My friend the "content locust" :(

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This is the fundamental problem with the 'WoW' model of these games. If the player base has to try to find stuff to make the game less boring, then imo the game has failed at its core.

This is the problem with MMO gamers, who believe that an MMO is some ~*~magical activity~*~ where you do the same thing every day, every month, continuously, for thousands of hours on end, yet is supposed to stay interesting and never get dull, or else it's "bad game design". The game has plenty of content. It has plenty of endgame content too. You've just gotten bored with it. Cancel your subscription and wait for them to add more.


/thread. This isn't a "CURRENT ISSUE IN MMOS", it's literally common sense that development teams aren't global mind readers, and a game's capacity to hold your attention isn't infinite. And the WoW model is probably the furthest thing from a "fundemental problem" any sane person or critic can think of. The fact that many of you have multiple lv50 classes and have been playing since 1.0 are proof that the game is addictive and is succeeding quite spectacularly at its goal.


People complain about how Casual gamers ruin gaming, but i'd venture to say the equally terrible end of that argument is the unrealistically entitled Hardcore gamer who believes everything should take 20 years to accomplish with fun you have to dig for by design. You'd think years of terrible Korean MMOs would have broken us out of that idea, but instead it just seems to create a cancerous niche that just wont go away...


FFXIV ARR is indeed a roller coaster --> you pay for fun, and you get fun, until it isn't fun anymore. The endgame content in this game is not easy, it just isn't impossible. Your sharply honed standards for what is considered "Hard" or "Fun" for an MMO have been conditioned so hard that you can only enjoy a certain type of it.

So you need to understand, that you're the minority. That's why this game is so successful.