What would make you quit FF14?

[KisaiTenshi]

If it went completely free-to-play probably, I'd see no point in continuing any longer. The quality would quickly shift downhill.

This. Free2Play junk like gachapon/lootboxes and P2W micro-transactions make games into "highly profitable, contentless voids". Japanese developers even know this is a thing because they shutdown 100's of mobile games every year that have that mechanic, once they empty the wallets of the whales. They then come out with a nearly identical game to make them start paying again.

https://www.serkantoto.com/2016/03/1...ization-japan/

[Warghoul570]

I’d they went free to play and the cost of the now extra stuff it takes to play how I’ve been playing exceeds $20

[Corue]

I'm very petty and there's a lot of minor gripes that could disinterest me.

My main problem is that the game just feels way too "safe" I guess. While it is nice to know when content is coming, it does start to get a little dull when it's the same thing every time. If 5.0 comes out and it follows the same formula (6 areas, 2 jobs, another "human with animal ears" race if we get one, etc.) I might have to dip out for a bit before I get completely bored with the whole thing.

Then again I did recently buy a medium so I'm now kind of forced to play.

[Mayku]

If it become pay to win, if the game becomes too easy (a bit of challenge, I don't want brainless content), if the mog station has all the nice glamours for an extra sub fee every week...

[Tracewood]

Aside from external circumstances... like if Fallout 76 ends up being really, REALLY, good (if it's fully online as rumors are still speculating as I type this.

This game is like a light version of Game of Thrones or some kind of ongoing story and side filler arcs that I keep playing to see what happens next. I'm not super into raids, but I try to get as far as my lone butt can gone.

I can see myself leaving FFXIV if they ended up pulling a Bungie and start trickling down content but expect full price. IMHO, FFXIV you do get your money's worth as long as you don't no-life everything, and even still. I like that this exp we're getting new zones. I'm glad they don't deal with season passes and DLC, it's just the exp and optional collector's ed, and patches every few months. The monthly fee to me is better than paying ahead of time only to get let down later on.

What does annoy me is how they made certain DPS jobs feel like whack-a-mole for a small amount of damage or utility and it had me take breaks for an entire patch save for a few moments of logging in. Like MCH for example, BRD feels far more fluid yet MCH feels tedious and un-fun unless you like that sort of gameplay. Bards can auto reload bows, but MCHs have to manually reload, and it's only three rounds? I think if they made it to where you reload automatically and give it potency buffs It could cut down on the headache and you could just have some kind if combo rotation in it's place. Maybe I was so desperate to finally get to play a gun class only for it to feel like you really had to tunnel vision your hotbar and if you mess up your Wildfire suffers greatly.

At least they fixed MNK for the time being, nice to do raids on it and not feel like I'm bringing the team down.

[Fhaerron]

I already did.
The announcement of freemium app and medicore expansion SB has been so far.
I still have sub days left so I can still post here.

Will probably check out the next expansion next year but if it's the same ol stuff with 90% put in mogstation instead of ingame reward It won't take long until I remove it again.

If it ever becomes F2P then I will never ever touch it again. I do not play F2P games, I used to play RIFT, I quit the day they made it F2P and never looked back.
I quit GW2 too, although you have to pay for the expansions to enter those areas the core of the game became F2P so I removed that too.

I still play wow after 12 years and I still have fun with it so that's good and that has even less change of going F2P compared to this considering how much more players they have over 4 times as much.

I'm currently playing Bless Online NA/EU version, while the gameplay is fun I'm actually having doubts due the poor translation and considering how much people have issues with the game running properly..
Anyway same rule here if it ever becomes F2P I'll remove it.

[Sakuraluna]

I love the game, but I would have to say that the micro transaction that I genuinely feel forced to pay in order to get full enjoyment of an expansion or update will be their last attempt to get me to pay for anything, including my subscription. I don’t honestly mind the optional stuff, and as long as it’s reasonably affordable and completely optional, I have no concerns about buying it if I happen to want it. But I don’t need it. The moment it ceases to feel optional though... i’m just not the person who wants to pay for a product that turns out incomplete, then be forced to fix the problem myself by paying even more to the offending company. Just my preference.

[Clover_Blake]

Ummm, I guess I'd consider quitting if the game started being too unfriendly, like... getting equip became super hard and dependant on luck, or if they stopped releasing cool glamour items ingame and everything became cash-shop...

Basically, all the things this game doesn't do. I guess I'm staying for a long ride!

[CainCrimson]

If the subscription price surpassed my personal max of $19 a month.

[LeoLupinos]

Brainless content being prioritized.