Where is the "never before seen content"?

[JunseiKei]

Now that the game has been saved for over four years (and two expansions), can we expect them to shake it up a little? All this niche content that's been in other MMOs for decades, or truly fluff things like Perform, aren't exactly the new and amazing things that SE wants me to think they are.

1.0 deserved to be obliterated from all I've read about it, but that doesn't mean 2.0 and onward must stay the same forever lest Dalamud be recreated too.

"Shake it up" how? What are you suggesting that is reasonable, knowing the limitations of the game? FFXIV, like a lot of popular MMOs, is a "generalist" MMO - it has content that can appeal to many people. However, it means when you add content that appeases one group, the others think they are being left out. Things like perform appeals to some, but from your own wording, it doesn't appeal to you, so you think it's a wasted addition to the game. Am I correct?

Right now, the game's model is content released in a steady rhythm, yet spaced out enough that you can incur breaks. These breaks can be taken and when you return, you can also easy fall back into being current. The major issue I see people complain on is the amount of dungeons (which I don't, personally, understand) and when something is added they have no interest in, they suddenly mistakenly say "no content."

Also, me pointing out what happened in 1.0 doesn't mean the game's future need suffer. It's mainly to remind people that at one point, XIV was more similar to XI than it is currently and it didn't work out.

However, please keep in mind that the last time SE did what players asked in terms of difficulty and content, we obtained Gordias Savage. Those were dark times, indeed.

I knew this years ago when it became obvious that theme park was going to be clone park X.0. Everyone is starting to wake up now and take off their rose tinted glasses and see that given their now 4 years in the making that we are on a hilly rollercoaster and that's all it will ever be. Couple turns here and there but no loopdeloops or corkscrews. Gotta play it safe... next expansion is going to be exactly what this one was... and the next. Please look forward to it!

This is most MMOs, not just XIV. If this is the core of your argument, perhaps you are playing the wrong genre. I highly recommend this channel's "Death of a Game" for various reasons my MMOs have come and gone. Some of them have been because of "risks" taken.