Unsubbed Thread (Tell us why)

[Talael]

I wont unsub just yet cause of housing and i still love the world lore, but when i think that we could had a amazing pirate expansion in the new world and instead we got this peacefull, boring, dull and disappointing contest i almost get the urge to delet my characters.

How can anyone even approve such a bland story?

[KurenXIV]

I no longer feel I am getting value for my monthly sub. After years of supporting the game (from ARR till now) it's clear SE doesn't want to invest in the game any more; and I'd rather not pay monthly just to have my money go towards more failed projects of theirs.

If, and this is a big if, they can release an expansion with a reasonable amount of content (ie: none of this 'wait till 1 year or longer after the expansion to get most of the good stuff/repeatable content) AND reduce the duration of patch cycles while keeping a good amount of content in said patch cycles, I'll re-sub. I highly doubt that will happen though.

[Gurgeh]

Unsubed.

There are specific things that led to the following, but more essentially comes down to the following, (such that multiple ways of fixing it I'd accept):

Why I actually unsubbed

• I had loads of happy friends at the end of EW looking forward to DT. About six weeks after DT, I had no friends still logging in on my DC. (No one to run any content or rouls with, no hopes of having friends to do extremes with again, or maybe even try Savage for the first time... all evaporated.) I have almost zero reason to hope I'll ever be able to play with them again.
• It makes me 'sad' to see all those happy sprouts, bouncing around on Chaos... and to think of the pain some of them will have to go through... when they realise they are getting a 4th class experince on Chaos that they now have to accept... or they are going to have to loose their friends and exodus to Light. And Square Enix not only doesn't care enough to fix it, then don't care enough to offer and 'adequate' explanation. For this we need detail. (What's the 'specification' of what you think needs doing to fix it? and why technically cant you do it? Make a promise [not like with chat bubbles though])

Why am I staying away indefinitely,

• Even if I made friends on Light I'll loose most of them when they hit endgame I think unless they RP which I don't do.
• I'm very bored with the everything easier than extremes, and I don't enjoy the PF culture of "only join my PF if your going come up to scratch and help me do business, and get my clear, so I can F off, Im not here to play the game 'with' any you, I just have to is all")

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The background.

I was on Chaos. Everyone I knew stopped playing, bored not having fun, for whatever reason.
Its hard building communities of casual players, when the game never keeps them for long, and you have to constantly kick people who are not logging in 'now' because of a useless CWLS limit of 64.
I had for a long time been tired of struggling to queue a lot of content on Chaos (basic casual stuff) and then heading over to Light and immediately getting a sub 5 minute pop.
Getting the same boring ARR HW instances in rouls on Chaos, and getting way better random later game instances on Light.
So I transferred to Light... I now had zero hope I'd even see those one or two people I used to know just to say 'hi' to. Although it was literally max of two at a time online.
The loss of my estate (or an estate a friend 'loved' building for me) hurt quite a bit.
I was unhappy.
That left the content. Great as they were I was bored with AAC normals and everything below that.
Extremes? I got my one clear in each, and yeah... I wasn't going to suffer 300 wipes, and numerous rude party abandons in PF for !99! totems when I barely want mounts myself anyway. I'd have happily queued those Extremes for no reward in a roul or duty finder all day long, if I didn't have to worry about measuring up to a PF advertisement, or people getting irritated and abandoning because their clear wasn't guaranteed.

No friends. A Bad taste in my mouth. No 'enjoyable' BS free 'gameplay' for me.

[Sensui]

Unsubbed. Issues as listed in previous threads.

[Araxes]

I am really just still here because i don't wanna lose the house i had for Years.

I stopped raiding a long time ago cause the struggle isn't worth it. 2 Patches later you throw everything away you worked months for. Sadly, casual content gets completely sidelined or outright forgotten. Yay we get a savage alliance raid which will probably require the use of the bullyfinder. Nice.

Also the Patch cycles are rediculous right now. We get much less content than years ago but they allow themselves more and more time to make it. SE is pumping FF14's money in failing nonsense instead of expanding the ONE Game that keeps them afloat.

PvP removed my 2 favorite Roles and made EVERYBODY a DPS. I literally can no longer be a Healer or a Tank. (I play since the end of ARR)
Having started the Game early, the only thing that is left from what the Game once was are the characters and the Story. I have SOME hopium left still but if there are no big improvements, i might really just give up like i did on other Games.

[Volgia]

I thought unsubbed people couldn't post here?

[Reinha]

I thought unsubbed people couldn't post here?

People whose forum character hasn't logged in the game in the past 2 weeks can't post here.

[Volgia]

People whose forum character hasn't logged in the game in the past 2 weeks can't post here.

Ah I see.

I usually stay unsubbed if an Ultimate doesn't grab me, so I unsub for .1, .3 and .5 patches. The .5 patches actually make me unsub for nearly a year.
After reaching endgame I kind of accepted that FFXIV doesn't have enough content to grab my time and that's fine.

If the new Field zone is interesting I might stay a bit longer but I usually don't stay subbed unless there's a savage going on.

[Gurgeh]

People whose forum character hasn't logged in the game in the past 2 weeks can't post here.

Well that's a relief. As usual I care more than is normal and that should help put a stop to that.

[IvoryHawk]

https://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...86e62eb3d6f4a5

For anyone wondering, there's flooding in spain so Chaos/Light are now safe to unsub, godbless spain.