Hmm losing will to play... any tips?

[OmegaFlare]

Stormblood is worth one month of playing. Since you can clear savage so quickly now, it actually means that you could do everything in a month. Then after that, it's just repetitive farming for tomes/gears weekly doing the same thing over and over again. Starting next week, there will not be any significant new content until 4.1 in two months. So for $40 + $15, I've got to enjoy one month of playing Stormblood. Not bad I supposed. It's just like playing a new game. I'm going to stop for 2 months until 4.1 comes out, then resub for another month and so on and so forth.

[skyfox]

thank you so much guys for sharing & thought.

Yeah. I obviously lost purpose of playing game. It is just not fun anymore for me.

I take your advise and I decided to take a break and I will see how it goes. I will see you later and have fun in game

[YitharV2]

Anyone else had this problem and care to share thought?

My solution was to quit.

I really miss the engagement that TERA had in relation to tanking, because I would do the same dungeon everyday and still have fun. But here it's like meh the boss just autos you most of the time and uses tankbusters at certain times, and you just pop CDs for that.

In TERA, the DPS got bored before I did lol.

[rxnin]

The moment dailies begins to feel like a "chore," STOP and find something new to do. Capping everything every week can be very exhausting and mind numbing and it begins to become unenjoyable. Find a new activity or take a few days/weeks break to rejuvenate. Nothing wrong with that, and there's no such thing as "falling behind" per se, since everything eventually becomes outdated. Once you accept this as truth, you'll find the game a lot more fun.

[eschaton]

As ridiculous as this thread is, let's state the obvious as a valuable life lesson;

If you don't want to do something then don't do it, you don't have forever, spend your time on things you do want to do. And see you in three weeks.

Geez

[Zeonsilt]

Forcing yourself to play the game when you're not interested/bored is always not good.
Go on a vacation (it's summer!), play other games, or just chill out in movies with friends.
The world of infinity possibilites.

[Alleo]

I can understand the OP because even though the new expansion is not that old, I already feel a bit bored at the content. I still like the game (otherwise I would just stop playing completely) but there is simply no new endgame content that I can or want to do. (Raids are not something for me, Palace solo is nearly impossible right now thanks to DC, and I dont want to farm the two primals endlessly for a chance at the wolf) I am not sure why we could not at least get one real new long lasting content in 4.0. I mean I did take my time with the story but that is still over quite fast.

But I have the problem, that I simply cant take a true break because I would lose my ingame house thanks to that and if I continue to pay money for this game then I dont want to just log in once a month to keep the house.

So I do still play it (but not that much like before) and use the time to gather and craft while catching up on some lets plays.

If you can do break without losing anything ingame I would say that its probably better to do so. Not only is better for your enjoyment but it might show SE that they need more diverse content even in the release of the expansion.

[MistakeNot]

Taking a break is always an option.
Or perhaps instead of playing daily, just play one or two days per week - that way you won't fall behind the way you would if you took a total break.

Games are meant to be fun. If you play a lot despite not enjoying it, then you should not play so much

[TankHunter678]

Yoshida admitted in a documentary that the game is designed such that you do not need to play every day in order to keep up. It is designed such that people can put the game down to go play other games and spend time with family. That it is fine if one unsubs and then waits till a content patch.

In fact, here is the part I am talking about, though its the third part of the documentary series.

https://youtu.be/ONT6fxiu9cw?t=12m54s

You will need to turn on closed captions, he says his thoughts in japanese.

[Reaperking386]

I feel ya OP. This game is really boring in the beginning of expansions. There is not much to do besides being a raider or running dungeons. You can level crafters and other jobs, but even that gets boring. In the end this game is all about getting glamour armor. I say take a break until the next patch. The new 24 will be out and relic woes. At least there will be a little more to do during that time.