is this game near the end of it's life?

[silentwindfr]

i think one of the trouble is the lack of survey for know what the WHOLE community feel... they meet a lot the japanese playerbase, every month actually, but that only one part of the community... and they have different taste than us.
Grind, zergfest and such don't annoyed them that much, however, on our side that the case.... but they seems to not care

[Blacksail]

God I did not miss browsing these forums.. Children as far as the eye can see. Anyway, agree with OP.

[Akira_Tenshi]

Oh get a grip!

[DarkChild]

New player here. Been playing casually since February. I have 120 days subbed. There is so much to do that I don't really know what to do. And even the small things are very grindy so I get bored pretty quick.

[Derio]

SE got overconfident on HW. Then you had that 5 almost 6 month break before we saw another patch which in turn really hurt the playerbase. 3.1 and 3.15 simply arent enough to make up for it. Even though 3.1 did bring players back. Its just right now not enough.

[Moqi]

It's not at the end of its life but it's at end of its creativity. They found a pattern that they think will work forever (or at least this expansion) and I doubt they'll change it unless things go very sour. How confident they are that people won't get bored of the same formula for all future content, time will tell. Judging by the forums, there are a lot of addicts who'll consider any checklist worth doing as long as SE gives it to them, regardelss of its content. As long as those people can keep the game alive, it'll go on to fund SE's other projects.

[Whocareswhatmynameis]

Judging by the forums, there are a lot of addicts who'll consider any checklist worth doing as long as SE gives it to them, regardelss of its content. As long as those people can keep the game alive, it'll go on to fund SE's other projects.

You realize on Call of Duty there's people that go around just shooting each other over and over for hours on end.... This game got a lot more variety than that. I'd say one of the biggest mistakes SE made with Heavensward was listening to all the complainers. Everyone got bored of the expansion like 2 months after it came out because it was so easy and quick. There are people that raided for 2-4 months to get a 210 weapon, and people are complaining about doing beastman quests and dungeons for 2 months to get essentially an equivelant weapon.

[KitingGenbu]

What I find funny is how many of the white knights were rushing to the defense of the team taking their extended break before 3.1 now QQ'ing at how much of a let down 3.1 has been.

[starLivitation]

ye, for me it does not make sence, if u wana take a vacaion, why not go vacation 1 by 1, and have a replaceement for the person going on vacation? or is the staff too little to suport that?

[Critical-Limit]

You realize on Call of Duty there's people that go around just shooting each other over and over for hours on end....

Do you not understand the why games like CoD and super smash brothers melee can stand the test of time despite not seeing much change at all? Super smash brothers melee has GROWN in popularity and it's 14 years old and still growing. It gets NO updates.

The reason those games can last is because the base formula allows for complex thinking, which in turn makes every game different. This player does hadoken hadoken hadoken. But not the same way or timing as another guy.

This keeps it fresh

In ffxiv, everything is scripted, so once you figure it out the first time it becomes like watching a movie that requires a button rotation.