What made you stop playing FFXIV?

[Aitherios]

Just to start, I want to say. I loved the time I spent playing the game. I only finished up to Stormblood. And I would not trade any second of my experience.

However with all good vibes still around with the game, I always wondered. For those of you that stopped playing. What made you stop?

I'll start, for me. It was player housing, back when I played it was either too expensive or there were no open plots. I know they have since added apartments which is great, but I would have stayed if I could get a house.

I typically only play for the story and raids sometimes so I'll definitely be returning to the game soon as I still have Stormbringers to play soon

But I would have stuck around purely finding stuff to decorate my house with. Inside and out.

What about you guys?

[Knowsome]

引用自 Rubijox：

what makes me stop playing the game is when i meet brain-dead individuals in solo queue, they make me lose faith in humanity so bad i end up quitting the game for at least 6 months every time....

The people that don't read tooltips, the ones that don't know that boss mechanics even exist, the ones that play dumb and dont take any criticism whatsoever....
It's such a mood killer for me that i just quit after that....

Reporting players that don't do the bare minimum of opening their eyes really should be a thing... if you take 1 aoe to the face, that's fine... accidents happen, if you eat every single one of them in the entirety of a dungeon run, I don't see why i should endure your stupidity at the cost of my enjoyment of the game.

well, thats every multiplayer game that has teams/co-op, regardless if its pvp , or PvE.
i guess you should just do PotD/HoH solo then.

[baerra]

Zero innovation, zero attempt to try something new and different. Same content flow since Heavensward, never even going past more than 4 bosses per Savage raid, for example, which also leads to no longevity in raiding itself. No new systems for combat or ways to enhance it or give it a bit more depth. Nothing.

[Kiana]

引用自 baerra：

Zero innovation, zero attempt to try something new and different. Same content flow since Heavensward, never even going past more than 4 bosses per Savage raid, for example, which also leads to no longevity in raiding itself. No new systems for combat or ways to enhance it or give it a bit more depth. Nothing.

Ultimates, Eureka, Bozja, Ishgard restoration, upcoming challenge dungeons...

[Weez]

I bought a bunch of crafting books I couldn't use or discard and never intend to grind for. So I guess deleting the character and all my progress will get rid of them, oh might as well uninstall while I"m at it.

[Hevoca]

♥♥♥♥♥♥ support team

[Sauriel]

crafting becoming less useful and toxic community behaviour to normal people unless you are a harcore raider, and people get everything from those anyway. combine games like these with the most self absorbed patriotic countries and you get that, unless they become worse with time, but i think the world itself have become too competitive to an unhealthy point, in everything

[Senyuki]

Paying monthly sub and having less then other people -> talking about housing here
This system sucks and it's totally unfair. Not everyone can have a house, but everyone is paying the same amount of real money. And this killed it for me.
For example: In ESO i can buy every house i like because it is an instanced area for every player. And that's fair.
Yeah, i like housing etc. so for me this is a important point. For others it's maybe not, that's okay too.

[Aidenel]

引用自 Senyuki：

Paying monthly sub and having less then other people -> talking about housing here
This system sucks and it's totally unfair. Not everyone can have a house, but everyone is paying the same amount of real money. And this killed it for me.
For example: In ESO i can buy every house i like because it is an instanced area for every player. And that's fair.
Yeah, i like housing etc. so for me this is a important point. For others it's maybe not, that's okay too.

No shared housing in ESO though, cant share a house with another player.
Furniture i also EXTREMELY grind heavy to even craft a chair
luckily support actually refunded my house in ESO after I made said discoveries.

[Crystal Goddess]

引用自 Senyuki：

Paying monthly sub and having less then other people -> talking about housing here
This system sucks and it's totally unfair. Not everyone can have a house, but everyone is paying the same amount of real money. And this killed it for me.
For example: In ESO i can buy every house i like because it is an instanced area for every player. And that's fair.
Yeah, i like housing etc. so for me this is a important point. For others it's maybe not, that's okay too.

We're getting Island Sanctuary with 6.2, which I would say sounds better than housing, especially since we'll get to customise the island and allow other players to visit our islands.

[causality]

Anyone got the image of Yoshi P face palming when asked about moon housing?

[Black Rain]

Its not as good as FF11 was, alot of american players were to lazy to grind in exp parties and SE had to mimic some features from wow like all the cheesy clones did. But I still play it I just quit like every 3 months.

[Demirincar]

The frustrating and insanely unfair RNG lottery loot system in dungeons and raids. I mostly tolerated it while levelling in dungeons as you were still awarded a consolation prize gear upon completing the dungeon even if you didn't win any rolls, but when I started doing alliance raids and had runs where I didn't win a single roll out of all the loot that dropped, it really pissed me off to the point where I wanted to physically hurt someone in real life. Wasting half an hour or more in a raid and walking away with absolutely nothing feels terrible. The experience really soured my mood and I completely lost interest in the story, characters, world and combat.

I slogged through the post-Heavensward content and stopped playing at the end of the free trial. I read that in later expansions, SE did nothing to fix the terrible lottery loot system and even made it worse in the Copied Factory alliance raid where it is near impossible to win the 2B coffer. I have zero interest in running the same raid thousands of times just for the *chance* of maybe winning the loot I want the next time. And apparently this is working as intended as it's supposed to prolong playtime so people keep paying subs. No thanks.

[Gh0stfire]

引用自 Xeno：

When Endwalker was announced, i just started out and wanted to be there for the rush.
Never made it.
When it was released i was still in Stormblood and with the massive que times both me and my friend decieded to quit for now.

Both of us took time to get all crafting and gathering jobs to 80 as well as mutliple classes.
So thats most likely the reason why we did not make it.

another is that i suffer ADHD and have trouble conzentrating and the fight with all the moving animations.
When i started out i wanted really to play the Blackmage but the floating ice and fire that circles the Black mage makes it impossible for me.
I searched far and wide for a way to get rid of them but found nothing.

Hell even without playing the class myself, i hated beeing matched with them in dungeons as they constantly distracted me.
When i then saw the new healer with floating constantly moving weapons i lost all will to play.

Its the same reason why i cant play Path of exile. I love the game but its impossible to play with all the effects.

So now i download FFIV again just to check if i can play regardless of the distractions.
Maybe it works, maybe it wont.
Shame there is no option to hide the weapons and class effects of other people.
I only found the option to reduce skill effects.

You do know you can turn off the animations and battle effects of your party correct? When I discovered this it made life much easier in especially in alliance raids

[The Grimm Reefer]

引用自 Demirincar：

had runs where I didn't win a single roll out of all the loot that dropped, it really pissed me off to the point where I wanted to physically hurt someone in real life.

Wow what a spoiled privileged brat. hahaha You should go play Vindictus. hahaha.
*wipes away the tears* . . . hahaha. i'm ok.

anyhoo, on topic.

I took about a week break after taking all my crafting to 90 and gathering up the scripts for the all books UGH. but I"m back and happy!

[Garinarbis]

Couldn't find a "home" small'ish relaxed FC to play and faffng around with, and it was very drainingfor me to try and find one with the limited tools the game has for it. eventually I just let the sub run out