What would make you quit FF14?

[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.

[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/

[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.

[MOZZYSTAR]

If they basically continue the same story/quest formulas. Like, I was really pleased with how they incoming spoiler

let us play as Alphinaud in the latest patch

Which I found was surprisingly new for them to do. I expected it "if this was a regular game and not an MMO, X would totally be happening right now /begrudges the fact that FFXIV is an MMO for 3 seconds... then sparkles at the surprise/." I would like to continue to see "new" approaches like that. I was also pleased to see we got to make more choices in SB, and little things like our classes were acknowledged by NPCs.

Otherwise, it seems like SE is getting cosy how things are currently done because it's been successful up to a point and I think if it was the same gimmicks every time, I'd grow tired of it and quit. It's kinda like an artist drawing the same things the same way without ever improving themselves because they know X is received well (in general), so they get content and hit a plateau. However, I can tell that SE is trying to explore/experiment a little at a time while playing it safe, so I'm okay with that.

Other things that would drive me crazy: bad directing, IC inconsistency (I find Thancred a bit inconsistent between ARR and HW+, and Yda also fell out of character in HW [you could call it char development, but I found it really... poor in general]), no fulfilling sidequests to serve as relief from tragic MSQ, so many deaths so little time (at this point I just don't care if a character dies).

Start rant/ramble xD: and this wasn't enough to make me quit, but I really dislike the lack of variation in accents among the characters now. Like, in ARR (while fantasy/pseudo accents(I think)), Raubahn, Seedseer, Merlwyb, Alphinaud, etc., all had different accents and speech patterns from each other and I kind of imagined it to be a cultural thing. Now, the main cast has roughly the same or too-similar accents, and almost everyone has same/similar speech patterns regardless of character or origin (e.g. everyone says "you and yours" at some point, and while it's to display antiquity, it's a bit tiring. The same thing can be said various ways, you know?). It just really annoyed me that we went from a potluck of various fantasy accents to all UK accents from ARR to HW. Like, I get Ishgard being primarily UK accents, but Ul'dah, Ala Mhigo, and Gridania should have different accents, you know? I was relieved that Hien and other Doma characters did have slightly different accents (despite similar speech patterns and UK accent under tones) to reflect their different culture/area.


Edit: I totally prefer Raubahn's current VA over the ARR one (the ARR one, at least in the very beginning, was terrible), so, it wasn't all bad.
Edit 2: someone made a really good point: if the prices go up, I won't be able to afford it. Or rather, I won't want to afford it. My gym membership is cheaper (at $10 a month with contract), which you'd expect it to not be in this day and age... I'd rather save up sub money for more solo games if prices went up. I probably wouldn't go to another MMO as I tried 'em and didn't like 'em as much as I like this one.

[Tanathya]

It's gotten to a point where I no longer have interest in any new coming content. Every new patch is just like every new patch from 2.0 on, and I don't even look at what's gonna have. Like, it's not new anymore, per se. More of the same, over, and over, and over again. I'd be genuinely more interested if all a patch brought was a very extended MSQ, and nothing else. I don't even want any new dungeons, there's nothing I'm expecting anymore. I came back to try 4.3, and I barely log on. I don't even care about Ridorana's weekly, or any for that matter.

[Gralna]

If the game went F2P and starting locking everything behind paywalls such as quests for zones, gil cap, xp cap per day, etc... For F2P games I don't mind cosmetic items or boosters, but not a big fan of basic gameplay elements being gated.

Or if for any reason Yoshi P went completely mad and made the game into open world free for all PvP.

[Sylvina]

If it went free to play. Becuase I know they wouldn't be keeping up the quality if they did that. and I can't spend that much money. (I spend WAY more on F2P games than P2P)