This game is on a terrible state right now.

[TowaIsBestGirl]

I meant free speech, but true. Though I'm not quite sure what point you are making, if I'm honest?

I'll just be frank. I was bored, and poking fun felt like the best way to stave some of it off at the time.

[Alleluia]

Ah. Kay then.

[Absurdity]

Circling back to Criterion, it suffered from a bigger problem: tuning. For whatever reason they decided against their original plan of a Normal, EX and Savage variant. The EX version is on par with the current Abyssos tier's earlier fights. One could make a strong argument Zeless Gah is even harder than Carby or Hegemone. So now we're taking on near Savage caliber bosses for an ugly chair mount you could just buy outright. Savage is even more comical, demanding you play perfect for... a single grade X materia. The latter is downright insulting and completely destroys any reason to farm the content.

At the end of the day, Criterion just doesn't have an audience for how they've tuned it. Due to the increased difficulty of the supposed "EX" version, it pushes out the majority of midcore players and the Savage version just isn't with the investment for one than a single clear. Innovation alone is not enough without replayability, which Criterion simply doesn't have.

Another factor for me was simply that Criterion didn't feel like a harder dungeon, just a boss rush. But I'm also rather "oldschool" when it comes to dungeons and raids, I don't really consider it a raid or dungeon when you just zone into a square arena to fight a big thing and then leave again.

This is basically coming down to the fact that FFXIV is trying to cater to a wide range of players, with a lot of varied content that it does ok to good, but doesn't really excel at anything.
There are many cool side-features and concepts that are interesting on a Feature-Level, but not substantial enough to justify being part of a persistent Online-Game, let alone one that wants to charge monthly to even be accessed.

Wide as the ocean, deep as a puddle.

[Saraide]

You still haven't answered the question you were asked before. What of the people that have in fact done everything the game has to offer? Because those do exist, and some of the people speaking up about the lack of content are from that demographic. Are you going to say they're playing the victim too? Heck, the poster you rather disingenuously accused of playing the victim seems to fall right in line with this demographic.

For that matter, are people that ran out of non-savage stuff to do playing victim? Because people that can't or don't want to engage with savage content are also getting screwed, and some of'em aren't happy about it.

What do you usually do when you have finished a game?

[DixieBellOCE]

What do you usually do when you have finished a game?

When was the last time you heard of somebody finishing an MMO.

Is this where i make an everquest joke and say when was the last time you saw somebody playing everquest?

[Stormpeaks]

What do you usually do when you have finished a game?

You dont usually finish an MMORPG, But in FFXIV you do.

[Saraide]

When was the last time you heard of somebody finishing an MMO.

Is this where i make an everquest joke and say when was the last time you saw somebody playing everquest?

Have you read this thread?

[DixieBellOCE]

Have you read this thread?

Yeah, i was the one who posted my mains lalacheivements showing 92% of minions, 77% achievements.

Just been looking up every person who says 'you dont play the game' and most of them are under 40% achievements

[TowaIsBestGirl]

When was the last time you heard of somebody finishing an MMO.

Is this where i make an everquest joke and say when was the last time you saw somebody playing everquest?

Someone's looking pretty based right now....

I would have enjoyed that joke, had you managed to make it. Alas, the setup isn't quite optimal here. Ah well, there's always next time.

P.S. His name is Klein. ( ✧≖ ͜ʖ≖)

[Saraide]

Yeah, i was the one who posted my mains lalacheivements showing 92% of minions, 77% achievements.

Just been looking up every person who says 'you dont play the game' and most of them are under 40% achievements

GG you finished the game.