Day 8 after last Patch ...

[R041]

This might seem harsh but if you "finished" the patch in a week, this isn't the game for you. We need to stop beating around the bush on this one. The problem isn't the game, its the player, in this case.

[Boblawblah]

Have you thought about 'taking a break' OP? Maybe 'play other games'? 'Unsubbing' for a while is also an option. No? hmm. Well, paying to make memes on the forum is also an option I suppose.

[GaiusDrakon]

So basically you have to go out of your way to do it, and is something most players would not do. OP has themselves to blame.

It was literally plastered all over Island Sanctuary discord -_-

Tons of people followed it you're just low information player lmao

[Ivtrix]

It was literally plastered all over Island Sanctuary discord -_-

Tons of people followed it you're just low information player lmao

You’d be surprised how many there are.

I had a friend who last week was baffled why their m*ds were not working. They had 0 clue that the 6.4 patch was dropping at all.

I had thought it was a meme that there were people this oblivious but I experienced it firsthand.

[ZephyrMenodora]

Awwwww thank you that’s so nice of you to say because I struggle a bit with housing, I don’t have the patience to glitch stuff so I end up just plastering things that I love around haha! I love plants and music! I have several spaces in my home dedicated to instruments and just pure nature :3 leafs and water everywhere!

Oh yes pearl white is gorgeous, looks like proper silk, matches AST completely :3! But wait you pay for it? D: you can get pearl white with cowries from your island! And even from the firmament iirc!

Oh no that really sucks, pastel blue is rather cheap on my server, 1500gil or so, have you used the Universalis website? It shows you the cheapest products on your data centre!

1500?! I must have gotten really unlucky the times I checked. I know sometimes when an item runs out, the first few back on the market can be for absurd prices. I remember being like "I'm not spending 300K for this" and going for the sky blue lol. I'm often too lazy to check Universalis or shard-hop, unless I'm desparate haha. But it is a good habit to get into. I do occasionally go from Zalera to Balmung due to their larger market when I can't find things for like crafting quests and the like though.

Definitely hear you on housing. I've always been super into housing (I even spent $800 USD furnishing one house in ESO....) but all my creations come out mid at best. Not horrible, but not amazing for the effort I put in. I just don't got it haha.

[KeshLives]

Them adding more content doesn't change that for you
The devs are not your friends, we pay them with a monthly sub to get content worth that 12$ a month

If that piddly $12 that I make before I even take a drink of coffee in the morning is a big deal for you, as it seems you're complaining about it, you can just stop paying it. No one's forcing you to play the game. Easy, no problem. Have a nice time.

[KeshLives]

I mean, MSQ was 1 hour max with cutscenes, ex trial took ~3 hours to clear, Normal raids took around an hour (2 if you include cutscenes and story) and Island sanctuary is hit and miss for me personally, but i'm halfway to rank 15 doing literally nothing but workshop.

Outside of Savage, that only means there was ~6 hours content this patch, add in 1 hour over the last week for island sanctuary.

that's less than an hour a day playtime buddy, but i guess you need to add in 3 hours afking in limsa and not actually doing anything productive to inflate that playtime.

Well, if your 'life' is 'max playing FFXIV till you run out of content', sure. If that's your life, I pity you. Pretty sad.

And if you don't like how they're doing it, go play something else. No one's got a gun to your head forcing you to pay the sub for XIV.

[Vyrerus]

sad and mad.

Just find fulfillment from within, OP. You don't need this game to have brand new content to have fun with it. Make a new character and do it all again! Experience the new changes to the old experiences. Look at old parts of the story with fresh eyes and the perspective you've gained from the time that has passed in your life. Time is the wealth of change, after all, not merely the parody of the clock hands moving.

With a little change to your perspective, you may experience something you thought was all dried up as though it were full of vim and vigor again.

And if you can't do that, then just take some time off from the game. No game can ever truly be a forever game, not even an MMO. The servers do go offline, eventually, you know, so it'd behoove you to gain other hobbies.

[AnnRam]

This might seem harsh but if you "finished" the patch in a week, this isn't the game for you. We need to stop beating around the bush on this one. The problem isn't the game, its the player, in this case.

Yeah, next time people should do

-1 MSQ quest per day
-1 boss fight per week
-Talk to a NPC 1 time per week

So everyone can extent the patch for next 5 months.

[KitingGenbu]

I think some of the people complaining about the game forgot that this game was never marketed as a 'hardcore' game and Yoshida never treated it as such. The amount of content in this game will always be subjective when you look at it through that lens since not everyone plays the same way. Even the times by which people are listing how fast they clear content is subjective in value since some people are happy only being able to play a few hours a week. There's plenty of titles that will keep you 'busy' everyday if you want them to (Lost Ark and Black Desert Online come to mind), but again, this one was never marketed to be a game like that. Wanting it to be more than what it is or what is 'should be' is a problem with the person, not the game.