Burn Out

[FuturePastNow]

I'm making all the old relic weapons. I finished all the ShB weapons after collecting materials for over a year; I've got 6 ARR relics and 7 HW relics left and have hoarded all the components I can stockpile for them, so I'm just slowly plugging away at it. After that I will only have the Eureka weapons (and current ones) left.

This is... perhaps not a plan to avoid burn-out. But mindless number-go-up grind is something to do.

[Derio]

I've been burnt out as well. I'm usually logging in once every two weeks but it is no longer than 30 minutes. I was hoping for a good grind in OC. But that was just roulette spam which I recently completed 3 weeks ago and have slowed down logging in since.

I tried the deep dungeon and got bored of it because its like previous deep dungeons. During Shadownbringers and Stormblood this was the time where I was knee deep in exploration content but they didnt add anything in 7.3 for exploration content. I was burnt out on the crafting and gathering exploration style content. I've been doing what Yoshi P recommends and that is playing other games.

[TaleraRistain]

It definitely does sound like you have burnout from the tone of your post.

You say "tied to" playing the game every day. You say your friend group are annoying for still playing every day.

The answer could simply be that they are still enjoying the game. That's why many of us still play every day.

There's nothing wrong with a break. Take some time away. Do something else that makes you happy. Come back when the urge strikes. You will be a lot happier when you choose to play the game and get something in return for it than forcing yourself to because you see it as an obligation.

[Infindox]

I've begun a slow-burn campaign in getting my FC-mates to try other MMOs--I hear that the new WoW housing system is promising, so if I can get a critical mass of them to at least try it, that'd probably be ideal.

Truth be told my FC is the only reason I'm still playing FFXIV, the visual novel MSQ by itself isn't enough to keep me engaged and all other content is either low quality or not what I want to engage with. Running raids and M+ in WoW with them would be peak content

Good luck, because there are too many people that play XIV as their only MMO.

[LarsBehe]

It definitely does sound like you have burnout from the tone of your post.

You say "tied to" playing the game every day. You say your friend group are annoying for still playing every day.

The answer could simply be that they are still enjoying the game. That's why many of us still play every day.

There's nothing wrong with a break. Take some time away. Do something else that makes you happy. Come back when the urge strikes. You will be a lot happier when you choose to play the game and get something in return for it than forcing yourself to because you see it as an obligation.

I think out of all of the responses this one is probably the best one I've gotten imo. I guess if some of my friend group still play they're getting some level of enjoyment from still playing I cant really deny that and its not really my place to take that enjoyment away. I just wish I could play something with said friend group that isn't XIV is where my frustration is coming from. Especially since personally the state of the game isn't holding my interest as it was back when I first started playing during late HW to now.

[Avoidy]

I like to see my Gil number go up, so I play to level my submarines and make money through maps and crafting.
That being said, actually selling things is difficult right now since there are fewer people playing and less demand for my products as a result. I, too, am feeling burnt out on logging in to basically adjust my prices on dozens of goods that still haven't sold, and then proceed to do the same handful of tasks I do every day. Sometimes when I'm really bored, I go to Dynamis and help their sprouts in the partyfinder, because they'll post MSQ things in there. But since I work late hours, I'm effectively nocturnal and most of this game shuts down while I'm still wide awake. I'm bored often. If we had a relevant variant dungeon, I'd probably solo it for hours on end during these times. But we don't. And soloing the deep dungeon puts me to sleep. So yeah.

A lot of my friends have quit until December when the next patch releases. But if there's anything I've learned over the years, it's that every expansion fewer and fewer people actually return to this game. I need to clean out my friends list, but anytime I open it, it takes so long to load that I just give up and do something else.

[Xuled]

housing. thats it. thats what keeps me logging in.

[UkcsAlias]

People need to stop calling it burnout.
Burnout is when you play the game so much that you get exhausted by it.

Well, i have a semi-similar experience. Since our group is still doing savage (we arent fully done with the m8s farm yet), it can take up 3 days a week of raiding, which is that much that i cant be bothered doing the extremes. Which as a result means that a lot of the time i just dont have anything to do. I realy cant care about PT (or PotD to begin with), which means that there is barely any content left.

Its not that i dont like the content (the last 2 extremes are fun to me). But i dont want to exhaust myself further into doing the 'harder' content.

And as a result i usualy just go for completely diffirent games outside of raiding days.

To me there is no good casual content that you can realy grind. Alliance raids are nice due to the length, but you cant keep doing these either. But most of the content is either hard to access (long grind before that if relatively new), or above casual difficulty (often extreme or higher). OC just failed horribly at keeping casual players interested. And because its grind requires a raid thats over average difficulty, even that doesnt provide any farming potential.

Normal mode content is heavily underrated by the devs, yet being more approachable is critical for casuals to keep interested. If those casuals are done with any grind, then they are already completely done with all activities. Give them more grindable content, and at most allow extreme versions of it to shortcut some of the grind (and still provide a separate unique reward to them): for example: normal mode has grindable mount at 50 clears, extreme has another mount at 50 clears, but also grants progress for the normal one (extreme remains more efficient, but normal mode keeps relevant for a long time). And if you realy want to take it further, you can make the normal mode require 75 and extreme 50 clears, so this way the normal mode remains relevant even for the extreme player (25 casual clears, or 25 assists in extreme, being completely free to choose whichever you want)

[BlisteringFrost]

Bless you for this, because as someone who also plays late night while being on Dynamis I can't always help every sprout trapped behind mandatory MSQ dungeons/trials.

I'm at the point where I WANT Square-Enix to bring over 8-man Crystal Tower from the mobile version because I get so tired and so upset having to watch sprouts struggle to find even 12 people for the goddamn pads.

Being the solution for SE's mistake is not the correct choice.

[Nyastra]

So as the title implies, I'm kinda burnt out on XIV for now. Haven't really logged in all that much to do anything other than a few obligations. That and I haven't really been having fun with the game in general with the current expansion. It's mostly just get Savage done, farm the current EX trail for the mount, and maybe a few side activities here and there like the Cosmic Exploration and Deep Dungeon. Maybe do an Ultimate with a close friend group as well, but other than that I just don't have much drive to play.

I've kinda done most of what I wanted to do and it just seems like forcing myself to play is not healthy and seems to make the game less enjoyable. What is it that's keeping some people logging in every day? Kinda having a hard time understanding whats keeping people tied to playing this game every day since some in my friend group are guilty of that and its a tad annoying tbh (not to the general player base but my friend group). There's plenty of other games out there to play in the backlog and in general. Also another question would be what would any of you suggest to do when suffering from burn out?

Speaking for myself, what keeps me logging in is routine. It's been a part of my unwinding routine for so long. I don't do HC raiding or stuff like that, but I do spend time in the game working on achievements etc.

I have taken breaks before and played other games, but I keep coming back to FFXIV cause it feels like home.