Keep telling yourself you'll quit if this game doesnt get better

[Clockworks]

At the end of the day, SE cares about revenue, and so do the investors.

They do, and a big majority of the population of the game accepts anything SE does as holy gospel, that's why we are seeing barely anything ever fixed and issues going on for as long as since ARR.

[innis31]

I will but I want to finish the game I paid for first or I get bored witch ever comes first.

[Shougun]

Let me just take another deep inhale of this copium..





During ShB I'd take a break here and there (didn't unsub but just wait a little) and play some outside games, I enjoyed the plot but found the gameplay changes (not just ShB) slowly becoming more and more draining and textureless (like I've said in other threads, just PG instead of RPG), but as I've continued to do that, and I come back to new features that also feel textureless*, and the future looks... 'textureless'.. I do think if 8.0 doesn't come up with some meaningful news I will probably end there (as in not even purchase it/no more sub).


*Like for example I was super excited for Island Sanctuary, and I did enjoy the visuals a lot and hung there due to that.. but the gameplay was very disappointing. Buildings didn't have anything special, the monster catching, the farming, it all was very menu diving, excel with wonderful music and graphics. I can imagine maybe some people liked the excel gameplay, I guess, but for me it was very surprising that was the core pillar of gameplay. There is a lot of examples, but another personal one would be how Blue Mage or Pet jobs, or other unique ideas, will never see primary daylight because it's too hard for FFXIV to envision or requires too many unique resources. I have faith WoW could and would do more for a regular class then FFXIV will, and that makes me a bit sad (and has pushed me to try WoW recently).

[Ardeth]

If this joke of a company keeps releasing broken systems and races and puts no effort to fix them or at a glacial pace, sure.

I've been playing for almost 12 years. I've never been this disconnected from this game. I barely log in. I barely give a shit.

Heck, DC travel has been one of if not the single most harmful things for me as a player. I either can't play the game at all, or I have to contribute in a practice that, at this point, is killing the game for me. I shouldn't have to supplement playing on a foreign server because your game is dead. I shouldn't.

[Xelanar]

I'm already tending towards quitting.
If the game does not get more interesting by the end of Dawntrail, I will not buy 8.0 and unsubscribe instead.

Currently housing is the only thing preventing me from leaving. If I unsubscribe, my house is gone. And if my house is gone, I'm not comming back. Losing my house is a deal breaker and because of that, I'm not taking a break even though there is currently nothing interesting for me to do. I'm basically paying a housing subscription at this point ^_^.

This also means that I will not come back if all my designs and all my housing items are gone.

I don't believe their 8.0 Liveletters can tip the scales for me, considering how recent announcements of features were hyping up disappointments during the last few Liveletters. So Dawntrail and what I can see and experience is all that can convince me to stay or leave.

[Jokerz_93]

I think that the game will never get better, or different.
It’s like, going at the park.
when you are a child everything is fun and colourful but when you get older you realise that the fun you had when you were a child is lost.
The problem is not the park, it is you who grew up and changed your expectations.
XIV is the park. It will never change its purpose.
It will continue to entertain children and they will eventually lose their interest once they will reach the point that most of the vets are now.

So…yep. Growing up kinda sucks, but it’s something of our lives.

Btw just in case it wasn’t clear, child/children = sprouts. It doesn’t mean who enjoys this game are necessarily kids.

[TBerry]

r/technicallythetruth

Keystrokes keystrokes

[SXTC]

Been on the game 10 years, stopped liking it after the 3rd year... bored... just sub once in a while because I own an FC and really like my members so I just sub to recruit and work on that FC.
I've been sharing idea's on the forums since but pretty much most of them were ignored sadly

[Moqi]

People can still post in the forum after they've unsubbed for a while and during free login campaigns. I haven't paid for this game for almost 3 years (and I took a break from HW release to mid Endwalker before that).

I'll pay for a sub when they can get 2 expansion cycles consistently right and fix all their major issues. So, never.

[Kazuke_Miso]

So many comments about how you'll quit in 8.0.

Just quit now lmao

The game isn't going to get better. They're too busy making FF17 or whatever their other projects are.