Bizarre burnout

[Syln]

He eats people.

Never heard about the saying : Five ethnic group a day keep the cancer away ! ... or was that vegetables ?

[Illmaeran]

I know the obvious answer is to just stop playing, but ffxiv is (was?) my favorite game, and I just hate seeing all this stupid negativity and stupid reworks in the game. I've met so many nice people and I would hate to stop talking to them because of a lack of common interest anymore. I just don't feel like there's anything else to really do anymore, since all the jobs I like are leveled up to max, and most relics just look ugly.

The obvious answer is probably the best one, just not as a permanent alternative. I've hit points where I was so frustrated with the game that I couldn't bring myself to play, unsubbed, and came back six months or even a year later when the next expansion was set to release. I love this game too; it's there in my top three favorites of all time. I want to continue loving it so I've made the decision to take breaks when and as I need to in order to refresh myself before growing to hate it.

Other options:
1. Stop reading all the doom and gloom social media crap. It's amazing how other peoples' opinions can sway our own even if we don't realize it.

2. Try just playing the game, do things you don't normally do, play a different job, anything *casually*. Give yourself permission to do anything you feel like at that moment even if it's just people watching in Limsa.

3. Go back to ARR or your favorite expansion and do *EVERYTHING*. Aim for a 100% clear of it, barring achievements unless you want to do those too.

4. Find "stupid goals" as I like to call them. Pick a couple of pets and grind them out then move on to something else. Come up with a menu for an RP restaurant and gather/craft everything for it on your own (I'm doing this now and it's surprisingly satisfying). Complete your entire Challenge Log for the week. Anything goes, just don't push yourself to get it done NOW.

[Absurdity]

I wouldn't call it a bizarre burnout.
You don't agree with the direction CBU3 has been taking the game and you find yourself not having fun anymore, that is entirely valid and don't let anyone tell you different. I wish I could give you a solution but all you can really do is find a different game that you like, because it is very unlikely to ever change and very likely that they will just double down.

All of us that feel the same and are still here, we're essentially just wasting our time. This becomes especially obvious when any criticism is usually met with "everything is fine, stop being so negative, I like it, you're in the minority" or any combination along those lines.

There are enough people who are totally fine with the boilerplate grey sludge of design that SE has no reason to change the direction for the game. So all you can really do is vote with your wallet, stop giving them money and most likely be replaced by a sprout immediately.


Call me ridiculously cynical but that's what seeing the game you loved turn into something you increasingly can't stand for over 2 years does to you. People say that the forums are overly negative but I wouldn't even be on these forums if ShB's job design didn't happen, I didn't even have a forum account until the end of Stormblood because there was no reason for me to feel disgruntled enough to visit the forums back then. It had some incredibly rough edges but sandblasting them all off may not have been the right choice either.

[Theodric]

As an aside, don't be afraid to try other games - particularly MMO's. You might be surprised by what's on offer and may very well find your niche elsewhere. FFXIV has changed substantially over the years and on many fronts is seeking to appease a completely different target audience to what it originally sought. Much in the same way as how WoW did when many of us found ourselves taking our leave of it.

[AngelCheese77]

I just came back from a 3 month break myself. Gives a fresh view of the game. Otherwise, for your sanity, stay away from the OF.

[Cach]

I too miss old 2.0 SMN, but the dev team has given up in the idea of pet classes. I now fear for BRD's dot skills, lol.

The shortcomings of MCH are very real and very measurable, and the way SE is handling it does not exactly make me hopeful. Even if you can still persist and play MCH (or whatever job seems to be "in trouble" at the time) these facts do not go away. People trying to rationalize "it's not the game's fault, it's muh negativity's fault" are as cute as ever.

I just finished grinding out another Zodiac weapon and it's pretty pointless to get on the gear treadmill until a .4 patch so I'm thinking that another break might be soon. Or maybe I'll return to pvp to get the mount, I also been wanting to replay CP2077 or perhaps I'll tag along with my friends who want to give New World another shot.

Point is, it's gonna be okay man, just do whatever.

[Atelier-Bagur]

I would also try other MMO's to solve that burnout. I personally enjoy ESO for a lot of its open world content.

[Jessica_VS]

Though when I really suffered the first stage of major burnout was when I read the forums and saw that the ffxiv dev team is not different then bungie or any other terrible studio.

That's understandable given the state of forums in general. If you visit just about any game's official forum, you'll find that they all---no matter the actual quality of the game---are filled with negativity. Like with reviews, some negativity is warranted and some isn't.

Try not to let other people's opinions about a thing affect your own feelings about a thing.

[Atelier-Bagur]

As an aside, don't be afraid to try other games - particularly MMO's. You might be surprised by what's on offer and may very well find your niche elsewhere. FFXIV has changed substantially over the years and on many fronts is seeking to appease a completely different target audience to what it originally sought. Much in the same way as how WoW did when many of us found ourselves taking our leave of it.

Because it's too casual?

[Solakor]

This game will never be the same as it was during HW or SB when most of the classes had proper intricacies and depth and combat gameplay was on the forefront. Yoshi himself said that this is the way forward so either you bend over and take it or take your money elsewhere because the golden days aint coming back.