Future direction of FFXIV

[IdowhatIwant]

There are also at least 2 extreme trials to farm 99 times and occasionally an ultimate.

Expecting to farm 2 trials 99 times is a very bad expectation of any player base. This is the sort of thing that cause issues with other games.

It's intentional that it alternates between 1 raiding patch (6.0, 6.2, 6.4) and 1 casual player patch (6.1, 6.3, 6.5), because both types of players exist and Yoshi-P wants to cater to both.

The people who really enjoy this game enjoy both the raiding content and the casual content. When you only play a certain piece of content and not everything else, of course you will experience long gaps of time where you are bored unless you play other games.

Although on paper this sounds nice, it still makes players wait anywhere between 6 - 10 months to receive content for there particular play style if they choose not to enjoy both. The development team should expect not all players are going to opt into everything. This is why people want them to change up the formulaic patch cycle because both groups experience a drought.

The Trust system is not being implemented to "appease a small portion of the player base". In fact, it is being implemented into ARR to convince millions of people who play the single player FF games to try out this game by telling them it is soloable.

Does not change that it is the wrong direction for the game to go as well was as requiring a large amount of dev time.