"Growing old is mandatory;

[Illmaeran]

growing up is optional." - Chili Davis

How many subbed players since 2.0 feel this game has kept up with your maturation and expectations over the years as a gamer?

Like dating someone for 5 years but you're the only one who has changed and matured since but your partner is still the same ole person when y'all met. Makes ya wonder what's in it for you in this relationship 5 years from now, right?

I've been here since May 2014 and have found the game has moved in directions I appreciate as I've grown older. I'm a big fan of the current state of the game and would be quite happy for it to stay like this until the servers shut down. Increasing the amount of side content will only give me more to do and keep me around as the years pass.

[sagacious]

growing up is optional." - Chili Davis

How many subbed players since 2.0 feel this game has kept up with your maturation and expectations over the years as a gamer?

Like dating someone for 5 years but you're the only one who has changed and matured since but your partner is still the same ole person when y'all met. Makes ya wonder what's in it for you in this relationship 5 years from now, right?

I started around six months ago and there is ten years of content and I feel overwhelmed sometimes. I love this game. It's best for new players because ten years of content is a lot to get through. The future of this game will exceed your expectations.

[RyuDragnier]

Been here since the beginning (2.0's beta), most I've seen is changes in design choices going from one expansion to another. Such as things being simplified a bit going from HW to SB, a bit more from SB to ShB, and as they are now in EW. All while the fights get more and more interesting, and I find myself doing things I never would have thought I'd have done way back in launch. I love it here.

[AziraSyuren]

Been here since 3.0.

A lot of things are different, but it's still the same game in the end. Probably a bit too polished for its own good, but I was really mad about some design decisions by the end of 3.0 and for all of 4.0 that aren't problems anymore, so I guess it's a give and take thing. I'd rather be bored than furious any day, tbh.

[hynaku]

Wouldn't aging depend on what race your character is. Some races could live for hundreds of years so they look the same.

[IdowhatIwant]

Back to the point. As a gamer, I obviously grow up over time and often want different things in video games as a result. What was fun one year, may be annoying the next. All im asking is if SE has done enough for the game since 2.0 to keep up with your changing gaming habits and expectations.

If you're literally the same gamer you were back then, disregard.

Nope, the game feels like it's aiming more towards RP and successful story telling than anything else. Patch content has felt stagnant with nothing really surprising any more. I don't have as much time to do some of the content I used to enjoy, and there is no middle man between the harder content I would enjoy that I no longer have as much time for, and the casual boring content that I just simply don't want to do every day.

[kaynide]

More to that, I would honestly rather the game not change too drastically. Sure, new ideas and interesting takes on gameplay, but I am playing this game because I want a certain itch scratched, and if I recommend this game to someone 5 years later I hope I am recommending the game as I remember it. If my interests change, I should play different games, not expect the game to change for me.

I can recommend Skyrim or Minecraft to someone because despite mods and new content, it is at its core the same game. Notably, FF11 is vastly different now and would be hard for me to recommend because I don’t even know what kind of game it is now.