How i kicked the habit (FFXIV).

[Saraide]

Lol this forum community...

Somebody: "This game has problems and SE isn't doing anything about it."
Community: "If you don't like playing then go play something else!"
Somebody: "Aight, Imma just head out and play something else then, thanks all!"
Community: "WTF? The nerve of you! Stop bragging! Stop having fun elsewhere!"

Well sorry no one is taking a post that reads like a caffe machiato post seriously.

[AlexiaD]

Keep showing how rotten to the core this community is guys, keep it up lmao

[Nizzi]

Are we really at a point as a society where we have to brag about how we managed to (evidently not completely) ween ourselves off of a video game?

Are we really at a point as a society where we have to call ourselves "survivors" and "refugees" because we managed to ween ourselves off of a videogame?

Oh wait, that's you!

Also was a 16 year WoW survivor

[AlexiaD]

Are we really at a point as a society where we have to call ourselves "survivors" and "refugees" because we managed to ween ourselves off of a videogame?

Oh wait, that's you!

Gottem lmao

[ZephyrMenodora]

Happy for you OP! If FFXIV got to the point where it was a habit that needed to be kicked, I'm glad you took steps. There's so much fun to be had out there - from amazing devs with all new stories to experience. Enjoy your time!

I also divide my time among various interests and through that have had little issue with XIV myself.

[Izar_Chillen]

Yeah!

I got all my heart of thorns mastery points from a big train with like 100 people, the community is so active in the open world

Indeed , and with the blending into super servers we all probably ran with the same guilds running them . I last did my mastery point/catch up on expansion story GW2 binge late last year into jan and took a break.

I wil say tho the vanilla OW stuff is pretty boring and its hard to find stuff other than mentor zerging in the zombie shores areas unless you dedicate yourself to a guild or keep up with stuff on discord and i hate doing both but im old and miserable


bah humbugs n , get off ma lawn/garden patio and stuff !

[caffe_macchiato]

The whole point of FFXIV is to let you play other games. That’s why we all love it. We do the MSQ once or twice a year and then play other games. In fact, FFXIV is a great way to meet people to play other games with. Square Enix WANTS you to stop playing so you can buy FF16 (which has been confirmed GOTY and GOAT).

YoshiP: You're Welcome.

So true. FFXIV was never intended to be a competitor to WoW, GW2, PSO2, Genshin, or any other live-service game. It’s simply a companion app to those. It lets you find people to play those “main games” with. Think of it like Discord: you don’t just type on Discord all day, you leave it on in the background while doing other stuff. No wonder people are getting burnt out, they’re treating a side dish like an entree.

For many of us, FFXIV is still fun and offers literally years worth of content in store for us.

Factually incorrect. Please read the above-quoted post. FFXIV was never meant to feed your addiction. If this game has “years” of content, then OP is full of shit and is just trolling us, in which case you should report him. That also means Yoshi-P is wrong, and you wouldn’t disagree with him, would you?

[Kaurhz]

Uh... Good for you I guess. No, really...

It's important to anyone unsatisfied beyond a certain point that the game direction may not still be catering to them. Granted, this shouldn't be used to dismiss feedback, but rather there's a certain point where you're screaming into a void. I've had it in countless other games, and have just opted to move on, just as I would with this game if/when that happens. Especially if it gets to a point where you feel it noticeably affects your mental health.

So, again, good on you, and I wish you all the best in other games.

[OM3GA-Z3RO]

Well sorry no one is taking a post that reads like a caffe machiato post seriously.

I am so sorry that you are so jaded. Never to be able to see the good in things ever again.

[Ath192]

I just stopped logging in.

That was the secret to kicking the habit, to just walk away.

Years of pent up frustrations with the direction the game has taken, catering all content to people that want to turn XIV into IMVU, and don't want the be challenged by even the smallest difficulty.

It's been 3 weeks, i am a much happier person. I have explored multiple other games, even picked up some side games to play in the 6 months between content patches that XIV has.

Guild Wars 2, Fantastic MMO, the world actually feels alive, people constantly active in old and new zones alike, actual world content with rewards that makes it worth completing.

Diablo 4, Another good story, although post 70, the game is utter repetitive garbage and I've already stopped playing it at level 92. Hopefully seasons improve the game, or else that will just be dropped in general.

ARAM games with friends on LoL, nothing serious, just messing around having fun.

This is the true way to play XIV and remain happy with the game, and i finally understand that. NOT playing the game is the secret to enjoying the game over a long period of time.

For 9 years i have been blinded by the simple truth that XIV is not a main MMO. it is made to be played a few times per year, catching up with content and then moving back onto other games.

Thank you to whoever told me to go play other games, because XIV will not change regardless of how much feedback you throw at it, and coming to that realization has allowed me to move on and improved my mental health significantly.

SE has an insane fear of developing an MMO that can be played 24/7 for fear of people becoming addicted and losing their real lives. The warning messages in XI and 1.0, as well as their punishment system in 1.0 made this obvious, wherein if you played too much you couldn't progress anymore. This crucial fear hampers them from producing a game at its full potential and also fails at keeping people from becoming addicted to this crippled MMO and or other things.

In other words, it doesn't prevent anything and it could be much better. But yes, indeed, the solution is to play this as a side piece for as long as it entertains you.

As a single play through story game this is an 8/10, as a game as a live service this game is a 3/10. Categorically awful to play year round and pay the sub the whole time.