Unsubbed Thread (Tell us why)

[CuteBucket]

I have the Unsubscribe page open in another tab and I keep looking back at it and debating going through with it. I have never once cancelled my subscription in the years I've been playing. I never even felt the need to come to the forums until that first benchmark trailer for Dawntrail hit and both my character's faces were botched beyond belief. I made an account to document the changes and report on how unacceptable I found them. But even though the Endwalker patches bored me and I wasn't enjoying the story as much, I still stuck around because I was bringing an alt through the game and having a good time replaying the story and just doing social stuff with friends and gposing. I would still find myself logging in almost every day just to say hi to friends and look at my characters.

My characters are gone. Years of joy seeing them when I log in is gone. They have been replaced with strangers I don't recognize. It's been two months and they still look like strangers. I break down crying when I have to look at their new faces for an extended amount of time. These are the vessels through which I interact with the game world and whose stories I've love to weave over years of writing and artwork. Without them, there may as well be no Final Fantasy XIV to me.

That alone makes it difficult to continue to log in and play. And then I played through Dawntrail.

Nothing could have prepared me for how truly wretched this story is. I preordered and bought the collectors edition of Dawntrail, thinking, "they haven't let me down yet over four expansions, why would they now? I've always found something to love and things to keep me engaged. I'm happy with another Stormblood quality story, I liked that expansion just fine." How wrong I was. The development of FFXVI clearly hurt Endwalker (which should have been two expansions) and its patches by pulling staff away from XIV to work on it, and whatever TWO other titles Square Enix is ordering CS3 make now is absolutely strangling the life out of XIV. No one is at the helm of this ship anymore. What happened to quality assurance? Did no one seriously step up and say, "This isn't up to the standard we expect"? Where is the team that took XIV 1.0 and turned a trashfire into a successful game worth caring about and subscribing to? Gone, I guess, reassigned to other projects and departments, with no one qualified to take the helm of XIV.

I'm obligated to finish the raid tier with my static, and after that, I'm leaving. Until they SERIOUSLY address the problems with character models and show some actual evidence of fixing the faces and making amends for this insult of an MSQ, I'm done.

[Aurumis]

My characters are gone. Years of joy seeing them when I log in is gone. They have been replaced with strangers I don't recognize. It's been two months and they still look like strangers. I break down crying when I have to look at their new faces for an extended amount of time. These are the vessels through which I interact with the game world and whose stories I've love to weave over years of writing and artwork. Without them, there may as well be no Final Fantasy XIV to me.

That alone makes it difficult to continue to log in and play. And then I played through Dawntrail.

Nothing could have prepared me for how truly wretched this story is. I preordered and bought the collectors edition of Dawntrail, thinking, "they haven't let me down yet over four expansions, why would they now?

I'm obligated to finish the raid tier with my static, and after that, I'm leaving. Until they SERIOUSLY address the problems with character models and show some actual evidence of fixing the faces and making amends for this insult of an MSQ, I'm done.

I’m considering not renewing once my game time runs out in a month. It will depend on what they do with the character graphics. I’m waiting for the public statement they’ve promised on it in the character graphics thread. They said they’ve delayed to properly translate it.

For me though, I’m so demotivated that the appearance of my Miqo’te changed. I would look past everything else and keep playing happily if my character returned to looking the way I loved. I don’t want to lose the house I finally won recently, but if I unsub depends completely on how they handle the character appearance feedback. I hope they take it seriously. I think they took too lightly peoples attachment to the appearance of their characters of up to 10 years.

This is literal why I'm also unsubscribing. The character graphics made my miqo'te not be him anymore. I had to cope with it for 2 months and I still don't like him, even more in cutscenes he looks just bad. I hate his eyes so much now... I was just doing Summoner's job quest and Y'mithra's eyes looks alive and vivid and perfect and my miqo'te meanwhile has the most deep eyes I've seen in a videogame after this "upgrade". I can't play with this, it's the only thing that makes me stay in the game, If they don't fix it I will just watch streamers and youtubers play the next expansions because I will not continue since I also didn't enjoy DT msq at all.