Ever feel like you have to much stuff to do?

[Mugiawara]

There is plenty to do in this game.
Some people just don't wanna do it all...because it's boring.
For me, it's more of me wanting to do it, and I don't wanna do it all
if it doesn't appeal to me.

[Xairos]

There is plenty of stuff to do, but what you must remind yourself of is that this is #1: just a game; #2 an mmo (which means that it isnt designed for one person to do it all, all the time); #3 , due to being a game and an mmo, a Time sink. Those three things combined apply to anything that we do in the digital realm. Be that, League of Legends, Heroes of the Storm, Steam games, Console games, Hearthstone, Magic: The gathering, etc. (I dabble in all of those by the way), they are all time sinks. This doesnt make them bad for being a time sink, but there comes a time when you, as another poster said, have to just cut your losses, have fun with what you want to have fun with, and move on.

Case in point, I love Pokemon, but i never competitively battle. As such, each entry I buy could be construed as a waste of money because once i beat it, i am theoretically done with it. But, I still buy the titles because I get what I want from them, and that's all. FFXIV (and any mmo really) is the exact same.

[Lyrinn]

Switch up your perspective and you'll feel a lot better about this stuff. Instead of looking at them as more activities that need to be done, look at it as - you have time for only X activities anyways, now you get more variety to pick and choose. Just ask yourself, "Do you really want to do that guildhest roulette every single day?"

[Darki]

Raiding
Daily Roulette
Myth & Soldiery Grinding (if removed from The Hunt)
The Hunt
Atma Grind
Animus Grind
Novus Grind
Beastman Tribe Quest
Crafting
Gathering
Spiritbonding
Challenge Log
Sightseeing Log
Glamour Grinding
Leveling Alternative Classes

Sometimes I feel like I have way to much stuff to do and not enough time to do it. How does everyone else feel about this? I feel it would be much better if I could actually do some of these at the same time but normally you can't because of special requirements or it's just incredibly time consuming.

Stuff you "can" do is not the same thing as stuff you "must" do. It is OK to skip stuff for a while. Always make sure your playing the game instead of the game playing you.

[DishSoap]

The clear separation in opinion here makes it clear that there is 'plenty' of stuff to do... people just don't care about any of it. Which isn't SE's problem, as long are there are enough people that 'do' care, which there seem to be at the moment.

I'd actually say it is SE's problem, it's kind of their job to keep players engaged and to keep playing. I'd also like to point out that relics are supposed to "eventually be BiS" for all classes, so it's not really something you can choose to do or not especially if it actually does become BiS.

[Moqi]

Absolutely. I tried leveling alt classes but it's honestly so hard to keep up with everything.Sometimes I use my SCH but it' still level 30 after months... I have to pick days where I won't fight in order to level up gathering and crafting classes because I don't have time do to Roulettes, books, beast tribes and leves/provisioning missions. I still have one entry in my Sightseeing log... and I don't even raid!

[Malamasala]

Not so much too much to do as too little time left over to do it. Hardly played at all this year because there has been so much else to do.

It has always bothered me that MMOs are so stupidly designed. Because someone may play 24/7 the content needs to be very slow to progress. But for people playing 1 hour a week or something, there is no shortcuts to catch up. Why there isn't a NPC handing out things for free to people who play less I'll never know. It can't be that some MMO developer is counting on "Well this slow player will stick around for 328 years to finish our game and it will give us lots of cash!".

The future's best MMO will be the one that figures out that "Hey, there are multiple different humans playing our game, let's design it with multiple different ways to play". And I'm not talking different as in "You can either kill goblins or you can kill orcs and get the sword". I'm talking things like subscription time based NPC give aways, so that if you've owned the game a long time, you'll get items even without beating content. I'd call it "the FF8 MMO design" and refer to how the enemies auto-leveled with you, and your income was periodic and not about what you were doing.

[Nestama]

Not really. All I do is Expert Roulette, Alexandrite map, Trial Roulette, Syrcus Tower (depending on whether I got my drop or not) and Spirit Bond for an hour and a half or Frontline's (though queue times get annoying). I would be doing Second Binding Coil (yet to beat Turn 6), but my static dissolved a month or so ago :/

[KenzieLynch]

Trying to do all those things is pretty unrealistic unless you are a no lifer.

At the moment I solely do PvP because that is what I currently enjoy. Haven't even looked at my first animus book. Don't let it become a job!

[TheCurls]

First we all complained that "all we do is log in, run AK/WP to cap myths, do coil, log out".

Now we complained that we actually have things to do.

Hurray.