I honestly don't consider wanting to ooc play the game a lack of motivation. Sometimes, I want to go progress in the OOC world of the game, and sometimes that is something that takes 2-3 weeks with some sparse roleplaying. And sometimes, all I want to do is rp, and only want to do that for a couple weeks and not do dungeons or anything.
Right now we're in that Pre-Expansion dip. Where those of us who play all the time normally have nothing to do for a month, and people are starting to come back/new people are showing up and are mostly just trying to catch up oocly content and gear wise. FFXIV is probably the only MMO I've played that requires you to be at a certain spot in the story in order to access the Expansion (OH, SE and your gates) so it makes sense RP is tapering off, and will continue to do so for a long while after Heavensward is released. Me personally? I spend a lot of my time offline now, working on the big storyline we need to in our Storyteller forum, chilling out a bit till Heavensward. I got to get my alt caught up in the story, I get on for scheduled RP events (Or if someone asks me to rp), I get on for raiding and things, but I'm kind of taking it easy. And that's okay.
It's fine people have decided to take a step back, enjoy the break while you can, Heavensward is going to be a completely different ballgame.
Right now we're in that Pre-Expansion dip. Where those of us who play all the time normally have nothing to do for a month, and people are starting to come back/new people are showing up and are mostly just trying to catch up oocly content and gear wise. FFXIV is probably the only MMO I've played that requires you to be at a certain spot in the story in order to access the Expansion (OH, SE and your gates) so it makes sense RP is tapering off, and will continue to do so for a long while after Heavensward is released. Me personally? I spend a lot of my time offline now, working on the big storyline we need to in our Storyteller forum, chilling out a bit till Heavensward. I got to get my alt caught up in the story, I get on for scheduled RP events (Or if someone asks me to rp), I get on for raiding and things, but I'm kind of taking it easy. And that's okay.
It's fine people have decided to take a step back, enjoy the break while you can, Heavensward is going to be a completely different ballgame.
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