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Gonna be honestly y'all. I've just been off the Destiny 2 train so long I forgot to even include it. But it does have two smaller expansions in Apollo and Behemoth. Also FFXIV is chugging along, but it doesn't have a major expansion this year.

I pay a subscription. I want content. Simple as that. I pay to play the game, I pay for the expansions. I should get frequent updates to keep me hooked.

BL3 is way better if you just turn off the dialogue It's oddly actually kind of relaxing that way too

For me I wish it didn't take nearly a year for them to release the post Dawntrail content they hyped up. Where's the relic? This would be perfect to give players something to do in these (what feels like) perpetual dead periods of zero content for non raiders. Where's the new Bozja? Where's the Island Sanctuary in space? Instead its an hours worth of MSQ, a single Hildibrand quest, a dungeon and a beast tribe. That's it? That's supposed to tide us over until what? April? June? I appreciate the sentiment of "don't treat the game like a job" but the whole "play something else" feels like such a cop out to avoid valid criticism of the snails pace content release schedule sometimes. Saying "Play something else" while deleting your house if you're gone too long is also wild (yes I know auto demo is perpetually off anymore, but that's not the point) "Oh go back and do-" I swear to god if I have to do ARR content I'm going to usher in a calamity. I'm so sick of the same 3 buttons lol I have a super cool kit at 100, I want to use it outside of expert roulettes or normal raids. It also feels like SE is taking money from XIV and not putting it back into the game and instead pissing it down the drain on NFT bullshit and games that flop out of the gate. Yet they're still releasing SINGLE CHARACTER ONLY outfits and mounts for 20$+ which is extremely scummy, especially when you remember that they USED to be account wide until they stopped doing that to milk more money out of alt addicts. I love FFXIV. I have 10k hours into this game over almost 5 years. I want to see it succeed but I'm frustrated with it. It can be better, way better. Edit to add: FFXIV is my first and only MMO.

Idk I just look at the Challenge Log and Achievements tab and see all the content I can get through while handling life on the side. Im not touching DT considering its lack luster opinions and its only been a few months so naturally there is nothing in there. But anyway, are excited for MONSTER HUNTER WILDS!?!? Hell yeah! FFXIV can rot for all I care, its over.

FFXIV is not maintaining their older playerbase at the moment very well. Most of my casual FC does not login anymore since about a month of DT release, but we've all been playing for like 3-6+ years on and off. Eventually you reach a point where you've done things that you want to do, and don't care about... doing stuff like all the yellow quests? Etc. I think the healthiest way for an MMO to move forward is to consistently add content that makes the wider base of paying players to want to continue paying. Right now SE is not doing this. FFXIV's competition is honestly kind of blowing them out of the water at the moment in this respect, and it's really unfortunate. FFXIV's team needs to recalibrate their dev pipeline because this DT cadence is bad.

Well said sir! 👏🏽

You're wrong here because you simply don't pay a monthly sub just to get told to play something else after 1 week. Games that ask you for monthly payment need to reach a baseline of quality and quantity when it comes to content. XIV is not doing that. The main problem why people are burned out is that the "new" content is not new and simply the same formulaic stuff reskinned. The amount of reskinned assets in this game is insane.

nice to see someone who actually shares my same opinion for once. the discourse, as usual, is getting super toxic over very little lol. this game was a breath of fresh air after i left destiny and ESO, some of yall dont realize how much *non hardcore* content there is in this game. its not as geared towards it as people think, i feel like.

I appreciate the breaks between content. It's given me time to work on leveling all my jobs, work on alts, as well as just catching up on content I otherwise never would have gotten to. I feel like FFXIV just has so much variety that it's hard to really be bored with the game, if anything, I hit an issue of decision paralysis.

The lack of content issue people use is a joke, there is so much to do in this game, so much old content and achievements already take months. My issue is the story is rubbish these days. SB was average, ShB was really good, since then its been average at best

I've played for thousands of hours... And I _just_ started leveling Blue Mage. And I like the fact that I can relax and do side-content without feeling the need to rush to catch up with the MSQ too...

My first MMO was WoW. It got to a point where the grind was real, if you weren't on every day trying to keep up, you would get left behind. It got to a point were I would jump on and I didn't know what to do. I have been playing FFXIV for over 4 years now. I am so in love with the story, the play style and the community. It is so nice to hear someone's opinion not be so angry about the content currently out. My friends and I are caught up on the story and the new quests but that allows us to work on some things we might not have been able to before. We are working on getting mounts from endwalker, trying the criterion dungeons and overall achievement hunting (some of those ARR crafting and gathering extremes are something else). There is soooo much to do in this game even when there isn't new content. And it is fun to try and play some other games in the meantime, especially when on maintenance our fc will play some Jackbox. But love that your commentary is very level headed. You're awesome!

I love seeing videos like this! I personally adore content lulls because they give me the opportunity to try other games. If not for that, I'd probably find it really difficult to step away from XIV. I have been playing for about 5 years now and I still havent even unlocked every job! I just play when I want to and dont when I dont. The community can be really exhausting with the negativity and criticism, so it's great to see a more down to earth perspective c:

For those of us who enjoyed the game for friends and connections it's terrible. Our friends leave, then we come back at different times, and no friends, and now it's just a multiplayer game not an 'MMO'. Things are worse than they used to be. The stuff left in the game, is press X brain dead junk. Where is the battle content. Doesn't matter now even if there is. LOTS of people have left. Like 'everyone' I knew who wasn't ultimate. I only know one person who did savage who doesn't do ultimate.

I quit my FFXIV sub - mainly bc of lack of content, im not paying monthy sub to a game that gives me (maybe) 2hr of content every 8-10months.. as an casual player NONE OF THE content given was FOR ME!...it's only for hardcore players..

i'm doing some old quests I forgot lately

Honestly, I am glad that there isn't much new stuff. I've played this game non-stop since April, starting with Free Trial and eventually finished the DT Base MSQ. When new stuff came out, I didn't bother and just focused on alt levelling and filling out other stuff in the NG Plus catalogue. Until I finally decided to take a break from it shortly after New Year's and play other games instead. I didn't even do the endgame Raids that came with the base release. Since I don't do these things without tomestone gear and the current tomestone grind just isn't worth the lost time. I rather wait until the next XPac is released and the current endgame gear can be bought with Poetics instead. Right now, I am enjoying another playthrough of Cyberpunk 2077 and finished my playthrough of #BLUD a few days ago, as well as a playthrough of Turok 3 Steam. I will come back to FF14, but again, I wait until the next XPac, while in the meantime, I can finally enjoy other games, after playing FF14 constantly, almost every day for over half a year. ^^;

I think the game is good the story was awful though, hopefully we lose this last group of complainers we gained from the wow exodus. I mean just go play wow I hear its a great game you all talk about it all the time but you won't go play it. There's a lot of stuff I'd like to see change that aren't just these soft platitudes youtubers have been parroting ad nauseum for last few weeks but I've haven't ran across any video talking about them.

I’m Glad There’s Nothing New to Do in World Of Warfcraft You see how wrong that sentence looks?

As someone with a full time job I haven't even finished all the achievements there's always something for me to do in this game.ty for the upload

I dont want it to be a full time job either. Thats why I want both Field Operations and the Cosmic gather crafter thing out already. 7.1 latest for both. "Well that doesnt sound like you want the game to not be a full time job!" yes it does. Now instead they will be released i 7.2-7.5, closer and closer to the next expansion with little VERY little room to work around. What all this shit means to me in the grand scheme is they would rather you make it a full time job by not having anytime to finish it so you rush. Lets say this isnt the case, then they are releasing content with SUCH LITTLE lackluster amounts of content to do. They have a job to do now, due to their worst MSQ in the games history releasing to get on players good graces again. And right now, I dont see that happening. EDIT: All this I talked about. Would still be there. Waiting for you.

The housing demolition timer is genius, you can tell your player base “go play other stuff” and barely release content, but force them to keep paying monthly.

Dawntrail has added so very little. This expansion has failed. Saying old expansions added good stuff doesn't help the shit state this expansion is in.

Of course there's something else to do within the game. I can always go back and do older content, if I want to, but not everyone wants to 100% the games they play. I don't understand how adding more content to the game will create FOMO or burn out. You are an adult, if you can't play right now, play when you can!!! A lot of people missed out on Eureka and Bozja, but that content is still there to do. And let's be honest, the worst FOMO I have seen in any MMO is tying your house's *progress* to whether or not you're subscribed. It is wild that demolition exists as it does and it feels like you have to pay rent to keep something you've invested so much gil and time into. Sincerely, I don't understand why people are still saying to play another game when they have issues and concerns. This worked in Shadowbringers, but we're way past that. To be honest, they probably will! And they probably won't come back!!! A monthly subscription and an expansion should be worth the purchase. This game has been so successful, but the standard has stayed the same. I don't want to play a subscription based MMO to only realistically use a quarter of the time I'm paying for. If this game was a one time purchase, I wouldn't mind, but Square Enix has made so much money off of this game, they need to invest into it.

I have over 5,000 hours of game play, I've been playing since 1.0.

The truth is, this game stretches content without FOMO. They planned these 3-6 month patch cycles with each patch content that could be completed in less than a month. I can understand why veterans would be frustrated, but if anyone is a SHB-EW sprout whom hadn't even done Deep Dungeons, old Relic grinds, Field Operations, they don't belong to the category whom deserves to complain about the game. The issue is how most MMO veterans are content gluttons. They sped through a new expansion in matter of 2-3 days, grinded the living hell out of shared FATEs in matter of one week, grinded for mounts for next couple of weeks, then proceed to say they're done with the game......that took 2-3 years to make. FFXIV actively avoids abysmal RNG setups, but these MMO connoisseurs approached FFXIV content like ravenous beasts, all because they only want the fresh and headstart experience. The fact is, most live-service games uses grind objectives and RNG to prolong their consumer playtime. Their replayability rests heavily on PvP, or PvE gameplay that doesn't run on scripted sequences. FFXIV is a complete opposite : Your PvE boss moves are timeline-scripted and you have a pity baseline totems and books that guarantees loot after a specific amount of clears. And tomes being capped at 450 per week sums up that one job can be fully geared(except weapon) in 6 weeks without winning any loot. There are 7 gear types and 4 accessory types in this game so there's more than plenty of time to ensure you can gear every job before the next endgame patch cycle(e.g. 7.0 -> 7.1 -> 7.3). People whom are whining about PvE weren't into PvP either(look at the audience reactions whenever PvP notes were read in PLLs).

Everyone forgets the core point that the game is EXPECTING you to take breaks and the sort.

I want to come back to this so bad, but they made my favorite jobs solo-only.

I want to do ultimates, but with npcs....

It hasn't been since the launch of Dawntrail, it's been since the release of 6.1 almost 3 YEARS ago. They've released an overwhelming amount of content that's either super casual one and done or super hardcore. There's almost no long term midcore multiplayer content. This space was traditionally filled by the relic weapon grind, but they had the "genius" idea to make that generic tomestone farming for EVERY step. For anyone that doesn't understand the issue, allowing people to do anything to get the relics means they'll either keep doing what they're doing (casual) or do the most efficient thing, hunt trains. This means players not only don't have new content to engage with like Eureka or Bozja but also that they wont be cycled back into previous content to breathe new life into it like HW relics and the Bozja side quests. EW was the perfect opportunity to make older content like ShB FATE farming a part of the relic process much like they have for the HW and StB FATEs, except for ShB you'd have the massive benefit of helping new and old players finish their shared FATEs way easier. On top of that the secondary effect of this is raring it's head, which is that in the early patches of a new expansion people would usually go back to the previous midcore activities and get the other rewards or relics and probably do it with their friends. But EW has none of this content and you can't rely on similar content from StB or ShB because many people did all of that during the lockdown. They focused so much on making the game single player friendly that they took the MMO out of the MMORPG.

ive put 6000+ hours into this game since stormblood alone and i still am inundated with content i havent done and would like to do. i have a saint of the firmament title and i STILL havent finished the restoration. theres so much to go back to and do and relearn if people genuinely want to do it. hell, crafting logs exist and fishing logs exist with week-long waits for fish and so on so forth. there's glamour, the social aspects, housing (even if its just an apartment its still a lot to decorate AND theyre wanting to expand the interior decor limits!!!) and so much more. this game is one i take breaks on and still come back to whenever i want.

bro pays 20 dollars monthly for a gym membership without gym equipment because it doesn't pressure him to use the equipment it's no wonder xiv is dropping in numbers and failing to attract interest if the playerbase they fostered themselves is so emotionally tied to the game they just want to pay the money to afk in limsa because it makes them feel they are part of a community I would assume if you're a fan of the game, then you want the game to be successful and to grow and improve over time, not be stagnant and appealing to people who like to pay money for the game and then go play something else instead. When it comes to the "no fomo" part, thankfully someone already mentioned that the thing you were supposed to invest time and currency into which is housing, is deleting all of that when you stop paying sub for about a month and a half, which by definition is worse than fomo since you don't fear on missing out, you are losing something you already had. There's something to learn about the non-fomo approach from Guild Wars 2, which unlike XIV commits to the idea fully with the core system of any MMO, being the progression system. FFXIV community is unfortunately self-destructive in the long term, since people like to think it's all good and the game is doing great, but in reality it's just about how many dawntrails in the row can it survive Customers actively working against their own best interest is nothing new, but xiv community really elevates this concept Have a great day and be a little bit critical even towards things you like yourself

I think people have gotten so used to games demanding 100% of their time that when a game allows them to have a life outside of it they dont know what to do with the extra time. There are so many things to do in this game, people who have played it for years and still have stuff left to do. Ofc, it depends on what you want from the game, but as you said, there are other games out there you can play if you dont want to wait. People are acting as if they are forced to play ffxiv when it is very clear that it is not the goal of SE. I do have my gripes with the current system of many things, like they constantly introducing new glam items but we still dont get a glam plate per job, and that is not even counting DoH/L, but majority of people arent asking for improvements, they are asking for the game to occupy 100% of their time while only wanting to do high end content. Imho, over new content, I would rather have improvements in how the current available content works. The portrait new feature was huge, instacast esuna? gimme 30 of those, the new housing update to come that will allow you to get an M size house and change the interior to be like an L, we need more of that.

Me who has not done ultimates and savage I have things to do. 😂

damn i have never heard someone mention ARK outside of the ARK community lol

tbh i feel scammed we pay for expansion and there's nothing not same as shb and stb

I see where you're coming from, especially since I'm a casual completionist that wants to get most or all of the achievements over time. But the problem with the content lulls is that many players end up leaving, and the game just feels a lot more lonelier. Yes you could go back and catch up on old content, which is something I do here and there, but many people don't exactly find the thought of going to Eureka and syncing down to Lvl. 70 and dealing with the empty instances very exciting. Nowadays, I only play with friends on weekends for mount farms and maps, but you can only do those so much. Players will always be more interested in doing stuff together if it's new content. I remember randomly hopping on weekdays with friends to work on the Yokai Event back when it was brought back, or simply having FC members to talk with throughout the day, back when the content lulls wasn't as bad. I'm sure some will tell me to get new friends, but my current ones really are great, and this is clearly a bigger and not personal issue if there's such an uproar over it. The problem with content lulls isn't necessarily that there's nothing to do, but rather that there's nothing really exciting going on, and it's creating this domino effect of many players going inactive, and the active ones feel less motivated to play because of that. But I do understand where you're coming from, and I do think it was worth mentioning, since people haven't really been approaching it from that angle.

No, it's not okay... because maybe, I don't know, maybe you started playing recently and it seems like that to you, but it hasn't always been like this. I understand that they are working on multiple projects simultaneously now or simply can't keep up the pace, but the updates have become longer and smaller. They take a patch, break it up, and release it in parts: this part after 2 weeks, another part after a month, another part after 2 months. When they used to release the whole patch together (at most, it was just a few fights after). And the monthly patches that came out (remember, we pay a monthly subscription, so every month they should add something, like all subscription games do) were actually new things and not just the same patch divided up...

The funniest thing is that if we are really going for details then Dawntrail currently has more and much higher quality Content than in Endwalker when it was on the same patch state. Personally i enjoy DT currently so much more then Endwalker during the same x.1 state, especially because of the quality of the Content, i would call myself a semi harcore raider doing just the Savage and Ex stuff and dipping sometimes in Ultis. But even then Endwalker really did not satisfied me outside of "raidlogging" wich is why my biggest break i had in EW during the same timeframe we are now in DT. DT i consider rn as one of the better expansions for now, while the content is for now not that many, the quality is high and its fun to do my dailys and weeklys. And while i definitly belong to the more "elistist" Group that has done most of the content already. I still cannot really complain besides the Job system wich is currently the worst since ever. But thats for another time. I play since Heavensward so i have seen this Game shift and change much more than some other players, and currently... we are back to a better state from a Game perspective. However i definitly can understand frustration if "raiding" is something a player dont want to do, and by that lock themselves out of content. But in my experience, that was allways in every expansion the case. Endwalker and Heavensward was there not so different. And the last one was infamous for being the worst Raid expansions for well known reasons.

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im happy ffxiv is like it is, ppl who no-life ffxiv should move to gacha games tbh

Thank you! There are sooooo many other games that I want to play so I’m quite happy with there not being to much casual content added at this time and I’m glad that other people are feeling the same.

One of my biggest gripes is how the devs don't seem to (want to?) tap into evergreen content. With minimum effort, they could introduce new incentives without having to introduce new content. Some examples: - Remove extremes from mentor roulette, and remove the mount achievement for all I care. I want to spam it to help newcomers with their queue times, especially the many quiet ones. But because I don't like extremes, that roulette is permanently locked to me. They could even add a second version of that roulette without the extremes, but let me help the quiet newcomers that are stuck in queue! - Introduce New Job+. I want to be able to level all jobs again _on my existing characters._ Creating an alt is far too much of a commitment, so that's not an argument. Add the option to choose your starting level - for example: level 50 for Viper - and players will have infinite replayability. The tech exists to introduce a scaling weapon so they don't have to add new weapons for lower levels. Players themselves can source gear if need be. For those who don't like leveling: your queue times will be quicker and there will be economic opportunities that rise from this. There's no downside to you - Introduce a Glamour Catalogue. If I want a new glamour, I want to coordinate the pieces first, then target them. The game forces it the other way round, which is just impossible and infuriating. - Allow players to store their current housing decoration in a template, then clear out their entire residence so that they can redecorate, then save that second decoration placement in a another template and allow people to swap between them. This will be great for seasonal changes, should help venues and will generally make housing more interactive again. For all the pain one has to go through to get a residence, it's a decorate once, forget forever after because of how much of a pain the inventory management is. Apply this to apartments and private rooms as well. Some 5-10 template slots would be great, but a minimum of 4-5 would allow seasonal options as well as personal variations. That's just a handful of things that will never lose relevance and should require minimal effort, provided the game's engine isn't too cooked to handle it. The game doesn't waste my time, but also _doesn't allow me to waste it._ I think that there's an important distinction there.

Meanwhile I've been playing the hardest content in the game since launch, it's called, try to get noticed and be liked as a male hyur and refuse to change to a viera for attention. It's the hardest content in the game because with my experience, people don't even know you exist if you're a male hyur. People only like viera mostly, then all the others secondly. Join the challenge everyone, stop playing viera like a trend follower and be original, play the race people only notice when it's and npc. So far I'm the only one on on the leaderboard and I've been getting world first every expansion and patch. Moral of the story, show male hyurs some love too. Stop ignoring them because "we don't wanna see a basic ass human in a fantasy game, use a fantasia or get out of my datacenter"

Chaotic ist new tho

I finally made time to start Dawntrail and after I finished msq I started leveling Viper and boy o boy ...I forgot how toxic tank healer duos are in casual content. This is the part of the game I did not miss at all...then trying out Jeuno for the first time and since I'm so late to the party everyone forgets that players need to prog the raid before they know what they're doing and I've gotten dismissed from the raid twice just for failing a mechanic I did not understand and nobody in the 24 man raid offered helpful advice they just made passive aggressive comments on my gameplay. Of course I didn't take it too personally, but again it's a very toxic part of the game I did not miss. In fact I rather these players get bored faster and reduce the number as much as possible.

30,000+ hours on current character... Still can't be bothered to finish everything.

The downtime between patches feels bad when we're promosed more content and it doesn't materialize. Especially when we're paying a monthly fee on top of the price of admission for the expansion. This isn't a small indie company that needs to budget between hardcore raiders, in between content and easy content. We should be able to have it all. I'm one of those people who have done a big chunk of content so i have a good base reference of how much content we used to get in ARR and Stormblood. These days content updates are a trickle and takes 25% longer to see it.