I guess it's time

[ADVSS]

fc alliances, piloting own fc airship, (maybe fc-fc ranked pvp) a dueling area to have fun with friends(maybe even a craftable sparring rink for personal rooms), gathering crafting party bonus AND LB(make partying u great again) hell screw the hallway, lets just have a dungeon be a crappy Circle that drops enemies down constantly than plops the obligatory boss in the middle, i mean why bother walking forward for 15 minutes?(lazy time attack dungeon) being able to gather in dungeons like diadem or make openworld dungeons, idk the list goes on to suggestions and promises on both ends. as far as hw, yeah i didnt really like that several jobs had their gameplay changed for seeminly no reason("baaaaaalaaaaaaaance" - yet as pointed out with wm initial dmg boost and AA sacrifice being a dps loss) ah well i could go on and on forever, the tomes grind is probably my biggest demotivator

[Jetstream_Fox]

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1. There isn't enough content, I seriously don't know where people keep getting this, each patch cycle isn't keeping people around for the 3 month span as it did in 2.0. Don't even tell new to level up a side job, grab all the minions, cards, or level a craft, because that's not new content, that's running existing content because there is nothing else. When you're 2 weeks into a patch and the content is already dried up, that either means A your content isn't diverse enough or B you're not putting out enough.

2. There are a ton of QoL updates that have come off the forum, obviously not everyone wants the same thing, but when people cry about nothing having a glamour book, better fc functions, joining dungeons with birds out, or the fact when you do a hefty amount of GC turnins the game has the need to spam the completion sound effect. And SE isn't attempting to fix these things and they been out here since 2.0, it's apparent they have a lack a interest, but hey let's add that RP icon instead.

3. I don't really care about Egis since I don't play SMN or SCH to bother, was again merely making a point about something that was asked for a very lengthy amount of time and they kept sweeping it under the rug.

4. It's not just the Diadem they left die, how about ALL of the Gold Saucer content that has failed? LoV and TT have gone no where fast, what about Chocobo racing, where are the updates to that? One update to "fix" the Diadem issue isn't going to fix the fact Diadem NEEDS to be updated EVERY patch just like Palace of the Dead will need to be as well.

5. Live letters every month and you think that's good enough? That's like getting a news letter from your job, but then your bosses don't tell you anything other than "Please look forward to it!" Where are the community polls? Where are the community managers in game hyping up content? Go look at Blizzard, not just WoW but the entirety that is Blizzard, their community managers are active and even do play dates. This game can and deserves a lot better than what we get.

6. FF14 dev team should be the biggest and strongest department at SE. I mean this is the only successful new MMO out on the market currently, and it's not like they only profited about 1.4 billion last year. Looks like they have as decent amount there to back up one of their few successful game teams with some extra help.

[ADVSS]

2. There are a ton of QoL updates that have come off the forum, obviously not everyone wants the same thing, but when people cry about nothing having a glamour book, better fc functions, joining dungeons with birds out, or the fact when you do a hefty amount of GC turnins the game has the need to spam the completion sound effect. And SE isn't attempting to fix these things and they been out here since 2.0, it's apparent they have a lack a interest, but hey let's add that RP icon instead.

you remember how annoying it was to buy cordials with seals? we waited for what,3 years to have that interface work like buying from a materials vendor

[WellFooled]

"THE OFFICIAL I AM BURNT OUT THREAD"

Take a break if you're just logging on as a matter or rote

This is one way to handle it, yes. But this is treating the symptom and not the illness. Naturally, everyone is aware that we can stop playing at any time we want (I recently did, for about two months). But instead many in this thread are first asking "Why am I burnt out? Why is this happening so soon? So frequently? What can be changed to prevent it?" since we have no control over the game, we're trying to answer these questions where the developers can hear us or join in the discussion, so we're on the forums.


Telling people to take a break is like a doctor telling you to take painkillers for that pain in your gut you're having. It will help you with your symptoms sure, but eventually the appendix that Doctor didn't look at is going to burst. Taking a break is great, but it doesn't solve any of the underlying issues with FFXIV being brought up in this thread.

[Seraphix2407]

I personally want to know what content people keep asking for.
I figured new classes and a story would be considered content.

Hey, sorry for slow reply. I forgot I even posted this, but yah. New classes and a story isn't really content. Yes story is super nice in this game, no doubt, however.... Content should been a step up, it's the same pattern we had in 2xx and I want it to elvole and grow bigger. More raids in different ways, more challenges, more fc content, more things that is rewarding and fun to do and not burning you out and make it look like a job. That would be a great start.

This thread should be re-titled:"THE OFFICIAL I AM BURNT OUT THREAD".

This thread has more feedback than most threads in this forum and reddit together even the OP's post in the past. Why? First of all, look at how the content has been in the past vs now. It's different skins and same thing. Things I did 1 year and half ago is happening again. Ixal quest = moogle quest currently. How is that even burning out? I thought content meant new things to do not a replay. Feels like an offline game than anything. Last time I checked we pay sub for this to evolve not to backstep content.

1. To be fair, there is a ton of content in the game. While I would like more in the areas that I partake in, I acknowledge that some content just does not interest me and I choose not to partake in it. That does not mean that it isn't there though..

Hey agan Reiryuu, how are you!? Been a while I had a discussion with you! Anyways. Yes we do, but the content we currently have is the same we had 2 years ago. New skin just same thing.
Look at my reply up to the other persons how ixal quest is a copy of moogle one, it's the same thing, 99% copy. The content we have isn't even used by 50% by players. I'm prety sure many find gathering boring as hell and only want or need to do it for money, it's a nice trait to have but me personaly have lvl 0 on my gathering because it's boring. Why should I forced to do something when it's not fun? Remember when Yoshida said if it's not fun you are doing it wrong

Then let me add, content we have doesn't have a high value. When I say value its very small reward in them. Niddhogg extreme 6 main stats more and that's it, for casters its 1 more weapon dmg the rest isnt. Then another thing to add, adding more egi glamours etc or more doesnt mean more content. This is just another added thing, which I do like to have but content!!! More things to do, different mechanics, way to obtain gear more social events etc. I'm not so good at adressing what we can have or should have but seen soo many post here and on reddit and many ideas are amazing!

[NessaWyvern]

If I stopped playing, I would lose my house... But I want to take a break, since there's not much content atm.... But I can't unsub because house... But I don't want to waste my sub money by not playing.... GAH!

[RLofOBFL]

I just think they need to add more content to do OUTSIDE of daily dungeons & weekly raids &/or some type of "horizontal gear" like very simple things that won't break the game such as "berserk lasts 5 seconds longer but pacification is increased to 10 seconds", "sentinel's damage reducion is reduced to 30% but it's recast is 30 seconds shorter" or generic ones like "_____ (OGCD) is now 30 potency weaker but it now has a 3 second stun" & you can have up to say 3 per job....
I just made that up but I get excited at the idea.


Anyway Deep Dungeon is a good example of outside content & I am looking forward to it. Diadem is also a good idea(bad execution) & I can't wait to see it reworked in 3.4(if Yoshi keeps his word)

[Khalithar]

I have a few thoughts to add the topic as well.

The game does have plenty of content and stuff to do, quite a bit more than most people might think. A lot of the complaints I see are from the combat content or lack thereof. I want to say that I absolutely agree with that sentiment in the sense that if you only want to do combat it's just grinding the same two dungeons once a day to get your weekly cap done and no matter what side content they add or other things to do, there is STILL only those two dungeons to do to hit your weekly cap. It does get tedious, I personally want there to be at least 7-10 max level dungeons in the expert roulette, just to mix it up so I'm not running the same two dungeons until I'm absolutely sick of them.

I refuse to do the 60 roulette solely because I'm sick of every dungeon in there, I will only go to help a friend, having more new dungeons would at least relieve the tedium to a degree. I don't necessarily disagree with their formula, but I'd like to see more ways to shake it up, for example, instead of the 75 tomestones from your first ex roulette, what if you could get the full 75 from the ex roulette or weeping city or alexander? Let you pick what activity you wanted to do for the day if you didn't feel like running a dungeon?

That being said though, if you are only playing this game for the combat content I do feel you're missing out, the gathering and crafting systems in this game are pretty deep and offer a fairly large amount of story quests and content to do. While I do know it's not old content, there is a whole lot of it you're missing out on if you only focus on the combat stuff. Sure the gold saucer is kind of dead in the water, but the chocobo racing does provide an interesting solo experience. My point being there is a lot outside of non-combat stuff and you're doing yourself a disservice if you don't at least check it out.

Here's my character: http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...cter/11140107/

I capped the combat classes and after that I really got in to crafting and didn't even realize how deep and engaging it could be, especially hunting for the rare materials to make that one really nice piece of armor. Working with other crafters to make some of those rare items along with playing as a gatherer to obtain those rare items. There is some grinding involved but hitting the unspoiled nodes isn't so bad once you get a rotation going, then you can start farming crafting/gathering gear like a champ.

[Seraphix2407]

Thing about this game, content, there is alot of it but not valid content. We have 80% non combat content which is in my opinion bad. First of all I always played FF games because of epic battles or fighting in general along with great storyline. FFXI (sorry I mentioned this) had amazing fights and epic fighting analogs and what not. This game started of amazing, it really did but like my best friend irl life, who actually got me into this game quit 6 monts after release because he knew it be excactly like this and he was never wrong. He ask me if anything change but nothing. Alot of promises that never happened, like primals showing up in open world etc. In my opinion this game was never ready for the market when it first was released. There is alot of things that was never at release that this game needed badly. They should waited and added things and remove things we done use. Look at your character bar, resist? Useless and why is it still there after 3 years almost?

[RiceisNice]

I capped the combat classes and after that I really got in to crafting and didn't even realize how deep and engaging it could be, especially hunting for the rare materials to make that one really nice piece of armor. Working with other crafters to make some of those rare items along with playing as a gatherer to obtain those rare items. There is some grinding involved but hitting the unspoiled nodes isn't so bad once you get a rotation going, then you can start farming crafting/gathering gear like a champ.

The problem on my end is that I've been playing since 2.2. The release of 3.x with how they handled red scrips and crafting gear in general completely took out the fun out of gathering and crafting for me. As a veteran player, these aren't "new things" for me to get into, it's something I've done and something they really haven't done much as far as adding to it is concerned.