Island farm VS WoW.

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Farmville was an entire game built around that specific content. Island Sanctuary is just side content within a larger game. Of course it's not going to be as fully featured.

If you're really looking for Farmville, then play both games. You don't do yourself any favors by sticking only to a single game and expecting that one game to fulfill all your gaming needs.

I also laugh at the idea that IS doesn't respect your time when once you've got everything built, it's only a few minutes a day to maintain it while generating cowries for vanity rewards.

I don't doubt that you and others who share your...approach to video games are 'laughing'.

However there's many ways in which a game can disrespect a player's time. For example, I think that as a game ages it isn't unfair to expect it to do more to actually be ground-breaking on some fronts. In its golden era, World of Warcraft would look at what competitors were doing, take what worked and refine them with an attempt at a twist.

I see very little of that here in FFXIV. As a veteran player, I'd certainly appreciate more to do in-game that has staying power and which boasts more depth than just clicking on nodes/waiting around. It certainly doesn't help seeing the content I do enjoy - such as Bozja - artificially cut short and scrapped.

I daresay at this point the game has become something entirely different to what it set out to be.