does anyone else not play xiv as much as before after dt?

[Hycinthus]

With seemingly a lot being burnt out, maybe it’s a good time for SE to just take the game offline for 2 years and upgrade its engine. Make it more long lasting for another 15 years. Everyone will be back more energized and it’s a good investment.

[sindriiisgaming]

i do but only because of a combination of farming for alpha wolf and sunken cost fallacy and having nowhere else to go

[Kaurhz]

I'm still playing fairly regularly with friends, but that's mostly hanging out, and mostly taking it as an opportunity to work on my other character.

With seemingly a lot being burnt out, maybe it’s a good time for SE to just take the game offline for 2 years and upgrade its engine. Make it more long lasting for another 15 years. Everyone will be back more energized and it’s a good investment.

It's a good investment, but it's also a massive risk, taking a game offline for over a year will just encourage more people to move on completely, since they wouldn't really be bound to the game.

and honestly, they can update the game into oblivion.. But it's the content that matters and if they're just going to stick to the same rigid schedule then all it will amount to is those people that do return, inevitably getting bored and burnt out again.

[DPZ2]

With seemingly a lot being burnt out, maybe it’s a good time for SE to just take the game offline for 2 years and upgrade its engine. Make it more long lasting for another 15 years. Everyone will be back more energized and it’s a good investment.

A Realm Reborn Reborn?

I'm not sure about how many people are actually burnt out. I still continue to play, but I've tempered playtime with other Real Life(tm) activities. Things like tabletop RPGs, reading, binge watching an enormous number of Chinese donghua, trips abroad and, of course, work.

Be truthful here. If any game went offline for 2 years and came back, would you really feel 'energized' and subscribe again? Or would you have already moved on to something else?

[Hycinthus]

It's a good investment, but it's also a massive risk, taking a game offline for over a year will just encourage more people to move on completely, since they wouldn't really be bound to the game.

and honestly, they can update the game into oblivion.. But it's the content that matters and if they're just going to stick to the same rigid schedule then all it will amount to is those people that do return, inevitably getting bored and burnt out again.

A Realm Reborn Reborn?

I'm not sure about how many people are actually burnt out. I still continue to play, but I've tempered playtime with other Real Life(tm) activities. Things like tabletop RPGs, reading, binge watching an enormous number of Chinese donghua, trips abroad and, of course, work.

Be truthful here. If any game went offline for 2 years and came back, would you really feel 'energized' and subscribe again? Or would you have already moved on to something else?

People did with A Realm Reborn. I think they would subscribe again.

While upgrading the engine, they can just do a whole rebranding. Take this time to re-think of new ways on how content updates would be delivered. Revamp the whole 'rigid schedule' format. Introduce new things, revamp how the overworld zones work. Get a new writer.

To be honest, if they ever want to ever upgrade the engine, is there better time to do it than now? Do they want this to last another 15-20 years? I cannot think of a better time than now.

[Kaurhz]

People did with A Realm Reborn. I think they would subscribe again.

While upgrading the engine, they can just do a whole rebranding. Take this time to re-think of new ways on how content updates would be delivered. Revamp the whole 'rigid schedule' format. Introduce new things, revamp how the overworld zones work. Get a new writer.

To be honest, if they ever want to ever upgrade the engine, is there better time to do it than now? Do they want this to last another 15-20 years? I cannot think of a better time than now.

I'm not saying nobody will return, but just a question as to how many really. Like, if I am honest, I probably wouldn't

To be honest, it's a nice principle, but they have already had a long long time to look at the patch schedule, they know there's a constant fall off between patches, they know people are dissatisfied, they are already asking "Why aren't your friends currently playing", they have been asking this for a long time. They shouldn't have to ask it, they should understand why, and given how long it has festered for, it really does tell me that they aren't really that interested in doing a rebrand in any hypothetical scenario.

[Lixire]

Still playing every day but less compared to before due to content drought. so just running roulettes and then back to other games

[Hallarem]

Playing less, I did my first expert roulette in like a month or two, last night.
Mostly I just log in to roleplay (even that community has dwindled a bit) and to send my submarines away.

I knocked out ALL the sidequests from all DT maps, just to make the maps clean. Got a few orchestrions and a minion out of ALL those quests, but it's something.

If you aren't into the DDR dance events of extreme, savage and ultimate, there's just not much to do unless you dip into forever achievements or ancient content
Hell, I even leveled all jobs to 100 this expac, kudos to the pvp design team, at least THEY are doing something right with how unique the jobs feel, though some changes felt a bit weird.

If I didn't have an FC or a roleplay community, I'd unsub faster than the speed of light.

[Destati]

The story and the content of DT aggravated my preexisting issues with the game and while I used to be able to overlook it, I simply can't anymore with this expansion. That, and trying savage for the first time last expansion and struggling through it so much kinda killed my zest for battle content out of shame. It's my own damn fault and not the game's, but it does make the lack of "casual" content right now all the more apparent.
All my battle and gathering jobs are at 100 now and been slowly chipping away at crafting, but mostly waiting for the crafting society to come out I guess. That sums up most of my engagement with FFXIV lately. Waiting.

[ZenoDiogenes]

i cba to login since post EW patches
doing the bare minimum to maintain my acc