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

[sasakusaku]

Yes, it is boring.

WoW: hooked me for roughly 8 years.
Pre-cu SWG: hooked me of 1.5 years (8+ years emulator).
Rift: 9 months.
SWToR: 5 months.
AOC: 3 months.
Cabal: 3 months.
Runes of Magic: 4 months.
Requiem: 6 months.
UO: 2 years.
EQ: 2 years.
GW2: 1.5 years, still play it and is where I go after doing my myth cap...if it had trinity, I would not even have tried this game. heh.
Everything else: 1 month 'trial'.

This MMO, at least for launch has no hook and it's extremely light end game content wise. And no, I do not consider levelling a crafting class as 'content'...sorry hitting macros is dull.

Also like to point out that most those MMOs I was solo for most of them except WoW/pre-cu swg/Rift/EQ yet they still had enough things to do to keep me logging in daily.

FF 14: right now, past three weeks I log in one day per...just enough to do 8 AKs...

Ok yes, I guess this MMO is just not for me. Compared to all the MMOs I listed...MOST of them had min 2x the things to do than here + almost all of those MMOs had PvP at launch unlike here...each their own I guess.

p.s. problem is there a lack of decent MMOs right now and this particular one has been launched at the perfect time; there is an MMO drought right now. I like how the game plays and looks but I don't like that there is jack all really to do which is the problem. Also dislike their 3+ month time to release patches, I am going to guess that consoles might be to blame here since they are a) limited in capability b) have an extremely long process time to get patches 'passed'? Hum. GW2 is b2p, and runs purely on their gem store YET they can have content updates every 2 weeks but a 20 buck a month MMO cannot? Ok then.

[Huxer]

This guy obviously did not play wow at launch like I did. I wanted to rebuke his lies but meh, a simple whatever buddy seems to be enough to satisfy me.

[Miiu]

then your under the wrong impression, clearly!

Okay so having more space with nothing to do but running around > smaller space with stuff to do. I'm clearly in the wrong here.

[CosmicKirby]

Specifically speaking to the black mage class... the rotation is so mind-numbingly boring and simple I can't believe it.

The most fun DPS rotation I've had as a DPS in an MMO was Cata/MoP Arcane mage rotation. You know, that one that people often criticize as being 1 button? Honestly, that's fairly close. The rotation itself is dead simple, there's about 6 buttons total you'd use, and 3 of those are cooldowns for your burn period.
What makes it interesting is how the mechanic functions. Arcane Mages do more damage the more mana they have, yet their arcane blast does more damage and costs much more mana when chain casted. It becomes an interesting tug of war trying to maintain your mana at a decent level until you burn phase, bottom out your mana, and then regen it.

I think that overall, yes the rotation mechanics for dps are a bit too simple, but I complexity is added over the lifespan of an mmo

[Bladenite81]

then your under the wrong impression, clearly!

I believe you are quite biased and have a habit of grossly overvaluing your own opinion. If you dont think its worth the sub, then leave, you arent adding anything constructive to the community here and your comments border on abusive. I played WoW at launch, I played through the days where id be stuck picking up gold for 30 minutes because of server lag and quite honestly even with all the content most people did their own thing and never saw half of it. This game is interesting and has a good amount of potential. I am willing to give them time to find that potential, if you are not and want your cake now..then go to another bakery.

[Krackjack]

Okay so having more space with nothing to do but running around > smaller space with stuff to do. I'm clearly in the wrong here.

if by stuff to do, you mean absolutely nothing, then yes you are correct!

I believe you are quite biased and have a habit of grossly overvaluing your own opinion. If you dont think its worth the sub, then leave, you arent adding anything constructive to the community here and your comments border on abusive. I played WoW at launch, I played through the days where id be stuck picking up gold for 30 minutes because of server lag and quite honestly even with all the content most people did their own thing and never saw half of it. This game is interesting and has a good amount of potential. I am willing to give them time to find that potential, if you are not and want your cake now..then go to another bakery.

do i know you or something? you have quite the opinion of me for just a few posts.
but thanks for yor opinion, oh and i did eat my cake but its old and stale so i canceled my sub, goodbye brah

[catch22atplay]

It's boring and I haven't logged in for a couple weeks now. Here's my list.

Fate grinding is just awful
Leve Quests are awful
Minimal quests once you finish 1 job and almost no quest after the 2nd job.

There's just nothing to do except a few instances every day and after a month of that I can't deal with it any more. Leveling a 2nd class is when it starts getting painful. The 3rd class is just tedious and near impossible without quests. And fate grinding is ok for maybe an hour. But I seriously can't deal with more then that a day. So I've pretty much given up until they fix this issue. The end game fights remind me of WoW and i'm here because I don't want to play WoW. So i'm very disappointed with the way these boss fights are.

I was hoping for a game more similar to FFXI and instead I get a WoW clone. bah

[Synthesis]

Only things that re boring re FATEs. My opinion.

[Klutz64]

The problem with this game is that it's entirely too linear for an MMO. Dungeon progression and gear progression go along on a single track and there's no reason to branch off from that track, in fact it's detrimental if you do.

There are distractions, like crafting and soon housing and PvP, but simply having distractions doesn't make for a very open MMO.

[zdub303]

The biggest problem is that this game was designed such that 95% of its content is only done once.

This is why the game is so boring. Its not that the game itself is terribly boring, but that it was designed to rush you through the majority of its content and then you farm AK/WP for tomes. That's the sum of the endgame, and its really tragic.

I know people hate slow leveling curves in general but at least when it takes a while to level you get to stop and enjoy each zone and each dungeon and you run them multiple times.

This whole 'game starts at 50' developer philosophy sucks, and was a big mistake imo.

So yeah, I'm with you. I'm finding things to do like leveling alt classes and derping around with the (mostly useless) crafting system. And I'm still enjoying myself, but I suspect I'll be bored to tears by Christmas. I hope 2.1 keeps this game going... because as it stands I know I'm gonna burn out soon.