What made you stop playing ffxiv?

[BlaiseLallaise]

So many reasons...

But to sum it up, I stopped playing FFXIV because I was not having much fun at all. I enjoy posting on this forum more than playing the game..

This pretty much sums it up for me.

But to be more detailed, I would have to say the isolation aspect. The people I have enjoyed playing with in the past did not come, so I ended up missing them. The best game in the world would lose me without them present.

On top of that, I'm on one of my console gaming kicks.

[Ava]

I feel like I've sort of quit, but I still play, just not very often. I log on 1-3 times per week and that's it. My reasons for this is as follows:

- Finding parties is impossible as a solo player without a static
- There is no variety in content, it's just grind grind grind
- Missions are too few and far between
- Classes lack uniqueness
- Combat is repetitive and requires no strategy
- Zones are beautiful but tedious to travel

In addition to the above, I feel like the game is always telling me to log off. It's like, Leves reset every 36 hours, so what happens when I'm done? Log off until they reset. I spend all my anima teleporting around because the world is tedious to travel, how do I get anima back? Log off. Let's say I grind a lot and hit surplus, how do I get rid of surplus? Log off. What about logging on? I want the game to make me feel inclined to log on, not off. I realize there's a very real concern for certain people ruining their lives due to being too attached to a game, but honestly, this game isn't going to survive by trying to force that restriction. Give me more reasons to log ON!

[Niyariko]

It made me stop playing due to...

-impossible to get into party, the search system isn't working, all I can find are PT for LS members only.

-Tried LS party couple times, the fight was very messy, too many things going on in a crowed space made it hard to target the mob, hard to target PT members to Cure (GLA cure dont have AOE, hence need single target), and multiple engaged/aggro mob exponentially worsen the situation.

-Battle animations are boring, animation and damage made it looks like its just any other ordinary moves.

-difficult to get past the 30ish ranks, difficult getting into grind parties, due to issues with party search system.

-lack of defined SP grind camps.

-grind crafting are boring and slow, not enough high level craftleves available.

-foreseeing lack of stuff to do in high rank at the moment decreases my passion in getting into higher rank. Knowing I will still be doing the same stuff routinely at rank 40~50~, same crafting leves, same battle leves, same mob just with different color...

-Lack of in-game population, worsen the situation in getting into party, buying/sell items in the market wards, meeting and sharing strategies friends.

-At where I'm on mission, all my missions are done solo, I can't enjoy any mission with a party, mission fights are boring and unchallenged. (I won't pick an MMO to play solo.)

I won't expect everything I listed above will be fixed in at least one year from now, so until then, I won't treat this game seriously, but I'm looking forward to that day.