Where is all the content?

[Ardeth]

Exactly this - a lot of people in the community seem to think this game is completely untouchable in it's quality and effort. There ARE other options out there that have some better systems and more innovation in their development than XIV, some that are worse. What a lot of people have touched on, and rightly so, is that atm there isn't any other major competition for XIV, which means the devs are getting lazy and allowing things to stagnate.

If this was/is Yoshi P's Magnum opus, I'd be really worried, I genuinelly feel like he's been hamstringed with this expansion. I refuse to believe the writers are the same that came from ShadowBringers and the way certain classes have been gutted really reeks to me of a rush job. Baring in mind they had a 6 month delay due to the magical mystery virus, I would have expected much more from the dev team.

We're getting less dungeons per expansion now, it was 18 in Heavensward total. It's been steadily dropping ever since.

Less UNIQUE gear sets (the morons will scream at me for this one, they really hate people bringing this up).

Less unique musical tracks. Almost all of EW's Story based music is a remix of the same EW theme with a slightly different tempo. Even the new raids only have one piece of music with the final raid a remix and NO second phase music.

It's just all around less content.

So I've been playing Classic Wow in my off time. And it's staggering to me how much more emergent the gameplay is from 2006 to 2022. In Classic if I pull to much I die and I attack much much slower, but I have to think about what I do. I can't just go balls to the wall. It's all old content. It's stale I did it back in 2006, but it's leagues more fun than sitting in Limsa waiting for my queue to pop so we can go rinse a brand new dungeon and barely think about it. I also agree on the story. I've come to the conclusion that Shadowbringers had to of been a fluke. There's no way you write something that compelling and then the next expansion just shit the bed. I just can't believe it. I really do think this game is going downhill both socially and mechanically. Again 2006 is more compelling to me. I've unsubscribed as well. What's the point of tomes and waiting? I'm done with it. It hasn't changed since 2013 and I don't expect it to.

[Xavier_Firbold]

So I've been playing Classic Wow in my off time. And it's staggering to me how much more emergent the gameplay is from 2006 to 2022. In Classic if I pull to much I die and I attack much much slower, but I have to think about what I do. I can't just go balls to the wall. It's all old content. It's stale I did it back in 2006, but it's leagues more fun than sitting in Limsa waiting for my queue to pop so we can go rinse a brand new dungeon and barely think about it. I also agree on the story. I've come to the conclusion that Shadowbringers had to of been a fluke. There's no way you write something that compelling and then the next expansion just shit the bed. I just can't believe it. I really do think this game is going downhill both socially and mechanically. Again 2006 is more compelling to me. I've unsubscribed as well. What's the point of tomes and waiting? I'm done with it. It hasn't changed since 2013 and I don't expect it to.

I entirely agree with this. I just wish Blizzard would bring WoW classic into the modern era and make it just a little bit more user friendly, the addition of dungeon finders or raid finders are a big thing for me. If they were to actually put some effort into it I'd be on that way more than 14 at this point.

thank you for your post though ^^