I guess it's time

[Phireblast]

Surprisingly i'm not suffering any withdrawal symptoms since i've stopped playing almost 2 weeks ago.

Not even Deep Dungeon has me hyped, getting something that becomes worthless so fast has killed the game for me.

That's an odd thing with the game with me. More often than not, I know it'll be time to take a break, but i'm "worried" about taking it since i'll feel withdrawals. It never happens. All because I have nothing TO come back to for the time being...My sub went poof a few days ago, and I MIGHT give Legion a shot(really hard to say). When 3.4 arrives, i'll play it for a month since i'm sure the content won't last(not even going to bother raiding anymore), then i'll go on an inevitable break until 3.5.

I'm just playing for the story and ex primals at this point. I don't think anything will massively change, even in 4.0. Only reason i'm still around is because it's the price of one pizza box every three months for me, really.

[TAS]

It's kind of hard to say all the the things that I want to change, but this question made me realize that I can put it simply into 1 idea: I want the devs to bring justice to every content they made and actually make them matter (rewarding).

Primals:
✅The first 3 primals had weapons and were necessary to complete the relic quest.
❌The succeeding primals acted like they're a content of their own and focused only on the slightly higher ilvl weapons as reward. (easily discarded, can easily be skipped by anyone new to just do newer content)


Raid Content:
✅You had to finish BCoB to proceed to SCoB and then finish SCoB to enter FCoB. No normal mode.
❌Normal mode. Something about goblins... probably has something to do with cheez... cat... BOOM, BANG... BEAMZ.... (Yea I didn't pay attention to Alex... sry)

Towers:
✅Use to only have items exclusively found in it.
❌Became the tool that helps people catch up by providing upgrade items similar to what the current raid content offers.
Fix: Make it relevant in its own light without ruining other content in the game. Also I would like to have 8-man tower mode, please and thank you.

❌Unsyncing.
✅Reverse sync. Let the content sync to us, not us syncing to the content. (Lvl 60 coil anyone?)

Creatures all over eorzea:
❌Only there for the sake of Hunting Log. Some drop important mats. Harmless.
✅Please add purpose to them. Like make the mobs spawn a boss mob that drops some special material maybe. Make them as challenging as what their supposed level is in the game and give out reasonable experience. Make them more interactive with different aggro triggers. Make them more than just moving pixels around the map.

Gil:
❌Why do I even have Gil?

Zones:
❌Straightforward. Easily explored. Feels like its dead.
✅Utilize ships (yea they exist), have hidden tunnels, make us feel there's danger in the outside world, or something, please.

What else do you guys think the devs aren't utilizing to its fullest? I feel like this way when I log in I'd have something to do, game would be more alive with new people looking into beating old content that they actually need... What's more is that we can revisit them and do them at level 60 with reverse syncing, possibly have fun, and get the new crafting materials.

My thoughts exactly! You just blast through everything so quickly and then your stuck on repeat for months. There's such a disconnect between the world and the content. With the exception of certain dailies, once you've unlocked everything you could literally just stand in one place/Zone for the duration of the patch until the next one launches. And once you finish off the story, unlock the content, rinse and repeat...

[Thayos]

Regarding whether the reps are watching this thread...

At this point, this is basically the same 10 people who are just going around and around with each other.

So while I'm sure the reps are seeing this, it's highly debatable whether they should care. They probably care much more about the health of the game's active playerbase and how many people are daily players.

[Iromi]

I can assure you I speak for 40+ people in my FC who feel the same way as well, they just don't post on the forums lol.

[Thayos]

Man, that's a whole lot of people paying to play a game they don't like. That's beyond me.

[KitingGenbu]

What's funny about that census is that it was taken it April, wasn't it? Something else happened between March and April didn't it?

[Velhart]

Regarding whether the reps are watching this thread...

At this point, this is basically the same 10 people who are just going around and around with each other.

So while I'm sure the reps are seeing this, it's highly debatable whether they should care. They probably care much more about the health of the game's active playerbase and how many people are daily players.

The reps/developers see threads like this every week ever since 2.0 came out. Color me surprised if they actually respond to this thread in particular after the several hundred topics related to this have been posted and not responded to directly since the game came out.

[KitingGenbu]

The reps/developers see threads like this every week ever since 2.0 came out. Color me surprised if they actually respond to this thread in particular after the several hundred topics related to this have been posted and not responded to directly since the game came out.

Main reason I feel they dont respond is because like he said, they're getting money and that's all companies care about. You can complain all you want but if you're still giving them money, why should they care about 'potential' loss in revenue when it isn't happening yet. Again, we dont know XIV's actual numbers since they never officially came out and said how many subs they have, not to mention that we dont know how much money the cash shop is pulling in which could potentially cover for the loss. Somewhere in my comment is part of the answer as to how to change the game.

[Thayos]

It's not just that they're making money; it's that actual playerbase trends must not be alarming. There's no need to change if more than half a million people are logging in and playing every day or two. That's a sign of a healthy game.

[Velhart]

Main reason I feel they dont respond is because like he said, they're getting money and that's all companies care about. You can complain all you want but if you're still giving them money, why should they care about 'potential' loss in revenue when it isn't happening yet. Again, we dont know XIV's actual numbers since they never officially came out and said how many subs they have, not to mention that we dont know how much money the cash shop is pulling in which could potentially cover for the loss. Somewhere in my comment is part of the answer as to how to change the game.

Well they are a company, so yes money is one of the deciding factors in content they make or not. They definitely listen to player feedback, they just don't listen to destructive criticism.