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

[Tyla_Esmeraude]

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.

Wut. FFXI did provide infinite amount of enjoyment. Even I didn't get to do every single content in the game because there was just so much to do at *end game* (note: not just fluff)!

Btw, for those interested in sharing their opinion on this topic, I found this survey on ffxiv reddit. Someone made it for the purpose of compiling all the feedback. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1LcQ...?usp=send_form

[Tenku]

A lot of you replied with saying that it's an MMO and to have fun with your friends and meet people etc. My argument from the very beginning is that there is not enough open world content that allows you to make new friends, meet new people, or even do stuff with your friends.

I've spent the little amount of time I have to play helping people in party finder clear Ravana Ex and other instances. I refuse to do Alex Savage because it's a huge headache to get a static that can actually do it and we all know those gears will be obsolete in a couple of months.

So the real question is... how do you meet new people and create a bond when everything is instanced and you never meet those people again? (duty finder)

Duty finder is absolutely necessary, but if it's the only thing there is, it's no longer an mmo. It's more like Vindictus.

[Xatsh]

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.

No one wants infinite. We just want alot more then what this game is offering.

If the devs want to negate content this fast and rehash everything. They need to start adding larger quantities of content in each major patch.


The game has a ton of stuff to do, but most of it does the same things as spamming dungeon, except it is about 5-10xs slower. (Aka not worth the time investment anymore.)

Oh and XI was about as close to endless content as possible in a mmo. This is coming from a person who was in a guild for 7yrs on the game that ran 5hrs of non-hnm events 7 days a week on top of about 8hrs of hnm camping a day. Had about 10days off a year for holidays though. So could play the game for nearly 4,600 hours a year for 7yrs and not run out of stuff to do. Was not infinite you are right we did finish several endgame events where all gear was sold or dropped to the ground. If it was not for abysea would of had at least 2-3yrs more before we capped out the guild without any new content added. I can tell you that the people in my guild loved logging in everyday. Same as the people in most of my more casual linkshells I had.

If you have to take breaks from a mmo to wait for content... That is a development problem not a player problem.

The threads are not to inform the mass public someone is bored it is to alert SE to a issue with a group of players who are supporting the game. There is whether the ultra casuals/achievement hunters want to admit it or not an issue with a lot of people being extremely bored to the point of canceling subs waiting for content and the expansion is not even 4 months old. People in the endgame community are quitting/logging in less and less that is a major issue for a p2p mmo.

[Bremic]

[Melch]

Right there I found some things for you to do, mate.

Yet it's still the same thing again and again, so I guess you didn't get the point of the OP.
There's an obvious lack of content in this game. Keeping yourself busy doesn't mean you're enjoying it. It just means that you're bored enough to do such repetitive things. The content shouldn't be made in order to keep you busy, it should be made to make you enjoy playing. As a result, let me tell you what is happening at the moment for a lot of players :
For players who bother capping eso : exp roulette (2 dungeons only) > alexander story mode > cap on thursday (if you play week nights) > wait until tuesday
For those who are not bothered : log in for Alex savage and don't play at all otherwise or stand afk in <name a zone> doing nothing.
I don't speak about Red scripts/Blue scripts because crafting is close to irrelevant and can be removed from the game without any harm at this point.

[Melch]

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.

Are you saying that people who have another PoV are wrong? If I want to see some Oscars, I turn on my TV watch MTV awards or Oscars ceremony. I'm not saying that you're doing it wrong but this is what I would have done because that's not what I'm looking for in a MMO. But I understand your underlying question is "What are we expecting from a MMO".

[Fevelle]

People are asking for fun and still other people come here suggesting "grind" as a form of it. Oh well...

[Melch]

I have tons of things to do too. I really don't have the time to do it all. Seems those who are mainly focused on war/magic battle related game features run out of stuff to do. There is only so much content of that sort that SE can make and that doesn't take forever to get through.

There's a lot of things to do. There's only a few things I enjoy to do.

[Phireblast]

There's a lot of things to do. There's only a few things I enjoy to do.

I think this quote right here sums up what the majority of the dissatisfied side are saying.

[Daralii]

Oh and XI was about as close to endless content as possible in a mmo. This is coming from a person who was in a guild for 7yrs on the game that ran 5hrs of non-hnm events 7 days a week on top of about 8hrs of hnm camping a day. Had about 10days off a year for holidays though. So could play the game for nearly 4,600 hours a year for 7yrs and not run out of stuff to do. Was not infinite you are right we did finish several endgame events where all gear was sold or dropped to the ground. If it was not for abysea would of had at least 2-3yrs more before we capped out the guild without any new content added. I can tell you that the people in my guild loved logging in everyday. Same as the people in most of my more casual linkshells I had

I know very little about XI: How much of that was there at launch? In the base patch of the first expansion?

Genuinely curious, just for a point of reference.