I finally stopped playing this game and did not re-sub . I have Beta tested this from BT1 and played it until Wednesday .I have a legacy Chr on Hyperion and a Chr i play most often on Diabolos . I took all the gil in my FC bank and gave it all back to people who deposited it . ( about 3.7mil worth ) . After Tuesday a few of us were talking about this game . ( wile we were playing cards against humanity ) We decided the games direction was just not there . Most of us did Binding Coil most of us did all X mode primals most of us ran all the new dungeons 1000 times for stones most of us did Crystal Tower for that one piece of gear . ( mine in 54 tries never dropped Bard Body ) . Most of us have more then 1 50 ( i do not think of ARN branching off in 2 other jobs more then 1 50 ) Most of us have at least 1 gathering and crafting class at 50 or close to 50 . So we all have done a lot there is to do . But the reasons why we decided to leave are as follows .

Crafting : It is meaningless , Everything you need is dropped from dungeons when you exp grind in them OR you can fate grind in no gear at all . The only thing that crafting might be good for now is crafting furniture IF FCs have there house and if they do they already have crafters to make it anyway .

Maintenance : Just got so sick of it every week and we are never told what it is for just that we have it , Then most time after it there is a follow up one because the first one messed something up . Now i agree i would love to have a well maintained game but this is excessive .

Leveling : Its a joke , 1-50 anyone can do this in 3 days , YES 3 days you have a Friday , Saturday , Sunday off ? Well you can get to 50 Fate grinding or Dungeon grinding . Its to fast to easy and makes for really bad players who have no idea what there jobs are .

Content : Ok 2.1 gave us treasure hunts , PvP, Crystal Tower ( that's not Crystal Tower ) 1 new dungeon , 2 HM dungeons , Ultima HM , Primal X modes , Beast Tribe Quests , New Story , Hildabrand Side Quest . This all all and good BUT.... The Main Story took no time to finish , Hildabrad story was annoying i am a V1 player i got the story but was like that's it ..? CT is so simple there is no challenge to it other then running it 54 times with no drop from the gear you really wont . Beast Tribe quests are the same 8 quests per tribe lots of fun there ......no. PvP is a joke lets all run in circles and get slept wow that's fun. The Dungeons are meh . After running them 1000 times its the same old same old . Can i please have something HARD something that challenges everyone . That is not a dodge fest dodging is not hard .

Player base : Everyone Rage quitting after one run of fill in the blank ( witch i have done a few times after doing something 40 times with the same result with different people ) People not taking time to ask questions about fights and people who think they know more then others about fight , And people who think there the best ( there the ones who die first usually )

Party Finder and Duty Finder : Both are jokes . You have a equal chance to have some idiot join a PF as you do with a DF group . You can say in your PF group that you ONLY want people who know the content and you will always get someone who joins who has no clue . They say yes i know the fight then you get in and there like ok i watched the Youtube video or i read the fight but never done the fight .......You just said you know the fight ......wow really people . With a DF group you expect the Derp that happens . Not so much with a Pf group but it tends to happen . Best thing to do is a all FC .

The Market Board and Econ : Our Econ is totally jacked up . Everyone undercuts everyone there is no value in anything . You cant get a ultimate drop and sell it . Crafting something unless its parts is worthless because you get better stuff in dungeons or using stones . I used to sell Velvet it was decent gil now you can buy it cheep from the beast tribe market , Because the stupid Bots that used to farm the webs were never dealt with we all ( who made gil selling Velvet ) had to take a hit . Now there is no bots farming webs that's great but you killed a part of the market because of it .

These are just a few things there's more but this is already to long of a read for most people here . I understand the purest troll is going to come in and say so long good riddance , And at the same time i will have people who agree , And i know i will have that one or two people who did not read the post and take it out of context , And i know i will have someone say do we need another post about this . I might come back to FFXIV i really enjoy the franchise ( played XI for 7 years and V1 from beta to end of era and have played this from Beta to now ) But as the game is now its just not doing it for me ( and i used to white knight this game a lot )