The Perfect Response to "Take a Break"

[Carin-Eri]

You hate the game, you've shown this enough times already, you bash the game on the daily, you write multiple novels because you don't like the story and you think what you write is better, you keep saying that the game is not keeping your interest anymore because it's not catering to you.


In your case and your context, take a break ain't even worth it, you hate the game so much that you should just quit imo, there is nothing for you here

There's literally only 2 people that I have told they honestly should just quit in over 2000 posts, you are one of the two, this game isn't for you my dude, stop trying to shape it to what you like with your made up stories, let the devs do their job and if you don't like it, just go

I agree.

I realise I seem to bring up the fact that I played/quit another game prior to being introduced to FFXIV quite often, but the fact is, I was a little like Aveyond once. My distaste for what that game had devolved into did lead to me posting negatively on the official forums and social media attached to that game but, after a time, I realised that it wasn't achieving anything. It sure as hell didn't make me feel better about anything, the Devs and CM were infamous for having outright said (in a livestream) that feedback from the "vocal minority" on the game's forum/social media was ignored in favor of metrics. And whilst there were plenty of players who agreed/felt the same way... it just didn't matter. Their commitment to pumping out lootboxes and £300 bundles of items and only producing one new episode, worth about 45 minutes of play-time, every six months was never going to be dropped because their cherry-picked metrics told them what they wanted to hear.

So I quit that game, took up the recommendation to try FFXIV, felt better for it and haven't looked back. And I'm not saying that FFXIV is perfect. Not at all. But, as unpopular as 'whataboutism' may be here, I still feel that things could be far worse.

[Noumenon]

Devs and CM were infamous for having outright said (in a livestream) that feedback from the "vocal minority" on the game's forum/social media was ignored in favor of metrics.

That sounds very much like FF14, with the recent interview on relics

[Carin-Eri]

That sounds very much like FF14, with the recent interview on relics

Yeah - I'll concede the similarities, although in the case I was referring to it was far more about them justifying their commitment to lootboxes.

[Lunaxia]

I agree.

I realise I seem to bring up the fact that I played/quit another game prior to being introduced to FFXIV quite often...

Not discounting your opinion, but I skim-read your post and thought you were actually talking about this game until the last few sentences, lol.

I've been playing a long time, and, well, not so much in defence of OP but unhappy players in general, I personally find it pretty hard to imagine FFXIV being much worse than what it is now, especially compared to when I started. I'm having a "rechecking the empty fridge" moment myself and nothing has changed the fact that the game feels horribly mismanaged and boring to play right now. If anything, it only feels more obnoxiously flawed, because you're actively up for playing only to find there's nothing interesting to do.

[Carin-Eri]

Not discounting your opinion, but I skim-read your post and thought you were actually talking about this game until the last few sentences, lol.

I've been playing a long time, and, well, not so much in defence of OP but unhappy players in general, I personally find it pretty hard to imagine FFXIV being much worse than what it is now, especially compared to when I started. I'm having a "rechecking the empty fridge" moment myself and nothing has changed the fact that the game feels horribly mismanaged and boring to play right now. If anything, it only feels more obnoxiously flawed, because you're actively up for playing only to find there's nothing interesting to do.

Hm, well - in hindsight I've only been playing FFXIV for close to two years at this point and probably don't see what the long-term players see.

Still, if nothing else, I'll always appreciate the lack of lootboxes!