Time to move on since Square Enix does not listen to its Constituents

[Madruck]

After being a loyal Subscriber for over 9 months to FF14 ARR, I am sad to say that to me its time to suspend my account over the absolute disregard SE has to not listening to its player base. For the past 5 weeks there have been numerous post from players like me complaining over the Animus quest line on not being based on skill but by Random Number Generator. My hopes were that they would have fixed this issue with patch 2.25 were dashed when at the last minute they decided against it for no good apparent reason other than to keep a artificial roadblock onto the game to force players to slow down progression. Understandable that many other MMO's out in the market do the same thing but after years of playing games such as World of Warcraft, Star Wars: The Old Republic, Star Trek Online, and numerous other games, FF14 ARR is the only one I have ever seen were they deliberately create a instance of progression not based on skill but on RNG to this extreme! Continued below...

[Madruck]

To all those who are reading this that have earned your Animus, good for you....if you were that player who spent 100 plus hours farming low level fates that provided no skill development or just reward, was it really worth it? To some who answer yes, really??? You really felt that you earned something for your 100+ hours spent farming when another player spent only 3-4 hours not because of diligence but because of luck and bad game design...really??? To all the players who got their Animus within 3-4 hours, congratulations on being one of the very lucky players out there that got Animus from RNG and not from skill or determination like other MMO's have to earn gear! To me, game director Naoki Yoshida took the reigns of FF14 and made it one of the most fantastic game experiences I have had in a long time. Continued below....

[Madruck]

But to me after the success this game has become it seems that Yoshi P has handed control back after 6 months of success to the old crew from FF14 1.0 who made all the bad decisions then to what is currently trending now with their bad decisions now being made. It is my hope that SE does read this and others who have the same opinion in their player base in regards to the direction this game is going so they fix this issue and prevent future mistakes such as this to be prevented in the future. Square Enix, noone likes a grind fest in which you gain neither skill development or reward, I remember playing Final Fantasy 1 on the NES and doing that, but this isn't the USA in 1987. It is easy for me to fathom that with all the development power your design team has in place, you would be capable of creating a more enjoyable, challenging, and rewarding experience that not only would make us have growth in skill, but also to make us feel justly rewarded for time spent in Eorzea!

[Pangtao]

whelp, good luck to you!

[elkhorn]

And another casual player bites the dust.lol

[Luxx]

Its not about them nerfing the Atma questline, I want them to keep it challenging....I just want them to stop making bad game designs by making Animus come from something that requires skill, not Random Number Generator that requires no skill what so ever....

they must collect feedback and brainstorm on what to do.
it does take time...

[Madruck]

And another casual player bites the dust.lol

Search my character and look at my gear and achievements and you see that I am not a casual player......

[Madruck]

i just want to say, they stated already that 2.25 was a pvp patch [not a very good one]...also...we could all assume
it was a mini patch to begin with. they also pushed back the other questline for the next patch
with that...we just got 2.2 like 1 month ago, big contents come in 2.3.
expect bigger things n bigger changes in 1 big patch.

im sure they will nerf atma and stuff, so just leave n come back. bye!

Its not about them nerfing the Atma questline, I want them to keep it challenging....I just want them to stop making bad game designs by making Animus come from something that requires skill, not Random Number Generator that requires no skill what so ever....

[kiraan]

They said they'll digest feedback from customers and implement them for the 2.28 update. Clearly they don't listen to us...

Seriously, people can't wait.

[Tatsuo]

Goodbye, there's the exit.
I have my Animus sword and shield for almost a week now and I'm not complaining.
Sure, I hated the grind but hey, I played FFXI and AION, I'm used to much worse.