Unsubbed Thread (Tell us why)

[Claire_Pendragon]

MAIN REASON: I honestly just dont find any of the tanks fun. I dabble in them occasionally, and mostly played RDM in savage content, but it just doesnt quite scratch the itch. And in a similar way, I just couldnt get into the healers either.

Secondary Reasons: I feel that every patch and expansion seems to water down content way too much. I just get on for the MSQ, and then quit. While I have my issues with DT story, It's not why im quitting, I expected to come into DT, play the MSQ, and then quit anyways. This will also be the 1st time I just dont bother trying to get into savage, or try too hard.
EDIT: I woulda quit after 1 month, but since SE refused to accept visa cards, I was forced to get the 2month sub card from amazon.

[AlucaDragonheart]

My sub ran out today and I don't think I'm going to resubscribe again until the FF11 raids. Also, after getting all the tanks to 100, I just have zero desire to play this game anymore, especially since getting the tanks to level 100 felt like I was just playing the same class but with a different weapon/visual effects.

Guess I'll go back to FF11 itself, and go back to WoW, I hear War Within is fantastic so I'll probably spend most of my time on that game.

[Vikor]

I don't trust the narrative going forward and while the battle content is fun, it's not enough for me. Its crazy, I was so ready to enjoy this expansion and I just couldn't do it, and the longer I thought about what bugged me the more obvious it became that I just needed to vote with my wallet.

I first felt like CB3 as a whole were getting a little big for their britches in EW with some choice decisions that, as someone who has spent years trying to convince myself Blizzard will change, felt very Blizzard-like. Dawntrail feels like an extension of those decisions and I just don't feel comfortable blindly giving a company my money for years hoping for change again--I need to see CB3 actually do something to prove that they aren't just running the XIV cash cow on cruise control.

[Serilyn]

I unsubbed just under a month ago because dragging myself through the MSQ just sucked all the joy out of the game for me (I did every side quest and read everything, didn't skip any cutscenes so I feel I gave it a fair chance).

I was planning to switch to subbing every alternate month to keep my house. But since then I've thought about how unsatisfied I was with the story, how our WoLs were treated and our lack of choices or even acknowledging that we might NOT like Wuk Lamat (and in the end area they mock our choice to disagree by just having it all loop back into forcing us to agree). Just the poor storytelling with everything being predictable, repetitive, boring (I took a while to get through everything because it kept making me want to fall asleep or do anything else), full of plot holes, not making sense, badly written and sudden or no character development, and plain written in a very dull way (which I assume is due to a localization change).

I know people like to make this comparison, but I really have read a lot of fanfiction. And this is written like the ones that I glance at and immediately ignore because I can tell they're going to be bad and frustrating to read as the writer hasn't had enough time to mature and develop their craft, or has plain refused to. I had some inkling of this in the patches but gave them the benefit of the doubt because this is FFXIV, they couldn't possibly write something that bad, right? But they did.

And then there are the recent interviews that seem to show that they don't really understand the problems people have with DT. I just don't have faith in them anymore. I resubbed a few days ago and I'm going to empty my house out into an apartment as much as I can, then let it go.

One funny thing: I'm speeding one of my alts through DT skipping everything. And it is actually FAR more enjoyable that way. Having the game muted, a video playing in the background. The only downside is the spot the thing game that I can't skip through.

I'll also have to resub to collect any gil back after my house demolishes. But after that I'll treat this as I do other MMOs: Check back briefly every so many years to see what is new and what has changed. Maybe I'll watch some streamers go through the next expansion to see if things have improved.

Oh also the recent payment changes especially regarding SEA players whose pleas have gone completely ignored (or those like me who have a different region from where we live now), along with things like the serious graphics problems causing health concerns for people and even the mount tilt giving people problems. All of that happening without any response from the devs seems pretty bad to me.

I hope things improve. I hope I hear about how great and awesome the patches and next expansion are. We'll see.

[AnotherPerson]

I plan on unsubbing for a month, at least until next patch, maybe longer. The MSQ's final zone left me disappointed and numb, which is not a good sign since it's quite honestly the first time it happened since I played the game. The overall MSQ quality of writing didn't leave a very satisfying feeling of a conclusion to a base expansion. If anything, it made me very skeptical about the future MSQ & the quality of its writing due to how contradictory the storytelling is compared to previous expansions. This is probably one of the biggest factors since MSQ hype and execution usually blunts how simplistic the gameplay can be.

Combat Gameplay wise, there is no content left for me to really enjoy in PvE since I no longer enjoy Viper as much after the changes. Healers as an entire role are in a terrible spot in terms of fun for me for years now, and there hasn't been enough improvement. If anything, the trinity imbalance made it feel worse. Can't really enjoy content if the jobs I'm using to experience the content with aren't enjoyable. The new raids are a step in the right direction, but that's just it. It's a step. Everything else seems to have taken a couple steps back...

As far as PvP goes, I'd enjoy PvP more if it weren't for all the intentional sandbagging in the games lately. Games that have possibilities to win became unwinnable due to lethargic play. Viper is also terribly designed in PvP currently because the job is designed to function like a PvE job and PvP gameplay is nothing like attacking a stationary PvE boss with a huge hitbox. The gameplay is starting to feel a little stale.

Originally I wanted to level more jobs to 100 and complete the role quest storylines, but the quality of the writing sometimes feel bland and painful to read. It's been killing my motivation constantly while I'm going through those quests. I'm just not having fun. Graphics is nice in the new zones. However, graphics related to my character hasn't really made me feel that excited. Being a Hrothgar and seeing all the limitations didn't cause much fluctuation in my mood as it could have been as far as new graphical update on glamour and terrible posture goes. Simply put, there's nothing that really grabbed my attention very strongly as it did in previous expansions that make me want to continue playing. I have an entire backlog of things I wanted to do in the game, but I just have no motivation to continue them at the moment. It's a shame too, because I was really looking forward to what Dawntrail was offering.

[Larirawiel]

So if you have a story to tell, for your unsub/resub times, please tell it! I'd love to read and discuss it with all of you.

I also do not have a sub because i am using game cards.



Cheers

[usagilove]

for me:
I haven't been able to play due to the horrible blurriness of the game. I already unsubbed 1 account and after transferring houses over i will do the same for the other.

the limited msq i played already felt just bad (i facepalmed when someone gets kidnapped). And then getting to that area caused me headaches and eye strain.

I don't see it being addressed in the near future and all motivation to play has vanished to they point where even if it was fixed i wouldn't come back.

[Kamatsu]

I've been playing since 2017, constantly subbed. I had held off pre-ordered DawnTrail due to the payment process issues - friends of mine got hit by it and couldn't re-sub due to this. Because of this I didn't feel like paying for the expansion with the strong possibility that my sub would be refused payment after paying for the expansion... leaving me unable to play for something I'd just paid for. Not to mention I prefer to do expansions with my friends around doing it as well, which wasn't possible due to them being blocked from subbing.

I decided to watch streamers play through DawnTrail - I'm not too fussed about spoiling myself on stuff, so this was not a bother. I'll be honest in saying I was not happy with the writing of the expansion - the scions did not feel like the same ppl I'd come to know & like/love over the past 7 years, they came across as hollow shells of themselves. The overall MSQ felt badly paced and seemed to be trying to incorporate everything from previous expansions all in 1 expansion... it just didn't work for me. There were some moments that shined, but overall the MSQ was a real downer for me. Seeing just how bad the MSQ was just made me glad I had not pre-ordered (I've pre-ordered every other expansion that came out after 2017) and put my off buying it even after the payment issue was apparently resolved.

So I've been finding myself logging in once a week just to do the weekly stuff - Island Sanctuary, Fashion Report, and custom deliveries. In the end I decided that was not enough... that it was not worth paying for a sub just to log in 3-4 times for that... with no inclination to do anything else in the game. I have completed all the MSQ up to 6.55, I've done all the ARR to EW Raids and Alliance Raids, I've done Palace of the Dead / Heaven-On-High / Eureka Orthos, I've done Bozja, done all Class and Role quests (apart from BlueMage), done all the beasttribes, and I've gotten all classes to the max EW level (90). The only things I have not finished is the Blue Mage questline and the Variant dungeons and their stories/quest's - and I was doing the Variant dungeon with my friends rather than doing it solo or via PF. Don't feel inclined to do it solo or with PF, I want to do it with friends as that's fun to me... not doing it solo or with strangers.

My friends also decided to not resub and are waiting to see how SE and the XIV team go from here, will the writing get better, with the WoL become more relevant (not being the centrepiece is fine, but we should still feel to be a part of things... and not just there with no purpose/meaning/use/etc), will the scions become who they are and not lifeless husk's, etc... and so without my friends to play with, with no desire to buy DawnTrail and experience firsthand what I saw others experience... I cancelled my sub, and it runs out on Aug 31st (so in 2 days time for me). Me and my friends will be keeping an eye on gow the 7.X patch's go, where the MSQ goes, and what the writing is like... if it improves we might come back. Who knows... we do have a long list of games in our backlog, as well as other games we enjoy playing together... altho we do hope things get better and we can come back.

[Connor]

Not to seem dismissive of people’s leaving, but. I feel like the significance of ‘unsubbing’ is largely lost when not only is the game specifically designed around players having long periods of ‘not playing’, but when such a thing is actively encouraged by the devs lol.

Addendum: it’s certainly not the ‘business model’ I’d go for lol but it’s how the devs have approached players unsubbing since the beginning

[Oichi]

I am waiting for my sub to end as well, in a couple of weeks or so. For the first time since I started playing the game, 4 years and a half ago. The story is essential for me to be happy playing: even after I finish a msq expansion and patches, the atmosphere is still there, and keeps me doing dungeons, roulettes, side content. That changed with the post EW patches, and with DT it hit an impenetrable wall. I can't pay them for the privilege of waiting in the hope that they will cut short this infantile, shallow, flat, repetitive, disneyfied, utterly dismal writing. Post EW and the whole of DT have soured the whole game experience (which had been beautiful up to that point) for me. I don't know what kind of audience they intended to target with this kind of expurgated "abc for 4 year old kids", because, in my experience, 4 year old kids have a much wider, more nuanced, more creative and imaginative minds. I can't go on. I'll keep an eye on what happens with the alliance raid and the field zone when they release them, but as things stand now, I don't even regret to lose my medium house. I don't play other games, but the world is full of wonderful books.