What would make you quit FF14?

[Voross]

Any other new/better MMO to be honest. The only reason I'm still playing this game is because I've played 10+ years of WoW and there simply isn't anything better on the market right now. So as soon as we get a new one that looks promising I'm gone and I'll never look back to this...atrocity.

-Terrible/outdated UI, barely any customization
-stale game design
-slow combat
-forums that look like they were made in 2001
-terrible ingame and website support
-too much blatant cash grabbing (mogstation, extra retainers for money instead of expansion via ingame currency, freemium garbage, etc.)

The only good points this game has imho are the storytelling and the somewhat decent housing(if you're able to get a house that is).

[KisaiTenshi]

-forums that look like they were made in 2001

No, no. vBulletin 4.1.3 was released in 2011. They remain the same ever since.

Really, the reason anyone is playing FFXIV is that it's the only Asian MMO to not adopt the shakedown-to-progress gachapon model. All these new MMORPG's last, at most 3 months and then their North American publishers throw in the towel and let them rot. Here's a summary from a youtuber https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV48C6yzfFY

If FFXIV moves anymore towards the F2P P2W model, I'm done. MMORPG's are a lost cause, and you kids these days have no idea that while the "cosmetic cash shop" has been around for like 20 years, the various gachapon models the asian developers keep finding new ways of "it's not gambling" excuse it. Yet where is the actual gameplay? You can't tell me that players login to the game just to pay to play these awful gachapon RNG games in a contest to see who can out spend the other idiots.