Am I playing the game wrong?

[seraf]

You aren't going to start noticing the Jobs transform until around Lv.70 once you get to the Stormblood stuff and they iterate until level cap where they expand on the toolkits established in that expansion. This game constantly changes how Jobs feel every expansion because to prevent button bloat they tend to shift all the best skills/abilities/spells to the endgame which makes sense but as a result it makes early game feel slow and unfulfilling.

[Fonkiemonkie]

yes you are, u should set up a program and play the game with voice commands only that would make the game more challenging right of the bat or at least more exhausting xD

[VirusOnline]

That's just an issue with MMO's altogether, and most MMOs they solve with with a paid skip.
Many of the other things you listed will never change as they are problems carried over from 1.0 they the devs either do no know how to correct or are unwilling to figure how to cleanly correct.

It's a lot of work to rework a foundation admittedly, but the first MMO to do so will be genius.
If SE has 10 years to simply maintain this game they should put the work into what it takes the rebuild foundations from a modular standpoint.

It will probably never happen knowing how the software industry currently is - it's one of the reasons I've abandoned software engineering as a career. Sigh ...

[Ronduwil]

Honestly, these threads always remind me of that scene in the original Karate Kid movie where Daniel goes off on Mr. Miyagi for not teaching him anything and just forcing him to do a bunch of chores.

[Mapleine]

Honestly, these threads always remind me of that scene in the original Karate Kid movie where Daniel goes off on Mr. Miyagi for not teaching him anything and just forcing him to do a bunch of chores.

The MSQ isn't Mr. Miyagi though, it mostly serves as a real good visual novel and the battle system is almost incidental to most of it. We've shifted quite a bit more towards level cap focus and the job reworks and tuning changes have turned legacy content into a defensless sludge that you simply pick on.

One thing people also should remember is 50 now is nothing like 50 was in ARR. We were all complete by then even if design or QoL wasn't as good, also due to the way jobs were made back then downsyncing, while annoying, wasn't the brutality it is nowadays.

I used to be OK with downsyncing back in ARR and HW but it's awful to go back now and to me the complaints are entirely understood. There's no reason to bog down the entire game with the legacy content if it's going to be this poorly maintained, so I hope this big push to put it all on Trusts hints at moving on a bit.

[Fyrebrand]

I have some friends who recently started playing and they've made similar comments with regards to being over-leveled. Consider playing multiple jobs during MSQ and split the quest turn-ins between them.

[Ath192]

The game is obscenely easy. So easy and "accessible" in fact that it has killed needing to socialize in the game. If you're a veteran player that likes to stick around and help others good luck with that, noone needs you lol. FCs are basically chat rooms because quite frankly its more of a hassle to ask people to join you on things than it takes to just use the duty finder for content you barely need to do anything to clear. It'd be different if you needed quality, trustable and reliable people from your guild to help you do anything or learn the ropes but it turns out all you need is random bodies that can sometimes move and press a couple of buttons here and there to clear everything.

And then there is savage and maybe extreme... which you don't want to do with your guild because chances are more than one person wont be up to snuff and they will all end up drifting apart or disliking each other. This game needs to be more 30% casual. 50% midcore and 20% hardcore. so thats its actually engaging to play.

Believe it or not most players want some challenge. It's no wonder the game becomes a dead wasteland after content releases dry up. There's literally no reason to stick around.

[Ariabeth]

Lv 36 Dragoon I see.
Give it a couple more dungeons and you'll find the greatest danger is your own jump ability!

[Ariabeth]

The game is obscenely easy. So easy and "accessible" in fact that it has killed needing to socialize in the game. If you're a veteran player that likes to stick around and help others good luck with that, noone needs you lol. FCs are basically chat rooms because quite frankly its more of a hassle to ask people to join you on things than it takes to just use the duty finder for content you barely need to do anything to clear. It'd be different if you needed quality, trustable and reliable people from your guild to help you do anything or learn the ropes but it turns out all you need is random bodies that can sometimes move and press a couple of buttons here and there to clear everything.

And then there is savage and maybe extreme... which you don't want to do with your guild because chances are more than one person wont be up to snuff and they will all end up drifting apart or disliking each other. This game needs to be more 30% casual. 50% midcore and 20% hardcore. so thats its actually engaging to play.

Believe it or not most players want some challenge. It's no wonder the game becomes a dead wasteland after content releases dry up. There's literally no reason to stick around.

Welcome, it has always been like this! I don't know how you perceived the game in any way other than casual and friendly!
There is challenge for those who want challenge, there is social content for those who want to be social, there is grind for those who want grind.
There is something for everyone, save for that one type of person that wants to be challenged around every corner. I'm afraid FFXIV is not that, and never will- nor should be.

The game population slows down, or "becomes a dead wasteland", because players are encouraged to enjoy other things.
Some play other games, some look beyond the veil of patch:current.x to enjoy the older but still valid content, and some spend their time moping on the FFXIV General forum.

[kaynide]

I wish it would become a dead wasteland so I can finally make another alt on my server :/ It's been locked since like, last summer.