Final Fantasy 14 is starting to lose appeal because...

[Pangtao]

Meh, if your bored just quit, what can you do?

I used to play WoW then I got bored and quit, true story. What do you want? A cookie?

[dank1]

Too many rpera

[Vinta]

Take a break and don't feel ashamed. There's nothing wrong with playing other games and coming back.

[atomicdeath]

Forum join date =/= game join date. Started in 2.0 beta, took a break at 47 or something because they lowballed XP gains and I didn't want to grind AV, came back, hit 50, leveled other classes a bit, took another break until shortly before the Heavensward head start.

Thanks for the resume, we will let you know in 5-10 days.

[Hyrist]

Take a break and don't feel ashamed. There's nothing wrong with playing other games and coming back.

This.

FFXIV is loosing appeal because people play it like it's supposed to be their sole source of entertainment, and then they burn out. That's it. Complaining that it's more of the same is a joke when talking about any other game in the industry.

Take a break, relax. Take a look at some cheap indie titles to tide you over till the next patch. Anyone who looks less at you for it isn't worth your company. Quit shifting tall of the blame for your boredom on to the game itself.

Heck, I'm on hiatus currently. It's a good time to.

[Rakeesh]

Well just to start I want to say, I'm a new player concerning FF14. I started with the release of Heavensward and I can honestly say I have more than enough to do. I already have two jobs at level 60 and I'm working on Summoner right now. I barely started with crafting or gathering but that will be up next on my list of things to do.

Just exploring the world itself is currently entertaining for me but I'm a lore nerd so there's that.

And as someone who switched here from World of Warcraft. I can only say one thing. You don't know how good you have it here. At least you can expect new dungeons and quests to be added in future patches. The latest and last patch of WoW right now consists of 1 new raid and one zone where there is basically nothing to do but grind FATEs (best analogy I can think of). And that content is supposed to last the players there till about June next year. Yeeeeaaah. Warlords also didn't add a single new dungeon past the ones out at release.

Don't get me wrong, I love this game, but it's losing it's appeal and that's not a false statement. Every patch/update is the same thing: new tomestones to cap, new CT, new something instanced.

How about add a 100 floor open dungeon? (Sword Art Online style)

Yes, an open dungeon that's 100 floors and you can bump into anybody on the server while trying to get to the top.

This game is suppose to be an MMO, but instead falls into the trap of turning everything into instances so you feel like you're not even part of the fantasy world.

Only that in SAO it wasn't a 100 floor dungeon but the actual game world. So 100 instanced zones with towns, fields, dungeons stacked on top of each other where you could interact with everyone on the current floor you were on. So.... basically what we already have in FFXIV only not in a tower construct.

A free for all dungeon where you could see everyone on your server throwing around spell effects would murder anything but high end PCs also.

[Evtrai]

This.

FFXIV is loosing appeal because people play it like it's supposed to be their sole source of entertainment, and then they burn out. That's it. Complaining that it's more of the same is a joke when talking about any other game in the industry.

Take a break, relax. Take a look at some cheap indie titles to tide you over till the next patch. Anyone who looks less at you for it isn't worth your company. Quit shifting tall of the blame for your boredom on to the game itself.

Heck, I'm on hiatus currently. It's a good time to.

Nah, if this was the only thing I ever did like people assumes as a form of entertainment, I barely log in and I have trouble stayed logged in on interest even if only for 15 mins to do the expert roulette ever since heavensward hit and the rush of the expansion passed, just disappointing that the incoming content for 3.1 is rehashed watered down clone of 2.1 with less new things.

On my free time I play many other games, though as of late, I'm having a hard time seeing why I should keep subbed to this game which worried me because it used to be so much fun.

[Suggestion]

Don't get me wrong, I love this game, but it's losing it's appeal and that's not a false statement.
How about add a 100 floor open dungeon? (Sword Art Online style)

Yes, an open dungeon that's 100 floors and you can bump into anybody on the server while trying to get to the top.

This game is suppose to be an MMO, but instead falls into the trap of turning everything into instances so you feel like you're not even part of the fantasy world.

I was just looking around the forums found this thread wasn't going to say anything at all, then i read your comment and got all crazy feeling on the inside. Whoop Whoop! Why don't we have a 100 floor thingy going on yet! For realz, this video games right? Anime Right? im all excited now lol Thanks Tenku for making my day (Love's all sorts of anime that deal with video games) Ugh i would flip my freaking S$#@ if we got something like SAO! im drooling a little bit (gross)

[Enyalios]

An mmo is what the player makes it. If you spend you time only looking at the physical rewards of gear then you'll soon get bored. Our community hold events which we create. Our next event is the KG Oscars which we reward members as voted by the FC themselves. "Member of the year" or "largest contribution to the FC" it's a big event for us where we've decorated our house basement to look like an Oscars event.

I admit. An mmo without a goal is a boring one. If you aren't achieving anything then you soon quit. But maybe it's the goals that need to change, not the mmo.

[Akiza]

No game is going to provide infintie amount of enjoyment even Final Fantasy XI couldn't do that. You don't need to make a thread telling everyone your bored with the game.