Burn Out

[Absurdity]

So as the title implies, I'm kinda burnt out on XIV for now. Haven't really logged in all that much to do anything other than a few obligations. That and I haven't really been having fun with the game in general with the current expansion. It's mostly just get Savage done, farm the current EX trail for the mount, and maybe a few side activities here and there like the Cosmic Exploration and Deep Dungeon. Maybe do an Ultimate with a close friend group as well, but other than that I just don't have much drive to play.

I've kinda done most of what I wanted to do and it just seems like forcing myself to play is not healthy and seems to make the game less enjoyable. What is it that's keeping some people logging in every day? Kinda having a hard time understanding whats keeping people tied to playing this game every day since some in my friend group are guilty of that and its a tad annoying tbh (not to the general player base but my friend group). There's plenty of other games out there to play in the backlog and in general. Also another question would be what would any of you suggest to do when suffering from burn out?

People need to stop calling it burnout.
Burnout is when you play the game so much that you get exhausted by it, what you're describing sounds more like boredom.

The solution is ultimately the same, play something else that you're actually having fun with.

[Garruss]

People need to stop calling it burnout.
Burnout is when you play the game so much that you get exhausted by it, what you're describing sounds more like boredom.

The solution is ultimately the same, play something else that you're actually having fun with.

It sounds like this to be honest, it sounds like you are bored with the game, and by what was mentioned with your backlog, it sounds like you should step away from the game and do other things. When you are done with this and you still don't want to come back here, well, maybe it shows your time with the MMO is over and it's time to accept it and move on. Sadly, it happens to every MMO in the end

[UkcsAlias]

People need to stop calling it burnout.
Burnout is when you play the game so much that you get exhausted by it.

Well, i have a semi-similar experience. Since our group is still doing savage (we arent fully done with the m8s farm yet), it can take up 3 days a week of raiding, which is that much that i cant be bothered doing the extremes. Which as a result means that a lot of the time i just dont have anything to do. I realy cant care about PT (or PotD to begin with), which means that there is barely any content left.

Its not that i dont like the content (the last 2 extremes are fun to me). But i dont want to exhaust myself further into doing the 'harder' content.

And as a result i usualy just go for completely diffirent games outside of raiding days.

To me there is no good casual content that you can realy grind. Alliance raids are nice due to the length, but you cant keep doing these either. But most of the content is either hard to access (long grind before that if relatively new), or above casual difficulty (often extreme or higher). OC just failed horribly at keeping casual players interested. And because its grind requires a raid thats over average difficulty, even that doesnt provide any farming potential.

Normal mode content is heavily underrated by the devs, yet being more approachable is critical for casuals to keep interested. If those casuals are done with any grind, then they are already completely done with all activities. Give them more grindable content, and at most allow extreme versions of it to shortcut some of the grind (and still provide a separate unique reward to them): for example: normal mode has grindable mount at 50 clears, extreme has another mount at 50 clears, but also grants progress for the normal one (extreme remains more efficient, but normal mode keeps relevant for a long time). And if you realy want to take it further, you can make the normal mode require 75 and extreme 50 clears, so this way the normal mode remains relevant even for the extreme player (25 casual clears, or 25 assists in extreme, being completely free to choose whichever you want)