Does SE not realise their game has no content?

[Alhanelem]

Nah cos' comparing a 2000 game with a 2013 game is comical.

No more comical than comparing it to another 2013 game.

It's as valid a comparison as any. Games don't necessarily launch with more content now than they did then. Prettier content, different content, but not necessarily more or less.

More like compare it to newer mmos not something a decade old.

Age is irrelevant. There are games in every genre made 10 years ago that have just as much of a quantity of content as games made today. Even if you limit comparison to the last 2 years, I haven't seen a significant MMO launch with more content than FFXIV did.

I realize literally every MMORPG has its fanboys saying "This game has more stuff than any other game at launch".

This isn't a "fanboy" statement. It's a statement that can be legitimately true or false regardless of being a fan or not.

[Reslin]

Time taking to get to something isn't 'content'. This would be like having to run Stage 2-3 in Mario at least 50 times to get the key to the last level. It is literally farm status repeating the same content over and over to be able to access new content. When you sit back and look at game experiences as a whole and compare it to something like FFXV, you tell me if the money spent here is reflected like it is in that work when it comes to quality and presentation, over experience, vistas and locales, game features, combat depth. Really?

Next time you see a fate zerg an nm encounter in thirty seconds , stop and say "This is Final Fantasy XIV" and let it sink in.

Really? If you take out time required to level in any of the final fantasy series the game would be over quick. You realize FF8 as an example has been completed in 6 hours? Guess there's not much content there, eh?

[DakkonBriefs]

id like to see more open world content, with everything being instanced, it makes the world feel a little bland and lifeless.

People always talk about the feeling of immersion, one immersion breaker for me is having a loading screen over and over and over and over.

Id like to see a large open map added onto Mor Dhona, with monsters that take a 4 person party or more to kill, it would be fun to sit out there with friends and farm monsters instead of doing dungeons always.

Raptor parties 1.0! i miss open world parties like that.

[AjoraOak]

I find it ridiculous people think you need all jobs to be bored, it's not a valid argument in any other mmo and other than having all your basic cross class/job abilities, it's not valid here either.

[Doo]

Most content release compared to any mmo boils down to two things really

1) Fate.
2) Repeatables.

[FenHin]

Just finish Coil turn 1. And my guildhest only opened till lv 30. Havent join all FATE

Poor OP

[amnie]

Agreed, our own character doesn't even talk just nods to everything, while the offline versions make you connect to the character you play and have a massive storyline.

you know what's freaking funny? I play SWTOR, and over there everyone on the official forum for the longest time kept complaining about the characters talking. in ARR everyone complains there's not enough voiced cutscenes, in TOR people claim it's the cutscenes that 'ruined' the game.

damned if you do, damned if you don't...

[Mihael_Longclaw]

Probably because a lot of us are mmo vets that know how to do shit productively.

Since when are games meant to be productive? You are effectively, sitting in front of a TV/computer, watching pixels move and hitting buttons while you could be doing things productive to your life?
I don't know about you, but I play games to have fun, I see those pixels and take out the pretty pictures in them, the music, the combat, not to fill some requirement.

Alos, the vast majority of people who say they aren't interested in other classes, usually haven't even tried.

Phase 3 I thought I'd hate tanking, tried it near the end, been a Warrior since.

[Mihael_Longclaw]

I find it ridiculous people think you need all jobs to be bored, it's not a valid argument in any other mmo and other than having all your basic cross class/job abilities, it's not valid here either.

Omfg, you're the first highlander to look so similar to mine O.o
Almost scary!

[Gilraen]

The problem isn't the naysayers or the white knights nor even the elitists. It's the difference between those who play games for the majority of the day and those that can't for various reasons. Square put in enough starting content that someone who plays a certain number of hours in the day can have things to do for months on end. This is fine. It's when you can devote more time than Square accounted for that you get people who complain about lack of content. And, really, that will keep being a problem for them no matter what Square does. Square could add in more level 50 dungeons with unique enemies and unique bosses and these people will blow through them in a day. Then they will just turn around and complain, again, that the new content still wasn't enough. Square can't win against this minority so there's really no point in Square even trying.