The Reason Why FFXIV Is No Longer Fun/Exciting

[Myotis]

What would you propose the change be?

I would move towards a more classic trinity setup, where the tank actually tanks and the healer truly heals, instead of spamming mostly one button to deal damage. I would also remove the vast majority of instant-death mechanics, leaving only certain important and unique ones.

The game was so well balanced back in the old days of WoW—specifically during the WOTLK expansion—which reached a peak of 11 million daily active players. A major reason for that success was that players were able to participate in the content without constantly being excluded.

Accessibility creates interest in the content and provides a sense of fulfillment when a player completes it. Our current issue is that duties swing between being stupidly easy and, in contrast, stupidly hard with instant-death mechanics.

It was so well balanced back in the old days in WoW - WOTLK expansion as an example what reached a total peak of daily 11mil players being active.
and vast reason for that is that Players were able to participate in the content without being dropped out.

Accessability does create an interest in the content and fullfilment if it's completed by a player.
Our issue is that we have stupidly easy mode going on in the duties and then compared to it stupidly hard mode with insta deaths. - If only you dare not to stand in a right pixel with body checks all around leading even towards fixed rotation.

It's simply unfun to participate in this.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ otherwise the game would alive just because people would be able to do more. - Instead of making it appealing towards 3-7% of the population what does clear raids and so on.

[RaionKansen]

maybe the DDR expirience was unpleasant as it is for most of people in the game and he did not want to do it anymore? It feels like a chore where you learn quite boring patterns on where to stand on certain frame of the fight.
It doesn't promote any personal skill , you cannot save the party either as there is plenty of body checks going on.
Also one shot death as punishment doesn't feel any good either.

I think the DDR formula should be changed and adjusted for modern audience.

Yes, the point is that when you mess up, you have to start over because its harder content.
Welcome to high end content in Tab Target MMORPGS.
What alternative are you looking for?

[RaionKansen]

I would move towards a more classic trinity setup, where the tank actually tanks and the healer truly heals

You have to do more difficult content for Tanking and Healing to be relevant in any MMORPG.

Don't complain about not being able to fulfill your class fantasy while not engaging with the content that demands it.

[Xieldras]

"The rest of the theme park might be decrepit, but you have to do that one okay ride or don't complain about having nothing to do!"

Some people just don't like that type of content.

[RaionKansen]

"The rest of the theme park might be decrepit, but you have to do that one okay ride or don't complain about having nothing to do!"

Some people just don't like that type of content.

Sure, but then its just an "I'm not having fun" issue and not really a bigger problem.
So many people that claim to love this game or claim to be a part of the community, but refuse to engage with like over half the content and it makes no sense to me.

I've been playing since the end of ShB and I've been having a blast the entire time doing everything that the game has to offer.
I actually don't have enough time to do all the things I want to do. I'm still trying to clear all the ultimates as well

[Appleboops]

The game's plenty fun as it is ... except it's not because it's unplayable with the drops and server crashes every 5 minutes O.o
But seriously I think it's fine, Dawntrail and all, I like the things that were added. Do I agree with every single job change or gameplay adjustment, probalby not, but overall the game's fun and if it's not for some people, it might have something to do with the fact that some people have been playing it for almost a decade. Try doing almost anything else for 10 years straight and see if it still holds your interest at the end... yea sure new patches and updates may bring something new but the foundation of the game is still the same old from 10y ago. Best they can do is try to bring out small additions and concepts to hold people's interest for a brief moment and some of those are better than others. Nothing's gonna make that change.

[MicahZerrshia]

It often is the players.

I saw a post on Twitter for the NA FF account that was announcing the Blunderville revival. There was someone in it complaining that we were getting that instead of new content. At the time of the post, Pilgrim's Traverse had been out less than a week. When I asked them about that, they made some comment about that being something you ran once and never again. .

This is leveling content they chose to release half way through an expansions life when most ppl who do want to level jobs already have. A lot of ppl don't want to do leveling content for a couple minions, mounts and an orchestration. The rewards are extremely shallow and you can easily get most of them in a weeks time by playing regularly and not even pushing it. Again this is ppl making excuses for SE creating shallow content, not the players just bum rushing content