Will the model of content change in 4.0?

[Schark]

Yoshi has already said that the "standard" cycle is not going to change because it's what the players have grown to expect. Taking that away will upset the majority of players. Look at the expert dungeons, for example. They went from three to two new dungeons per patch to free up resources for new types of content and people have lost their collective minds over it.

The fact is, like has already been mentioned, you can't please everyone. Even if Gyno gets his way and is super happy with everything, this type of thread will not go away. Someone else will have something to complain about.

It can't be said enough. If you don't like it, don't play it. Do you go to the same restaurant time and again complaining that the food tastes the same or do you eat somewhere else? Meh. It's your money... and sanity... or lack thereof.

[Molic]

Thought he said in one of the recent interview, he knows that the players are tired of the same content cycle and they are planning something new for stormsblood.

[Lycieus]

get tomes without running the same 2 dungeons over 100 times until a new patch comes out to rinse & repeat.

This issue would easily be alleviated if they removed the 'expert roulette' and just had all the level 70 dungeons on one queue and built on it patch after patch.

[Schark]

Thought he said in one of the recent interview, he knows that the players are tired of the same content cycle and they are planning something new for stormsblood.

New stuff on top of the old cycle. The dungeons, raids, MSQ... etc. is going to be the same.

[Arutan]

We need to build a wall for new content to come in legally. We will make the new content great again!

[Chiramu]

Thought he said in one of the recent interview, he knows that the players are tired of the same content cycle and they are planning something new for stormsblood.

I know he wants to release everything new in Stormblood, but some QoL changes would be nice to have in game ASAP .

[Shurrikhan]

Thought he said in one of the recent interview, he knows that the players are tired of the same content cycle and they are planning something new for stormsblood.

I just worry his version of "new" is likely to be about as "inventive" as the prided FATEs were with ARR's release.

@OP: What are you actually looking for though? Just saying that current content is boring to you doesn't point out much of a direction by which to stop being boring, and what you've mentioned in alternative wouldn't necessarily be any different from the style of current content. Anything more specific?

[Xyno]

@OP: What are you actually looking for though? Just saying that current content is boring to you doesn't point out much of a direction by which to stop being boring, and what you've mentioned in alternative wouldn't necessarily be any different from the style of current content. Anything more specific?

Almost 4 years we have all these cycles. It means, that even a little changes in the period of cycles or changes in their length of life will be very positive for the players's minds. Also, the content can be droped for some years (for example till the next addon), and when it will return, players will be happy and meet it as new.

Variants can be different. Right now we have some MAJOR kinds of content and this content live in a cycle (alliance raid, hardcore raid, 4-dungeons and another)
1) SE can try to change this MAJOR content more often. For example, we had Crystal Tower (raid alliance) in 2.x. In 3.x SE could change it for something new and in 4.x alliance raid would come back. Or we had 4-dungeons for roulette to farm tomestones- it is the MAJOR way. In 3.x SE could change it for another kind of activity
2) SE can try co make the cycles not predictable- make them shorter or longer
3) SE could more often create new types of content to fill the bigger cycles of the MAJOR content
4) Another variants

For example, Diadem. As we all can see, SE has no problem to admit, that the first version was a total failure and send Diadem for rework. I think, that Diadem can be a new MAJOR type of content, where SE can put many different types of the main cycle activities

[Laerune]

I dont think we will see any change, SE and Yoshida like to play it safe. We might see one patch introduce something different, but as it is, we will probably get the same kind of content as 2.0/3.0.

[RubyCirha]

Well to be fair I'm impressed that they are doing this well keeping up with content they have a relitively small team in comparison to other mmos and are releasing a teddy content in 2 to 3 moth cycles look at mmos like wow there lucky to get new content every half a year and it's about the size of what we get in in a 2 month patch and it's all grind and no substence