Quote Originally Posted by Reap00 View Post
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.