Lack of pve content

[Theodric]

The problem is, it isn't just raid content being viewed with contempt by a vocal portion of the community. It's the idea of any content that might actually have some staying power/depth to it.

I really like what Eureka and Bozja bring to the table, for example. Yet players who are not the target audience kick and scream about how it is supposedly 'terrible' content and then the development team scrap plans for future content along those lines.

Yet if anybody dares to suggest that maybe we could do with less focus on fluff content, the floodgates open and people are outright attacked.

I'm interested in a healthy variety of content to appeal to a broad variety of tastes, ideally without major cuts and skewed priorities. As it stands, even before Covid-19 entered the picture a lot of content has been scrapped for what is arguably flimsy reasoning.

Personally I'm hoping that the recent influx of WoW refugees will increase the volume of the demand for more PvE and PvP content.

[Ronduwil]

Personally I'm hoping that the recent influx of WoW refugees will increase the volume of the demand for more PvE and PvP content.

As a WoW refugee, I don't think it will. I don't switch from the steak house to the vegetarian restaurant in the hope of getting them to serve me filet mignon. I left WoW and switched exclusively to this game precisely because it was providing all the stuff that WoW lacks. I don't want this game to change to cater more heavily to the content that I fled to begin with!

[Theodric]

As a WoW refugee, I don't think it will. I don't switch from the steak house to the vegetarian restaurant in the hope of getting them to serve me filet mignon. I left WoW and switched exclusively to this game precisely because it was providing all the stuff that WoW lacks. I don't want this game to change to cater more heavily to the content that I fled to begin with!

...and I left WoW years ago, back in 2013 when I tired of the game's direction and wanted to embrace something fresh. I don't hate the game, though. There's still elements I think it does better than FFXIV just like how there's things I think FFXIV does better than WoW.

MMO's, by their very nature, are designed to appeal to a broad variety of players. There's types of content I don't particularly enjoy. Sometimes I'll push through it for the sake of the rewards on offer. Other times I'll just avoid it entirely. I'm sure such an approach could be taken by those who dislike competitive content or any other type of content introduced into FFXIV.