At 1:22:45 Here after 7.1 and I feel like they did NOT come out swinging with 7.1's story. In fact, I feel like it actually made one of the better characters worse by trying to make Koana sacrifice himself for a cow that he mildly disliked 2 minutes earlier. Koana was maybe the only character from dawntrail that I felt like I could get behind in some select instances. But it feels like they character assassinated him in 7.1.

as a long time player, the game's content cycle isn't exciting anymore... it's the same old regurgitated content every patch. if they plan on going for the next few years hopefully they take more risks in terms of playable content, as everything they are offering now is just safe, bland, and boring. no flavor.

There's no repeatable content, i've been saying this for years now. You can only do Savage once a week despite having multiple classes leveled that could offer replayability by doing savage on those as well. I hoped that criterion would fill the void of replayable content back when they got teased but it turned out to be just savage : lite. There's nothing much to so in game that has replayability value so you just end up logging in for raid, then logging off for the rest of the week. FF14 desperately needs something akin to m+ that you can do daily.

try path of exile 2 :P

game is doodoo piss, take care of yourself king

Legit only reason I've still been playing is savage and FRU, if those weren't coming I'd be gone.... its a sad thing for me to say as I've been playing since1.0 beta test

This expansion made me into a msq skipper and I didnt skip anything till DawnTrail happened...

I have quit ff14 after years of uninspired, bland, and blatant disregard of the healer situation and i have been dping a lot better lately. Time to move on.

go play wow, m+ has got you my dude

Been feeling the same way. I don't do ultimates because I just don't have it in me to dedicate my life to a game like that anymore, but I do unreal and savage and it's just not even nearly enough. The relic grind not being there in Endwalker really pissed me off and I've steadily become more and more annoyed and borderline angry with the lack of content considering how much money we all pour into this game through the monthly sub. I do play other games as well just like they are telling us to, and I'm finding it harder and harder to find a reason to come back to 14.

I didn't think I would watch the whole video, but I did. Agree with everything!

I'm considering cancelling my subscription after being a dedicated player for 10+ years. I hate the direction they're going. I also find the new content too hard - there's too many mechanics happening at the same time. At least for me. If you like it, great.

@99_Vit currently trying to clear for the first time myself currently progging wormhole with fru coming out soon do think the will be hardly any tea parties or folks wanting to do tea.

SPLEEEEEEEEEEEEEN!!! LISTEN TO ME!!!! On a serious note, I'm just over it with SE drowning all their boss mechanics in bright, shiny, distracting special effects. I have a hard time even making out what's going on before it executes and I'm laying on the floor dead. Even worse when they layer them so it's even *harder* to understand what's happening.

Haven't played much at all this expansion but always enjoy listening to your ramble in this style about whatever, hope whatever you choose to do works out!

If this games pvp was actually good that would help a lot

I don't raid beyond normals. I got an evening of content and now it's back to waiting until April. That's not a lot over 8 months when they expect me to pay $120 in sub fees.

Story was trash this expac.

I feel the same, DT sucks.. yes the upgrade and some new fight mechanics are good but that's it.. it was the worse expansion ever as of story, characters. I lost any motivation for the game and i just feel nostalgic for the past expansions

IMO put your parse into xivanalysis and ignore everything else. The actual # you get is COMPLETELY irrelevant. It's like half killtime and not even fastest = higher #. If you want 90+ parses you need to manage to kill the boss at the fastest time possible AFTER the last 2 minute. Also it doesn't measure your consistency with mechanics which is far more important because the way the game is designed right now if no one dies and your 2m stay roughly aligned you'll kill even if your rotation sucks. IMO fflogs ruins a lot of players. They suddenly start obsessing over positionals, not shielding for raidwides, or they mess up their rotation and they're so obsessed their brain focuses on that and they mess up a mechanic. Once you learn what your rotation should be you shouldn't need a funny # go tell you if it was a good run. You should know because you know the rotation and know what you did right or wrong. When you get to this point fflogs is just telling you how the kill time and crits went.

if you've never played wow you should maybe try that

Would be interested to see you play MH Wilds when it comes out, I've always appreciated the in-depth info and the chill vibes. But yeah; we'll be around man, do what's best for you and your well-being.

I feel the same way, but ive been trying to dedicate time to justify my sub. I am on an extremely populated server (Balmung) and housing is scarce. I hate to admit that I'm super attached to it as a roleplayer. But I worked hard to get it and remember waking up at 6am EST to get one as soon as the servers opened up - this before the lotto system. I feel like it'd be such a waste of my time and effort decorating it if I just let it go. But I feel like you make such a good point about it. Idk. Just too little to do for a 4 month patch cadence. I love the game, I want to play the game but theres not much to do that I haven't already done.

how is bro so chill, im terrified to go on youtube - dude is chilling like we are in his living room

Playing 10 years and keep going. Everytime i log in i feel like i'm going home. Not doing any raids, only dungeons and 24 man alliance stuff. Yeah it can be rough and sometimes i don't play for like 2 months but when i return secret farm powers appears. Take a break. If it's not fun it's not fun

"More of the same" is just what an mmo IS. There may be some differences in the details, but when you think about it, all mmo activities have been pretty much the same for years

wonder how you feel about 7.1 now after the horrible dragoon change :/

Update: Bro is about the quit the game cause its boring 🤣

I think more companies should make choices simply to disrespect NA

I've been playing off and on since 1.0, Dawntrail is the expack that finally broke me. Not even Stormblood and its awful post MSQ patches hurt as much as this entire shit show.

Bro looks like mymanager and did 4 ultimates im impressed

I feel like if you wanna quit just quit. No one is holding a gun to your head to play. It’s your money and time.

I quit too and I don't think I will come back in years and years.

I think it’ll be nice to quit and play something else. This game is so good but once you get this feeling, I swear there’s no coming back the same way. I haven’t logged in in 8 months, completely skipped DT.

This game has been going downhill ever since Yoshida's absurd decision at the beginning of Endwalker to "de-MMO" Final Fantasy XIV's casual content. Instead of making content that brings players together like Eureka or Island Restoration, they put god knows how many man-hours making solo once-and-done slop like island, variants, Tataru's quest, duty support and the hildibrand cereal box relics. 3 years later and FCs are dead, the community is toxic and sprouts are lonely. Dawntrail's MSQ being bad was the last straw for a lot of players.

As a raider, I love me my raids. We get plenty of engaging content - however, the jobs become less and less engaging. On the other hand, the writing is as poor as it hasn't been in a long time. The world building broke for me with the lv83 Zodi trial. What bothers me most: Whilst we get many good raids, there is just nothing else to do. We get no casual-ish / midcore content we can just vibe in, and the next one being explorational apparently won't drop until 7.35. Only so much I can keep myself entertained with doing savage and ultimate all over and over again.

Wondering if you think Ninja moves up into S tier now considering the 7.1 change allowing TenChiJen to be cast while moving?

When players use the "unsub and come back", that doesn't fix the issue many of us have with the game. You can take a long break and if you log in years later, the game at its core,it's still the same. It's showing its age, and we're just eager for something new.

subbed to hear your thoughts about the DRG changes :)

Not sure I understand videos like this. It’s a game if you don’t like it anymore, or you are not excited then there is nothing wrong with leaving the game. Why the rant, and the hour long video?? Just quit and go play something else.

I think Endwalker is when the content cycle, slow/boring gearing, job/fight design really was showing that it was not working, if you didn't do ultimates there was literally nothing to do longterm the entire patch cycle. If you were new in Shadowbringers or EW it didn't seem like a problem because had the massive backlog of old content to go through but for longtime heavily invested players there is not enough there and the "just unsub" defense rings hollower than ever. Hopefully the chaotic is fun and repeatable but I really think they need to consider either launching the expansions with relic/explorable/replayable content or at least releasing them way before earlier than x.3 patches and just building on them instead of waiting until the expacs almost done to give people the grindy mmo feeling content.

It's sad but FFXIV currently reminds me of post-Wrath WoW. It feels like the game is being developed by people who don't play the game and aren't particularly invested in it. They're just going through the motions.

I think Shadowbringers, and Endwalker to a certain degree, were the Wrath for ff14 and peak. No king rules forever, it's all mid tier and short comings from here on out with some cool stuff every now and then, they'll never be able to top the story from ARR to Endwalker, and when it comes to content its always the same stuff with a light coat of new paint, to afraid to try anything new, and it's starting to show. The most vocal part of the community will destroy this game with it's toxic positivity.

The moment when you realise that take away the story from this game, all you have left is a dumbed down outdated game. Every combat is just a stupid dance chore, heck even the arena is always a stupid square or circle, there is literally NO epic dungeon raid boss feeling. This game is NOT an MMORPG, it’s more like a solo player arcade game with some team play

Yeah I think what a lot of people are actually feeling (but don't want to admit) is simply disappointment. The game is truly great but could easily be even greater if the devs actually played it. There's no way that not only does it take 1/3 of a year to get new content, but also there are very obvious design flaws in old and present content. Especially since this is a subscription based game, they should be constantly updating, or at least doing so once a month. If they were doing this, it wouldn't feel so bad to wait so long to have fun for a week max. Not to mention they would more easily bring in and keep new players.

100% real takes here. The FFXI raid is amazing, they did a fantastic job there, but you're right on all other points. This MMO to me has always felt hollow. The game is too safe, everything is created within a box and they will not stray outside of it. This is the complete opposite of say FFXI where they just created some shit and worried about balance later. Players will always find a way around balance issues or whatever and I personally feel like it's not that important. If you have fun and engaging content with stakes, actual reasons to improve their build, player choice, and the game feels like a wholistic experience; you can enjoy a game for months/years after content has stopped (look at FFXI). This game is the opposite of that. Hollow, 1-dimensional, no actual player choice, no stakes, all safe.

Oh god another mmo content creator hitting burnout. When you make 1 thing or game your entire life you will experience burnout. Idk how anyone manages to play one game and make content only for that game. Thats called a job and most of us are sick of them.

Im a 2013 ARR player, I got to this point when HW came out. I played GW2 on and off too so I was fine not playing for 2 or 3 months after each patch. By SHB expac GW2 died for me, so I grinded XIV, did all my backlog and by EW I had nothing else of interest to do. Yet I was happy with the story and was fine comming back for that. Now DT ruined the story for me. Combat is cool so I did savage and found out how boring it gets to farm 4 fights once a week to get basicly meaningless loot, by the 4th week I just wanted to farm M4S but had to reclear all others, by the 6th week there were fewer partys in PF and most using new strats that I couldnt bother to learn. I didnt lvl all my jobs just so that I have some to lvl when tribes and the exploration areas are released, yet I dont even know if I can stand waiting that long to lvl them. Damn I even miss ARR when a patch releases with 3 dungeons, HW went to 2, then Sb to 1, ok they were doing something else instead but for patch x.1? God give something more to the casual player! Spice it up! Alliance raid is just a weekly thing and I never understood why, loot is always 10 ilvls bellow savage and will be obsulete next patch, just let people farm something, we got like 21 jobs to gear up, atleast I would have other 720ish jobs that I could take for savage if I wanted to, instead of waiting 5 weeks to farm the allance set for 1 job or crafting another 710 set and spending a fortune overmelding it. This is just sad.

If you're a player that enjoys RP and standing around chatting and socializing then the game is perfect for you. If you like doing actual content its not the best game for you. Just speaking from personal experience and what ive talked with others about.

If you don't enjoy it, I would absolutely suggest unsubbing. Im having fun enough in Dawntrail, but even with that said, Dawntrail feels like a flop. Not a shadowlands, but this was absolutely the time to shake things up, and they didnt do that.