The Lessons Not Learned.

[aveyond-dreams]

If I can counter your complaint a bit here: I think the dungeon content was approached just like Island Sanctuary. They were not sure if people would even like it because its a new project they took on. So they kept it rather limited. Why add so much rewards to it if no one likes it by chance? If the project is a major success; I am pretty sure they will have content not just for Uldah, but for Limsa, Gridania, Ishgard, and perhaps more/new locations. Every release will add more and more rewards, and any late player coming in will think of it like a treasure trove. If they put a ton of rewards at the get go, most players will expect that all the time, and therefore they need to spread it out. (Though I do understand waiting is frustrating.)

You’ve just described a self-fulfilling prophecy. Players do content that has rewards they are interested in. The more rewards there are, the more they do it. There are only a handful of rewards and most of them not very compelling attached to this content. They’ve all but ensured that it won’t last long and that interest in doing it will drop sharply after a certain point, with whatever engagement metrics they use reflecting that.

As for the relic; relics in every expansion is always a grind. However think of it this way; they only gave us the first step of the weapon and now we have to wait for the next update. You will in fact have more than enough time to get 1,500 astronomy tomes for several weapons of your choosing. Heck you could even get all of the first step weapons before the next patch if you ran your rolos everyday, and do other content that drops the tomes. Its not hard to accumulate them with the amount of time they give us between patches. It only will feel like a real grind when a player is late to the show to where one has to do all of the steps back to back, and the grind gets intense. So that is why its easy at the moment, because we are just starting at step 1. I have no idea how good the items will look, but I do know they are trying to appeal to new players more so than veterans.

We wanted something to do that was a little more compelling than run the same content we’ve been running all the time even more. Hence why well-balanced relic zones like Bozja and Zadnor were breaths of fresh air, or even having a reason to hang out in the overworld doing fates in current-expansion zones. To quote another poster:

I don't want a free weapon. I want something to do.

Moving on then.

But let me be honest here; do I think they did the 100% perfect job for rewards? I honestly can't answer. I do feel its rather subjective. If we did not get detective clothes, but instead got a fairy princess glam; the community will still have major agreements and disagreements about that too. Tons of people will support it because its the new thing, and a lot won't. Same thing is happening with what is current. Its hard to please everyone, so I am only speaking from a neutral standpoint.

What this content should’ve received is gear that was actually useful, as in I can equip it for stats. Preferably with aesthetics that make sense in the context of the given content. I am not going to entertain anyone that tries to claim that this detective gear is appropriate for a storyline that has to deal with desert ruins. Eureka Pyros and Hydatos rewarded intricate armor pieces that drew upon some aesthetics from Amano artwork. Bozja rewarded gear for its warzone, and then the more Ivalice got involved the more Ivalice gear they gave in Zadnor. WoW Mythic content also rewards gear, so I have no idea why they thought they would get away with just dumping this glamset and unappealing mounts on us and bailing.