Time to Quit

[Renathras]

Curious to know regarding the dissapointment in the relic grinds AND the Mt.Rokkon Savage rewards being absolute donkey.

How many of you are finally giving up this game and quitting and leaving forever? I'm DYING to know your thoughts.

It never ceases to amaze me how people that insist they hate the game continue paying for it, continue posting on the forums about it, and continue saying how bad it is and making threads to stir discontent in others/try to get other people as upset as they are/try to get validation for their discontent.

EDIT:

Ah, I see. You're just posting this thread again and hoping no one remembers you did so a few months ago: https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...-to-quit-FFXIV

To post on these forums, you not only must have a paid account, you must have LOGGED INTO IT (the game) within the last 14 days or so.

If you hate this game so much and are having oh-so-much FUN(!!!) in Guild Wars 2 and WoW and New World (lol) and so on...

...why...
...are you...
...still HERE??
-Android 16, DBZ Abridged

You aren't posting constructive criticism and you're insisting 7.0 won't change anything, so you clearly aren't in that camp of "We love the game and just think we can change it", since for that to be true you'd have to think 7.0 IS going to change (or at least CAN be by criticism). But you aren't even offering criticism. You're talking up other games and insisting people need to leave this one because it WON'T change in 7.0 and there is no hope for it to.

Why...
...are you...
...still HERE??

[CStrife912]

It never ceases to amaze me how people that insist they hate the game continue paying for it, continue posting on the forums about it, and continue saying how bad it is and making threads to stir discontent in others/try to get other people as upset as they are/try to get validation for their discontent.

Pretty much lol in regards to the relic though we had that interview like a month or so ago where they actively said 6.45 relic would be tomes so it being exactly as said does not surprise me in the slightest. The only thing disappointing is variant grind, I’m wondering because they plan so much in advance it won’t be till 7.0/7.X where they make that content viable long term or keep adding to it. Maybe they won’t and it will be a shame but for people who know the game do understand they get feedback from the expansion as a whole to then plan 7.X patches around said feedback (well usually it’s like this)

For me personally I play the game enough to warrant a sub, I don’t think there is another mmo that can remotely absorb my time. ESO is beyond boring with its floaty combat and really shallow/short story. Blue protocol next year for global release but I’ve seen the Japanese playerbase already say there’s no endgame and it’s a pump and dump 2-4 weeks game. WoW is something that doesn’t click with me and I’ve tried multiple times over the years. So for now il play here and there and continue my backlog of titles

[Renathras]

For me personally I play the game enough to warrant a sub, I don’t think there is another mmo that can remotely absorb my time. ESO is beyond boring with its floaty combat and really shallow/short story. Blue protocol next year for global release but I’ve seen the Japanese playerbase already say there’s no endgame and it’s a pump and dump 2-4 weeks game. WoW is something that doesn’t click with me and I’ve tried multiple times over the years. So for now il play here and there and continue my backlog of titles

Yeah, same. I played WoW for years, but always kinda hated the art style and storytelling style ("Buy and read these three books about important in-game events that we won't actually portray in-game!". I like reading books, but why aren't MAJOR PLOT EVENTS portrayed in the game itself?!), and I finally just gave up at the end of Legion after taking most of Warlords off.

These other games either don't even appear interesting to me to begin with, I don't care for the art style of, I don't care for the combat of (Guild Wars 2, ESO), I don't care for the world of, or they burn out in a matter of weeks after launch (lookin' at you, New World!), or have a community shift to where it doesn't work with the game (I love old school games, so would love FFXI, except when I tried playing it a year or so ago, the prevailing responses I got were "Play with Trusts to level up, then come back and talk to us at level cap"; there's a somewhat similar case with LOTRO), and a lot are pay to win/paywall things. I'd rather have a sub than deal with GW2's 10,000 currency hell, much as I like the art style in that game (though don't care for the non-trinity gameplay and ARPG combat which is something else I generally dislike...)

FFXIV is the only one that I like the world, art style, combat, and lore of, and I find a lot to keep me busy.

[Carin-Eri]

It never ceases to amaze me how people that insist they hate the game continue paying for it, continue posting on the forums about it, and continue saying how bad it is and making threads to stir discontent in others/try to get other people as upset as they are/try to get validation for their discontent.

EDIT:

Ah, I see. You're just posting this thread again and hoping no one remembers you did so a few months ago: https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...-to-quit-FFXIV

To post on these forums, you not only must have a paid account, you must have LOGGED INTO IT (the game) within the last 14 days or so.

If you hate this game so much and are having oh-so-much FUN(!!!) in Guild Wars 2 and WoW and New World (lol) and so on...

...why...
...are you...
...still HERE??
-Android 16, DBZ Abridged

You aren't posting constructive criticism and you're insisting 7.0 won't change anything, so you clearly aren't in that camp of "We love the game and just think we can change it", since for that to be true you'd have to think 7.0 IS going to change (or at least CAN be by criticism). But you aren't even offering criticism. You're talking up other games and insisting people need to leave this one because it WON'T change in 7.0 and there is no hope for it to.

Why...
...are you...
...still HERE??

Forced to agree.

I quit a Free to Play Game I'd played for 11 years prior to moving to FFXIV.

I still log into that game on very rare occasions as I have a Lifetime Subscription to it, receive a monthly Stipend, and like to occasionally check how much I've amassed and say hi to a few friends who don't communicate by any other means.

But so far as the game itself goes - the greedy, lootbox obsessed, business model - which became worse and worse over time, to the point where I'd say the business model is more 'smartphone game' than MMO - put me off and I stopped playing the game in any serious way late 2021. And pretty much drew a line under posting on it's forum. I saw no point in doing so since I would have nothing to say that wouldn't clash with both the White Knights on that forum and the very easily offended CM and moderators.

Although I will confess I did post there a few weeks ago - following a friend mentioning the fact that the CM of said game had been promoted despite having a six-year history of consistently producing sloppy, badly written, mistake-riddled blogs I posted on the forum of that game expressing amusement at said CM having 'failed upward' despite a demonstrable inability to use spell checking software or even proof-read his product. I was subsequently perma-banned from their forum, as the CM and moderators there are THAT adverse to negativity and criticism.