Why are you still playing?

[Rowyne]

So do i...right now i rarely can even go past play screen...i log in...stare that play screen a while and just close the launcher. I really lost all the will of playing after 1.20.

Right now i just check the forums in a hope of a miracle...after all it's a good time of year for one to happen! =P

Same goes for me.

For a while now, it's been the same routine. I log in, I look at my friend list (which 9/10 times all the names are greyed out), try to track down people who have requested pearls, look at my LS lists (which never have more than four active people in a LS at any given time), stand around in Ul'dah, people watch, look at the stars, listen to the music.

All of the above usually takes 15 minutes or less. And then I log out.

My desire to play has been steadily dwindling. People no longer group up to do leves, so party content has shifted to old-school grinding (sorry, left that behind when I quit FFXI, I had no intention of getting back to that again). Powerleveling is out of control. Bypassing low-mid level content altogether is encouraged in favor of what little endgame exists. And now with the melee combat changes where you no longer have any active non-TP dependent abilities, you stand around and do nothing for the first part of the fight but watch your character auto-attack while you build TP. My husband pretty much rage-quit over it and absolutely refuses to play.

I had been losing my will, but patch 1.20 was definitely the nail in the coffin, for me.

I'm glad for the improvements we've gotten over the months, but there are core issues that have irreparably broken this game. And I don't see them being fixed until 2.0.

So, short answer... why have I stuck around? My four years playing FFXI, my linkshell family, loyalty, the beauty of Eorzea, the music, the community, and the hopes this will someday become the game I call home. But am I still playing? No. And I won't be subscribing come January 6th. Until then, I will continue to post my feedback, as I've done since closed beta. But right now, I just can't overlook the game's glaring issues.