IS it just me... or is FFXIV boring?

[He-Saiyan]

That's funny. Because I went back to XI about a year ago and found myself bored to tears.

I only played pet classes, & "Bored" is subjective which is why I left it open to debate by saying "I can see why the game would be boring" as opposed to saying "The game is boring if you played XI."

I like the combat, the monsters, the animations, but my main jobs are not in the game as a former FFXI player.

[Bacons]

It's clear you're a new player, so here's some brutal honesty for you. This game is boring as hell for your first 50 levels. It really is. The ARR content just drags on, no classes really get good rotations, it sucks. It gets a little better in Heavensward, then better again in Stormblood, and it shines in Shadowbringers.

Once you actually get to endgame there's a lot to do. Raiding alone becomes enough of a challenge to keep some people busy. Low level crafting sucks, but at 80 you start making real money and it's fun.

Yeah, the BLM rotation is mind numbing but you also need to focus 3x as much on moving as anyone else. Your skills want you to stand still, the bosses force you to move. Standing still and doing it is easy, avoiding a barrage of mechanics while maintaining top dps against classes who are allowed to move and attack is a struggle.

[xJimmehx]

This is a necro, op likely doesnt even play anymore. They've been level 50 since like 2013...


I find it interesting that the first few pages of posters are mostly players whos mains are still stuck at level 50. Both defenders of the game and those claiming its boring in ways and needs improvement. Its as if they all quit of boredom during ARR. ㄟ( ▔, ▔ )ㄏ

Game does have some issues in some places, in my opinion. I dont enjoy grouping up for dungeons/raids/etc on repeat. Its incredible experiencing a duty for the first few times but then I lose interest. I would like an expansion on the hunts and other single player systems. More hunts per day would be amazing. Also would like to see different types of postings. Instead of just Boss tier single targets, we could get kill x amount of a monster quests. Imagine the quest/hunting board in Monster Hunter or an isekai type manga. Sometimes they like you to gather stuff and sometimes there are bads attacking a defenseless village/town. I actually enjoyed Leves for this reason, the variety they bring, but I needed the allowances for crafters and dol so I rarely ever used them for combat and by the time I do finish my doh/dol. My combat classes will be too high to bother doing them for the xp. I had heard that they didnt even add any Leves for combat in ShB. Though i havent bothered to look for myself so I could be misinformed. If they added some for ShB and added nice rewards to them it would be amazing.(Maybe tomes and gil?) Fates could also fill this hole a bit, but are a bit too infrequent and the rewards just arent there. Exp rates are trash compared to dungeons and roulettes.

Fishing needs more purpose and the materials needed for some crafts are way too much.(cul/ltw esp OTL) Give us a fishing competition. Give us more randomized loot drops like chests that have random contents on the inside. There needs to be a better way to get skins and meats. The drop rates are awful. A hunter DoL would be great. Set traps near mobs and if they walk over the trap, they disappear and the trap changes to look "closed." We would click the trap to get materials or maybe a corpse? Turn that corpse into materials by skinning and disassembly for fangs and the like.

The gold saucer is also a huge disappointment. I LOVE the Air Force One GATE. I LOVE the mini cactpot. I could play both for hours at a time. However one is gated behind a timer and the other a daily limit. All of the other minigames, the small ones, are free to do indefinitely but are boring and provide such little reward that they become pointless. Chocobo racing is almost a dead activity. Again I love it. I cant say much about it beyond wishing that more people played. LoV is dead. I see 3-5 players on the tournament board each tourney. XD
Simply put, I feel like the gold saucer could be a blast if they just tweaked it a little bit.

Timed content is horrid. I hate it with every fiber of my being. If somebody wants to have max tome gear on week one, let them. Why should we care? Because they will get ahead of people with Jobs/family/etc? Dont forget we have crafted gear. You can get that in less than a day if you want and have the gil for it. Somebody is always going to be ahead of somebody else. Timed gates try to fix it but still dont completely and in the end just spoil the fun for some of us.

All of the things written here are opinions and I know somebody disagrees and that's fine. I rather enjoyed venting these frustrations of mine and thanks for reading.

[SamSmoot]

My play time is down to 1-2 hours a day. All I do is log on to do the daily hunts, pixie quests (For goetias) and then the weekly turn-in quests for scrips.
Lately, I've been also trying to do 1-2 fates in each zone as I pass through, working toward getting to rank 3, just for something extra to do.
I have all crafts at 80, but I only make stuff for myself, since gear takes forever to gather for, make, and especially sell. Also, I have plenty of gil and nothing to spend it on, so there's no reason to do more crafting than I need.

[SturmChurro]

I have some new perspective on the actual topic of this thread after having (and currently) played ESO while my sub for this game had run out. I actually think FFXIV is very fun, I think it is the best MMORPG out on the market currently despite all it's flaws. The only time I ever stop playing it regularly is when I run out of content to do. I usually don't want to just stop playing - not like with ESO. I play ESO, stop playing one day and I won't have the urge to EVER go back to play that game. I can't even explain why, but when I stop playing this game. I think about it, I lurk the forums, I read the updates, and I just think about how "I can't wait for the next big content patch!". I just wish SE gave this game the attention, and resources it deserves. If I complain about the game, it is because I want to see the game improve, not from a straight dislike of the game.

I understand that Yoshida is content in the fact that this is a more "casual" game, as in most of the audience takes breaks between patches. I wish he wouldn't have this stance, I wish we got content all year round to keep us playing the game. For me, not crafting, crafting is boring.

[HiroesX81]

Greetings. Please dont feed the troll. This person is resurrecting old threads either out of lack of knowledge or boredom. If you see similar threads please advise others. Thanks

[Paladinleeds]

Greetings. Please dont feed the troll. This person is resurrecting old threads either out of lack of knowledge or boredom. If you see similar threads please advise others. Thanks

Thing is, in the Japanese community, they like to pool everything together into one megathread (including a year or so down the line if they have new information to put in about a topic, hence the "resurrecting old threads"), from my understanding anyway from what i've read others say. By doing so, it garners more attention as all the information is nicely together in one thread, rather than someone making a thread for their views on a topic of which a thread already exists. Which I think the way JP supposedly does things is better. It keeps the topic in one thread, rather than going to like 200 different threads about the same topic.

[linay]

Thing is, in the Japanese community, they like to pool everything together into one megathread (including a year or so down the line if they have new information to put in about a topic, hence the "resurrecting old threads"), from my understanding anyway from what i've read others say. By doing so, it garners more attention as all the information is nicely together in one thread, rather than someone making a thread for their views on a topic of which a thread already exists. Which I think the way JP supposedly does things is better. It keeps the topic in one thread, rather than going to like 200 different threads about the same topic.

Yes, that's why I like people reusing old threads. People will "troll" whether it's an old thread or a new one. Other people just have to check if they want to reply to an old post or they can just reply to the new post.

[Maero]

To all those that posted a few pages back on why i revived the thread you are all lame, lol
The thread at the time i had posted appeared on the first page in the General section so therefore someone else had replied and revived.
I replied not even having looked at the date in which this thread had been created.
If i wanted to be a troll my name would be Brofist or titanmen...

[Vickii]

I love the game but I do think ‘boring’ can be a valid criticism. I did leave once because I was bored. A lot of people often say ‘burnt out’ which is possibly true.

I feel a lot of the game design is very ‘safe’ and formulaic. For instance most quests play out the same way, most dungeons play out the same way, the levelling experience for most jobs plays out the same way.

Repetition is boring. And FF14 is repetitive. But I don’t think this is necessarily a terrible thing, a lot of things become boring after a while.