Yeah because you're still around lol. Nah I will just the only thing to do is fucking coil it's so boring.

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Marriage is any 2 players regardless of race, sex, etc

Both of these statements are way too true. I only have a sub cause I like the people I play with, however long that keeps me paying. I had 400x more fun in SWTOR and that had 0 end game too.

I would be more than glad if you came back Cindy. I'm just not buying it though. Its the only way i can keep myself from crying at night.

I was on for a little bit this morning. Ran my expert and logged. Kinda hurting from the surgery. I'm on for coil and to cap for the most part lately.

That wouldnt have bought them as much time as you think. And it would have infuriated the few returning players.

I feel the problems stem mainly from:
1) Tying real life time limit consequences into in-game currency-based obligations
2) Basing progression around gear "item level," it's like the carrot and stick analogy.
3) Combat that is too fast paced to chat and socialize. It's really hard to build new friendships. You all may not have been affected much, but my last 6 months without a linkshell really opened my eyes to how anti-social this game has become, especially compared to FFXI.
4) Making everything in the game instanced. The actual world feels inconsequential and void of life.
5) And this is one that really really irritated me... All the content in FFXIV requires prior knowledge, and if you aren't "experienced onry," you are ridiculed, or worse, you are prevented from even participating.

What they should have done is made it like the early days of FFXI. A mix of open world and instanced events that reward you with gear and items instead of tomestones of blablabla. Slower leveling jobs that people can't cap in one week. Crafting that actually has meaning. Gear that isn't useless a month later. Battles that are based more on timely use of skills rather than memorization of when to move where. I could go on and on.

The game isn't boring, it has just become very abrasive.

+1 to all of that.

I made so many friends in FFXI. Some that I stay in touch with today...mostly through facebook comments/reading...but honestly that's how I keep in touch with 90% of my friends and family irl.

I never made a single friend in 3+ years of FFXIV that wasn't part of our FC/LS. The community is mostly compiled of impatient anti-social people who want instant gratification on everything. I suppose that's the culture of MMO now.

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back on topic. The new job/class looks fucking awesome. Spy showed me the video at lunch. It almost made me want to play again. I wish this game had more stuff that catered to my irl time where I can play for 15 minutes then afk for 2 hours. There is no way I could commit to coil or learning new primals again. I suppose could just sit in the FC house holding Cruxis hand while everybody is off doing instanced content

All community bitching aside, I do like the people in our FC and miss the social interactions with them.