Quote Originally Posted by hunkygladiator View Post
The release of Eureka and Bozja have been met with almost overwhelming negative reaction on XIV-focused subreddits and forums. Diadem to Eureka to Bozja was there to give a type of content that gives the MMO moniker to FFXIV. This content was made because they saw World of Warcraft and Guild Wars 2 and knew they needed open world content. This is the absolute basis of a MMO before they introduced instanced content.

But the community has pushed back heavily against it. Any form of pain point, a staple of MMO as you need to work for something to get it, is shunned and seen as a negative that needs to be excised. The entire philosophy behind trusts and duty support exists around this community philosophy: "do not force me to be involved with people if I don't want it.". And this ultimately ended up in our situation when you have very little to do if you're not a raider whereas we had Ishgardian Restoration and Bozja in ShB.
Lol, I pushed back against Diadem/Eureka style content because the core thrust behind its design philosophy is Yet More FATEs and boring mindless mechanicless field mob grinding. You know, the most boring part of boring Korean grinder MMOs. "Hating teamwork" has nothing to do with it.