Ultimate demise of 14?

[Supersnow845]

6k hours, you need a break. a LONG break.

I’ve played this game for its entire lifespan (so just on 13 years this month) and in that 13 years I’ve spent almost 10 on break. The 5 or so I’ve been active I’ve never spent more than maybe 5 or 6 months where this was the only game I played

So I worked full time that entire 13 years (more than full time really usually averaging 60 hours) have been on break for more than 66% of it and even when I’m not on break I can barely justify having it as my only game when i only get about 15 hours of free time per week

That’s just a lack of repeatable content in a live service game, not a need to go on break because you overplayed it

[Aldath]

I’ve played this game for its entire lifespan (so just on 15 years this month) and in that 15 years I’ve spent more than 10 on break. The 5 I’ve been active I’ve never spent more than maybe 5 or 6 months where this was the only game I played

So I worked full time that entire 15 years (more than full time really usually averaging 60 hours) have been on break for more than 66% of it and even when I’m not on break I can barely justify having it as my only game when i only get about 15 hours of free time per week

That’s just a lack of repeatable content in a live service game, not a need to go on break because you overplayed it

Thing is, there is PLENTY of content in between dungeons, Alliance raids, raids and Savage, trials and extreme, variant dungeons, deep dungeons, etc.

Thing is, there's no reason why you'd want to repeat it besides roulette, and that becomes irrelevant once you hit 100 with whatever you plan to play. Take into account most of this content hasn't been touched in a decade and it's objectively not fun to play. There's plenty of very fun content that I like to quarter just for the sake of playing it, but unless you're a healer you'll have to wait up to 40 minutes for non MSQ content.

They introduced Ultimates to shake things up, but they cycle them at an insultingly slow pace. They added Wondrous Tails, but people would rather play them unsynced.

And if you want to play old endgame then there are Discord channels. Just try to recruit there and in PF and be ready to wait up to two hours to play, hours you could be using to play anything else.

There's a reason why games that try to emulate the Trial and Raiding experience of XIV, like Rabbit and Steel, are slowly becoming a thing.