much better than SquareEnix.

[whycantiusebetaforumname]

Lol neither was wow a month after release

[Anakhu]

I still have 11 days left until I need to sub, I think I have decided I will give them just 1 month of my sub pay , and if its still the same ol same if not worse.. I will have to bow out.

[Seiris]

There are three main reasons I won't be bothering with this game for a long time, if ever.

• First and foremost, and this is the most important, I just don't find the game that fun. I wasn't able to make it past level 39 in a combat class because I just found combat to be way too boring, I can't really do tab targeting anymore. I was hoping crafting and gathering would interest me at least since I was mainly a crafter in Runescape about 8 years ago, but they didn't offer me much of a reprieve.

• The community is really bad. I'd heard about how the Final Fantasy community is one of the best, but I have yet to see any of it. Of course there are good members, this is true of almost any community, but the overall tone is volatile and hateful. From witch hunts over RMT, to rudeness in endgame dungeons, to the 'go back to WoW' xenophobic attitude many of the players exhibit, it's honestly shaping up to be one of the worst communities I've ever seen.

• Square Enix's poor treatment of the RMT issue and those affected by the blanket suspension. Obviously I wasn't personally affected by this, I'm neither max level nor have I even logged in in over a month, but the lack of a response over a blanket suspension and blanket seizure of legitimate assets is just leaving a bad taste in my mouth. This is the first thing I tell to anybody who asks me about FFXIV, not that there have been many.

[Silverpr]

i have subbed, but i will stay with only 50000 peeps the next months CAUSE

- If you players like asian grindfests, stay, but you,
the company, wont have a long-range success
- For many people the solo instances and the instances are too difficult,
laugh if you want but it is so, and these people dont write in forums
- Hardware crashes, lags, no servers in europe, producer letters in japanese language:
all these probs tell me: Hey, i want to be a niche product.
- The Devs stopped to do enough quests between lvl 40 and 50
- dictation with the storyline into dungeons wont work in 2 years, noone will do the dungeons
- Endgame boring grind is 1992 everquest, not 2013

[Kort]

I am not subbing for most of the reasons Evilchakra pointed out.

The game has become a race. A race to go nowhere. It's not even fun. just over a month into the game and a good portion of the server already has Relic+1's. This is a MMO, I thought things like that were supposed to be difficult. There is nothing difficult about this game. If you have the fortitude to mindlessly grind the same content 5 times a day for weeks on end then this is the game for you.

I just finished storyline two days ago. I see a guy shouting for Prae runs and tell him I am new and asked if I can join. His response : "How many pieces of DL do you have?" What? You don't need DL to run Prae.

The people on this game are the worst.

Here is a tip for the assholes who think the Duty Finder is for finding speed runs. IT'S NOT! You want speed runs then join the 100's of shouts for them in RT. New people to instances want to watch cut scenes.

When I see someone bitching at a guy for wanting to watch cut scenes I then start watching the cut scenes too.

PS3 lag makes it next to impossible to play at an optimum level.

Lag and people. That is why I am not paying to play this game.

[DanteMog]

I stupidly purchased a 60 day game time card, so i'll wait that out, after i wont sub, too much gating of the story with Forced Dungeons (which requires dealing with scum all the time in Duty finder) our FC is tiny and the delay with AoE/Aussie ping is completely game breaking for me. Plus the community its mostly the pits..

Very generic mmo experience and the most boring crafting in the universe as well didn't help. oh and Grind grind and more grind, no way.

Unless all that changes in 60 days sorry SE i'll be gone, three of my friends have left already due to the opening server fiasco too..

[RykerSteel]

• The community is really bad. I'd heard about how the Final Fantasy community is one of the best, but I have yet to see any of it. Of course there are good members, this is true of almost any community, but the overall tone is volatile and hateful. From witch hunts over RMT, to rudeness in endgame dungeons, to the 'go back to WoW' xenophobic attitude many of the players exhibit, it's honestly shaping up to be one of the worst communities I've ever seen.

I've noticed this myself. People attitudes seemed to be pretty welcoming at launch, but when you get to the later content and the difficulty curve goes up, people are outright disgusting to each other at times. I had some of the worst experiences with the last two storyline missions and some of the primal fights, more so than any MMO I've played up to this point. In one of the 8 man missions, it was nothing but an hour of people insulting eachother, name calling, criticizing peoples gear, peoples' names, telling people to skip cutscenes and watch them later, and others running ahead and leaving us newbies lost, then complaining that we were lost. Even so, I trudged through it hoping to reach greener pastures, but I was left with was a grindfest and a very off-putting community. Still, there are a few nice people I've met along the way, and with some quality of life improvements I would still consider subbing. As it stands, the thought of logging in to fate grind or tombstone farm is repelling enough to not want to play at all, at least for me.

I'm really sorry for the lot of you that have game-breaking ping issues and that were affected by blanket rmt bannings that seems to have punished alot of innocent players. This is something that I would expect from the people running Final Fantasy XI, but not this particular dev team. Just goes to show that their automated tracking systems aren't infallible, and should never be a deciding factor when it comes to banning, as legitimate players can and will be affected. As for the ping issues, I have a 70ms ping and it's still not quite good enough to avoid "instant" hit/kill moves. Trust me, if you're going to integrate twitch response abilities in a game, you want to ensure that the player base has access to servers with less than 50ms response times. I still can't avoid some enemy abilities unless I'm moving long before I see the ground light up. I don't even want to imagine what it's like to be playing with upwards of 300ms.

[Davionx]

I get that day grinding is good xp. I don't get why people feel like they need to grind it over and over again till their face is blue. Were not racing to L50 guys. Its a game

[Davionx]

Day = fate.