This game is on a terrible state right now.

[R041]

Well I'm glad yours still log in. All of mine quit long ago saying the content cycle sucks and I'm the only one who stuck around. Funny how Yoshi P was right about the silent leaving first.

Yeah I really doubt they login. It sounds like he's the one just AFK on retainers while playing Grandia. Which yeah, it's sad. It's the same shit I'm doing while 90% of my FC is at an average 100 days since last login. The ones that do login don't even feel motivated to even do anything but AFK, because they're just going through the motions of habit. If you join one of those mega FCs, it's also the same thing. No matter how many people they invite, most are AFK or doing single-player MSQ.

The world is so scripted, we already know what to expect with everything we do - So why bother doing anything more than once? I don't feel a sense of adventure anymore. It doesn't feel like the devs are working on an MMO, it feels like they're working on a single-player game with housing.

It's like all of these people telling us there's so much content to do, forget that most of us aren't high-end raiders and don't want to feel pressured into joining a static. But we still want fun and difficult things to do in general.

"I don't want to feel pressured to do content because there's so much of it" meanwhile, their suggestion for content is to feel pressured.. ?

[Ath192]

Yeah I really doubt they login. It sounds like he's the one just AFK on retainers while playing Grandia. Which yeah, it's sad. It's the same shit I'm doing while 90% of my FC is at an average 100 days since last login. The ones that do login don't even feel motivated to even do anything but AFK, because they're just going through the motions of habit. If you join one of those mega FCs, it's also the same thing. No matter how many people they invite, most are AFK or doing single-player MSQ.

The world is so scripted, we already know what to expect with everything we do - So why bother doing anything more than once? I don't feel a sense of adventure anymore. It doesn't feel like the devs are working on an MMO, it feels like they're working on a single-player game with housing.

It's like all of these people telling us there's so much content to do, forget that most of us aren't high-end raiders and don't want to feel pressured into joining a static. But we still want fun and difficult things to do in general.

"I don't want to feel pressured to do content because there's so much of it" meanwhile, their suggestion for content is to feel pressured.. ?

Yeah, I'm in a really big FC and this checks out.

Even for high end raiders, I do raid in this game, sometimes statics, sometimes pugging it but this is a lot of effort and sometimes I just want to chill with a fun game where I don't have to be hyper organized. Bozja and the SB period was the closest to these things that I really found fun. I felt like I could login and have something that was engaging, and people could die but we could also succeed and I didn't need to have a plan with strats super memorized with tight windows/pots/etc....

Even the roulettes were okay in SB because dungeons were just dangerous enough that I didn't check my cell phone while on auto run.

Never in my life had I logged on, looked at the roulette, gotten nauseous and logged off again. Here is the thing though, if these activities still were sort of dangerous and I could help people in the game or work with them to get some objective done I'd be happy. But nope. I could put a monkey on my chair and leave and the dungeon would still get cleared. Everyone in this game is irrelevant, heck the healer is irrelevant in dungeons now. Bots? humans? who cares, noone talks and stuff so easy its HP may as well drop automatically. No wonder people just rush dungeons and get hyper toxic, I legit understand them, not that I say anything.

The only reason I'm still on is because I got into this game and really learned to love it back when it wasn't this. I wanted the graphics update real bad, and asked for it in these forums and an email they sent requesting feedback. Since they announced it I'm staying and paying for it in 7.0 because I want my money to go where my mouth is. If not I would've already quit, and after 7.0 if the game doesn't become fun again I'll be out as well. If Endwalker is what the next 10 years look like I don't see a point really.