What made you stop playing ffxiv?

[Blitz0309]

This is really only for people who have put the game down. So please only respond with the reason(s) why you put the game down. No requested changes, just what made this game no longer fun for you.

For me it was 3 main things.

1) Classes, even when i changed weapons it didn't seem like much changed. I didn't feel like much changed from archer to maurader to gladiator, most of the weapon attacks looked the same.
2) Finding gear, with the original market ward system it was impossible to find anything, and the gear selection didn't seem to vast.
3) The combat seemed pretty repetative, even when i was partied up with friends.

[Zarvlad]

I stopped playing because i had to go work. I'll start playing again tonight.

[Onidemon]

I thought you needed a FF XIV account to post in here? Most of the replies you will get are people still playing....

[Blitz0309]

I thought you needed a FF XIV account to post in here? Most of the replies you will get are people still playing....

You can have an account and not be playing.

[Moth]

Man you just looove to complain don't you Blitz? I think that is all I ever see in your posts.
How is this thread helpful at all to the growth and positive feedback to help make the game better.. I mean really.. all I really see is you complaining about how much you hate the game. The forum pages were not created for this purpose... they were created to help improve the game.

[Blitz0309]

Man you just looove to complain don't you Blitz? I think that is all I ever see in your posts.
How is this thread helpful at all to the growth and positive feedback to help make the game better.. I mean really.. all I really see is you complaining about how much you hate the game. The forum pages were not created for this purpose... they were created to help improve the game.

woohoo stalker!

The forum is for sharing ideas. And i'm curious to see why other people stopped playing. All i've done since this forum started was basically read someone's idea, then another person saying "no, its fine".. so i want to know why people stopped. Not just ideas.

Though if you were a true stalker you would see that there are a few ideas i like.

And yeah, i'm going to be complaining a bit until i see a change that makes me want to play this game. If you don't like that, then just skip by my posts. I promise i won't be offended.

[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.

[Moth]

*sigh* there is just no reasoning with some people.. I guess that is what the ignore list is for.. *adds*

[Winterclaw]

I still play the game, but not very often. Reasons:

1. Crafting - too boring/tedious to do
2. Crafting - too much work to level all the skills I need to make a level appropriate weapon for my class.
3. Combat - okay but there's not much to it nor much variety in it
4. Content - missing. Having to wait 5-10 levels until you get to do the next story mission is too much and you can't even go to the other cities to see theirs
5. GLs - not enough of them to do for the class I want to and they don't give you enough SP to mitigate the grind in this game
6. Grind - that's all there is to this game in the end
7. ???
8. Profit.

[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.