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.