What made you stop playing ffxiv?

[Tonka]

Biggest being the market wards and the current repair system.

Honorable mentions:
• Uninspired and giant unvarying landscapes.
• Identical camps.
• Levequests.
• The action bar vanishing between enemies.
• No mail system.
• No Linkshell controls and the ones we have require being on top of the person to be functioning.
• Most spells are just different color explosions and the casting animations all look identical.
• Terrain annoyances.
• Unnecessary clicks to use UI.
• Inability to use the mouse exclusively to run or at least the option to map it.
• Some races still only have 4 hairstyle options at the moment.
• Stopping to draw or put my weapon away.

Those are the things that annoy me. There is other stuff like a lack of chocobos and airships but I do not require them.

[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.

[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!

[Leonesaurus]

To be honest. The game didn't make me stop playing. I can put up with a lot of things and be optimistic, but when I have to deal with real people it's a whole different story. I stopped playing for the month of February due to being fed up with Linkshell leaders dictating what people can do and who they can interact with. It made me sick leaving 2 major Linkshells due to this childish behavior. Nothing in the game world that the developers created made me abandon this game. Just the atrocious groups of people I've mistakenly helped out and called "my friends". If it weren't for the recent updates, I probably wouldn't be here right now and giving the game another chance. That's just my story... I enjoy the game, but hate most of the people on my server (I.E. Linkshell Empires)

[Xatsh]

I stopped playing FFXIV because I went to sleep, then I woke up and ate food, then I went to class, then I came home and ate again... Stupid Rl always getting in the way of playing.

[gifthorse]

I've stopped playing as much as I used to play.

I have ~ two R50 jobs, a DoW and a crafter, and a bunch of others in the mid thirties, so I did used to play quite a lot. And the reason I don't play much anymore is because I have nothing to look forward to.

When Tanaka was in charge, he released a list of content coming out in the first version updates: Player companies, housing, and ships, all of which sounded really promising.

There is nothing promising that I can think of at the moment that keeps me hoping for the future, besides the implementation of a jump feature.

All we are getting now is crappy quests... When they can propose some more interesting content for the future, I will play more.

[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.

[SizeMatters]

I still play =p ! The thing that bugs me the most is crafting

[Anathiel]

I don't hate the game, but I quit playing after I ran to Ishgard, got rank 25 gladiator and released....that was it, nothing really else to do except get to 50....then what? I stay active in the forums and read lodestone every day because I want to have a real opinion on how to improve the game...I'll give it some more time and I'm sure I'll be back on playing.