Your thoughts on the direction of this game?

[Fizztheboss]

Im posting this because after almost a year of my TIME im finally fed up with what they have done to this game. Its a Time sink. Plain and simple and not even an enjoyable one at that. The community is very entitled, and youtube has ruined the game in itself, I canceled my sub today and I am very saddened to have to have done so. Hunts are an just terrible. It now takes 20 mins to que up for a hard mode. Materia is through the roof in pricing almost 400k for 1........ I need 75...... I cant believe they made it so easy to obtain 110 gear. Now to get anything in this game at this point is to hurry and run to a zone for a hunt or sit around crafting to break things down for materia.... Neither are fun!!! This is all my opinion so say what you like that's why I am taking the time to post this.

[Kiara1]

I'm not a very big fan of, get gear for 3 months, then new patch and new gear, and repeat.

I love collecting glamours though and messing around with my friends but if I didn't have all of my in game friends I wouldn't keep playing I guess

[Madruck]

Fizz, be prepared for trolls sending messages on this post saying things like "You won't be missed" or "/bye". I have been keeping track on the progress of this games decline since I unsubbed 3 months ago with hopes they will bring it back around but to no avail. SE rather appease the elitist crowd who they are breeding into this game with time consumption content that requires zero skill but spamming one ability or spell over and over again or tagging a mob once then letting the other people kill it. I won't even mention Atma again, or the stupid mirror grind people had to endure, or the mindless crafting system which all these are based solely on RNG not effort. FF14 will slowly fade sadly, with WoW's new expansion announcing in mere days, and numerous other P2P or F2P MMO's coming out or already taking ideas from FF14.....this games days will soon be numbered!

[Renik]

I already posted a lot of times my feelings about this game, but you have a resume of it in my sig, lets just say this game feels like an insult to our intelligence.

[Aylis]

In 1.0 Tanaka had vision, but no direction. In ARR Yoshida has direction, but no vision. Unfortunately based on his cataloge of played MMO's his direction is all the old 1996 era grind fest MMO's with I wanna say no real grasp on modern generation MMO games. !.0 despite all its issues was very enjoyable and had a far nicer community while ARR feels I wanna say "safe" and "corporate" while at the same time feeling like its a see-saw type mmo like it doesn't know what it want's to be or what direction it wants to go. Difficult and set one patch and the next patch everything that was difficult is now just simply given away for little effort, just like you said...a time sink.

Through it all I have to keep reminding myself the game was developed with the JP market in mind. If NA and EU players enjoy it? Then great! However I feel our complaints and issues will never truly be answered unless the JP players find fault in something if they even speak out against faults. All in all ARR will survive after we are gone, the fandom of Final Fantasy and the XI nostalgia people will keep it going. Though I fear in the end FFXIV will turn into the same "Good Ol Boys Club" XI developed into. Which is fine, if that's what the majority want then they can have it, though it will be without me too!

[Gaddes]

.... How has Youtube ruined the game?

Also, if you don't like time sinks you really shouldn't be playing MMOs.

I will say some of the ways they've been going about their content (how hunts have now disrupted a lot of the ... "natural order" of gearing up, how equipment is made useless far sooner than in other MMOs, the hideous overabundance of RNG in everything, etc) haven't been done well, but a couple of your reasons are odd.

[Aylis]

Also, if you don't like time sinks you really shouldn't be playing MMOs.

There is quite a big difference between an open implemented time sink (player is aware its a time sink and a grind) vs a disguised time sink (player is engulfed in variety and tricks them into feeling its not a grind or time sink

[Yoninxi]

Other than the way hunts and ramuh were implemented. It's ok? Game is getting stale though.

[BoltNixter]

To much rinse and repeat rehashed content. Way to much.

[Aylis]

I'm not a very big fan of, get gear for 3 months, then new patch and new gear, and repeat.

You're not alone, like it feels the devs only method to rewarding players is with just more gear. The game is just nearly one year old and it already feels like it has the mudflation that took Warcraft I think 5 years to achieve?