Lack of End Game Content

[Kaylessa]

Yes, there is a special meaning when it comes to chess, but there is also a generic meaning. You don't have to apply the word to every game, but if you do apply it to a game, there is still a relationship between the generic meaning and the special meaning for that particular game. Even the special meaning for chess still fits the generic meaning.

There doesn't have to be and no it doesn't. Specific communities will develop their own lingo, and that lingo may have very different meanings than the colloquial. Here's some examples:

A walk in baseball is the act of being gifted first base after 4 pitches arrived outside of the strike zone. How does this line up with the colloquial meaning of the word, especially if the batter jogged to first base?

Walking in cricket is leaving the field without being given out by the umpire, you don't have to actually 'walk' off the field.

Being knocked out in boxing can mean being unable to get up after 10 seconds, a meaning much more synonymous to being "knocked down".

And someone sitting through hours of an endgame in chess may not believe the endgame represents the final stages of anything.

And that's the point. You apply the meaning to a game, not a genre. Chess is a board game, but the meaning of endgame for chess doesn't necessarily make sense if applied to another board game.

In some cases yes, in some cases no. Communities develop a language, and if the community in question represents a genre then the lingo they develop will represent a genre. If the community in question represents a game, then the lingo in question will represent a game.

Either you're misreading what I said, or you're applying how endgame works in a game that doesn't work like FFXIV to FFXIV. If it's content that requires you to finish the x.0 MSQ to unlock, meaning your character has to reach level cap with at least one combat job before you can even begin that content, how can it not be considered endgame? Again, the only reason would be if you're applying how endgame works in another game to FFXIV.

The MMO community developed their specific meaning of endgame to be relevant for MMOs. FFXIV is an MMO. The term works fine in FFXIV, meaning it represents a concept that is specific to MMOs and that concept can be represented by a single word.

Endgame when related to MMOs means max level content. If you think otherwise then you're wrong, it's that simple. If you're leveling another job you are not participating in max level content. You are participating in leveling content.

Actually, just call your idea post-story content. That's far more accurate.

[linay]

Actually, just call your idea post-story content. That's far more accurate.

Well, considering the MSQ is the only required and central content in this game, anything post story is endgame.