Do people enjoy Eureka?

[zuzu-bq]

The core of Eureka is fairly enjoyable. Anemos was decent enough. Pagos was somehow a downgrade by not giving you a meaningful sense of progression while you level, locked mounts and teleports behind higher levels than Anemos did and the map design is just awful. Once you hit 35 its kind of fun again but the road to max level is horrible. Plus anemos the grind to the relic was naturally completed with the road to EL20, while in pagos that isn't the case.

At least some mechanics introduced in Pagos that might carry over next maps are pretty cool like Mutation, Adaptation and Eureka Effect. I wish those have been there since Anemos.

[Bal_Siegskeith]

here is the unpopular opinion! I was hyped for Eureka when SE explained it in letters. But when they've released Anemos, I disliked so much. Easy and boring, but the worst of it was the Train. entered, grind about two days, got two relics and never go again. Then Pagos. Is nearly all what I wanted in Anemos. Enemies were hard enough to find parties. No trains. terrains was hard enough to learn how to travel... I needed to pick a party and start farming enemies. Even you get the possibility to fail and get a total party kill. I leveled to 35 at third day of Pagos. It was progresive. At some point I became aquainted with other players, regardless server. When I enter, I checked party list and whisper them, or I've recieved whispers of them.

I think Pagos had some flaws, but for me was far better than Anemos. What I want for Pyros: Lenght. I love to farm in party. Give me weeks of that! more progression, more danger, more elemental system or new things. chocobo companion? I think eureka in general is the best content I've played in FFXIV (off raid)

[Fonzarelli]

Like most things in life, I think it's a matter of taste if you think Eureka is fun or not. I'd say I wouldn't be surprised if there was a survey done and the vast majority of people didn't like Eureka.
But, for people who do like it... well, good for them. There is content for them.

I'm more at issue with the way some aspects were implemented. Essentially not allowing friends and groups to easily band together because of the huge exp penalties or overall combat in-effectiveness seems a very opposite approach to the way SE generally tries to design everything else in the game.

The FATE train can be debated over and over, but it's just kind of a fact of life now. They could change it, but I think it should be left in there because if they fixed the real root of the problem (people can't really effectively get groups in any other form reliably), then the FATE train wouldn't be the de-facto best option.

[Vahlnir]

Like most things in life, I think it's a matter of taste if you think Eureka is fun or not. I'd say I wouldn't be surprised if there was a survey done and the vast majority of people didn't like Eureka.
But, for people who do like it... well, good for them. There is content for them.

This is a good way to look at it. Personally, I was so let down by Eureka Anemos that I ended up taking a break. 5 months away from the game which was probably the longest I've ever stayed unsubbed from this game. Even gave up my house which I worked hard to get. Came back about a month ago, stepped into Pagos maybe twice before putting it in my rear view mirror. I'm happier playing the game if I just pretend it doesn't exist and am currently enjoying the game as a whole...except Eureka. Screw that place.