the game feels so empty these days

[Warlyx]

ok let me understand one thing

for years this forum had said that the FFXIV playerbase is so bad that cant kill a fly or avoid a simple red circle....somewhat i can agree with that sentiment....however , the next day the forum say that the whole playerbase is gone to play : DARK SOUL III ....im confused....

[The_Shang]

ok let me understand one thing

for years this forum had said that the FFXIV playerbase is so bad that cant kill a fly or avoid a simple red circle....somewhat i can agree with that sentiment....however , the next day the forum say that the whole playerbase is gone to play : DARK SOUL III ....im confused....

because the pic says it all. who cares about difficulty when you can cross-dress!

[Chiramu]

I wish there was more than 2 dungeons in the expert roulette. When it was 3 it at least was more interesting.

[Adventica6]

The lack of content is really starting to sting, and I usually hate bad mouthing this game. Once you are capped you might as well logoff because unless you do savage with a great static and enjoy wiping for hours, there is nothing left to do once lore is capped out. For the casual player (there are many) the logoff button is even more enticing until reset...

Once I cap I literally struggle to find goals for myself to do (lvl some alt jobs, mine, sell stuff, ventures) but even still that will only get me a few more hours... of an entire week left waiting for reset.

And you wonder why the gil spammer spam is so bad? because there is no one else there to talk to begin with.

[ThirdChild_ZKI]

A word of caution:

Whatever people say is empty/lacking/they want to do but no one's doing it just might end up attached to the next relic step. SE's all about maintaining that bottom line. This is less a criticism of them, and more of a statement based on observation.

Hunts imbalanced instance queues? Nexus step.
Alexander Gordias getting old, Heavensward areas/fates empty? First steps of the Anima relic.
"Make the towers relevant again!": Current Anima relic step.

I'm wholly convinced now that with Midas starting to age, Void Ark approaching part 2, and the Diadem being quite dead, those 3 will be involved in the next, grindy relic step (grindy because with the lower traffic of a catch up patch, people are going to need something to be kept active and busy.)

So be careful what you wish for.

[Blitzace]

Some might hate me for what i'm gonna say...

But i just logged into a private server of XI. it has the vanilla settings, No speed, no exp boost, no starter gil etc etc.
Just to get that old feeling back when i was playing back in the day. And do i miss so many things that such an old game has towards this.

Leveling
Level 1-10 Was solo. After that it was party all the way for most classes, It was always fun and people actually talked. imagine that.
The amount of dead silence parties i have now a days is just a big turn off. *Dungeon starts* Hello!, *We kill the last boss* GG ty for the run.

Thats it! And we are stuck with mindless dungeons always the same. And even though it is the same in XI we don't run dungeons but we kill mobs, it is just so much more satisfying than to re-run old dungeons a thousand times.

Open world content
What do we have now? Hunts? i mean come on. People claim we shouln't have Notorious monsters cause that would cause hatred/harassement.
Have you ever seen the amount of people doing that with hunts? and trust me, most NMs in XI were not that overcamped and i rarely saw people speak a ill-word.
So yeah, Why don't we have notorious monsters?

My god the thrill i had when i was leveling in La Theine(In XI) And all of the sudden my screen started to shake and i kid you not,
i was like what the f' is going on?! and i turned around to meet a giant NM wandering around. I have never had that in XIV yet.

There were so many NMs you could make money off em, you could farm them for items, RARE/EX items as well as sellable ones. This is something i really miss from XI.

Divine Might

Just as an example Divine might was a very hard battle when it first came out. And my god did people struggle with this battle!
And i mean days! countless days, of wiping->redoing etc. And did people moan like they do now? Hell no! We talked about what went wrong and re-did it!
I can't even remember we had the luxory the complain on the forums about stupid crap like that!

The Community& Quest

Pff... where do i even begin...
Rarely i see people help each other for free now a days. It always need to be a profit for them.
Personally, i always got a kick out of helping people on my SMN.(Yes a real SMN Class SHOTS ARE FIRED!!)
Lets for an example pick the AF quests in XI. They did not take 5 minutes to complete i can guarantee you that.

Long missions, great story. And hard. you will need help from other people, explore maps to find the treasure with your relic inside.
That is all lacking in this game. The community in this game to me, is a joke. I don't go by a week without atleast a few people having an arguement of the stupidest of shit in the chat.
People selling things that imho should not be sold but given away(Like clears on old content) Why does everyone feels the need to exploit from others?

I've having a blast right now in XI. And even on a private server with such a small community of maybe 200 people i can already tell you, It feels like home. It feels like the old day with the people who share that mindset.


All in all, the devs of XIV have stated to not add alot of stuff that old fans from XI loved and would've loved to see back in this game, But their reasons are simply false and not true.

Maybe they feel like NMs would've made to many harassment issues, but in reality, the hunts that they added. They add so much more harassment on a daily basis.
And like i said, i have not even seen that with NMs.

You have multiple HNMs linkshells hunting a god knows what kind of absurd repop times. Someone claimed, they watched to see if they didn't lose and then went off.

The point i'm trying to make. You always had plenty to do in XI and it wasn't a instant gratification like most people want it to be now a days.

[AnduinLynn]

Game populations look fine to me, but that's perhaps due to my being from Balmung. DS3 is a likely cause of people leaving, but once the mass majority have finished the game they will return.

[Evangela]

It's kinda boring sometimes when I try to qeue for something and it takes like 10+ minutes.

[Maero]

I am actually enjoying the new Ratchet and Clank game and also The Division.
Queue times for stuff seems to take way longer then it used to, is it because less players??

[Vaer]

People have gotten all their stuff from Midas normal now for their mains at least or close to.
New relic step not very time consuming.
They killed off Sephirot EX with the lore weapon/new relic. Only mount left and alt weapons.
All that is left really is capping every week to get more lore gear and void ark weekly for the materia/CT weekly if you want more oils.

Unless you are trying to gear an alt in i220/anima relic, raid or you are very behind/just started playing there really isn't much to do.

PvP I guess?