The Great FFXIV Exodus of 2024

[Sifpatata]

I've been playing since 2020, I'm just going to say that I loved ffxiv the first time I played it and I'm still playing it. Sometimes I give myself my breaks however, this expansion leaves something to be desired. I guess the anger and frustration from the previous expansion finally broke out. and I understand them, I too am angry at yoshida, I join the players who demand a quality msq and casual content.

The pandemic fucked everything up, yes, but that's no reason to take 5 months to deliver a patch with little casual content and to top it all off, extending the life of the patch in a blatant way is the most stupid things ever

[Astrus]

Quitting an MMO often means wildly different things to people.

I quit WoW, multiple times. The last time a month after Shadowlands launched. I'm currently one good deal on their expansion away from coming back to see what's changed.
I quit The Secret World when they relaunched, despite having a lifetime subscription for it. This is one of the three MMORPGs I've actually, consciously, quit for good.
I quit Warhammer and Wildstar, because the games shut down for good and I didn't have a choice.
I quit a lot of games I never really started like LOTRO (never really clicked with me, stopped 2 months in), Age of Conan (broken mess on launch, came back 6 months after release to find it still broken, stopped bothering) and a lot of F2P titles that didn't click or turned out to be P2W cashgrabs. LotRO and AoC lost me for good when they deleted my characters/accounts.
I simply lost interest in other games and never bothered to come back like DAoC (my first MMO, I hear it's still running somehow?),Rift and SWTOR (which now seem to be some F2P conversion affair?).

I pause a bunch of others I have all intention of getting back to, eventually. I just don't have the time to play everything simultaneously. GW2 is one of those, Warframe was another I recently got back into.

As for FFXIV, I'm now what I see referred to as a seasonal subscription after having been continuously subscribed to it ever since picking the game back up when Stormblood was announced. (I did initially "quit" over Titan Ex when the EU servers were in Narnia, come to think of it)
I come back occasionally for seasonal events if the rewards are interesting or to check out major cotent patches.
7.1 didn't exactly manage to grab my interest so my sub is currently set to expire on the 27th (resubbed for All Saints' Wake) and since Starlight Celebration doesn't look too interesting I'll probably only be back for Heavensturn if we get more than a mascot minion or whatever events we get after that leading up to 7.2
Unless one of the people I used to play with comes back and wants to do something, everyone stopped playing after 7.0 (two are still house-logging but not doing anything besides that) and XIV is not my flavor of longterm solo MMORPG.
I'm not at the point where I'd say I'm quitting the game but my engagement with it is decreasing and they run the risk of losing my interest and the game eventually slipping off my radar.

[xbahax92]

We have to wait so many months to get refreshing content. Staggered content releases worked during previous expansions, but it simply doesn't anymore with a 5 month patch cycle. The content is consumed way to fast and it doesnt last long enough.

And I think, CBU3 has to restructure content. It's simply not enough to release 1 dungeon, 1 extreme primal, 1 raid, 1 custom delivery, 1 allied tribe per patch. FFXIV needs new reward structures and a better progression system besides the LEVEL 100 bar.

[Zelda206]

We'll see if it was worth it all, at the end of the road. Dawntrail, for me, has been the most lackluster out of all of the story content and it has given me the opportunity to pursue other games and return to hobbies that I left collecting dust when I began my journey.
There is no shame in venting your frustrations about the pacing of the game, its content and its hinted direction by SE; if the game has failed your expectations, then come and go as you please and find what makes you happiest. Your time is more valuable than SE's intentions for its customers and the products the customers fell in love with, so use it in whatever means is best to you. If you return, do it with a heart full of intrigue and adventure. If you don't, find your journey out there and be glad in it.

[Mijeme]

Can I have all your stuff?

[Atlas-04]

On and off but consistent player since ARR and I have canceled my sub for the foreseeable future. It would take a massive change in the game content formula in 8.0 for me to comeback. SE refuses to innovate or try new things at all making the game feel incredibly stale. They have the goodwill to try new things but instead just copy paste the exact same expansion with ancient feeling gameplay systems.

-Open world is pointless
-Beast tribe dailies are still talk -> Shiny thing -> Talk
-Duties are literally the same aoe hallways with different coats of paint.
-Cinematics have no effort put into them with more /nod emotes than I can take now
-Patch cycle feels forever with little content added

I could keep naming stuff if needed. I'll give the lackluster story a pass but there is nothing keeping me in the game except raiding and that is not enough to justify a sub. They could do literally anything to try and keep me interested at this point but they don't. Hoyoverse games have way more content on a much faster patch cycle than this and I'm not held hostage there by a sub fee to keep my house.
7.1 was really a right mess and finally convinced me SE has no idea what they are doing.

Just thought I would drop my 2 cents in here before shoving off for good. Farewell o7

[Titor]

I can't unsubscribe because I want to keep my house still. I've had it since subdivisions came out and it's been a long time with sentimental value. I'd love to unsubscribe outside of that. For now though I dropped all my account services down. I used to have max retainers + mobile app sub for additional space, but now I'm not buying any extras. So I guess thats some kind of vote with my wallet sentiment.

Maybe someday I'll be willing to part with my house but we're not quite there yet, even though I barely log in anymore.

[Astronema]

I can't unsubscribe because I want to keep my house still. I've had it since subdivisions came out and it's been a long time with sentimental value. I'd love to unsubscribe outside of that. For now though I dropped all my account services down. I used to have max retainers + mobile app sub for additional space, but now I'm not buying any extras. So I guess thats some kind of vote with my wallet sentiment.

Maybe someday I'll be willing to part with my house but we're not quite there yet, even though I barely log in anymore.

Well considering because of recent indoor changes and future housing change the TARDIS feature most at of us with houses have to rebuild the interior from scratch, makes it easier to part with the house. Having someplace to store all the expensive furniture is more of a problem.

[Marooned_Pilot]

I've been wanting to unsub for a while for the direction of where the game's just been going of late and it being a slog sometimes waiting in High End duty 2-3 hrs. for a full party but then they put chaos alliance end of December.

I'm less angry about where the game is but sourly disappointed as it's become less of an MMO and more in spirit of a limited story buy 2 play in spirit. Game feels like it fell off a cliff in some ways.

[MoofiaBossVal]

Most of my internet friends from the forums and discords I am in have unsubbed from FF14. Almost all of them joined by Stormblood or earlier, a few as far back as 1.0 and were former WoW players. They soured during the ShB patches and jumped ship during Endwalker. Most did not return to check out Dawntrail. They have since either returned to WoW, switched to those new 3D Chinese gacha games, or have stopped playing MMOs altogether. The main issues they all have in common:

- Decline in content over the years. Less content per patch and more time in between patchea. They loved long relic questlines and Eureka, and now the game doesn't have that.

- Disappointment and frustration with the story's unsatisfying payoff of longterm storylines such as Garlemald and the Ascians, and narrative swerve circa ShB when it went from a grounded geopolitical conflict with stakes to a simplistic light vs dark narrative where nobody dies.

- General dislike of FF14's rabid cult like fandom (I and my friends have been targets on the MMO Champion forums). Does not help that my friends were civil on these forums and got inexplicably perma banned. They also dislike Yoshi-P's dismissive/ignorant attitude towards the Western fans and his seeming hypocrisy and broken promises. They were frustrated by how FF16 turned out.

I am still subbed, though I hardly play. I don't want to lose my house and all the hours spent meticulously placing items. Over the past two years I have spent more time playing GW2 and retail WoW, the latter I am not subbed to year round.