is this game near the end of it's life?

[DemascusW]

So I constantly say I'm going to reply to these and I never do but I had to for once. So here is my credibility played ffxi for 6+ years. And have played this since beta having almost 500 days of play time on ffxiv.... Yes I am a no lifer. All day everyday even though I more often than not hate this garbage game. Why, I, like every one else continue to play... Because it gets me my high, my fix. I'm a consumer and I just want want want. This games "lazy development" is a disrespectful slap to all the gamers and "customers" who pay monthly to keep SE revenue up. FFXI hands down no arguing was far superior than ffxiv in terms of content substance in all aspects: raiding end game, story, music only to be beat by graphical content due to ps2 limitations. You didn't have these BS reskins of EVERYTHING(LAZY). AS1 very similar to BCOB turn 1 split cleves kill. As2 BCOB turn 4. BCOB Turn 2 is As3 Twintania moblie while its counterpart is a stationary As4. Square Enix please for all that is sacred about final fantasy: Get rid of the "Blank of Blank gear" its lazy, it boring, it lacks any creativity, and disgraces the legacy of your predecessors from ffxi. The ONLY thing ffxiv beats xi in is graphics. Please bring actual GOOD content to ffxiv I.e Voidwatch, Neo Nyzule Isle, weekly conquest, Key item Pop NMs, wildskeeper reives, delve(similar to diadem). For all the people planning on responding with "this ain't ffxi blah blah blah" please educate me why? Why not bring content from a game that lasted 14 years and still as its on its last breath has players fighting to keep it alive. Easy answer its amazing its fun, always something to do. And rarely do you find reskins, bs relic busy work, or "hush money" patches don't get me started on the crappy glows of the relic from 2.0 for RNGesus sakes at least let me choose what color. If ANYONE in this game says they are 100% satisfied with the way this game is you're a liar. HW sucked, I didn't even know what was going on I ignored the story except when dude got covered in red(just in case don't wanna spoil) cause it was crap. We allow this content to continue cause we would rather be so stubborn and defend this "lazy development" rather than speak up. As consumers we are the strongest most deadly thing to a company, yet we fight amonst ourselves. OP had a good point this game while not the last nail in the coffin, has put another nail in the coffin. At most this game won't withstand the test of time. It's sad cause it could be a great game and was at first til they slowly started down the road of LAZY development.

TL : DR : SE is lazy and are reskinning to much on this game bringing it down

[Laerune]

No, but if they continue this path the game will lose alot of players. The long break between 3.0 and 3.1 did some damage and the grindfest that they turned the new relic quest only turned more returning pllayers away.

I was hoping on bringing back some of my friends, but the moment they saw phase 3 of the Anima, they went NOPE NOPE NOPE.

[Black_Pearl]

Jesus this forum, can't post a opinion just because you have a limit of 1000 characters.

[Miscreant]

To help put this into perspective, I haven't logged in outside of raid for about 2-3 weeks now. Today I messaged some of my friends who I don't raid with in our group conversation on Whatsapp, it turns out 5/7 of them have unsubbed because of the lack of content in the game over the course of the last few weeks that I haven't been active.

[silentwindfr]

i think one of the trouble is the lack of survey for know what the WHOLE community feel... they meet a lot the japanese playerbase, every month actually, but that only one part of the community... and they have different taste than us.
Grind, zergfest and such don't annoyed them that much, however, on our side that the case.... but they seems to not care

[Blacksail]

God I did not miss browsing these forums.. Children as far as the eye can see. Anyway, agree with OP.

[Akira_Tenshi]

Oh get a grip!

[DarkChild]

New player here. Been playing casually since February. I have 120 days subbed. There is so much to do that I don't really know what to do. And even the small things are very grindy so I get bored pretty quick.

[Derio]

SE got overconfident on HW. Then you had that 5 almost 6 month break before we saw another patch which in turn really hurt the playerbase. 3.1 and 3.15 simply arent enough to make up for it. Even though 3.1 did bring players back. Its just right now not enough.

[Moqi]

It's not at the end of its life but it's at end of its creativity. They found a pattern that they think will work forever (or at least this expansion) and I doubt they'll change it unless things go very sour. How confident they are that people won't get bored of the same formula for all future content, time will tell. Judging by the forums, there are a lot of addicts who'll consider any checklist worth doing as long as SE gives it to them, regardelss of its content. As long as those people can keep the game alive, it'll go on to fund SE's other projects.