The game is more dead than it was pre-3.1

[Magis]

Or, you could run the side quests, see the sights, craft, gather, fish, fly, work on your glamours, work on your house, help your Free Company, talk to your friends, make new friends, help newbies, etc...

You are literally doing what I just said. You are listing of "things" in the game, that aren't fun or basic features of an MMO. Socialization? What? That isn't even content, that's just an aspect of MMOs. Next your gonna tell me "you can sort your inventory!".

The core game is dungeons, story, and raids. Or should they release three more LoVs (dead on arrival lol), Chocobo Races, and Triple Triads to drive that point home?

[Zojha]

The core game is dungeons, story, and raids.

Run, now! The crafters are after you!

[Magis]

Run, now! The crafters are after you!

I should have added crafting to the list, but it's a well though out feature that falls short because they don't want it to compete with dungeons. Still, it isn't up there with the main core: Story, Dungeons and Raids. Case in point: You cannot even unlock crafting without doing one of these, nor can you unlock all the later things without doing so (though that was the case in 1.0).

[Moqi]

Yesss, level classes that you can't use because the gear is on a lockout, or level your crafters that you can't use because the recipies are restricted to specializations and the mats to desynth, collect TT cards by spamming the same dungeon/map till you get it, collect minions by spamming the same dungeon/map till you get it, work on your glamour by spamming the same dungeon/map till you get the rare mat, work on your house by spamming the same dungeon/map till you get that rare mat, enjoy the Gold Saucer and their 1.4years long term goal rewards, or literally stand still in the same spot for an indefinite amount of time hoping you get the right weather to use an emote.

[Cyclingsofa]

(...) you could run the side quests, see the sights, craft, gather, fish, fly, work on your glamours, work on your house, help your Free Company, talk to your friends, make new friends, help newbies, etc..

Everyone's been leveling in all zones, don't tell me you did it with your eyes closed. Craft/Gather/Fly ????? To me they're a means of making money, busywork and a chore. I like combat. Spent several millions on glamours. My house is fine. Social interactions is par for the course in online games and not something uniquely on offer in this game. I'm having just as much fun messing about with my static mates on LINE chat outside the game.

It's a themepark running out of rides, don't pretend it's not. And don't pretend like people haven't already played this game for countless hours. I think we've been flying for long enough, the new and shiny has worn off and they did nothing really interesting with it - We're still just teleporting around.

[aurace1095]

Or, you could run the side quests, see the sights, craft, gather, fish, fly, work on your glamours, work on your house, help your Free Company, talk to your friends, make new friends, help newbies, etc...

Let's not forget the core content of setting up your hotbars, walking around town, configuring your graphic settings, etc.

[Teryaani]

Let's not forget the core content of setting up your hotbars, walking around town, configuring your graphic settings, etc.

Snark aside, Kosmos is right. There is a lot of content. Just because you don't feel like doing it doesn't mean it isn't there.

[Moqi]

Let's not forget the core content of setting up your hotbars, walking around town, configuring your graphic settings, etc.

lmao, your post reminded me of this

Snark aside, Kosmos is right.

Yeah, she's telling people that they don't have to farm dungeons for the relic if they don't want to. They can farm it for glamour, or farm it for crafting mats, or farm it for Gold Saucer minigames, or help friends farming it, or farm it to level up other classes! Magis is right, core game is dungeons, raids and story, and people have run dungeons and raids ad nauseam for all those things listed above and now they're sick of it.

[Teryaani]

Yeah, she's telling people that they don't have to farm dungeons for the relic if they don't want to. They can farm it for glamour, or farm it for crafting mats, or farm it for Gold Saucer minigames, or help friends farming it, or farm it to level up other classes! Magis is right, core game is dungeons, raids and story, and people have run dungeons and raids ad nauseam for all those things listed above and now they're sick of it.

Where is the relic brought up by Kosmos? This was a general statement about what to do if you get bored of running dungeons and need a break. The question of is this content or not is easy. Of course it's content. It doesn't have to be a raid or dungeon to qualify as content.

[aurace1095]

Snark aside, Kosmos is right. There is a lot of content. Just because you don't feel like doing it doesn't mean it isn't there.

Things like seeing the sights, flying, talking to friends, making new friends, and helping newbies (which apparantly is fully separate "content" from helping your Free Company) is just as much content as my "snark" is. Just like Magis and Moqi said, the core content of the game is sorely lacking, and it's really starting to show and have an affect on players.