Why are you not playing this game?

[Tanama]

I was looking over the Why are you still playing this game? thread and then began to wonder the opposite.

So for those with an active account but not playing ffxiv at the moment I ask: Why are you not playing this game?

For me, I got burned out on the daily and weekly tome grinding. I also did not like the Bard Performance changes. I spent a long time learning a song on keyboard only to have that ruined with the last update so that also contributed to not wanting to play. Most if not all of the hairstyles they've added in Stormblood have been atrocious in my opinion. I am just bored of ffxiv at the moment. Though, I am looking forward to the next 24-man raid so I'll be back for the next patch.

[ManuelBravo]

if people are not playing would normally be they are trowing a tantrum about content or burned out would it or not able to respond...For the most part I have not been playing as much do to maximizing my content and tired of the hypocrisy of players as I do random stuff.

[Vaer]

I mostly login to do weekly savage clears and spend maybe 1-2 hours in Eureka capping mendacity (sick of dungeons after doing them for 4 years) then my play time drops to near 0 until the next week. Not much to do.

[Averax]

Endgame just feels...ugh... I've taken to leveling an alt to remind me that the game was fun for me once. I hope the next expansions changes a lot of things about the endgame, and we don't end up getting more of the same stuff with a different label.

[MuseTraveller]

Because... -

1. My main job got nerfed/didn't get buffed
2. The 101 ping is literally unplayable
3. Eureka
4. Something on mog station

... sarcasm aside, I'm bored of the formula so I rarely touch roulettes or any of the dailies. I don't feel like gearing up only to be meaningless in 2-3 months. I'm doing casual content every now and then - farm for mounts, lurk in Eureka, do side quests I haven't done on a job I haven't leveled, do beast tribes I haven't touched since I started playing, help friends clear old content in HW they haven't done, etc.
I don't log in every day like I used to.

[basketofseals]

I'm into competitive monster dating at the moment. I'm not sure if it really appeals to me, but it's something I'd never thought would exist, so I feel obligated to give it a shot.

I'm not very good at it right now D:

FFXIV is more like...my fallback game? I love it to death, but I mostly play it in between things.

[Connor]

I stopped playing for a few reasons:

Content became too boring, particularly due to no grinding and weekly lockouts

Battle system has become too simplistic and focuses far too heavily on dps instead of making interesting and engaging mechanics to gate progression

My favourite(?) job - Bard - has been redesigned 3 times now; I find it less enjoyable and less worthy of the ‘Bard’ name each time
Character customisation exists purely as aesthetics, currently there isn’t a single system in the game that doesn’t have obvious choices that you should definitely take (e.g role abilities, materia melding, etc)

Roles barely mean anything which kinda defeats the purpose of why they exist.
Why call a role a healer if it’s actively trying not to heal? Or tanks trying to generate as little enmity as possible (to maximise dps). Why bother with all these fake choices when I can just play a game with a real role system and enjoy being able to take on different responsibilities within a party. Player responsibility is purely ‘deal damage and dodge mechanics’, and with healing becoming a purely oGCD affair even that doesn’t feel like a change in roles anymore.

Lack of a support role as well as support abilities in general. Almost every buff in the game is on a very long cooldown, which just exacerbates the problem of the battle system being far too simplistic. There’s no aspect of keeping up debuffs or buffs in any job because of all the timers, so you end up right back where you started spamming Heavy Shot / 1-2-3 combo / Fire / Ruin / Stone IV / Malefic III / Broil II. Even the supposedly ‘support’ oriented Astrologian is getting buffs to increase the ease with which it can dps.

I used to be obsessed with this game and played it religiously since 1.0, but ever since shortly after Stormblood dropped I just lost all motivation to play because of the reasons above.

Honestly, if I was going to be brutally honest part of me also dislikes the amount that the developers make obvious excuses, like ‘we were going to do something about dark arts but it would take 6 months’...so you’re just going to ignore it? I don’t even play Dark Knight yet was surprised as how quickly they dismissed it. The exact same thing happened with Summoner at the end of 2.X, they just decided ‘it’ll take too long so let’s just ignore it’. Or how they couldn’t do jobs mid-expansion because it was too much work, so they changed to three jobs per expansion, which apparently is still too much work. They moved to only two jobs per expansion (Samurai and Red Mage) and they still aren’t balanced properly (Samurai is greedy dps in a game where party dps contribution is king, Red Mage brings healing to a game with extremely low healing requirements). Dungeons followed the same pattern, apparently because they wanted to focus on ‘unique never before seen content’.

Their magnum opus was Eureka, which speaks volumes.

[Malzian]

Honestly I want to play the game, but I don't feel super motivated right now. I have 6 complete Anemos weapons, 3 Complete Anemos armor sets, I don't do Savage raids and the current 24-man has no motivation for me. I could work on getting my melded Mhigan crafters and gatherers sets, but it so tedious to gather those mats and craft them and the ones on the MB on Behe are above my wallet size. I log on, tend to my retainers, do my Cactpot and think about farming dogs or my last 2 birds only to look at the parties in PF and the hilarious demands in the groups (seriously, 1 death and kicked? What if it's not my fault?? What if someone walked into me with a mechanic that kills me??) and just lose interest.

Now don't get me wrong, I will be on 4.3 at launch in the morning, I'm excited for the new content, but right now it's all kinda.... meh.

[Zigabar]

Pre-patch lull. Just raid logging and checking on airships/subs every couple of days.

[ElazulHP]

Combination of nothing fun to do end game and being disgusted by the Mog Station becoming more prevalent & mobile app adding a freemium currency and an additional subscription on top of the first subscription. At this point i'm just logging in once a week to enter my house so I don't lose it. Been mainly playing other games, but i'll probably come back for 4.3 at least for a little bit to play the story and do the new 24 man raid. After that who knows. I may just relinquish my house and unsub until the next expansion.