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).