The Relic Grind: Replayability missed

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

But you can literally do any content you want that gives the required tomes.



So... Infinite replayability.

[TomsYoungerBro]

But you can literally do any content you want that gives the required tomes.



So... Infinite replayability.

Not necessarily. When it is extremely open ended you stretch out the playerbase. When its a tome grind, dailies are prevalent which is already the norm. Would you rather farm tomes doing Crystal tower once a day from your daily alliance raid, or Euphrosyne? The option is quite obvious. Funnel players into current content

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Not necessarily. When it is extremely open ended you stretch out the playerbase. When its a tome grind, dailies are prevalent which is already the norm. Would you rather farm tomes doing Crystal tower once a day from your daily alliance raid, or Euphrosyne? The option is quite obvious. Funnel players into current content

Well, I can just farm euphrosyne if I want. It's not in alliance raid anyway. And farming CT wouldn't get me the right tomes.

[TomsYoungerBro]

Well, I can just farm euphrosyne if I want. It's not in alliance raid anyway. And farming CT wouldn't get me the right tomes.

Read again. Doing your dailies would though. And doing your daily alliance raid gets you crystal tower almost 99% of the time. Dailies pick from a wide variety of content and you don't get to choose.

Again, it stretches the playerbase thin and does not funnel players into Endwalker content

[NekoMataMata]

But you can literally do any content you want that gives the required tomes.



So... Infinite replayability.

The problem with "doing any content you want" is most people will either find the easiest content to constantly replay and/or the fastest.

That means there's no variety at all, even if you have all the choices in the world. This means that content that people dislike or don't normally queue into is going to remain that way even if it's an option.

[Iyrnthota]

The problem with "doing any content you want" is most people will either find the easiest content to constantly replay and/or the fastest.

That means there's no variety at all, even if you have all the choices in the world. This means that content that people dislike or don't normally queue into is going to remain that way even if it's an option.

This happens anyway, people will always optimise the grind.

Remember last relic when one of the steps was to run six Level 60 dungeons, and literally the only one anyone ever did was Antitower.

[Kaurhz]

The problem with "doing any content you want" is most people will either find the easiest content to constantly replay and/or the fastest.

This is basically every relic ever. Every relic has always been a false sense of variety as players will always go for the fastest and most efficient route.