The Current Status of FFXIV Patch 3.1 and How to Address it Moving Forward

[Granyala]

Sorry Mr. Yoshida but there has to be an alternative between:
"Brick wall super hard content that makes you cry for your mommy" (A4S)
and
"Mega dull grind of content you already did 1000x that makes your skull implode from sheer boredom and you better no-life if you want the rewards while they are not outdated" (current Anima / Crafting).

And I'm not talking about "meh just slap another way to get a 210 in there". I am talking about the CONTENT ITSELF. Games should be FUN and ENTERTAINING, stuff that makes us go "yeah, can't get enough of this!" and not "Ugh... I better do X for Y amount of hours, totally boring, totally NOT FUN but I want the Item Z".

It is your job to ENTERTAIN us... not to provide a second job (or first one for unemployed players)!

[Remilia_Nightfall]

totally NOT FUN but I want the Item Z".

It is your job to ENTERTAIN us... not to provide a second job (or first one for unemployed players)!

Remember you are playing an MMO - which means time sinks. There is no getting around to that - the MMO genre is just that, a huge time-sink with sporadic awesome moments (when you kill a raid boss for the first time, when dopamine gets released in your body when your weapon drops, etc).

"Fun" is a very subjective thing, after all.

Many (most) people fail to realize that MMOs are not much different than gambling, just with a prettier dress. You do repetive stuff hoping to hit the jackpot. Except with Relics. With Relics the jackpot is guaranteed - you just have to feed the slot machine a lot of money before it happens.