Who else is bored? Same Content and Formula...Was SB a waste of money?

[Airget]

I"d say if you got 40-80hrs of gameplay within the last 2 months, then you more than got your moneys worth. The issue here isn't a lack of content or being "bored", it's about being burned out. No matter how fun or good a game may be if you play hours on end you are going to get bored of doing the same thing and what has even Yoshi himself said in those instances? Take a step back, stop playing and come back later, come back when there is content you want to do, play the game to the point you feel satisified. This is just 1 game, there is no need for you to only have your eye on playing one game, if you aren't having fun with this one currently, play the others of hundreds of games out there with their own unique stories and gameplay experiences. You shouldn't rely on FFXIV as your one and only game that you play during your free time, just take a step back and play something else.

[Jybril]

Again, deny all you want, (sorry Tilla Eversong/ iromi none of this is directed to you, just using your quoted to Cassandra Solidor/Bourne_Endeavor) but a lot of people feel this, that is why things need changing, the only one looking at short term is you when you say "it works" it works because it is a short term system. You cannot keep copy and paste the same thing and expect people to stay. Is your real biases for "disagreeing" is because you simply dislike change? It needs changing, we can't be doing the same thing over and over again that we have been for the last 4 years.

I've quit HW for 8 months because of the same tired forumla. I returned a bit before the launch of SB EA.
After I level the jobs I want again, you won't be seeing me for a while.
I usually get hyped with 24man raids, but since it's a once a week thing. I enjoy it once and done.
So tired of the gating...

[Alleo]

I"d say if you got 40-80hrs of gameplay within the last 2 months, then you more than got your moneys worth. The issue here isn't a lack of content or being "bored", it's about being burned out. No matter how fun or good a game may be if you play hours on end you are going to get bored of doing the same thing and what has even Yoshi himself said in those instances? Take a step back, stop playing and come back later, come back when there is content you want to do, play the game to the point you feel satisified. This is just 1 game, there is no need for you to only have your eye on playing one game, if you aren't having fun with this one currently, play the others of hundreds of games out there with their own unique stories and gameplay experiences. You shouldn't rely on FFXIV as your one and only game that you play during your free time, just take a step back and play something else.

Please dont assume that other people dont have other games to play next to this. FF14 is not even my only MMO (other is Rift at the moment) and I have lots of different games still waiting to be played. But in the end its either, stay subbed (thus I feel the need to play at least a bit per week otherwise I would throw my money away) or unsubb and lose my house forever. So maybe SE could have been so nice to not integrate a system that would force people to stay subbed if they want to keep their hard earned houses...Also critisim is important for SE, if people would just stop playing this game without posting about this, SE would not even know why. And lets be real, he might say that you should unsub if you are bored and come back later but FF14 needs constant subbed players or otherwise they wont be able to keep the game running. Thus they should provide something that will keep the players happy and not just say: Well then unsubb.

[bswpayton]

Doing achievements is the only thing I am still doing in this

I agree with you on this (extra content at start of expansion) I made a post about it but in a way I feel like they kinda tried to do that with pvp, they tried to make that the beginning of expansion go to for leveling and quick rewards. I think this was a horrible Idea, as now Im actually tryin to pace myself with leveling jobs its extremely easy to level from 60 to 70 and verity gear is like candy to get and thats the only uncapped thing we have. And I chose to farm verity because its actually content I guess buyin all crafted gear makes things to easy and would give me personally nothing to do. But I guess I expected nothing so Im not really upset, this game is built on old content, and to me doing lakismi over and over again would be no different than doing thordan extreme over and over once you learn a fight its no longer new and fresh.

A fights only new when you first do it , so I guess I just dont follow the mentality of being over old content because it still exist SE can literally only make so much stuff you cant have 75 percent of a game a wasteland, and then expect the top 25 percent of a game to feel like a whole entire game all an expansion is , is the latest part of the game not the whole game and I feel thats where people just dont get it. I think SE could def have way better rewards, like mount armour , special glam armor something like that but always thinkin that the new stuff is going to feel like a whole entire game by itself is just stupid to me. And I dont follow the whole well I ran this 1000 times, well what are people doing now wit the two ex primals , how many times will people run the raids they lose their shiny after about 3 times of doing them. I feel where op is coming form and many others but I feel like I will never get bored because I know that this is a whole game instead of the expansion being the whole game like everyone else is treating it.

[Neophyte]

Thats one expensive sub.

15€ for 30h playtime isn't that expensive.
It's pretty similar to average singleplayer game duration per €.

Is netflix also 'one expensive sub' when you only watch 16h+ of content each month?

[RiceisNice]

It's better than Heavensward by a country mile in regards to content tuning and what it offers. Favors in 3.05 were so terrible, it quite literally burned me out of crafting and gathering for the rest of the expansion with how much time commitment it needed to craft a single item (which was lost to a DC in my case). MCH and BRD's gameplay and performance was also terrible in both end game and the leveling process,

[Dzian]

Only if you limit yourself to raids

Not really even if you add primal the amount of content is very small.

Do I need a Susan weapon? Nope
Do I need a laksmhi accessory? Nope
Do I have my weekly tomes capped? Yes
Do I have my weekly somewhat drops? Yes.

That's it done.. no more endgame content to do till next week's reset. Then a couple of hours in omega and done again till next week.... there is very little content at any given time.

I could perhaps level another job but that is really not an end game or progressive activity.

[Mycow8me]

I'm not exactly bored yet but honestly this is the end result of all dungeon crawler games... The dungeons get old and start to feel the same... This is why a mostly silent minority have been irregularly posting for openworld content or serverside content that is usually more about the journey and less about the destination. Don't even try to talk about fates and that bullshit cause those are not creative, fun, exciting, dangerous, social openworld content at all, pls... It is about the time socializing and gaming towards a goal and not about running it x amount of times until you get y gear (yes gear is still a motivation but if thats all you are thinking you are missing the point). Another problem is that fights are scripted so the only xfactor towards them being fun is when players make mistakes and shit hits the fan.. In those moments the player's skill, intuitive thinking, and fight intensity reach their peaks. A moment of mistakes is more fun then the scripted battle where everyone is waltzing on key with the boss in my opinion.

I often times wonder what would have happened if Hiromichi Tanaka had remained with a realm reborn and was in charge of openworld content development. In before some nerd says, "another failure"...

[Felis]

I usually get hyped with 24man raids, but since it's a once a week thing. I enjoy it once and done.
So tired of the gating...

Just sub every even numbered patch then? The weekly cap in 24 man raids get removed in even numbered patches.
Also you have to be very lucky to get the gear that you want in the first run every week

[dinnertime]

I'm not bored...yet. I think it's only been 3 weeks since I started playing again. I still have a few things to do like level up my jobs, farm for ex trials and Omega, maybe try out the savage version etc.

They did say they'll make new content in odd-numbered patches but if it ends up being another deep dungeon or another exploratory mission and just plastered "NEW CONTENT" on it even though it functions the same as the old ones then we're not really getting anything new, are we? Hopefully they're different this time or at least improved since they did mention those.