The Perfect Response to "Take a Break"

[aveyond-dreams]

The nature of the situation it's pretty clear really. You're, for some reason, proud to pay at least 15$ a month just to complain about a game you no longer play.

Are you trying to flex your disposable income or are you just so dense that you don't see how ridiculous that is?

Will you try to claim that you do it because you care about the game as if you're some sort of benevolent Samaritan who just truly wants to save the game? Or you'd realize how absolutely full of yourself you'd come off as if you did... unless you've already implied it and I've missed it...

In any case, people like you just annoy me to no end. Here I'm struggling to even pay for a sub to play a game that helps me relax because SE still hasn't localized the prices for subs where I live, while a spoiled loud mouth spends money on complaining. Life ain't fair, I know, but that doesn't mean I won't be annoyed by it.

I am struggling to understand why, given your post, you are seemingly opposed to those of us who are vocal about wanting higher quality content and writing in this game. How I come across to you is irrelevant. Regardless of your opinion of me there is no excuse for FFXIV's state in Endwalker. You deserve a game that is worth every bit of your sub. I am content to leave this post at that.

[Oizen]

Something something housing demolition

[CNitsah]

Something something housing demolition

If you look at the housing market right now (at least it's the case on Chaos), it seem poeple begin to no care about that.

[Toutatis]

Something something housing demolition

I will never understand why people care about a pixel house in a game they no longer want to play. The day I tire of this game, my sub will go and so will my houses as they are pointless and useless if I don’t want to play. Already let a house go on a server I rarely play on. In the meantime, I still enjoy the game and am having fun.

[Aldath]

Something something housing demolition

Honestly the moment I discovered this game had housing, long before I joined, I knew it wouldn't be as nice and easy as it seems, so I researched and found out Housing in this game is akin to what I would find under a "kind" dictator and the hook to keep players logging in became evident, so I decided to save my gil for a little apartment. It's cozy, cheaper to decorate, and I won't have it taken away if I decide to take a break from the game. Housing feels like a pee-pee measuring contest at this point.

[Jojoya]

See the following image.

We're not your parents trying to baby you. We're your peers encouraging you to get a clue.

If something is making you unhappy, it is time to stop including that something in your life.

If you keep returning to it, you need to either:

- Accept that it's not what is making you unhappy and you've been blaming the wrong thing, or
- Get treated for your addiction.

Something something housing demolition

Funny in light of how many players jumped at the chance to transfer to Dynamis to get the house of their dreams only to give up that house a few months later and transfer to one of the other data centers.

Seems like having a house isn't that important to game play even when one is enjoying the game. If only those worried about losing a house in a game they aren't enjoying would take the step to break the chain tying them to the game.

They do seem to have a massive rmt network.

There are a few out there being run by players as opposed to the "professional" gil selling websites. There are plenty of websites and other third party tools to help facilitate player to player transactions.

I'd still like to see SE go hard after the gil buyers. The sellers won't disappear until the buyers do. It shouldn't be that difficult for SE to identify accounts frequently engaging in suspicious gil transactions and monitor the activity to identify both sides in RMT.

[ZephyrMenodora]

We're not your parents trying to baby you. We're your peers encouraging you to get a clue.

If something is making you unhappy, it is time to stop including that something in your life.

If you keep returning to it, you need to either:

- Accept that it's not what is making you unhappy and you've been blaming the wrong thing, or
- Get treated for your addiction.

He did take a break. He made a big deal about not returning until the next expansion. Yet here we are.

Another poster in another thread put it best - just let him do his weird fan-fics and complaints that the story isn't to his specific liking. Let him return to make FF16 glams and then complain for months about the same thing. Even as a peer when someone acts like this it's not even worth the effort to care enough if he's addicted to complaining and being strange on a message board lol.

[Stormpeaks]

You hate the game, you've shown this enough times already, you bash the game on the daily, you write multiple novels because you don't like the story and you think what you write is better, you keep saying that the game is not keeping your interest anymore because it's not catering to you.


In your case and your context, take a break ain't even worth it, you hate the game so much that you should just quit imo, there is nothing for you here

There's literally only 2 people that I have told they honestly should just quit in over 2000 posts, you are one of the two, this game isn't for you my dude, stop trying to shape it to what you like with your made up stories, let the devs do their job and if you don't like it, just go

[Carin-Eri]

You hate the game, you've shown this enough times already, you bash the game on the daily, you write multiple novels because you don't like the story and you think what you write is better, you keep saying that the game is not keeping your interest anymore because it's not catering to you.


In your case and your context, take a break ain't even worth it, you hate the game so much that you should just quit imo, there is nothing for you here

There's literally only 2 people that I have told they honestly should just quit in over 2000 posts, you are one of the two, this game isn't for you my dude, stop trying to shape it to what you like with your made up stories, let the devs do their job and if you don't like it, just go

I agree.

I realise I seem to bring up the fact that I played/quit another game prior to being introduced to FFXIV quite often, but the fact is, I was a little like Aveyond once. My distaste for what that game had devolved into did lead to me posting negatively on the official forums and social media attached to that game but, after a time, I realised that it wasn't achieving anything. It sure as hell didn't make me feel better about anything, the Devs and CM were infamous for having outright said (in a livestream) that feedback from the "vocal minority" on the game's forum/social media was ignored in favor of metrics. And whilst there were plenty of players who agreed/felt the same way... it just didn't matter. Their commitment to pumping out lootboxes and £300 bundles of items and only producing one new episode, worth about 45 minutes of play-time, every six months was never going to be dropped because their cherry-picked metrics told them what they wanted to hear.

So I quit that game, took up the recommendation to try FFXIV, felt better for it and haven't looked back. And I'm not saying that FFXIV is perfect. Not at all. But, as unpopular as 'whataboutism' may be here, I still feel that things could be far worse.

[Noumenon]

Devs and CM were infamous for having outright said (in a livestream) that feedback from the "vocal minority" on the game's forum/social media was ignored in favor of metrics.

That sounds very much like FF14, with the recent interview on relics