What cause players to quit Final Fantasy XIV A Realm Reborn

[mero-ix]

How many of the people complaining they don't have a static have actually tried to put one together themselves instead of waiting around for someone to pick them up? Everyone I've talked to who complains about not having a static says they're not cut out for leading a raid or some other excuse. But just because you put the effort into finding people for a static doesn't mean you have to order everyone around. It's a group effort.

I've been playing since the beginning, but I started raiding late--in January--and I went with my few FC mates and we had to pug tanks. We had a lot of fun doing it and made friends through the people we pugged. Then the rest didn't show much interest in putting a lot of time into T5, but by this point I was really enjoying raiding and was determined to learn and down T5. So I pugged it. A lot. As I made more progress I would make stricter PF groups so I could find people with my same lvl of progression. My friend and I finally cleared it before 2.2 after working with the same pug for hours and we stayed with that group into SCoB. We made it to T8 fairly quickly, but by then we were losing members and our personalities were clashing so we broke it off and I put together a new group finding people through PF. Within a week we had 5 new people, the 3 of us from the old group relearned the content with them and we made it to T9... until the personality clash happened and the group broke off again. Raiding is rough. It's a lot of hours and a lot of frustration. Finally 4 of us hooked up with 4 others we knew through connections who were also on T9, lost two members, gained two more, persevered and finally downed T9. Now we have all turns on farm and plan to stick together for 2.4.

TLDR: I didn't have my static handed to me. I didn't wait around for someone to invite me. I worked my ass off, made connections, and kept at it instead of whining and ragequitting. Raiding is not for everyone. And it's not fair to the people who enjoy the challenge to ask SE to make it easier. Because then we have no difficult content.

The only thing that's pissing me off right now is Novus. I have two characters, got Animus on both (blm & drg), but now I can't finish my Novus because I need Det IVs for both of them and they're 400k each. I wasn't even upset about this until SE thought it was a good idea to change how Spiritbonding works, so now I can't even get guaranteed IVs from i70 gear. It's not a big deal because there are two other options for weapons that are easier obtained, but the Relic is... our Relic! It's our special weapon that will continue to be upgraded and has job significance (I miss using my Gae Bolg). When I first got it and had to down Titan HM in Darklight gear it felt like such an accomplishment. But now it's just grind and not fun anymore. It's such a lazy, monotonous approach by SE.

But most importantly, all I want right now to improve my gaming experience is more emotes and better vanity options. This is important!