Taking breaks doesnt work for me.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

To be fair, meeting people in this game, and actually making friends, really seem to be an impossible task most of the time, if not at all the time, I noticed that even more after my relationship ended and I tried to spend time in the game, FFXIV is very clique-y, just like most MMO's really, and its very hard to have a place in an already made group of friends, same as IRL, I have thought about quitting a lot because I just log in and see most people already busy, or doing content and you eventually shrug and log off because there is literally no one to hang out with

It is what you make of it. I found my oldest friends from my coil raid groups. I've known them for 9ish years know. We still play the game and hang out outside, and I've met them irl a couple times.

[DiaDeem]

Have you tried Blue Mage? I'm not trying to meme or be funny. BLU is surprisingly fun. Collecting spells, running dungeons/trials with a custom skill set, and Masked Carnival are all surprisingly fun activities. That's what I'd genuinely recommend to you at this point. We're also about to get new content for it next patch, so there's no better time to give it a try. Grab a friend to power level you with World Mobs and get playing!

[Escence]

If the game is no longer giving you the experience you want, why struggle to find reasons to keep playing it?

My personal experience: any game is at its most interesting and challenging when you are new to it and learning how things work. Once you've done that, perhaps you'll find a comfort zone in the content that remains fun or perhaps you'll just end up bored. We aren't all looking for the same thing and game developers aren't prone to taking content risks with their established ongoing games that might alienate too much of the player base.

If the game is no longer engaging you, better to move on to other games rather than think something will suddenly change here to stir your interest back up. I've got a file drawer next to my desk filled with old game CDs that I kept because "maybe I would want to play the game again some day" but it's never happened.

Do what's in your current best interest instead of clinging to the past.

Unless if you have a house then lock in baby lol