I lost my motivation, Can you help me find it?

[KingOfAbyss]

As a former Hardcore player (or so I believe myself, playing for 30-40 hours per week since launch) and now down to a low-Casual (playing 2 hours Max per week), I can see how boring it has become, forcing you to do lame side quests just to give you extra XP and then, unlocking Aether Currents so that you will end up flying.. that is if you can climb over the unreachable rocks, forces you to go all the way around to find the only route..

I used to love exploration, now I just want to get it done with, so that I can enjoy the Main Story.

With limited time, I cannot even dig unto Crafting, heck if I have 2 Job lvl 60 by the end of the year, I might be shocked.

They had Casuals in mind for this game; I highly doubt it.

This is the only game I play, I love it, but now.. I begin to slowly fade in too..

Hopefully they'll read those and then devise something new, I don't want to give them too many ideas so they will say it came from them, but we can see lots of frustrations into lots of the population.

Luckily there are somes that are happy, to balance things a bit ^^

Stop using FATEs, Change the Side quests, make it a big Main Story and give more XP, more Challenging fights inside it, I don't care if there is no voice anymore, just.. give more action and enjoyment, from Crafting Legendary equipment that can surpasses Raids for those that cannot enjoy them, that was just one example.

Fell free to add more of what you think could make a better Heavensward, so that we will all stick with SE for years to come!

Long live the King! (SE )

[Escha]

Cant help you there, having fun and enjoying something cant be forced upon others. See ya

[Elisewin]

Opener message

I can understand your points, and I agree with you.
I'm (and my little FC) getting bored and tired too, but I've decided to wait for at least 1-2 patches for see if this lack of content (please fanboys, don't kill me but I really think this game have a lack of contents) will be over.
Otherwise I'm gonna think about my subscription.

Btw have fun on Batman!

[Sylentmana]

Maybe if people didn't rush to get to the level cap and enjoyed the game they wouldn't be bored right now. I never understood the mindset of blowing through a game just so you can play around with the stuff at the end. If you enjoy the process of playing through the game then you will see that the game has a lot of content.

[Talia_Hailwind]

There really isn't much point to anything, if this is the only game you play then I can definitely understand the frustration.

Pretty much yeah, between this and work I've not had much time for other games.
I was hope-ing to get the most out of the expansion and playing with my FC, now I find myself asking what the expansion really brought us which 2.0 didn't.

Maybe I just really need a break.

[Talia_Hailwind]

Maybe if people didn't rush to get to the level cap and enjoyed the game they wouldn't be bored right now. I never understood the mindset of blowing through a game just so you can play around with the stuff at the end. If you enjoy the process of playing through the game then you will see that the game has a lot of content.

Oh for sure! I do agree with ya,

Its just square seem to enjoy setting everyones pace for them with the tomestones lock-out and now the crafters/gatherers have to suffer it with us too.

I just feel sorry for people who are fighting tooth and nail just to get capped on Tomestone AND scripts!

And by the time these crafters get their gear, its just gonna be replaced again.

Thus the circle continues. Well I for one am breaking it! (For scripts anyway)

[DukeBurden]

Variety... this game does not have. It has 2 modes. Faceroll or SAVAGE!!!(which is just a fancy title for Normal)

[Galactimus]

[Ashkendor]

They brought out no new prizes in the expansion! NOTHING! Not even a new hair style! I play Elezen and we got two hair styles from the expansion (Seriously guys race-locking content AGAIN!?)

Bring out better prizes, then we'll talk once I get a break from the roulette grinding of those two dungeons (Oh boy! Two choices in a roulette! Such variety!)

I'm sure we'll get more prizes in the Gold Saucer later on in other content patches.

why on earth did square think it was a good idea to punish the PvP community,
the community that played their broken PvP and waited for hours in their GC restricted queue times when no one else would.

This isn't punishing the PvP community any more than Echo is punishing the raiding community.

All content gets more accessible as it gets replaced. i100/110 gear is completely obsolete.

So why should I keep saving up my gil?
I've been saving for medium house for a long time now, so long in fact that I can buy two medium houses with the gil I now have and I don't even craft!

We'll probably be getting more housing in a later patch. They can't just roll out the next year's content all at once. They mentioned at one point that housing will expand to Ishgard eventually too.

Crafting
Oh boy.. Here comes the big one.

I feel you on the crafting stuff. I went from being an avid crafter to being pretty casual about it. Looking at the insane grind a friend is going through for red scrips, I shook my head and decided to wait till it gets tweaked.

So let me get this straight, if everyone went and got the micro transaction retainers the server would crash?
I'm not buying it, its just greed IMO.

Giving everyone the option to buy space yields less overall increase than simply giving everyone additional space. They know not everyone is going to pay for it. Do I think that everyone buying another retainer would crash the server outright? No, but I do think that it could possibly start affecting performance, especially on larger servers.

I would also post some stuff about the none existence variety of glamor in this game, but I've posted enough about that on the forums now as it is.

You're telling me. Females get twice as many options as males do, so imagine how we feel. :|

[Luvbunny]

I agree with a lot of what OP posted. Unless you want to level ALL your jobs to 60, including crafting. There is not much to do unless you like to farm the same two dungeons over and over, plus trying the Savage Mode. Most casuals will finish main story in about 4-5 weeks, maybe 2 weeks to gear to 170. After that it's pretty much doing Alexander Normal and Expert Roulette of two dungeons.... Unless you want to mix up Extreme Primals and Savage. They probably think the expansion is enough to hold over for 3-4 months before the next patch, sorry, IT IS NOT enough.

Crafting is being slowed down by a huge deal to make sure content last 4 months, you can see this through the red scripts fiasco. No crafting gears to be used for savage is their blatant attempt to slow down Savage progression to last another 3 months. They should have launch with 5-6 endgame dungeons and another mode of questing. Daily hunt is good, but it needs more variety. High Level dungeons and 2.0 Raid is dead, which they should remix this with new drops to revitalize content and giving players (the same variety of stuffs) something to do. A lot of players did not even touch 2.0 Coil but maybe with uncapped level and adding new minions, materials, centurio seals daily quest, this could add more variety of revitalizing old (dead) content.

What really baffling is that they have a HUGE amount of content now with 2.0-2.55, most of them is DEAD, all they have to do is remixing a few little things to easily revive those old contents and make it somewhat relevant variety due to drop.
- Crystal Towers: just add materials that can be used by high level crafter on every boss drop, change the weekly quest to also give you materials needed to upgrade to 180. Also add 25, 30, and 35 Esoteric bonus to each of those CT.
- Add 30 Esoteric bonus to daily high level roulette. Add 5-30 esoteric to all high level dungeons, ONLY if you run it as level 60 jobs, no reward is given if you do it as level 50-59.
- Add 5-10 Esoteric bonus to all primals on 2.0 contents if you run it as level 60.
- Add 10-15 Esoteric bonus to all Bahamut Coils if you run it as level 60. Also add crafting materials for level 55-60.
- Add exp bonus to ALL bosses in 2.0-2.55 dungeons, XP should be comparable up to level 53 dungeons, this will give some variety of leveling from 50-53 on alts and other jobs, and reduce the FATE bang-a-gong-marathon in N.Thanalan.
- Add a quest that can change your primal pony to flying Pegasus version. The only catch is, you must posses the said pony, and you have to earn 10 token by doing the respective primal. 2 Tokens are guaranteed drop but you have to lot it against 7 other people. This will revive older primal content.
- Make ALL gears from CT and Coils dye-able, the catch is, you have to upgrade them, with material(s) that are dropped (somewhat generously) from all the bosses in their respective contents.

Just by doing that, it will give most players and returning players A LOT of things to do, granted they are OLD content to most of us, but at least, now these old contents are semi relevant enough to do once a week, or once awhile here and there to mix it up with the "extremely lacking, boring, mind numbing" non existing variety of content for end game at 60.

Otherwise, if you are not happy with the way things are now, you can always take 6-9 months break. By the time you come back, it will have TONS of variety of things to do