Quote Originally Posted by kukurumei View Post
Possibly because too much resources is being put into more conventional functions that are well...broken or missing.

FF14 is pretty barren when it comes to what is consider "xp"ing. In other games there was a straight line to xp, not FF14 who hasn't gotten even the basics right.

It is to the sad fact though that it's tied to the combat and job system. Once those are down, you can make up fluffy stuff like hamlet defense.

Right now you can't even get people to stick around much less fight something for xp.
Yep.

What's the point of adding supposedly cool content now, when all combat devolves into spamming random actions with almost no strategy or consequences? Dungeons, hamlet defenses, questing, whatever... all of those sort of assume that they players have to get together and do meaningful things in a party. Otherwise, they'll just be adding more snoozefest zerg fights in the game, except these now have a different name.