Unsubbed Thread (Tell us why)

[Willemdarke]

Damn lady! it's not that serious

You came to a thread whose topic doesn't seem to concern you and instead of engaging in any form of discussion you were simply condescending and dismissive of people's experiences and feelings. In a choice between "say noting" and "be rude for no reason" you went with the latter.

Why are you acting surprised or defensive when someone called you out for it?

unless it was a bait post, of course, in which case it seems you're bored by the game too *shrug*

[Wolf_Necros]

You came to a thread whose topic doesn't seem to concern you and instead of engaging in any form of discussion you were simply condescending and dismissive of people's experiences and feelings. In a choice between "say noting" and "be rude for no reason" you went with the latter.

Why are you acting surprised or defensive when someone called you out for it?

unless it was a bait post, of course, in which case it seems you're bored by the game too *shrug*

I mean it's pretty pointless to post here if you aren't planning on playing the game

[Raikai]

I think 7.1 will be pivotal whether or not I'll stay subbed throughout Dawntrail, because it will expire somewhere in November.

If 7.1 / 7.15 won't deliver satisfactory content (MSQ, side content, etc), I'll just let it run out and find another MMORPG to sink my time in. I'm the type of person who can only focus on one at a time, and currently I have 2 options: coming back to WoW or Guild Wars 2, which I have the base game purchased from when it was released. If neither turns out to be a good option, I guess it's a gaming hiatus, because MMORPGs are the only type of game I'm interested in.

Also, I'd leave without any harm, fully willing to return to XIV if the situation improves!

[Carolingian]

I've got around a week of my sub left and decided not to resub. Might as well post the reasons in the faint hope that the devs finally realise what a lot of people dislike.

There are honestly quite a few things that have been bothering me for a while now (content being too predictable, jobs being boring and too homogenised, and the glamour (inventory) system being terrible) and the lack of improvements to any of these things in DT combined with the terrible MSQ this time around were the last straw. I just don't see enough improvements, if anything I see things only getting worse.

When the story was still exciting I could forgive a lot of the game's flaws because it kept me hooked and entertained despite it all. Dawntrail has ended that. The writing has just become way too childish and safe, and while I still love the world of FFXIV there's nothing in the boring and juvenile Tural that I look forward to exploring in the future. It's a seemingly solved continent with no real conflict where everyone gets along (the story should have taken place before Gulool Ja Ja had united all people on Tural). It doesn't make me excited or curious to explore. And that combined with the boring and homogenised state of most jobs I'd rather spend my time on other games.

I might be back once a proper job rework is finally finished. Or otherwise when the story goes back to properly exploring more mature themes with some depth instead of the shallow nonsense that we got in Dawntrail. Just go back to storylines involving flawed people and societies like we used to get with the xenophobic racists like the Gridanians, colonising outlaws like the Lominsans (who actually use real bullets for duels), and selfish, greedy, and corrupt merchants like the Ul’Dahn and less of whatever perfect happy Disney world that Tural ended up being.

[Willemdarke]

colonising outlaws like the Lominsans (who actually use real bullets for duels)

Last expansion a xenophobic military leader commited self-exit-the-game with a bullet to his head, while his whole society and worldviews were coming crashing down around him.

This expansion the happy-go-lucky Robin to Estinien's Batman had a haha-funny duel with a granny robber using rubber bullets.

Someone please explain how these exist in the same story.

[localareanetwork]

I've been permasubbed since ~4.55ish on a different character, then this one, and recently I've been thinking of unsubbing after Futures Rewritten is released, and that's only because Eden's Promise was the first raid tier I completed on content. The story is just complete garbage IMO, all of my drive to see what's next is gone, the nerdy discussions I've had with my friends about MSQ either don't exist anymore or are just arguments from people that love Disney slop, battle content aside from maybe Ultimate, which is only two times per expac, is literally all the exact same to me (We cleared this raid tier in 2 days after it was released, a lot of it was because of "oh this mechanic is xxx thing from previous fight"), they aren't making an effort to do things they have once done like add new job weapons to old fights, not ever addressing egregious clipping issues with certain hairs, hrothgal rigging, viera/hroth hats, a large portion of my time as a fanfest attendee spent sitting and looking at an advert for a mogstation mount, jobs generally all feeling the exact same or making them a lot less fun, and a billion of smaller things like them not fixing portraits, the dc travel issues, them finally making something basic mmo feature like chat bubbles a feature 11 years after launch, the state of housing, inconsistent mechanic snapshots, all of it just seems worse than it was before. Don't even get me started on the general playerbase, the average raider is so obnoxious about the damage they're doing; it's also gotten to the point where cheating is not only standardized in PF, but also encouraged, or MANDATORY for fights like DSR/TOP.. people have been cheating for a long time but ever since TOP it has gotten so bad to the point where I see this sentiment almost ANYWHERE I HAPPEN TO BE. I hate all of it, and I don't think any of that is really worth the $12.99 considering they're not really pouring the resources back into the game. A big "huh?!" of mine recently was just how much gear/weapons were blatantly missing from the Benchmark... like, why? I enjoy the graphics update, socializing, raiding generally, PVPing and effectively just playing Gaia Online 2.0 with 14 lately so that's all that's keeping me hooked now.. for a couple hours until I just sit AFK in Limsa while I do something else.

[Rehayem]

I'm considering letting my sub run out for identical reasons as others have posted. I didn't expect much from MSQ, but it was atrocious. I realized I'm very dissatisfied with the battle job system, especially healers being the worst iteration in any MMO of all the 20+ years I've been playing MMORPGs. I'm gonna wait and see what post 7.x has to offer (space exploration and the new field operation), but I know I won't be buying 8.0 expac until reviews come out.

[DoomRyder]

I mean it's pretty pointless to post here if you aren't planning on playing the game

And yet here you are. Stop wasting our, and your time then.

[Ardeth]

And yet here you are. Stop wasting our, and your time then.

It's also just a constructive way to say, "SquareEnix, this game isn't up to snuff. Not only am I not giving you any more money. I am going to tell you why."

Because at the end of the day, if you walk into a store and say, "I didn't find anything I liked." And leaving it there, that store has no idea on how to improve. But if you said, "I don't like tacos, and that's all you sell." There's at least some feedback. Maybe if I sold nachos, I would make more money. Or maybe they want burgers. You could even send a survey asking why you don't eat here. Feedback is important. I always find it hilarious when low iq fanboys attack people for giving feedback, then they wonder why people quit and never come back. Let people say why they quit. It makes the game better for all of us. Especially now since Wow has seemed to not shit the bed for once.