Final Fantasy 14's grinds feel horrible to midcore players

[Avidria]

Most of the really time-consuming grinds are actually aimed at the 'midcore' playerbase. They don't take a lot of skill to achieve, but you can patiently chip away at them over a longer period of time and feel good when you finally achieve them because of the relative scarcity of it.

What players always forget is that if something is easily obtained and isn't skill gated, then everyone is going to have it and nobody is going to value it.

The problem is the "long period of time" is actual literal years if you DON'T sit and grind away at it every day

I'm casual as they come and it's taken me years to get even a third of the way toward the hand of mercy title (5000 killing blows in pvp) because I'm not sitting doing pvp every day, and even doing hunt trains every single day for the first several weeks of this expansion AND last expansion (that's multiple instances worth multiple times a day plus my more casual hunting through the rest of every expansion) has barely made a dent in my progress toward the centurio tiger

Like. OP is right. There's a whole lot of very quick and easy, and very very long term time commitment, and not a ton in between right now.

And this is coming from someone who spent hundreds of hours over close to a decade farming achievements in WoW just to get the achievements. I have a ton of beef with WoW, but at the very least that system gave me a lot to do and felt way more satisfying and rewarding for the time required than any achievement in this game

It's not even necessarily the grind (although, this game has had some really horrific ones), it's about rewards and pacing. I don't really feel rewarded for participating in many of this games grinds.

Yeah this here is my problem with it, and why I usually just plain don't bother with most of the longer grinds at all. They just take way too much time for not enough, or a too far off, reward.