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

[odie]

I don't know that you can really say that the servers are less populated unless you have some way of actually looking who is online and who isn't. Most everyone I'd usually see are online as far as friends, FC, and linkshell people. including familiar faces around the server. Maybe only a few I don't see due to work schedules differing from mine as of recently. The reason I say this is because 3.0 introduced more areas to go to. We went from having a few different maps from La Noscea, Black Shroud, Thanalan, Mor Dhona, and Coerthas, and now we have more Coerthas maps, Ishgard, Dravania, etc...we even have many new duties for people to go into that would actually as far as I understand take them off of the server for the time they are in the duty. I don't think the game will die anytime soon. It seems fairly healthy although I will admit that I myself have grown very tired of /rundungeons /gettomes every week....I'm so burnt out on it that my main and only my main has ESO pieces, and I have 4 of them at that....I don't do my roulettes anymore. I think the Diadem was an attempt to change the formula up a little bit (i don't even know if we get tomes from there?) and give us something different but it seems like nobody really wants to do that. I think it might help for them to grow the dev team maybe and then they might be able to push out more content. Without knowing the inner workings of the company and game development I can't really say much...but after all that rambling.....the servers probably just seem less populated due to the vast amount of new locations that were added since 3.0

[ScarletDawn]

I decided maybe i do the relic quest anyway. maybe just take it slow and see what happens. i still have hope for this game, it seems with the recent news, there is some general feed back oh how to fix the game, let us hope they do a good job in 3.2, because that may be our last hope i think.

Just do up to the awoken stage for all the classes you want and wait for 3.2 to see the new weps that will come out and replace the relics.

[Krausus]

Suggesting that someone who is fairly apparently burned out should take a break and come back when they are refreshed is NOT telling them just to leave.

Maybe you did not actally read what I posted, because you have repeatedly paraphrase and mischaracterized my comments in a fairly negative manner. My suggestion to take a break if you are burned out is out of consideration of the player who may be burned out as well as those around them. What point is there in someone who is unhappy and bored to continue banging their head against the same wall when they can easily take a break to refresh themself and come back full of energy again? How does it help anyone to continue doing something that bores and annoys them?


With regard to negativity and it's effect on others. I believe this is a fairly well documents aspect of group dynamics and psychology. Personally, I've seen the cancer of negativity tear apart statics, groups of friends and free companies. It is a real problem, both in virtual settings as well as real life.I have seen the impact in real life also, it's not pretty. But, go ahead and be angry with me for posting my thoughts in a civil manner, that's your pergoative.

Why would someone get burned out? The point is the same content over and over is causing the burnout. That isn't a player issue that is a game issue. The only time it becomes a player issue is when there are alternatives but the player refuses to participate. It is very clear and can not even be argued that SE has just been recycling content since 2.0 released. Hell even some of the "new" content is basically recycled content from XI. Trying to say take a break instead of actually trying to fix the issue and having absolute faith that SE knows what they are doing is white knighting. If people didn't complain you wouldn't even have the remake we have today.

SE has already proven that they can make mistakes and has proven that listening to the fans/customers is the right thing to do. SE doesn't want you or anyone else to take a break even suggesting it is absurd, especially when suggesting it to counter burnout from a flawed development model. Don't sweep issues under the rug. Point them out. Work together, or one day you will find yourself in the same situation. You obviously haven't been playing that long. Most the people saying there is no issue haven't been playing very long, so you most likely will not have experienced burnout yet, but if you keep playing you will unless you let it be known that you are not happy with recycled content over and over and over again.

[JarinArenos]

I'm done. I've called out problems and fought my fights. I think half the devs never came back from the great content gap in the first half of the year. Nothing interesting or new to do... I had hopes for the relic quest, but the implementation of that really is the last straw for me. Sub is canceled, just running out my time now. What little fun is left to me in this game, I could find in any number of F2P games on the market. Nothing left here to justify paying.

[RHarris1349]

According to these forums, FFXIV has been dead since they released 2.0 two years ago. I sure hope Yoshi-P stops listening to the forums, tbh. It seems the people who are ENJOYING this awesome MMO are too busy playing to be bothered with the disgruntled ingnorance on this forum that works on the fallacy that this FF is supposed to be w/e machination that you people dreamt up one day. I'm sure you're well-versed in other lesser MMOs and have awards lining those walls in your head, you're effing awesome, we get it. But yall crying saying, "It's dead! It's dead! It's dead!" Every. Single. Time content comes out is ridiculous. It's content, just cause your salty doesn't mean there's not thousands of others enjoying Eorzea.

[RHarris1349]

Just because the game does not meet your personal expectations on a .05 patch does not mean its going to die. You're not a special snowflake.

This, a million times this.

[LaylaTsarra]

The game isn't dying anytime soon, would be nice if this thread did.

[Popotolord]

If people have not realized SE designed this game for casuals, then they need to unsub. SE, at the end of the day, is a business and they have a target market, which happens to be their casual players.

Why is it that developers and publishers seem to think that it's impossible for casual players to enjoy some things hardcore players enjoy. And why do they have to treat casuals like infants. They aren't retards incapable of learning. They're human beings and they're your valued customers.

[starLivitation]

Just do up to the awoken stage for all the classes you want and wait for 3.2 to see the new weps that will come out and replace the relics.

I don't know, the zodiac stage i125 was pretty usefull as most of us could not meet t12 dps check, it helps us when some of the dps got that weapon to push 4 bennus

[Felmyst]

I'm cool with that. I'd be happy to see less people around. Means more community teamwork and more friendly people!