The Content Cycle needs to break.

[Wolwosh]

I've been playing since ARR and never really unsub, 14 is my game to relax in and I (used tp)play it a lot, but this patch will be my 1st time that i'm unsubbing since HW.
I Normally always find something to do, but not this patch..
It kept me busy for like a week, 2 weeks at most >_> and I play with friends and don't rush content
I'm so bored and fed up that I don't care to wait for the chaos alliance to arrive(which after a few days will be dead on PF and can only be cleared through DC anyway) also why do we have to wait months for a costum delivery quest to arrive?
I understand that they want us to stay hooked so we don't unsub, but they're failing really hard if they're losing someone like me.
Also i'm really tired of all the orchestrion rewards this expansion.. It is not exciting >_<

[Zakuyia]

Idk it got stuff to do but im not a casual lol I know how to keep myself busy in a mmo

[Varilyon]

This game is garbage and it is getting worse. I am only here for the FOMO.

I didnt buy FFXVI and definitely no other MMO from Square Enix. And yeah, I liked 1.x more than what we have now.


Sorry for being so harsh. But SE ignored all important complaints over the years. FFXIV is just a cash grab from bad story writers. ARR back in the day was a save road for getting money back after that problematic years. But after Budgetbringers EW and now 7.0 and 7.1 they really dont care anymore.

[Avoidy]

The devs genuinely believe that their non-raider playerbase is content with map CBT, the same expert roulette dungeons every day for a year, a five minute run of beast tribes culminating in a mystery gift, and then endless ERP in someone's goonshack. Hell, not even the pvpers could get new rewards from what I've understood.
Meanwhile, for people who enjoy torturing themselves in PF via raiding, like clockwork there are extremes, unreals, savages, ultimates, chaotics.

God help you if you've just wanted an increase to the CWLS cap so you can build a better community. Or improvements to the FC system. Or increased house furniture caps that they promised a year ago. Or some chill variant dungeons. Or a relic to grind for. Or a foray to explore. Or a deep dungeon to dive into with a few friends. That'll come later! If it even comes at all. Lol. Remember when they rolled out the DT roadmap and people were calling it the content expansion? lol. lmao. god forbid they change things up and frontload any of the content with genuine replayability. nono, please wait a year for the expansion to maybe get good. We must satisfy our raiding population that logs in one Tuesday a week and treats this game like a job! What's that? They're all cheating and livestreaming it? Oh well. We just ... can't do anything different! We have to satisfy them, and literally no one else!

... Wait, where is everyone going??? Please don't retire!

[Kaliesto]

Oh they know, you can see it in their faces during interviews. The main issues is that they don’t have the funding to fix it as all of their revenue is going to keep other SE projects alive.

Much as I dislike SE at the moment, but do we have proof of this? I often read this being the case, but I never seen anyone post direct evidence of that.

and then endless ERP in someone's goonshack.

I loled so hard at that.

[Zakuyia]

There is an important question i have to ask. If you all hate the game why not do what I did with EA and drop it completely delete ur account and never look back I did that with league never went back. If your still here it's hard to take ur hate that serious. I can understand the content want but ever heard of voting with ur wallets. You still subbing shows ur complicent with their actions. I hate dawn trail story butI still enjoy the side content. Not enough to make me quit but enough to make my eyebrow shoot through the roof.

[TomsYoungerBro]

There is an important question i have to ask. If you all hate the game why not do what I did with EA and drop it completely delete ur account and never look back I did that with league never went back. If your still here it's hard to take ur hate that serious. I can understand the content want but ever heard of voting with ur wallets. You still subbing shows ur complicent with their actions. I hate dawn trail story butI still enjoy the side content. Not enough to make me quit but enough to make my eyebrow shoot through the roof.

You answered your own question

[PaulusHamsteru]

There is an important question i have to ask. If you all hate the game why not do what I did with EA and drop it completely delete ur account and never look back I did that with league never went back. If your still here it's hard to take ur hate that serious. I can understand the content want but ever heard of voting with ur wallets. You still subbing shows ur complicent with their actions. I hate dawn trail story butI still enjoy the side content. Not enough to make me quit but enough to make my eyebrow shoot through the roof.

It's because most people don't hate the game and just want more content?

[Gunz_Zbestest]

I just wish there were more things to do in this game that existed between "eating crayons" and "party finder required" on the engagement spectrum.

There needs to be a reason to do side quests. Remember how you had to do a small quest to unlock dyeable armor? We need a reason to go down and help a small fishing village and hear about their writing and be rewarded with a unique fishing outfit or an emote at the end of it all.

[Connor]

There needs to be a reason to do side quests. Remember how you had to do a small quest to unlock dyeable armor? We need a reason to go down and help a small fishing village and hear about their writing and be rewarded with a unique fishing outfit or an emote at the end of it all.

Wait, interesting quests with unique or otherwise exclusive rewards? Not in my FFXIV

You’ll take your ‘Talk to 3 people then return to quest giver’ for pretty much every single quest in the entire game’s 11-year lifespan and you will like it. Hell they made literally an entire numbered Final Fantasy game based around that concept, it’s called FFXVI lol…

If you want more there’s always ultimates/savages/extremes… (/sarcasm)

Inb4 someone says ‘there content if you want it you just aren’t looking hard enough’ . I don’t really care if I can spam leves to get 100,000,000 Gil achievement or that I can ‘just do ultimates in PF bruh’ (lol), or that I can totally go ERP in someone’s basement and that’s totally ‘content’ lol.

Players basically get to choose between ‘literally making up their own content (RP)’ or ‘join a static/PF and smash your head against ultimates until everyone else beats it with third party programs so the entire ultimate exercise was entirely pointless’. Not what I’d say is an approachable game design lol…