Quote Originally Posted by SuperZay View Post
You will not see a lot of 'I'll leave' replies here because those who don't like it left already. Pretty much only fans remain now who will keep their subs no matter what till servers shutdown. Will their numbers be enough for SE to keep old unchanging formula, who knows. After all, only money flow or lack of it can really force them to change anything.
I'm one of the few who would not be sticking around long. With XIV, I enjoyed my time for the first 8 months or so after launch, and then I started looking for other games to fill my time. I resub for a month here and there if they have some cute event items, but aside from that, I'm good.

Every MMO of course has it's gear grind once you hit endgame, but in my opinion, XIV fails miserably at making it feel fresh and diverse.

For quite awhile, the pattern has been 2 new dungeons, a new raid, new coil/alex level. Each dungeon has the same formula - trash - boss - trash - boss - trash - boss. Each raid has a near-identical pattern too. PotD mixed things up a bit (thank you Nyzul and Salvage!), but for the majority of content, it's all just rehashed each patch.

I'd like to pretend to be optimistic about Stormblood, but so far they haven't shown that they're willing to stray too far from their comfort zone.