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Artigan · **07-29-2015, 06:05 AM**

(07-23-2015, 02:32 PM)Zyrusticae Wrote: I'm not sure exactly why I feel this way, but for whatever reason this patch is the one that's killed my interest.

Warning: Senseless rant follows!

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SpoilerFirst of all, Alexander NM has an absolutely awful loot system. If you got four weeklies like the WoD weekly instead of having to lot against 7 other players, it would have been fine! But no, unless you specifically join a farming party AND everyone stays in that party through the whole 4 runs of each floor, you're going to be running the same crap over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and look, geeze, this is dumb, why is this even a thing?!

And then Esoterics. I was kind of hoping Law was indicative of how things would go in the future (only, you know, obviously a bit slower because Law is insanely easy to get), but nope! Still absolutely impossible to gear up more than one job with content-relevant gear. The dripfeed is real!

This is particularly annoying because it was so easy to get AF armor and even your baseline relic back in 2.0. Now you have go through the absurdly drawn-out tomestone grind to get even a single set for the glamour. Really? Dick move, guys. Dick move.

And of course I have zero interest in Alex Savage for fairly obvious reasons, so that is content that may as well not exist to me.

So I'm done. I've got nothin' left except RP, and I'm not gonna lie, that's not enough on its own to sustain my interest in any given game. The story was great, the graphics and artwork are pretty, the new zones are a major improvement, flying is not as pointless as I thought it would be, and I like the look of quite a few of the new sets, so there's that. But... you know... the gameplay. Machinist turned out to be... not quite what I was hoping for. And my tolerance for absolute repetition only goes so far. Running the same thing once a week, or even every other day, is something I can stomach. But a minimum of four times a week, with very high odds of having to do more? Are you even trying anymore, SE?

I just feel like SE is not respecting my time. They're trying too hard to get me to waste it on their repetitive content, and it's not making me happy. My motivation to login has been shot to hell.

Oh, well, whatever. I guess this is the curse of subscription-based themepark MMORPGs. Always gotta have people chasing that carrot.

Unfortunately for them, it doesn't work on me. Not when you force me to wait for weeks before letting me chew on that carrot, and it's not even a bloody cake!

Note: I am aware that most of my complaints here are nothing new and could be said about a lot of 2.x's patch content. But I expected better from Heavensward, and more of the same is all we got? Not feelin' it, man.

You're more than likely burnout due to your lifestyle and being able to play all the time (which doesn't discount your points).

If I may suggest: try something other than FFXIV each week: working out, figuring out a good diet plan and preparing your own meals, trying a practical martial art (Boxing, Judo, Wrestling, Muay Thai, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu) Yoga, or whatever meets your fancy that isn't based in a virtual world (granted if you budget allows for such distractions).

Yet I agree FFXIV has a major tendency to play the grind game in respect to collecting "tokens" to purchase items, and keeping those "tokens" exclusive or locked to certain dungeons which becomes tedious.

The same issues of 2.0 unfortunately are back.

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