I can't find the fun in this game any more

[Reap00]

I loved this game from when I started in 3.4 to Endwalker, and Endwalker killed it for me. I can barely be bothered to finish the MSQ for months after the patch's release, and have no more desire to do even extreme trials or 24 man raids, much less savage. Dawntrail looks even worse than Endwalker. The new jobs are not interesting or emotionally investing at all. It's sickening how they make BLU a limited job but Pictomancer a DPS. I love Relm from FF6, but BLU is the staple FF job.

I hate to see how much this game peaked in Heavensward and Shadowbringers only to plummet so far down with no recovery in sight.

Before you redditors cry about negativity, I loved this game. I have every right to criticize it, and do so because I want to see it be good again instead of bad as it currently is. I want to love FF14, but currently I only do for what it was, not what it became. The direction has shifted entirely in the wrong way.

Are you aware other video games exist? Go play them. Come back to XIV down the road if you desire. Why do you continue to play a game that you are no longer enjoying? I have been playing XIV since 1.0 and absolutely love the game to this day. The new Dawntrail announcements are extremely exciting. The expansion looks fantastic.

[Mithron]

Are you aware other video games exist? Go play them. Come back to XIV down the road if you desire. Why do you continue to play a game that you are no longer enjoying? I have been playing XIV since 1.0 and absolutely love the game to this day. The new Dawntrail announcements are extremely exciting. The expansion looks fantastic.

That's all I've been doing for the past two years since EW, yet I never needed to in HW -> SHB. I still played other games but kept current on XIV. Now I can't even do the basic casual content in XIV. The "if you desire" is the problem, the "desire" has left and the direction shift of the game caused it.

And no, the game is far different today than it was in HW. HW had much higher skill caps of each job and far more actual job variety with complexity. Now every job's the same yet the balance is the worst it's ever been with some jobs needing to be locked out of week 1 Savage, with what was it, a total of 3 WAR clears in week 1 worldwide? Don't even get me started on the two minute meta. The story was also infinitely better and less pandering to today's immoral social "standards" to fit a real world political agenda instead of just telling a good FF story.

I have no emotional investment with Viper or Pictomancer. Viper is meant to be some kind of spinoff from Zidane, which is okay but we have so many better options of jobs right now like Mystic Knight spellblade enspeller, or a Geomancer Earth/Wind/Water caster. Pictomancer would be the perfect fit for limited job content while we could've had an actual good emotionally investing real job instead to replace it. Instead we got Splattoon for the rest of FFXIV's future. The devs are just so out of their depth now and out of touch with their game and the actual playerbase.

It's sad to see it go after it rose so far.

[MistakeNot]

I have no emotional investment with Viper or Pictomancer.

And I have no emotional investment in Warrior or Black Mage, because they just don't interest me much.
What's your point?

[Mithron]

And I have no emotional investment in Warrior or Black Mage, because they just don't interest me much.
What's your point?

War and BLM have been around since the beginning of FF. They are classic jobs that deserve to be in the game's main line job choices. Just as Mystic Knight and Geomancer do. Viper does not and Pictomancer could be argued it does and I'm not against its addition, but to see it before the others and especially as a real job when BLU is limited is really dumb. I'm also not against FF14 adding more original jobs; they should just do it after exhausting more classic jobs first, particularly ones that actually deserve to be added in XIV, such as Mystic Knight and Geomancer.