Dear Community what even holds you in this game

[TheInsomniac13]

Honest Question not a Bait post.

I recently had to admit that the potential I saw in the game when I first started to play did not deliver in the later expansions of this game, Side Quests stayed as low effort as they started Dungeons are a linear corridor of pull all and kill it and any interesting Boss gimicks we had in the past were phased out of the game so that only DDR Remains.

The only thing that keeped me in the Game was the story making FF 14 for my basicly a Visual Novel interupted by medicore to bad gameplay.
So when Dawntrail drove the story against the wall my biggest draw to the game endet.

The other think I enjoyed was Jobidentity. I loved leveling them all learning the to play them all and then seeing them all getting more and more Braindead. Yoshida acknowledged the communeties worry about the Homoginazation and sayed it would be adressed... only for 7.2 to drop and proving... the Devs do not give a fuck about Jobs and see High end Raiding as the be all and end all of this game, and I coulden´t care less for it.

In the last view weeks I read a lot of Discords and Forum posts and... Many agree... DT was a shit show of story, Jobs dummer then ever and the majorety of the people I saw do not care for Extream, Savage and Ultimates and lament that jobs get cut down to fit this kind of content. Space Exploration is a shit show on an embaresing scale as it seems, which leaves me with this question to the community...

what even holds you in the game? Because my honest answer there is nothing left for me and I am really interested to hear what other people still see in this game.

[Kaurhz]

Honestly, nothing innately to the game, and I don't really think there's anything they can do. I mean, there's a tonne to do with new Cosmic and I could go for the 500K mount again, but the crafting abilities are just so unfun and unengaging... Gathering is a nightmare for relics let alone doing the 500K achievement.

I've only really been attached because of friends, but now I am just doing cross-play on Wilds with them, so I am rarely actively online.

[Nero-Voidstails]

roleplay and that's pretty much it not gonna lie

[Boblawblah]

Nothing at all. I sub for a month when I feel like it, and stop when I'm bored/haven't used my sub.

[Volgia]

I've lost track of how many times this question has been asked in the forums lol.

Why would you pay 15$ a month for a VN that drops 4 hours of story every 4 months and a half is beyond me. What keeps me in this game is that it's low-commitment, it's easy to take a break to play other games and come back whenever the content that's out interests me, even content like savage is long enough for me to take a couple months break and come back and attempt it.

[ViinaS]

My house,
the friends that are still playing
....
sunk cost fallacy.

That's pretty much it tbh and its rather sad.

[TheDustyOne]

My house,
the friends that are still playing
....
sunk cost fallacy.

That's pretty much it tbh and its rather sad.

Practically this for me.

I'll also add glamour to the list for things I still enjoy, and at least RDM isn't completely destroyed by the job changes, but the desire to play the game has drastically reduced. I really only log on to see friends, take some screenshots, do an expert roulette, and then do something more interesting outside of the game.

[TheInsomniac13]

Practically this for me.

I'll also add glamour to the list for things I still enjoy, and at least RDM isn't completely destroyed by the job changes, but the desire to play the game has drastically reduced. I really only log on to see friends, take some screenshots, do an expert roulette, and then do something more interesting outside of the game.

Yeah I remember the early days, I loved leveling all the Jobs seeing there own story lines and then craft Glamours that express there personalety in relation to this job, Probably one of the reasons why I now feel like leaving because in my eyes the Devs have proofen that they will put Jobdesign always behind there sacred Highend Raiding.

Seeing all this answers enshured me that leaving is the right choice. I will look back in once 8.0 Drops and while I would love for the Devs to proof me wrong and 8.0 fixing every complaind I have with this game... I highly doubt it so once my plain time runs out it´s probably a goodbey for good.

[BigCheez]

My house,
the friends that are still playing
....
sunk cost fallacy.

That's pretty much it tbh and its rather sad.

This, pretty much.

I only log in to water the plants in my FC's garden and send our subs out.

[kajv95]

I revisit on occasion. Sometimes it's because friends will try and drag me back screaming by buying me a sub, then get all flabbergasted when I'm not positive about it. Other times, I'm genuinely curious if things have improved.

My fiance and I, we met on this game, but lately when we play games, we often think back to how FFXIV could be like the things we're enjoying playing now, if the developers hadn't decided that the best thing to do is to simplify everything so that everyone with a pulse can play. Maybe that's a rude way to phrase things, but it is what it is. Whether or not the simplification is truly meant for accessibility as the developers themselves have put it, or rather at the behest of something else entirely, such as ease of designing encounters is a little besides the point. The simple truth of the matter is that I have now spent as much time feeling like, and being told that, maybe Final Fantasy XIV isn't for me anymore.

This is difficult, because as it stands, Final Fantasy XIV is in many ways the reason I am who I am today. The game saw me through dark times, and engaging with its playerbase quite literally carved out a future where I previously had none. So, of course, I still cared about it. And in some ways, I still do. But to be told time again that the game is no longer made for me by both players and, indirectly, by the developers themselves... It's kind of like being stabbed in the back. I played when this game hadn't reached its fame yet, and the moment it did, it discarded me.

Fortunately, Final Fantasy XIV isn't the only MMO on the market, and through it, I've come to deeply adore the MMO genre... So, for now, I've been taking my business elsewhere. It's my love for the FFXIV game of the past and the community that keeps me watching the forums, hoping to one day see a spark appear that draws me back in. But each break becomes longer everytime, as with every other game I play between breaks, the flaws in this game become more and more apparent.

Often times, my friends tell me it's fun to play with them and their extended circle of friends... but if the game itself isn't fun on its own, then adding friends to it won't magically make the game more fun. Yes, playing with friends is inherently more fun, but I simply cannot afford to pay monthly for a game that is only fun with friends when in reality, I can have the same level of fun doing something else with my friends. Because it's not the game I'm enjoying with friends; it's the friends I'm enjoying, and we're simply using the game as a medium to get together over the internet. Which is something we can do in many, many other games.

No, you can't have my gil.