TAKE A BREAK MEGA THREAD.

[Voltyblast]

This might be hard considering that you won't be able to join the forums after 14 days of absence from the game (meanwhile I can still do on other game's forums).

Talk about being pointless (not to be offensive or anything: just find this restriction silly)

[Mature]

If you wanna take a break good for you but tbh no one cares.

This is gonna be another ones of those threads where childishness and hate is gonna be promoted.

#anotherpointlessthread

[Seig345]

I tried to take a break for FFXV, came back before I finished FFXV.
I tried to take a break for The Last Guardian, came back but then barely managed to finish the rest in a single evening.

I've been trying hard to actually take a break from FFXIV, and it took the Nintendo Switch and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild to do it. But I don't know if it really counts since I'm on a six month subscription plan and my sub is technically still active and I've been popping in every weekend to set foot in my house and run a roulette or two.

[Squigley]

I don't remember seeing an exit survey when I took breaks and uninstalled. So yeah, these "I quit" threads do serve a small purpose. The forum posts provide the devs information about how they failed to keep those subscribers. It's then up to the developers to figure out if the game needs changes.

In b4 "lol, devs don't read these forums": I do know for a fact that SE employees read these forums and collate info from the threads to be sent to the devs. I REALLY don't envy the community teams forum duties

[AureliusDraconium]

I subscribe for a month once every 3 months, play for a week to see what's new/ say hi to the FC, then take a break. I'm practically the queen of break taking for this game. I just always get pulled back into Legion with FFXIV being my first mmo. Hoping Stormblood gets me playing more which it probably will. I've come to realize I enjoy more RNG rewards vs grinding tomes so hoping the devs add some other unique ways of obtaining gear alongside the 4.0 tomes. Diadem had a good idea of adding RNG gear but after 3 years burned out on fates. Anyway, anyone who is bitter towards this amazing game should just take a break. That's just how I see it.

[Elany]

Let's be real here, everyone's too damn addicted to this game to ever actually leave. People are all talk when they mention quitting.

[ValentineSnow]

How to reply to a thread on ffxiv official forums:

1. See a thread on the first page.
2. >IMPORTANT< do not enter and read said thread.
3. Assume what the contents of the thread is, based on the title.
4. Make a new passive aggressive thread about how you're sick of people making new threads for the same topic you assumed it was about.
5. Remain oblivious to the irony of you making a separate thread for the same topic.

[Vhailor]

This Thread is what it stated its a thread for anyone who feels like they want to take a brake from the game can post a message and talk about it.

I don't personally want to "take a brake" [sic] at the moment, but I can empathize with those who do. I only returned a few months ago from an extended break myself. I'll probably be ready for another lengthy (or permanent) break after Stormblood releases and I finish the 4.0 storyline.

[Blackcanary]

Only reason why I take breaks is cause this game is to much of a theme park. I come back every 24 days just to make sure I don't get kicked out of my FC. With no open world dungeons or enough open world content besides gathering, best tribe quest which get boring very quickly and hunts this game is a complete bore fest for me once I complete the MSQ and I am up to date with it. I keep hoping that every patch we get might finally break the mold and give us something new instead 2-3 dungeons 24 or 23 man raids and a hard mode version of 2 other dungeons. I'm so sick of the tome stone currancey. Why can't I just pay Gill. Any way here is hoping stormblood will give this game a freash breath of air that the game truly needs.

[Vhailor]

Only reason why I take breaks is cause this game is to much of a theme park.

Personally I don't agree with this characterization. FFXIV is in many ways fairly non-linear; you can play a variety of jobs (including Crafters and Gatherers), you can run dungeons, larger raids, Primals, PotD, Hunts, Diadem, etc. There's a lot to do for the most part, and the content is non-linear in the sense that there isn't a plain "Dungeon 1 > Dungeon 2 > Raid" progression line that everyone inevitably follows.

Don't get me wrong, I agree that the content cycle in FFXIV is stale. It desperately needs a larger amount of real variety. But that's not a characteristic of 'theme park' MMOs (if any of those truly exist) so much as it's simple bad design on the part of the development team. We should be framing the issue correctly, rather than using the deceptive language of the masses haunting the internet.