How to give people something to do

Square Enix should make doing content ACTUALLY rewarding. For example:

Clearing the last boss of savage should allow people to go to 8/9 on the wondrous tails book and still be able to shuffle, allowing them to roll for a gold certificate easier.

Extreme mounts that are not available for totems should move 100% faster than every other mount, until they become available on the vendor.

Lastly, people who clear a current expansion ultimate receive a priority ticket for bidding on a house. Allow them to take up 3-8 slots every time they bid, or something like that. Maybe even make a ward that only ultimate clearers can bid in. A ward dedicated entirely to gamers! How cool would it be to just hang out with your ultimate bros? Finally housing wards would have a real community, instead of never even seeing your neighbors, because your neighbors actually play the game. Maybe even make it unique from other cities, and create a hangout spot in the very middle where we can show off our ultimate weapons.


That would give people something to do, and encourage people to dip their toes into content that they are so scared of. Entirely optional, too, so you are not required to clear ultimates. It's just beneficial if you do.


That is all. o7

You know, sometimes it is good that SQEX doesn't listen to feedback... eh it's probably bait

If we're proposing insane ideas,

then I propose they reintroduce concealed nodes and make consumables and gear gated behind expert recipes with equivalent difficulty of the third step of resplendent tools when done on-content.

Make it cost the same what HW gear was, which was 10-30M on patch-week per piece.

There you go, suddenly people actually need to play the game... Wink wink.

just copy WoW's Mythic+ and add more ways to get raid ilvl gear so its not only raiding and tomes for bis for current tier, current gearing is so stale they have followed the same forumla for several expansions in a row there's a big reason for why its so dead inbetween patches

You're part of the problem if you think it's an 'afraid' matter and giving a small carrot would push people to harder content. CAR and FTB shot that idea down.

People just don't care and consider it's not worth their time.

I have a simpler solution:

Every patch add new rewards to ALL contents, old and new.

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Originally Posted by CNitsah

You're part of the problem if you think it's an 'afraid' matter and giving a small carrot would push people to harder content. CAR and FTB shot that idea down.

People just don't care and consider it's not worth their time.

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Tbh with those two pieces of content specifically, the wildly overshot difficulty was only half the problem. The other half was the community who decided to gatekeep (at least CAR was MASSIVELY gatekept on Zodiark if you didn't start it release week).

I think they just need accept that some ppl don't care or aren't interested in higher end content and stop trying to push people into it. it just isn't gonna work out how you want it to.

I think people just need learn about other gameplay types and stop believing Systematic and Extrinsic are the universal "goals". XD

(^ Basically the above post, yeah.)

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Originally Posted by CNitsah

People just don't care and consider it's not worth their time.

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Originally Posted by Gullis

I think they just need accept that some ppl don't care or aren't interested in higher end content and stop trying to push people into it. it just isn't gonna work out how you want it to.

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That's the beauty of it, if you don't care and don't consider it worth it, you don't have to! Us that will do it, however, get something really neat out of it. More rewards is always good! For deep dungeons, they can give you some crafting tomestone materials (maybe like 5 of each?) after you clear floor 99, for those that don't want to do extreme and higher, and maybe for completing all your daily roulettes, you will get an extra spiritbonding buff that lasts for 2 hours!

Is getting top gear doing anything for casual players and those that never do raids? It helps with treasure maps being faster (brax already capped at 765 though) and dungeons slightly faster? Other than that, no idea what's the point of end gear. For everybody else, it's just clearing ultimate I guess and maybe criterion.

Really getting gear in this game is just meh.

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Originally Posted by Miradelle

That's the beauty of it, if you don't care and don't consider it worth it, you don't have to! Us that will do it, however, get something really neat out of it. More rewards is always good! For deep dungeons, they can give you some crafting tomestone materials (maybe like 5 of each?) after you clear floor 99, for those that don't want to do extreme and higher, and maybe for completing all your daily roulettes, you will get an extra spiritbonding buff that lasts for 2 hours!

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I was going to agree with you until I saw "spiritbonding" buff mentioned. That has to be a joke.

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Originally Posted by MayuAmakura

Is getting top gear doing anything for casual players and those that never do raids? It helps with treasure maps being faster (brax already capped at 765 though) and dungeons slightly faster? Other than that, no idea what's the point of end gear. For everybody else, it's just clearing ultimate I guess and maybe criterion.

Really getting gear in this game is just meh.

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While I agree with you, the gear treadmill is *the* endgame progression in this MMO and many others.

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Originally Posted by Miradelle

Square Enix should make doing content ACTUALLY rewarding. For example:

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The reward should match the challenge. E.g. when you do the most unreals in a week, the reward should also be unreal. The winning player could be allowed to select a mod that's applied to the complete data center for a week. If you ever wanted to make everyone in game look like a bunny girl in lingerie with two giant you-know-what - that's the way to go!

I think this would drastically increase the number of players doing said content, even during content droughts.

this definitely reads like someone who has either only started playing FFXIV in 2025, or is desperate for attention by trolling

good thing i dont know any better

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Originally Posted by Miradelle

Clearing the last boss of savage should allow people to go to 8/9 on the wondrous tails book and still be able to shuffle, allowing them to roll for a gold certificate easier.

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and you'd still have only a 1 in 8 chance of getting the third line lmaooo itd be a more effective troll to ask for gold certificates as boss drops

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Originally Posted by Miradelle

Extreme mounts that are not available for totems should move 100% faster than every other mount, until they become available on the vendor.

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actually they should move 50% slower so casual peasants can get more of an opportunity to gawk at their accomplishment when they fly by

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Originally Posted by Miradelle

Lastly, people who clear a current expansion ultimate receive a priority ticket for bidding on a house. Allow them to take up 3-8 slots every time they bid, or something like that. Maybe even make a ward that only ultimate clearers can bid in. A ward dedicated entirely to gamers! How cool would it be to just hang out with your ultimate bros?

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talk about a sausage fest, am i right

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Originally Posted by Miradelle

Finally housing wards would have a real community, instead of never even seeing your neighbors, because your neighbors actually play the game. Maybe even make it unique from other cities, and create a hangout spot in the very middle where we can show off our ultimate weapons.

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implying raiders have any desire to be social, or even play the game outside of raiding (they don't, otherwise the game's dev wouldn't be so top heavy)

When the primary reason to do content is what you get and not the content itself, I'm concerned. That doesn't sound like a good game.

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Originally Posted by Gwenkatsu

The winning player could be allowed to select a mod that's applied to the complete data center for a week. If you ever wanted to make everyone in game look like a bunny girl in lingerie with two giant you-know-what - that's the way to go.

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They may as well remove all other races besides Midlander, because I am going to be WINNING that every week!

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Originally Posted by NegativeS

only started playing FFXIV in 2025

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Hey, at least I'm actually playing the game! Dawntrail is LIT!

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Originally Posted by NegativeS

actually they should move 50% slower so casual peasants can get more of an opportunity to gawk at their accomplishment when they fly by

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Hmm, that does seem a bit inconvenient for the rider, but I guess if it was a temporary slow that only happens when you're in the presence of someone who doesn't have the mount, then sure, I think I'd be fine with taking the time out of my day for them. I'll even be helpful and answer where I got it, like, y'know .. the latest extreme .. that just came out, brah.

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Originally Posted by Deejudanne

just copy WoW's Mythic+ and add more ways to get raid ilvl gear so its not only raiding and tomes for bis for current tier, current gearing is so stale they have followed the same forumla for several expansions in a row there's a big reason for why its so dead inbetween patches

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speaking of wow
i often reference how wow does there cycles ffxiv should take a page out of wow's book with this

i feel if ffxiv ESPECIALLY DURING the .55 cycles copies a page from wows book and does stuff like wow remix and wow plunderstorm
or even put more effort into events such as adding world bosses like the ff15 event and the ffxiv mobile penguin event there would be more of a reason to want to play for the people who want to play during downtimes
i feel by doing something like wow remix it would give us a reason to play
i feel adding mythic + is a eh way because not everyone wants to do mythic+ HOWEVER doing something like delves and adding more devles each patch is a nice way to copy the more ways to get raid lvl gear however that isnt really a huge concern because its not really a big thing
another way to copy wow is ffxiv should give us a way to earn currency to buy shop items like guild wars 2 and wow eve online swtor with security token bdo etc etc
i feel that would also give us more to do apose to really nothing much and even give us more a reason to grind gil

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Originally Posted by papandbuddyg

speaking of wow
i often reference how wow does there cycles ffxiv should take a page out of wow's book with this

i feel if ffxiv ESPECIALLY DURING the .55 cycles copies a page from wows book and does stuff like wow remix and wow plunderstorm
or even put more effort into events such as adding world bosses like the ff15 event and the ffxiv mobile penguin event there would be more of a reason to want to play for the people who want to play during downtimes
i feel by doing something like wow remix it would give us a reason to play
i feel adding mythic + is a eh way because not everyone wants to do mythic+ HOWEVER doing something like delves and adding more devles each patch is a nice way to copy the more ways to get raid lvl gear however that isnt really a huge concern because its not really a big thing
another way to copy wow is ffxiv should give us a way to earn currency to buy shop items like guild wars 2 and wow eve online swtor with security token bdo etc etc
i feel that would also give us more to do apose to really nothing much and even give us more a reason to grind gil

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For all the problems WoW may have, they have definitely taken strides in killing the mid-expansion drought. Considering we still have likely over a year until 8.0, I envy them

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Originally Posted by Deejudanne

just copy WoW's Mythic+ and add more ways to get raid ilvl gear so its not only raiding and tomes for bis for current tier, current gearing is so stale they have followed the same forumla for several expansions in a row there's a big reason for why its so dead inbetween patches

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hoenstly i'd be down for something like that