Yoshi-P lied

[Rolder50]

While the number of content has decreased, the quality has increased far beyond what ARR could ever hope for while giving all players something, the first of which is Ultimate, because you dont actually need to play Ultimate to engage in it. Not everyone is skilled enough to play WoW raids but everyone still loves seeing what craziness the Devs can do when unhinged. PvP has more people trying the mode than ever before with rewards for playing while giving competitive players something to reach for. MSQ dungeons have increased in quality so much that the bosses themselves feel like Normal Trials. Criterion Dungeons are amazing midcore content to build upon. BLU while niche is still enjoyed by many and is always fun to see how many new OP spells we can learn from bosses. The problem was never the content, but how they build upon it. Thats why Eureka, while I disliked it, felt great to many. Becuase it was built upon and made more fun as they learned more about the mode. Thats why BLU feel amazing now compared to it lv 50 version. If they make the content more engaging and keep building on it, we are golden.

There's so many huh takes in this...

PvP had more people trying it but it's missing critical features that will let it sustain. Like queuing with friends. Not to mention the netcode issue I mentioned above.

The MSQ dungeons are more boring then ever. Comparing them to trials is a laugh. Two pulls, door, two pulls, boss with two mechanics at best that you can often just stand in with no consequences.

The last BLU update was 5.4 and it can't do current expansion anything.

Criteron dugeons have no replayablitiy at all.

With all that plus some other things like the joke relic weapons, I fail to see how quality has increased.

Edit: Regarding the Dungeon point, I found this post after writing that lays it out in simple terms: https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxivdiscus...sb_shb_and_ew/ In short: EW has the most forced single pulls and the most walls of any expansion.