Anyone else getting bored of FF14’s repetativeness?

[Cled-cat]

Hi everyone. I’ve played the game since ARR and I absolutely adore the story and world of FF14, but there’s one glaring issue with the game that’s getting more and more apparent as it ages. The combat, jobs and general lack of innovation surrounding them is feeling pretty stifling at this point. When you boil the jobs down, many of them feel like clones or reskins with no customisation or innovation. Obviously it’s an MMO and that dictates how much or little they can really experiment without making jobs unbalanced, but they err so much on the side of familiarity It’s stifling. It just feeling so boring now and it’s really detracting from the game experience for me.

I’m struggling more and more to enjoy the jobs as the game gets older, what do you guys think?

[Edax]

Hi everyone. I’ve played the game since ARR and I absolutely adore the story and world of FF14, but there’s one glaring issue with the game that’s getting more and more apparent as it ages. The combat, jobs and general lack of innovation surrounding them is feeling pretty stifling at this point. When you boil the jobs down, many of them feel like clones or reskins with no customisation or innovation. Obviously it’s an MMO and that dictates how much or little they can really experiment without making jobs unbalanced, but they err so much on the side of familiarity It’s stifling. It just feeling so boring now and it’s really detracting from the game experience for me.

I’m struggling more and more to enjoy the jobs as the game gets older, what do you guys think?

Even if they made a job totally unique...it's still be repetitive. You'd still be doing the same thing every day with that job.

[Mikhaill]

Even if they made a job totally unique...it's still be repetitive. You'd still be doing the same thing every day with that job.

The fact that that homogenize the jobs more (Healers + Tanks mainly) only makes the combat even more stale.
Before the mob comes a running...I am more bored than not with the game. You can only blame it being a theme park.
New patch? Throw wide the flood gates only for me to play for like a month and leave for 3-6 months at a time.
I'm okay with that for the most part.

Combat for me is the real kicker. It's because the core of the battle system is so dated, you can only do so much
with it. That's when I just unsub and play other stuff. All you can do really.

[Cled-cat]

Anything can become stale and repetitive when played a lot, obviously, but that’s why the devs should be looking to innovate and experiment more. Sure, it may be riskier than walking the well trodden path, but how else do we get exciting new things? ARR itself was the product of such risk taking and innovation.

However, they can’t expect to ride the coat tails of that epic turnaround forever. It’s been over half a decade now, and it’s barely changed, it’s getting really, REALLY stale. Sure there will always be people white knighting and kissing the ground the devs walk on, but that won’t bring about any change you know?

[DonovanLifeweaver]

The fact that that homogenize the jobs more (Healers + Tanks mainly) only makes the combat even more stale.
Before the mob comes a running...I am more bored than not with the game. You can only blame it being a theme park.
New patch? Throw wide the flood gates only for me to play for like a month and leave for 3-6 months at a time.
I'm okay with that for the most part.

Combat for me is the real kicker. It's because the core of the battle system is so dated, you can only do so much
with it. That's when I just unsub and play other stuff. All you can do really.

no ones holding you back xD

[Mikhaill]

no ones holding you back xD

I don't think this game is meant to be played in long stretches, but small doses.
It's just like any themepark game.
You join the ride, ride it so many times, then come back for new stuff.
Just how it is lol. I mean, I agree with OP to an extent but I just come to deal with it lol.

[DonovanLifeweaver]

I don't think this game is meant to be played in long stretches, but small doses.
It's just like any themepark game.
You join the ride, ride it so many times, then come back for new stuff.
Just how it is lol. I mean, I agree with OP to an extent but I just come to deal with it lol.

long stretches and small doses. i have lots of vacations in the winter and i play when i get back from works
i only see 2 games as theme park that gets boring real fast, fusrodah online and world of diablo 3.
also keep in mind that pre SB the game was a pain and it took quite a work of time to get through content. unless you botted or had alot of free time on your hands.
also as i said to the op: ask for more challenging stuff and and more complexe content and class review to make them challenging.... not the other way around. it should help

edit: classes beign boring is simply explained by:

cant crit? put hit
cant hit? put crit
if your hits dont crits? put on speed

cant crit? put det
cant det? put crit
your det doesnt crit? put pie

in the above statement wich was cleverly demanded by the entire crybaby player base since StormBlood... tell me how can you have fun when you only need 2 stats?

the only other option would be to realese expansion every 3 months for 50$ each and break each classes every 2 weks to keep people from enjoying the game. a certain mmo did it.... all its player base is now here complaining that ff14 is still and too hard

[Vahlnir]

MMOs are repetitive my default. Considering they've been my main source of entertainment for 12+ years or so I guess it just doesn't bother me.

[Diggles]

OP, I mean this in the nicest way possible, but it’s very possible that MMOs just aren’t for you. MMOs, by their very nature, are extremely repetitive. It’s also possible that you may just need a break from this particular game. ESO, while not nearly as good, is a fantastic alternative to this game if you haven’t tried it yet.

[Cled-cat]

OP, I mean this in the nicest way possible, but it’s very possible that MMOs just aren’t for you. MMOs, by their very nature, are extremely repetitive. It’s also possible that you may just need a break from this particular game. ESO, while not nearly as good, is a fantastic alternative to this game if you haven’t tried it yet.

Thank you for putting it in a civil way! I’m definitely not a hardcore MMO player, so that’s also something to consider. However I’ve played this game for so long and frequently I feel that makes up for it a bit. I just don’t want this game to get staler and staler.