Quote Originally Posted by linay View Post
There's being social, like helping FC/LS/Fellowship/static/friends to clear/farm things, or just doing it on another job, or fun with strangers on PF/DF.

But yes, if you're done with the content, then you're done, and there's nothing wrong with that. It's also why rewards are time gated, so people don't run out of content sooner, but there really shouldn't be any reason to prolong the content more than that other than if you just enjoy running the content, which is fine too. Otherwise, find something else to do in the game or play other games or do something else. Extending the gearing treadmill is not the answer, at least with relic existing.

As for any kind of "prestige" system, if it offers any reward other than gear upgrade or any kind of combat progression, then that's fine.
You do realize having to lock everything behind a time gate suggests the content releases themselves aren't offering enough, thus they're intentionally staggered to keep people subbed, yes?

Being social isn't an argument because it still boils down to you running the same handful of things over and over again. If there is one area FFXIV severely lacks in, it's end game content below Savage. In fact, even Savage itself is more or less dependent on a third party site because people like leaderboards. The fact we're almost a year into Shadowbringers and the relic is only just now coming out in a month or so certainly hasn't helped that feeling there is very little to do.

Ironically, I've had this discussion with my best friend who has been playing far more sporadically these days. She usually does everything, including clearing out the entire map of side quests. To quote her, "If I wasn't raiding. What's even the point of logging in?" The aforementioned delay on the relic is a big complaint of hers.