Disappointed With XIV Direction

[Fuyuqi]

Why not take a break and hoard the content, so when you return, there will be lots of it.

Because part of the fun of a social game is playing content when it's fresh and having a large community to share it with. Drip feeding content this slowly is just a typical predatory player retention strategy just like weekly loot lockouts and tome caps. They don't actually want people to leave and come back when there's more to do. Just like any live service game they use FOMO and timegating to stretch people's game time over as long of a period as possible so that people keep their subs going instead of being able to play however much they want when they want to, and as little as they want when they don't feel like it. And the longer they stretch things out over, and the less satisfying content they provide, the more people will grow frustrated.

[Fuyuqi]

I’m an anaesthesiologist and regularly work 80-90 hour weeks.
If you can play functionally non stop for 11 years and still have your average skill total be closer to 1 than to 100 then you really can’t claim authority on the average speed of the playerbase and their desire for more content.

Hey, high five fellow medical field WoL. Similar story for me, and I took 3 years just to catch up on MSQ with the pace I played at. The only content I feel like I haven't touched is Eureka (which I tried but didn't want to continue because of how dead it was), big fishing, and trusts. I have no clue what pace this person thinks is normal to take the game at LOL.

[Reinha]

Why not take a break and hoard the content, so when you return, there will be lots of it.

That's a good individual solution but designing an MMO that way destroys the social aspect. I've got someone on my friends list that I saw logged in during DT and I couldn't be bothered to message them because the last time we spoke in game was more than 2 years ago and also 2 years before that. Because they've been unsubbed.

The only people with connections in this game have them because they stay connected outside of the game. This was the case even in my last fc where barely anyone used fc chat and the core members were active on discord. But I refuse to do a second shift on discord to stay in contact with people after playing the game by myself, because that would be an unhealthy time commitment and it also wouldn't change the fact that I'm doing content alone most of the time.

ARR and HW were the most social era this game has seen and it's been downhill ever since. It used to be a good MMO but it's not good enough as a single player game like the devs want it to be, and I'm better off playing actual single player games from now on. I'll probably jump back during a free login campaign to do the content I already paid for when I bought the expansion, but the thought that I can catch up on everything I missed in 4 days is just sad.

[Xelanar]

Yesterday I decided to unlock Custom Deliveries for Margrat, because I noticed I had forgotten those for some reason.
Upon starting the quest I was immediatly drawn in by entertaining fun dialogue that had a surprising amount of conflict and character and depth to it.

Dawntrail's writing just fades in comparison. It's bland, shallow and plainly uninteresting to me. The Pelupelu Society Quest line features no interesting dialogue and annoyingly long drawn-out expositions. I'm not even addressing the MSQ because we all know how that goes.

I have no idea what they did to FFXIV's authors, but the quality of dialogue and story is just lacking. Were they moved to the raiding department? Because combat encounters is what Dawntrail really shines at.

Bottom line I don't like the game's direction either. If not for housing, I would probably unsubscribe after getting my SPEEEEEEEEENE wings.

[Axxion]

For someone playing 11 years excluding 1.0, I have less than 300 forum posts. This tells you I play the game more than dwelling in the forums. As for you, registered 3 years with 2.8k posts ... says another thing.

I usually come forum for information on the game but recent months (year?) I see ridiculous posts asking, whining, complaining & badgering SE & FF team and also the players that love this game. This is not acceptable.

If you don't like this game, please leave and unsub.

Please give the forum back to us.

i try not to chime on these but man you have alot to learn about the forums. I have played since 2.0 and took a year break in storm blood. You can create something way late and have alot of post if you want to discuss. As a fan and ffxiv enjoyer

[Chasingstars]

Lets see whats on my to do list:

Complete the MSQ on alts
Farm gear for alts
Do FF11 Alliance Raid to farm gear tokens and orchestrion rolls on main for later
Do PeluPelu Tribe quests
Farm mount tokens for barreltender mount

2/5ths of that is just extra work I made for myself.

I liked the part of the MSQ involving Shaaloani. I liked the dungeon as it sort of scratched that shadowbringers itch.

I don't plan to do Unreal Jade Stoa, nor Chaotic Cloud of Darkness, nor Ultimate Futures Rewritten

Only reason I stay subbed is a house and what I have developed on an island sanctuary.

[Doki]

When you "Take a break" you miss out on being able to ever get some mounts & minions EVER because they refuse to ever re-release things in PvP, even the ones they say they will.

[AnnRam]

Why not take a break and hoard the content, so when you return, there will be lots of it.

People like you are completely brainwashed by Yoshida.

"Pay the sub for one year, but we only deliver 3 patches yearly that last less than 30 days to catch up/clear, please look forward".

Meanwhile f2p games out there gives you massive events every 2 weeks, patches every month, COLABORATIONS with other games and include more content and guess what? they don't ask you to pay 15 usd plus tax plus all the cool items are behind a CASH shop in a BASED subscription game.

And if you want more space? pay for additional retainers, and absolutely 0 compensations for taking a day off of your sub because weekly maintenances.

[xxmiamorecadenza]

Why not take a break and hoard the content, so when you return, there will be lots of it.

Weren't folks punished for a spell by not doing Bozja immediately? Likely some were those who did just that - wait.

What was the instance again? Castrum Lacus Litore?

When folks didn't do it while the content was fresh they had to wait for AGES to get enough folks to complete the instance and progress the story if they didn't utilize Discord. I still recall so many people complaining in shout chat in each instance.

[Supersnow845]

Weren't folks punished for a spell by not doing Bozja immediately? Likely some were those who did just that - wait.

What was the instance again? Castrum Lacus Litore?

When folks didn't do it while the content was fresh they had to wait for AGES to get enough folks to complete the instance and progress the story if they didn't utilize Discord. I still recall so many people complaining in shout chat in each instance.

That was only for the patch where CLL was the “endgame” of Bozja

Once completing CLL became needed to progress to DRN then Zadnor it was totally fine

I don’t agree with the person you quoted but CLL is not a good counterexample