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

[Mhikail]

If you or anyone else disagrees with this, that's fine. I may not understand the reasoning behind, but everyone is entitled to their own opinions on any given topic. What isn't fine is when individuals step forward and post well thought out, intelligent posts highlighting their concerns, are met with rage fueled rants such as yours. Or told to "shut up and leave" or any other such nonsense. Yes, it's the internet and people are generally more of an asshat online then off, but c'mon.

It's annoying saying the same things to people without rude remarks and sarcasm and people telling you to leave.
Thank God we aren't asking these people for change, right? Forum's always been a cesspool.
You dare oppose of any SE ways!? You're getting sent to the stake immediately.
I mean Christ. If we want more flavour in the game, what's wrong with it?
Others can stay doing NeverFractual with a hint of Derpdander for decades for all I care lol.
But I want MOAR!

[Phireblast]

Anyone else find it worrying that threads like these appeared on other sites like Gamefaqs lately? People are starting to become a bit more aware that the game's flavor is becoming bland after a while of them playing.

[DukeBurden]

Anyone else find it worrying that threads like these appeared on other sites like Gamefaqs lately? People are starting to become a bit more aware that the game's flavor is becoming bland after a while of them playing.

It was bland halfway through 2.0. When I heard about an expansion, I honestly expected a lot more. It's the same boring formula but now with flying! no, seriously, just flying.

[justinjarjar]

These type of forums can be found on MMO's for the last five years, and for the most part do not show the death of a game in anyway.

[Aeyis]

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I don't think a huge wall of text without any enters or spaces can be considered anything but a rant..

[Seifa]

The new areas and the story line are really good, it shows SE put a lot of effort on those... but that's also the reason i think during live letters they focused so much on this aspect, new classes and flying, because HW doesn't offer anything else compared to 2.0; this is a glorified patch.

We don't have new content to do outside of raids, no new character customization, no new itemization; what we got was more grind for crafting and gathering to keep players busy a lot more, same tomestone caps via roulette, hunts showed down our throats (fixed with law grind), pvp, 2 Ex primals without mounts, Alexander "Faceroll" and Alexander "You won't pass until you farmed 2-3 weeks of Esoterics".... Yep, nothing new to play i guess.

[Eul]

Mostly I agree with OP.

Gold Saucer: I forgot how long I didn't visit Gold Saucer until now. The features makes me bored for real like, no rollercoaster, no snowboard mini game, no new feature until now. Fenrir the exclusive mount from Gold Saucer can't fly? Now this is a joke.

PvP: I'm gonna say that this is the most disappointed things that I've feared before expansion come. The animal set, that exclusively for people who ranked above 35, now can be purchased by people who just join PvP stuff. The new gear is really dull. I prefer animal set more than this new gear.

Housing: I like decor my FC house, but it would be nice if I have my own house so I can freely decorate it by myself. Why don't we have instance house? Current house we have is really... dead. Few neighbour appears, private house just empty like that.

Crafting: Before I'm into crafting for the Coeurl Beach Brief (No joke here, I really want this stuff before ). Mostly I into crafting because of glamour stuff. But this expansion...
Really? copypasta gear? Is our designer team really have empty idea for new gear? Also the progress. Our Lucis gear, that we spend much GC credit and much cluster to make this, is useless! Hooray! And the crafted gear, never and ever become a BiS for DoM and DoW. It just for glamour I'd say.

/endrant

[Alberel]

The issue really comes down to this: an expansion is supposed to be a game changer in terms of mechanics and gameplay systems whilst the patch cycle then builds off of this new foundation. Every expansion for WoW, EQ2, FFXI - practically any sub-based MMO I can think of - introduced entirely new gameplay systems with expansions. These would be things that gave players completely new options for how to play the game and entirely new ways of progressing. This is what is expected of an expansion.

Here in FFXIV we got no new gameplay systems at all. Besides flying (which is honestly just a novelty and convenience feature) the expansion was just a very very big patch. It added little new that the 2.X series patches hadn't already given us. This is why a lot of people are burning out rapidly.

[Khemorex]

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Yeh ive played EQ2 for 5 years when it launched , and i must say in the very first expansion there was a completely new way of progression : i had to kill mobs and do quests to lvl up , and i had to hope for rng jesus being nice to me to drop my gear .

[Iromi]

Anyone else find it worrying that threads like these appeared on other sites like Gamefaqs lately? People are starting to become a bit more aware that the game's flavor is becoming bland after a while of them playing.

Yup :/ It honestly was only a matter of time. Well , maybe it is a good thing, SE will realize that this is getting boring and no way to retain subs...and we need more variety of stuff to do!