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

[Hallarem]

It's hard to let go of a game I've spent 11 years of my life involved with. I can criticize and be upset with its direction and it no longer providing content I enjoy, but still struggle to completely quit and move on.

After over 15 years of WoW I understand the pain. But the game burned just so many bridges in terms of lore, story and gameplay for me. That I never looked back and never intend to pay for their products ever again.

FFXIV wont earn my loyalty by anything but stellar performance. And I am sensing the lack of care for story, worldbuilding and gameplay slowly surmount. The lack of wish for any significant change from the community that enjoy just raidlogging once or twice a week isnt a good sign either.
Square has until 8.0 for me and Im gone.

[Raim]

I didn't unsub entirely but I did start subbing only every other 30 days to keep my housing plots.

[Sifpatata]

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.

Practically yes, ffxiv went to the background, it is clear that yoshi is interested in other games.

[ViinaS]

Practically yes, ffxiv went to the background, it is clear that yoshi is interested in other games.

The only good thing if push comes to shove would be if they screw up more and FFXIV dies due to their idiocy then their biggest cash cow will take that cash with it to the grave, so they can't produce the slop they love to spend FFXIV sub money on anymore. And maybe it'll even kill/hurt SE, who knows.

Dunno, but it would be a sight to behold.

While I don't wish that to happen I lost basically all my faith in the devs at this point and turning it all around would be akin to a miracle to me.
Cause for that they would need to deliver amazing MSQ and lots of good content to warrant being sub-based.
Cause right now F2P games have more content releases per month than FFXIV has in half a year.

[lucatracy]

And we still have 800-900k people who keep saying the game is horrible but keeps playing.

You're forgetting that all 800-900k of these players have houses to keep, surely. /s

[sindriiisgaming]

But you won't

LOL

I won't quit. I just won't sub. Got a free trail account I could easily go back to. Not gona keep paying for basically the ability to log in at this point

[sindriiisgaming]

Some of us don't like the direction the game is going and show it in different ways.. Not subbing the extra retainers and app cuts their profits in half. Not buying ANYTHING from the shop cuts into their profit.

Just because someone pays the minimum to keep an active account bc of friends of a house doesn't mean they are not doing other things that cut into the profits. I personally don't sub my retainers or the app and have stopped buying from the shop.

In the past when I was happy with the game I have ALL the retainers, the app and constantly bought things from the shop knowing it was look nice in game but also that is helped them make money to grow and develop the game more.

Sometimes the biggest break in profits are from places you can't see them happening.. It's not a lot, but when you go from 33 USD per month plus shop items to 12.99 USD per month, it adds up..

Same for me my friend. I've completely stopped buying extra. I used to have 10 retainers and 6 monthly sub plan. Now I cut them all back. Ive also stopped using cash shop as the quality of what is on it is subpar.

If 7.2 is a disaster it's gona be my entire sub.

[Naoki34]

To leave, no. This extension is crap, I'll come back for the MSQ because I still want to know what happens next, but I'm not going to stay active for the whole extension.

Like a lot of people, we never stop playing FFXIV, we'll come back for the next expansion.

It's like WoW Refugees, they're always replaying their MMOs from another age.

It's not as if FFXIV since HW has always been crap, it's a bad expansion, if I don't like the MSQ the rest follows, because re-doing the same dungeons week after week gets boring at some point. I'm stuffing 3 Jobs: Tank/SAM/SGE and I'll be back later.

In Dawntrail and the previous one, I'd set everything to max, but now I really don't feel like it...
There's a lot of talk about HealerStrike, but it's the fault of all the noobs who hang out in the wheels, who still wants to play Heal for a Tank that takes 1 pack and trots between the 2?
I prefer Tank myself and Dps. It's not that Heal is a hard job.

In short, FFXIV bores me, I'm not leaving FFXIV, I'm going to play something else while I wait for what interests me to come along.

[BigCheez]

Is this your first MMO?

People invest huge amounts of time and money into these types of games. The achievements, mounts, minions, gear, glamour, social network, etc. that they collect over time represent that investment and it's fairly normal for people to not want to move on and leave them behind.

The point at which the state of the game becomes bad enough to outweigh the sunk cost will vary from player to player but everyone has a breaking point. Once they reach it, they will move on and get settled somewhere else, at which point it becomes very difficult to get them back.

This is essentially what happened in WoW. People stuck it out through WoD and BFA before things finally got bad enough in Shadowlands that people just weren't willing to stick around any more. 6.1-6.5 was pretty dire. Dawntrail hasn't been great so far. If things haven't improved by 8.0 then I really don't think it's looking good for XIV.

[ExiaKuromonji]

But you won't

LOL

Dog this isn't the 500 IQ take you think it is. This is the exact same nonsense people were saying in WoW. And guess what. People left WoW. That's why it has 4 different versions of the game running at the moment to keep players hooked.

And in before sexual harassment lawsuit take. WoW was hemorrhaging players long before this happened.