Quote Originally Posted by Bourne_Endeavor View Post
Evidently, you don't, because your post literally demands people adapt to how you want the game to be played. If the market changes, why in the world would games stubbornly stick to old formulas that no longer garner interest? That's financial suicide. Wildstar attempted that and will likely shut down by the year's end because of it.

The journey was more memorable to you. I, on the other hand, find a year or two long "journey" for a weapon upgrade mind numbingly boring. No amount of flavor text will make grind quests appealing. FFXIV's closest example would be doing Beast Tribe dailies for the ilvl 210 Anima step. Those are not fun. Instead, I have increased desire to burn down the Sylph forest every time Boars Wars rolls up. Sure, the actual quests with the tribe leaders is cute, but all those little quests you do to build reputation? Boring. I'm not alone in this mindset considering the majority audience doesn't even touch the harder content, let alone cares about the Anima weapon or stuff like it. Hence why I reiterate this game simply may not be for you long term.

This doesn't even touch another significant issue with horizontal progression. If the best gear is gated behind this "struggle," then anyone wanting to get into raid content will now have to do it. Most won't nowadays, which is why you don't see games like FFXI or Vanilla WoW anymore.
How predictable. I mean, I could flip that and say the same thing on the other end of the spectrum right? Just shut up and color because it sells? Pretty sure keeping both parties happy is better than losing a portion of the population.

I don't understand why you keep choosing to allude to Dynamis Relic. In truth, it didn't even take that long. It all depended on how much support you had behind you. But..Given how you worded it, it just sounds like -to me- that you didn't really experience that first hand. But that's just observation speaking based on your preferences. The difference between XIV and XI's conquest of relics(since this is your constant reference) is one will actually matter in the long run over the other. The journey, as you say, may differ to others...But at least one won't make you feel like you actually wasted time versus the other. Ah, but that's just my opinion of course.