What made you stop playing ffxiv?

[Galamantyl]

My reason for not playing a lot lately:

Lack of direction on where this game is actually going in terms of finalized gameplay and design

People are quitting because they've seen enough.
People are staying because they think it'll be awesome once it's done.

Honestly, square has gone from:

This is how the game is.

to

This is why the game is.

to

We'll figure out what the game is going to be soon.

We're essentially playing in an open beta except for the fact we had to pay for it first.

[Blitz0309]

Thats a good point. Before the game came out i remember people complaining about the surplus xp, armory system and everything and someone made the youtube video explaining it all nicely.

Then at launch they started their explaining.

Then yoshi took over and now were moving, but no idea to what ends.

Though the game has sort of felt like a beta from open beta till i actually logged in today. Though the game did seem to run better on my work PC than it used to.

[Platinumstorm]

Honestly, almost my entire experience led to it [save the market wards, I actually liked how they used to work], but the straw was completing the rank 26 Ul'dah mission quest and being completely and utter underwhelmed by the quest feeling like I was killing ankle biters from the rank 1 mission.

[Hitoriki]

Could not do what I wanted to the most, which was just do leve's with my friend because we could only do a couple and then have to wait 2 days. Besides that the game was generally boring =/

[Shadow_Satey]

My main reason for quitting? Well, let's see. I was sick of doing the same "go kill this for XP reward" leve that is in almost every single guildleve. I was tired of seeing the same tree and the same rock and the same... What is that, moving stars? Never mind.

Yeah, I just got sick of the whole "do this; repeat" routine. I'll come back and play when there is in fact - something to do!

[SyntheticSyndicate]

I wish I didn't have to stop playing. I've played pretty much 5-16 hours every day since Beta2 (I took a week off to play Rift, but it reminded me of baddy MMOs - See WoW) I still love the game and love seeing the improvements in each patch. I'll probably play even more when companies come out. I wish the haters would just leave and not complain. Sucks that they're trolling the official topics now. I think you're looking for Gamefaqs, or a similar site.

On topic : Reasons I leave the game - Bio Break (No more than 10 minutes), work (only about 20-35 hours a week), school (10-15 hours a week), eating (make food, eat it while crafting), sleep (generally about 4-6 hours) The rest of my time is game-time. Long live FFXIV!

[Benjaman]

I wish the haters would just leave and not complain.

Be careful what you wish for. You might just come back to a game with empty servers.

[Nivana]

My name hovering over my head acted like a f'ing disco ball
I could not just type normally like in ffxi
I could not use the arrow keys for camera movement
No real search function
Game crashed constantly

What brought me back,
A new video card
Several game fixes that had happened since the game's release and February
Got sick and tired of abyssea

[Riaa]

The community. Everyone wants this to be FFXI-HD Remix. Either that, or early on the people who claimed everything was fine and nothing needed fixing. Rage inducing. I might actually come back now that intelligent people are in charge.

[ToLiveAndDieInNJ]

I've logged in maybe once in the last two months.

The main reasons I can't find the motivation.

1. Absolutely no content. Repeating leves simply because there isn't anything else to do gets repetitive. Sidequests weren't yet available and I haven't been back to check on the current status of sidequests. From what I've read, they aren't anything to write home about.

2. The main reason I left is because of the Market Ward situation. After spending a ridiculous two hours looking for a simple axe upgrade, any hope I had for the game vanished.

3. Lack of class identity. Having to level up various classes to make one seemingly 'super class' takes away from the feelings of accomplishment and singularity that existed in games like FFXI. In FFXI, you could take comfort in bringing something exclusive to the party as a high level warrior/Sam/Drg or whatever. That doesn't seem to exist in the current class system.