I guess it's time

[Istaru]

I'm sure there has been a slight decline, but the game is still healthy. In no way, shape or form is it dying.

That said, I think a lot of upper-midcore/hardcore players are having a rough time right now because they're realizing this game might not be for them -- and that's gotta be a tough realization for anyone who has spent so much time on it.

This thread is essentially a handful of people who want the game's core progression to be changed from vertical to horizontal, and that ain't happening. Not now, not at the expansion, not ever.

Yeah, my inner hardcore player would be delighted if the game went more horizontal, but I've still got FFXI for that. Meanwhile, I've got FFXIV as my game that I can keep up with without having to play for several hours per day. From very early on, Yoshi-P made it clear that FFXIV was designed for players like me. Why would SE change the formula now, especially when it's working?

I am going to say that I am probably in that group that is having a crisis of faith so to speak about my place in this game. I am having enough of one to actually post a bit on the OF when I usually lurk and that is about the extent of my activity here. A few of Yoshi's comments recently have me rattled. The jump potions, his stating that unique stats will not be coming back anytime soon if ever and that 4.0 will pretty much be a rehash of 3.0 which was a rehash of 2.0. I will admit that I am quite a bit bored at times in the game. I have everything at 60, I have all the mounts from Gold Saucer, Kirin. I even started playing my alt again and have her most of the way done too.

I have done a lot of different things and try out new things in each patch. It all boils down to the question that has been nagging me so much lately, "Do I want to spend the next 3 years, doing the same thing over and over?". Which would be chasing the latest tomestone and doing the same raid for 6 months then starting all over again at the end of that period doing the same thing again. They don't have to make it horizontal progression or whatever, just change it up somehow.

Yoshida once talked about the need to amaze, they have not amazed me outside of storytelling, for some time. Another 3 years of the same thing is not something I really want to experience, I may not be here at the end of that and I really want to be in 3 years time. I just need a reason to keep telling myself, it will be worth it and fun to stay.

I want to be amazed again.