Quote Originally Posted by SturmChurro View Post
At this point.. not really. Everyone at launch was completing their stuff, their horizontal content. You could find groups for events at any time of day. People were out doing stuff. If you tried to go out and do your islands now: it's dead. You won't have anybody to help you. For example, if you want to do Spida island, you probably won't have anybody there to help you break the egg, meaning you cannot get it done. Low level world bosses, you'll have to come back later and solo them, or whatever, because there is no way in heck you are getting them done anymore, since nobody is doing them.

There is no real good short term, or frankly, long term experience, anymore unless you are either a big high-end PvEr interested in these kind of grinds, or you are a whale.. that just pays to skip it all and go straight to the raids. I suppose you'd still have to be a high-end PvEr though.

How does this circle back to FFXIV? How not to do a grind.
But those island grinds were fun, no? The problem isn't the actual content, it's the incentive. If FF14 did something similar and encouraged people who finished it to do it again with Khloe etc. there wouldn't be an issue.