Is anyone else not really enjoying themselves?

[Venarius]

I feel the same. Haven't played in two weeks and I am not coming back. After nearly 11 years I don't consider this my main game anymore. Reading up on the forums every couple days is where my curiosity ends and strangely I have no desire to play again.

I think with Dawntrail something in me finally clicked and I realized this game isn't for me anymore. That's fine though, my backlog on Steam got me covered - there's always a better game waiting for you if you aren't having fun.

Other than that I enjoy summer and knowing I wont force myself to do X in XIV to "get my money's worth" is a very positive side effect. I might come back and play for a bit in 7.55, to gauge my interest for 8.0, but if past games are any indication I'm most likely done for good.

[Granyala]

I still like the game. Currently leveling my crafters.
Though being retired from raiding, I'm just enjoying it casually from my proverbial rocking chair. :'D

[Voidmage]

I have always believed this game to be story driven first, and it just shat all over whats been built to get here, and I just no longer care about anything else anymore when the main story falls apart right in my face

I‘m in the same boat.
Mind you I still have stuff to do and am kinda motivated but by far not as much as before.

The story left me pretty angry.
The lore is interesting but so much brushed aside to have Wuk Lamat and her peace talk in the center that I don‘t know if Square will actually build on it.

I was always of the mind the MSQ will be good even with the voidquestline because that at least did let us explore the void finally in it’s real form.
But after DT I don‘t really trust them anymore.
Right now I‘m only thinking aboutbhow they will sideline my character next or how they will push Wuk Lamat in the patches (I wouldn‘t even be surprised if she will be in the raid stories).
That demotivates me so much I haven’t even done the second Ex trial yet.
I know how you feel.

I kinda lost faith in the storytelling ability of them and actually do not look forward to the patches.

Maybe they will pull the fingers out of their backside and will get me back but if not then I will maybe leave the game for good because the thing I find most important is not there anymore.

I don‘t want my character to be useless, I don‘t want them to be just there not doing anything.
Call me whatever you want with that but I will die on the hill that the WoL being a big part of the story is what did make FF14 different from other MMORPG‘s.

Even the damn wandering minstrel was just calling us Wuk Lamats sidekicks more or less.
Screw them for that.

[Swad]

If you hated Wuk and don't like jobs you can pretty safely unsub till 8.5 and be completely fine.

[Regis_Paran]

After I closed the door on the MSQ, I'm finally having fun. Heck, some of the crafting quests are better than main story...

[genuine_stranger]

After I closed the door on the MSQ, I'm finally having fun. Heck, some of the crafting quests are better than main story...

This is how I feel about the role quests. Sure, they are silly, but I much prefer them over the msq.

By this point I'm more excited for the Hildibrand story than 7.1.
Which is kind of an achievement in of itself.

[Granyala]

By this point I'm more excited for the Hildibrand story than 7.1.

Hildibrand with the capabilities of the new facial rigging?
YES PLEASE!

[OdinelStarrei]

I wouldn't say that I'm bored exactly, but I'm certainly disillusioned. Really feel like I wasted my time.

I think something that resonated pretty strongly with me is something one of my friends said when we talking after doing some "content" together.

He said, "God, I can't wait for 8.0."

I said, "Dude, 7.0 hasn't even been out for 2 weeks."

He said, "Be honest. If I'm not feeling it at expansion launch, when am I going to feel anything? In terms of actually playing...whatever this is, we're just playing Shadowbringers 3. This is more like 5.15 then 7.0."

Didn't really disagree.

[Turethir]

I genuinely felt so, so sad after finishing the MSQ that I've struggled to enjoy myself since. I was really looking forward to levelling all my jobs, and while I have been doing that, a lot of the love I had for the game feels stripped away due to my intense sadness and disappointment with the story. The story is a HUGE reason of why I fell in love with this game and if this is the sort of story we'll be getting going forward I am not sure how much it'll appeal to me anymore.

I'll be picking up some other games soon to distance myself from it a bit, but yeah. The MSQ really put a dampener on everything else for me, even if the everything else is quite good.

[Naychan]

I'm so bored out of my mind; The new jobs feel like just a mess of combo that don't really matter. The MSQ just has me going from point a to b like always except this time the story is boring.

The graphics update is a great and needed addition but, what else is there? FF14 as been needing some innovation for awhile imo, how many expansions have we been doing the same thing... MSQ > tomes > raids > ex?

Without the continuation of what was an excellent epic expansion spanning saga; all these overdone game systems and lackluster story bore me more than ever!

There is just nothing new and whats there is soooo boring. As someone who has played since 1.0 I expected more of a "reset" something to keep the game fresh after Endwalker; more than just a new continent and graphics.

/sadge

Since they don't seem to look at their forums tell them what you think here.

https://www.metacritic.com/game/fina...-realm-reborn/