Yoshi-P lied

[Atelier-Bagur]

This excuse keeps being brought up and it simply doesn't add up. None of the content released in 6.3 has any lasting longevity to cover a four month cycle even if played at a slower pace, Ultimate notwithstanding. Deep Dungeon is the only piece of content that has any sense of longevity that isn't passive. Case in point, when 6.3 dropped, friends and I had everything wrapped up in a single day. We neither rushed the story nor the 24 man. They just don't have any longevity. My raid group at the time did Rubicante that evening. Basically, by the weekend, I had everything 6.3 offered done except getting to rank 12 in Island Sanctuary. That took me a week of spending two minutes setting up spreadsheets.

Nobody is asking XIV to keep them occupied for an entire patch cycle. They're asking for content to last longer than a week.

Sorry but I cant personally relate to this as I enjoy playing other games and have a working job and a tight schedule, and I learned not to just rush things (even though you claim to have done so). Grinds get boring extremely fast and I cannot sit through doing the same thing for more than an hour. So the content grind presented to me in this patch with Deep Dungeon, Weapon relic and Crafter/Gatherer relic I cannot do within a single day because its not fun. I can only feasibly do a bit at a time and then move on to something else. So while yes, theoretically these grinds for can be done within a day, I just lack the time and interest to do such a thing because its seriously not worth it imo.

So what I basically wind up doing is spreading the grinds out a little bit each day so it doesnt get stale nor boring in my short playtime and I can focus on other things. This way, I can avoid burnout and still have some enjoyment playing the game so what it winds up doing is this content taking me more than a week to fully complete. The fact that Im even allowed to do something like this in an MMO and not feel pressured to rush is a fresh of breath air for my time.