Unsubbed Thread (Tell us why)

[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.