This is getting ridiculous. (Endwalker MSQ and post MSQ spoilers)

[Klaleara]

I agree with this completely. Getting geared up in this game takes no time at all. And in a few months when the next patch comes you'll have to grind again for the new gear. Then again and again. And if you take time off or anything and miss a couple patches? That's okay, you can gear up just as quickly regardless of not playing for so much time while others have continued playing solidly.

So there's no gear chase or working towards getting stronger outside of the repeat cycle of tome grinding and/or raiding.

So what is there to work on outside that? Sure there are a bunch of classes to level, but it's all the same content over and over. Yeah you can craft or gather, but same thing goes there too.

One of the things that gives you reasons to go all over the place and participate in content across the span of the ENTIRE game and its content are the cosmetic options. It's the same reason people play Destiny 2 or Warframe. Cosmetics. Making your character look cool.

And that's one of the absolute biggest draws for me in FFXIV. I prefer roleplaying over the other content that I think is boring and formulaic(not to mention WAY too easy). And I crave cosmetics, housing items/houses, mounts, etc.

And this expansion cheaped out on pretty much everything other than having a ton of story that everyone will play through once, scratch their head over the insanity in it, and then move on.

It makes me sad how exactly right you are. And the fact that the rest of the community really loves the cosmetics. Here I was hoping that EW would expand on the glam storage, or reinvent it to be more like WoW's glam storage (Which is infinitely superior). Instead, we just got less of literally everything but story.

[Vahlnir]

It makes me sad how exactly right you are. And the fact that the rest of the community really loves the cosmetics. Here I was hoping that EW would expand on the glam storage, or reinvent it to be more like WoW's glam storage (Which is infinitely superior). Instead, we just got less of literally everything but story.

It's casual gearing in a largely casual MMO. Unless someone does Savage and Extreme trials regularly, they are probably gearing up this way. Welcome to FF XIV? Also, they did say that they would be looking into expanding the glamour dresser if they could at some point in the Endwalker patch cycle. That could mean soon or years from now, but it was mentioned. But yeah, storage is one of FF XIV's most glaring flaws in my opinion. That much I can agree with, and I hope it gets addressed sooner rather than later.