Quote Originally Posted by Kolsykol View Post
I am still enjoying the game a lot, the problem for me currently is lack of content.
I just do the Savage tier and then I am done for the week, tomestones is whatever I'll do it at some point in the week too.

When the Savage tier is unlocked and you can farm books I'll be doing the fights just for fun and glam, I just wish I could do more runs a week.
I am also looking forward to the new Relic weapons and story too.
But yeah, right now it kinda feels like I just exhaust all content for the week that I have left in one sitting.
I mean, it isn't that I don't have anything to do. I actually have quite a lot I could/should be doing - leveling alt classes, leveling my alt characters through EW, leveling crafters (again, this time on one singular character instead of spread amongst 3), farming EX modes, etc etc...

I just. Don't feel any strong desire to do any of it? I only feel a marginal tug of insistence that I cap tomes so I'm not super behind in gear when the Alliance raid drops (as I prefer being at my best, including gear-wise, for new content so I'm not a liability to others and also meeting my personal goals), but as I said, I think about logging in to do even just that much and it exhausts the heck out of me to even think about.

I just feel no tug to play XIV anymore when I get home, outside of scheduled RP and our usual event times for my FC.

It isn't even that I dislike the game itself, I guess it's more so the combination of the playerbase getting to the point it is now, and decisions the dev team keeps making (or otherwise, refusing to make where it's desperately needed). EW's story was also a bit of a sore spot; I don't vehemently hate it or anything and still felt emotions during it, but I also see a lot of issues with it being rushed in its pacing and story beats, and it's probably the first expansion since Stormblood that I feel no strong desire to replay immediately.

It's just kind of an odd feeling. This game has been my home for 9 years; it went through college with me, and most of my long-term friends I still have to this day, I met through this game. Feeling this complete apathy, and lack of enjoyment in it, is just a bit upsetting in a way, after all this time.

Ah well. They want this to be a solo-friendly social simulator/second life sort of game, which at least means it'll be a good platform for interactive storytelling and RP with friends. That's the only thing I still find joy in right now when it comes to logging in.

Least me and my FC can still play other stuff (like Elden Ring) together.