Lack of pve content

[VelKallor]

There is no end of PVE content to do, for example, the crafters in this expac built an ENTIRE CITY

We went in, saw the wreckage left by the War, by the time we were done Ishgard had not only been Restored, but a new player housing district had been created.

I have never ever had the chance to be part of something this epic and absolutely uplifting.. ( God alone knows we need a few things to make us smile and laugh at the moment...we will be locked down till October and each day is harder than the last....)

FF 14 isnt about raids and savages alone.

[TeraRamis]

There is no end of PVE content to do, for example, the crafters in this expac built an ENTIRE CITY

We went in, saw the wreckage left by the War, by the time we were done Ishgard had not only been Restored, but a new player housing district had been created.

I have never ever had the chance to be part of something this epic and absolutely uplifting.. ( God alone knows we need a few things to make us smile and laugh at the moment...we will be locked down till October and each day is harder than the last....)

FF 14 isnt about raids and savages alone.

I'm sorry... but... the players did nothing. You participated in a grind that was ultimately meaningless. The Ishgarde housing would be added either way.

This is not a sandbox - you didn't build anything.

[Nothv13]

I'm sorry... but... the players did nothing. You participated in a grind that was ultimately meaningless. The Ishgarde housing would be added either way.

This is not a sandbox - you didn't build anything.

That's like saying those that didn't participate in Eden did nothing because the aether was going to be restored anyways.

[TeraRamis]

That's like saying those that didn't participate in Eden did nothing because the aether was going to be restored anyways.

Welcome to themeparks. You paid your fee, rode the rides, punched a few mascots, and went home. You were never anything but a guest, and nothing you saw was real.

[Alexandre_Noireau]

I'm sorry... but... the players did nothing. You participated in a grind that was ultimately meaningless. The Ishgarde housing would be added either way.

This is not a sandbox - you didn't build anything.

Not to mention it's dead content now basically. A literal waste of developing time. A needlessly complicated parasitic system added to give something shortly meaningful for some.
Unless the Ishgardian Restoration would become a recurrent event, like, each few months The Firmament needed again many crafters to maintain it - Opening the ladderboards and rewards again for the next batch of crafters, but no.

Now is dead and worthless.

This kind of design needs to go.

[FoxyAreku]

There is no end of PVE content to do, for example, the crafters in this expac built an ENTIRE CITY

We went in, saw the wreckage left by the War, by the time we were done Ishgard had not only been Restored, but a new player housing district had been created.

I have never ever had the chance to be part of something this epic and absolutely uplifting.. ( God alone knows we need a few things to make us smile and laugh at the moment...we will be locked down till October and each day is harder than the last....)

FF 14 isnt about raids and savages alone.

Yeah that sounds cool when you phrase it like that, but when you remember it was just crafting the same item over and over about 1000 times and turning it into a vendor, it suddenly becomes a lot less epic.
Calling Ishgard restoration 'content' is kind of a joke tbh.

[VelKallor]

Yeah that sounds cool when you phrase it like that, but when you remember it was just crafting the same item over and over about 1000 times and turning it into a vendor, it suddenly becomes a lot less epic.
Calling Ishgard restoration 'content' is kind of a joke tbh.

I loved every minute of it. That alone is enough..you know, for fun?

[ForteNightshade]

I loved every minute of it. That alone is enough..you know, for fun?

Which is fine... if your original statement wasn't so disingenuous. We didn't so much build a city as spam an incredibly easy set of crafts, do some FATEs and the city was magically finished. And then the Firmament died off for six months because once both the twelve day race and the server building phase ended, there was nothing to really do. None of this is to say the Firmament is inherently bad. I do like the overall idea. But it falls into my frequent complaint with this game: a complete lack of longevity.