What would make you quit FF14?

[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)

[Narthice]

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I'm kinda ready to move on to the next MMO Square decides to throw at us. Hopefully this time there will be less things holding back the game. I will still follow the story of XIV as long as it remains interesting however.

[Claviusnex]

I'm pretty much at that point now. I've been playing Elder Scrolls Online for the most part since the free to play trial week in March only coming back here to do the new content and reset my housing timer. I was planning to sell my materials, pack up my household items and drop my sub after the last 4.x was released. The only thing holding me back now is ESO added spyware to their client this last maintenance cycle so I might be back to looking for a new game if we aren't allowed to opt out.

[Alaric]

I always figured I’d quit the day people started running around with wings on..... I’m still here though so I don’t know. Maybe this game is just a bad habit I need to kick.

[Shurrikhan]

Increased frequency of lag spikes due to NTT's server jumps.

Increased reliance upon the MogStation items and gaudiness of their items.

Further bandaid fixes that will later be considered by the devs as "good enough" over sunk-cost fallacies, despite that they'd have held a better efficiency to have just done a complete job in the first place.

Or the game continuing to reveal little or have little by way of future design goals, or failing to bring in features in fitting applications (to seem complete and attractive in themselves) that each work towards those goals.

(...Honestly, I'm hanging onto this game by only a thread atm, and have already cancelled my sub to wait until the next Savage tier. But if it shows little improvement, it'll likely be until next expansion, if ever.)

[Jhett_Magnum]

If they copy and paste another hw type expansion

[Tranquilmelody7]

Lootboxes!