EC explains how the current progression system is flawed

[Heat]

I stooped playing like 10 days ago, simply got sick of it.

2.0 end game content is the same as 3.0 and the coming 4.0 (that's what live letter said).

each 2 months you change your gear in the same way you did the months before that.

i'm leaving not bcz the game sucks, but bcz it has nothing new to do, if they add a new progression system i might come back.

[Seig345]

It seems to me like it's only flawed depending on what you want out of the game.

If we're gonna talk about hogs, there has never been a corn trap I haven't gotten bored of and ended up leaping the fence. Every few years I might feel some nostalgia and go back to said corn for a week or two, but ultimately I'll end up leaping right back over those walls in search of something else. Final Fantasy XIV, to date, has been the only MMO where I leave with the expectation that I'll be coming back when enough time has passed and new content has been released. Gone are the days where I'd wish I could be like the people I'd meet who've played the game for years at a time without unsubscribing or taking a break longer than a week or two. I couldn't do it when I was a kid in junior high just starting out in EverQuest, and I can't do it now 15+ years later.

I guess I'm just really good at jumping? ;p

[Dyvid]

Some of these comments.... LOL.

[Malevicton]

This thread has a lot of edgy teens that just finished psyc101...

[Greedalox]

This thread has a lot of edgy teens that just finished psyc101...

It's a lot more to do with common sense than Psych 101. You're the one playing the edgy card though :P

[Malevicton]

It's a lot more to do with common sense than Psych 101. You're the one playing the edgy card though :P

people are going on about conditioning as though Pavlov is some contemporary revolutionary

[Dyvid]

Well first look at the video, they used WoW talent tree as an example but considering Blizzard all but scrapped it speaks volumes in it self. Players just ran to forums to find the best build instead of trying to customize it themselves. FFXIV 1.0 tried this similar concept of sandbox gaming and look what happened.

The ultimate question though is if you are enjoying the content you play or find it totally boring? Does the fact you can only earn 450 tomes a week diminish the enjoyment you had running the content?

[LunaHoshino]

I actually quite like the current system FFXIV has going-- it ensures a level playing field for the majority of the playerbase and keeps there from being a chasm between the people who no-life it and grind everything out as fast as possible and the people who play more casually. I don't know about you, but I'd rather not see PFs full of parties with ridiculous ilvl requirements three days after a patch comes out.

[Purrfectstorm]

Some of the things we do in this game are just a chore. It is fun to reap the rewards at the end but often the journey is tediously boring. That's why you hear so many in the community complaining how others want things handed to them without "working" for it. People don't want to make the journey because it feels like work. That speaks volumes about how unfun it can be. Not to say that there aren't some fun things but mostly it's about making behaviors addictive so we keep coming back for more. Check this out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHfiKav9fcQ

FFXIV fulfills all the criteria to create addictive behavior.