Lack of pve content

[ForteNightshade]

I am hopeful that at least some of this was due to them scaling back plans as a result of Covid, though I am leery of accepting that as a full excuse, due to a) the fact that life goes on, and b) Japan is such a technologically savvy place to begin with, so it's a bit difficult for me to accept that they couldn't readily transition to home work as needed. However, I believe there was probably at least some impact, so optimistically the next expansion will see more fruitful content releases. Or, at least, fingers crossed.

Yoshida did acknowledge the main factor for Ultimate's delay was their poor scheduling that gave them virtually no wiggle room, and that they want to fundamentally change how they approach all content going forward not just Ultimate. So that was refreshing to hear. I also recall the dev team finally admitting to the ping issues on MCH due to them actually have trouble with it while working at home. I'd like to think the Covid delays as a whole have definitely showed them some of the issues with how design approach.

Another big thing I hope they've learned from these delays is getting the relic out earlier. How much better would it have been if we had a long grind to work on?

[raelgun]

One raid tier to create content that is self sustaining would do WoW a large amount of good right about now. Personally if I were Blizzard I would immediately make the darkmoon faire 24 hours a day and drop 6 devs on it just creating new content for casuals because they are bleeding that player base HARDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD right now.

Incorrect, Blizzard has a dedicated Raid team that does not affect resources to any other type of content, if anything the raid team is the shining beacon in Blizzard right now and is the only team holding up the content delivery for WoW, that statement was made as a metaphor, if anything everything else content wise in WoW holds up the raid team for whatever the heck reason is that.
SE on other hand has largely a shared resource budget that one thing obviously affects other things in a content cycle and this is the issue, what we want is SE to develop a bigger and dedicated end game PVE content thats battle based and really hammer down on this team to be bigger so that we can have more of this per patch content and not affect any other content that this playerbase seems too precious about.

[raelgun]

Didnt read the 9 pages but im assuming its just :

"FF14 is not a pve game"
"FF14 = story/rp/craft"

Its very bad for FF14 to not be the best hard pve MMO, they have the potential for it

Sadly a lot of people at heart know we are actually asking for more hard PVE battle content but they don't want it even if it doesnt affect other content, they don't like the idea of being behind because they aren't good enough and that more and more people are not wanting to freely carry people in said content.

I am personally fine if only a small % actually clear content, if other people get their content then its fine for those that want more hard PVE battle content as well, its called a win win regardless of how far behind people are.

[Lanadra]

We had 3 savages and 1 ultimates, which is equivalent to 1 week + 5 days prog (I assume TEA is 1 week prog), I will round to 2 week prog

2 week prog in Wow is 2 Mythical raids, they have 3-4 mythical raids (without even considering Heroic raids) per extension

Why such lack of pve content ? for a MMORPG that want to become better/the #1

(I still consider FF14 better than WOW overall, but this lack of pve content is a bit upsetting)

Ehmm.. I think you may be playing the wrong game. The content you feel is 'lacking' is not by any means FFXIV's bread and butter nor do the developers aspire for it to be.

[Ronduwil]

No longer fun to play for you. While you may enjoy simply running dungeons with your friends who aren't as skilled, I get incredibly bored with them due to their complete inability to pose even the slightest challenge.

Then why aren't you playing WoW instead of asking FFXIV to turn into that failure of a game?

[Tulzscha]

1. Quality over quantity
2. There's more variety in content
3. They respect their players' time

[Ronduwil]

Incorrect, Blizzard has a dedicated Raid team that does not affect resources to any other type of content

Then why did they add a grave in Lunarfall along with a ghost in the Brawler's guild that had the name, Ray D. Tear? Coincidence or passive aggressive reminder that they'd rather be working on raid content?

[Alexandre_Noireau]

3. They respect their players' time

Unless you are talking about:
-PvP.
-Seasonal Events.
-Any grind for more than one or two jobs.

All those either are timegated or horrific grinds.

[Jojoya]

We had 3 savages and 1 ultimates, which is equivalent to 1 week + 5 days prog (I assume TEA is 1 week prog), I will round to 2 week prog

2 week prog in Wow is 2 Mythical raids, they have 3-4 mythical raids (without even considering Heroic raids) per extension

Why such lack of pve content ? for a MMORPG that want to become better/the #1

(I still consider FF14 better than WOW overall, but this lack of pve content is a bit upsetting)

Raids are not the only form of PvE content, nor is this a raid-centric game. If raiding is all you're interested in, this game is only going to occupy you for a couple of months a year at best.

My suggestion for now would be to return to WoW so you can grind your Shards of Domination for raiding there. That should keep you very busy until Endwalker is released and we get the first raid set for the expansion, at which point you could return here to level and do the new raid content before returning to WoW to go back to grinding out Shards.

[Tulzscha]

Unless you are talking about:
-PvP.
-Seasonal Events.
-Any grind for more than one or two jobs.

All those either are timegated or horrific grinds.

Generally speaking. They have grinds for those who want them, it's nothing like WoW where there's always pressure to keep playing lest you fall behind.