Quote Originally Posted by Riki_Namu View Post
Yup I agree.

Last night there were about 80 from my FC on.... Not a single one was complaining about relics... not one. A few of them had already grind it out from scratch and were working on step 3.

The forum complaints really are a minority. And if you unsub because of an optional weapon in a very small patch... well then you weren't happy to begin with and nothing short of a full on expansion with new raid content would have made you happy. So in that case dont let the door hit you on the way out.

Another issue I see with the complaints is that it take too long, this is the instant gratification crowd. It's supposed to be time consuming... the most time consuming in the game, always has been always will.
If you look closely at the complaints, people don't complain because they have to commit time into a weapon but rather that :

a) they are burn out with the content related with the relic.
b) the stats on relics are boring, and the weapons will become irrelevant soon, which kinda make the weapon not worth the effort.
c) The relic quest is litteraly copy-pasted from what was implemented in 2.0 (which kinda already caused an uproar).
d) no new content is tied to the relic.

People were expecting more, SE didn't deliver.

Also, most players in my FC, even the most ardent defenders of FFXIV since the release of 1.0, were complaining.