The Great FFXIV Exodus of 2024

[TimotheusReed]

People can post if their forum character has been logged in the game in the past 2-3 weeks, and usually you need a subscription to log in. That gives people 2-3 weeks to post until the forum logs them out. However, if you login during a free-to-play campaign weekend (which we had at the end of October, 3½ weeks ago) you can also post for a while after that.

My end date is in my signature and you can see for yourself that I will not be able to post in around 3 weeks. I've already dismantled my submarines and emptied my houses for demolition, and the only reason I'm logging in is to sell stuff to empty my inventory so I don't have to deal with it if I use those free weekend campaigns in the future.

Ah okay. I didn't know that. But it still stands why a lot of those people still post regularly on the forums if they wanted to quit the game.
If you really want to quit a game it is propably best if you just move on and don't frequently post on the official forums for a game you already quit.

But we will still see in a few months then if some of those peopel really quit.

[Reinha]

Ah okay. I didn't know that. But it still stands why a lot of those people still post regularly on the forums if they wanted to quit the game.
If you really want to quit a game it is propably best if you just move on and don't frequently post on the official forums for a game you already quit.

Well that's up to the people in question. I don't really see what the big deal is with airing grievances and giving some final feedback to the devs especially if someone has been playing this one game longer than a lot of marriages last these days. It can be cathartic and maybe even help with the process of moving on.

I can't speak for anyone on that matter or guarantee that they really quit or took a break. This thread isn't a call for a movement but rather an observation of this anomaly where someone says "I'm quitting" and they don't get 29 responses saying "can I have your stuff" or "don't let the door hit you", but instead 29 other people say they are quitting too. It's unprecedented. Players, subscribed or not, are not acting like they used to and it's clear as day to me that this game is at a turning point. Time will tell if people really are leaving or not.

[genuine_stranger]

I never understood from a business standpoint why wow doesn't have cat girls yet... Cat girl should be default in every mmo.Dragon freak Dracthyr are ugly as hell. All the new horde allied races are just as ugly.

Because weeb shit has no place in a nerd game!

FFXIV is a weeb game, WoW is only for nerds. Get that right, jeez!


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[Connor]

Because weeb shit has no place in a nerd game!

FFXIV is a weeb game, WoW is only for nerds. Get that right, jeez!


/s

What if you’re a nerd and a weeb. A neeb? Werd?

[Schan]

What if you’re a nerd and a weeb. A neeb? Werd?

Now these are the real questions one should be asking.

[TimotheusReed]

Well that's up to the people in question. I don't really see what the big deal is with airing grievances and giving some final feedback to the devs especially if someone has been playing this one game longer than a lot of marriages last these days. It can be cathartic and maybe even help with the process of moving on.

I can't speak for anyone on that matter or guarantee that they really quit or took a break. This thread isn't a call for a movement but rather an observation of this anomaly where someone says "I'm quitting" and they don't get 29 responses saying "can I have your stuff" or "don't let the door hit you", but instead 29 other people say they are quitting too. It's unprecedented. Players, subscribed or not, are not acting like they used to and it's clear as day to me that this game is at a turning point. Time will tell if people really are leaving or not.

To be fair even in WoW there always were many people joining in once a person talked about quitting. And I say this as a person who has played WoW on and off since OG Classic WoW in 2004.
The MMO discussions haven't really changed since then.

People always talked about letting their subscription run out, they always talked about the game dying and class balance was always a problem.
These discussions have been the same since the beginning of MMOs. And as someone who has played multiple MMOs I feel like I know when a game really is struggling.

I know the state of MMO communities once a game is REALLY dying. I was there when Warhammer and Wildstar shut down.
And FFXIV is far far away from that point in its current state.

Also WoW was in its most succesful state at the time many people talked about WoW dying.

As long as people discuss FFXIV (even if it is negative) the MMO still is in a healthy state. Because this still shows that people care about a game.

[Sifpatata]

I've been playing since 2020, I'm just going to say that I loved ffxiv the first time I played it and I'm still playing it. Sometimes I give myself my breaks however, this expansion leaves something to be desired. I guess the anger and frustration from the previous expansion finally broke out. and I understand them, I too am angry at yoshida, I join the players who demand a quality msq and casual content.

The pandemic fucked everything up, yes, but that's no reason to take 5 months to deliver a patch with little casual content and to top it all off, extending the life of the patch in a blatant way is the most stupid things ever

[Astrus]

Quitting an MMO often means wildly different things to people.

I quit WoW, multiple times. The last time a month after Shadowlands launched. I'm currently one good deal on their expansion away from coming back to see what's changed.
I quit The Secret World when they relaunched, despite having a lifetime subscription for it. This is one of the three MMORPGs I've actually, consciously, quit for good.
I quit Warhammer and Wildstar, because the games shut down for good and I didn't have a choice.
I quit a lot of games I never really started like LOTRO (never really clicked with me, stopped 2 months in), Age of Conan (broken mess on launch, came back 6 months after release to find it still broken, stopped bothering) and a lot of F2P titles that didn't click or turned out to be P2W cashgrabs. LotRO and AoC lost me for good when they deleted my characters/accounts.
I simply lost interest in other games and never bothered to come back like DAoC (my first MMO, I hear it's still running somehow?),Rift and SWTOR (which now seem to be some F2P conversion affair?).

I pause a bunch of others I have all intention of getting back to, eventually. I just don't have the time to play everything simultaneously. GW2 is one of those, Warframe was another I recently got back into.

As for FFXIV, I'm now what I see referred to as a seasonal subscription after having been continuously subscribed to it ever since picking the game back up when Stormblood was announced. (I did initially "quit" over Titan Ex when the EU servers were in Narnia, come to think of it)
I come back occasionally for seasonal events if the rewards are interesting or to check out major cotent patches.
7.1 didn't exactly manage to grab my interest so my sub is currently set to expire on the 27th (resubbed for All Saints' Wake) and since Starlight Celebration doesn't look too interesting I'll probably only be back for Heavensturn if we get more than a mascot minion or whatever events we get after that leading up to 7.2
Unless one of the people I used to play with comes back and wants to do something, everyone stopped playing after 7.0 (two are still house-logging but not doing anything besides that) and XIV is not my flavor of longterm solo MMORPG.
I'm not at the point where I'd say I'm quitting the game but my engagement with it is decreasing and they run the risk of losing my interest and the game eventually slipping off my radar.

[JimCasey_RF6]

People can post if their forum character has been logged in the game in the past 2-3 weeks, and usually you need a subscription to log in. That gives people 2-3 weeks to post until the forum logs them out. However, if you login during a free-to-play campaign weekend (which we had at the end of October, 3½ weeks ago) you can also post for a while after that.

My end date is in my signature and you can see for yourself that I will not be able to post in around 3 weeks. I've already dismantled my submarines and emptied my houses for demolition, and the only reason I'm logging in is to sell stuff to empty my inventory so I don't have to deal with it if I use those free weekend campaigns in the future. So the last login will be on my last day and should give you an accurate estimate of how long people can post.

Woah. Dismantling your submarines and prepping your houses for demolition? Are you sure you want to do that? We don't know each other much but I'd be happy to make a character or two on your server to help you save that aspect of your progress if you want while you are away from the game.

[xbahax92]

We have to wait so many months to get refreshing content. Staggered content releases worked during previous expansions, but it simply doesn't anymore with a 5 month patch cycle. The content is consumed way to fast and it doesnt last long enough.

And I think, CBU3 has to restructure content. It's simply not enough to release 1 dungeon, 1 extreme primal, 1 raid, 1 custom delivery, 1 allied tribe per patch. FFXIV needs new reward structures and a better progression system besides the LEVEL 100 bar.