Everyone is screaming "lack of content", but what kind of content do you wish for?

[caffe_macchiato]

Give me examples. What is it that you want? A patch every 2 months instead of 4? More MSQ? More Dungeon, Raids, Trials? Two Ultimates per patch? More grindy stuff? More PVP stuff? More solo content? If then, what? Deep Dungeons or anything else? Is there any content that isn't in the game that you want to suggest? I personally would like to see solo Raids/Trials with solo mechanics. But I'm a casual player, so I have nothing to complain since FFXIV is the best causal MMO of all time. But what about you endgamers, what do you want?

Read about the various patches prior to Endwalker. Most of them had multiple dungeons and also included a dedicated area or mechanic for the relics. Dungeons and forays are content that you can play repeatedly. Two key words: interaction and repetition. V&C dungeons lack repetition. Island Sanctuary is neither interactive nor repetitive.

The previous patches are what brought us to this game. I miss them and want them to come back. That’s all!

[Caro178]

Read about the various patches prior to Endwalker. Most of them had multiple dungeons and also included a dedicated area or mechanic for the relics. Dungeons and forays are content that you can play repeatedly. Two key words: interaction and repetition. V&C dungeons lack repetition. Island Sanctuary is neither interactive nor repetitive.

The previous patches are what brought us to this game. I miss them and want them to come back. That’s all!

"Hard mode" dungeons stopped being implemented before Shadowbringers, not before Endwalker. That means it has been over 4 years since we've had a patch that wasn't an expansion drop include more than one dungeon. It is simply false to say "before Endwalker we had this" because no, we didn't. Shadowbringers and Endwalker are basically on par in terms of sheer amounts of new content (be it combat or not.) It is different content, but different doesn't mean it's justifiable to pretend it doesn't exist.

Personally, I enjoyed both Eureka and Bozja but the fact is player engagement with that content was not high enough to justify repeating it for a third time. This is why they tried to implement other things that (debatably) didn't work. Also, we did not get Eureka/Bozja updates in every patch so that's another detail that simply isn't true.

Even as someone who loved the Endwalker MSQ there is a visible lack of mid-level endgame content. Still, the game is in a healthy state according to recent polls. It is pure fantasy that Endwalker has been a failure of any kind. It has been a very successful expansion on all counts. Does that mean it is without flaws? Of course not, but the recent numbers should have clarified a lot of things for even the most critical forum dwellers. Overall the endgame raiding scene is especially active compared to previous expansions even with the heavy complaints about job and loot design. Savage and ultimates have had high clear rates this expansion.

[DPZ2]

Read about the various patches prior to Endwalker. Most of them had multiple dungeons and also included a dedicated area or mechanic for the relics.

That dedicated area/mechanic for the relics was there during exactly 40% of the life of the game, which I do not consider "most". Also, multiple dungeons have been, and remain a part of the patch cycle. You just don't care for the 'multiples' this expansion. Then again, those extra dungeons in 2.4 didn't really give you rewards you couldn't get elsewhere either. There's only so many times you can run through Snowcloak and Sastasha (Hard) once you've got the rewards you want ...

Let's look at your source and investigate what's available for the .4 release of 2.0 through 6.0, shall we? Note that 2.4 had two Hard Trials and two Trials. Every other release had one hard/extreme trial and one trial. 2.4 also had two hard dungeons. Unlike every other release. Aside from two dedicated area/mechanics for the relics (again, 2 out of 5 patches), there really is little difference between the 3.4, 4.4, 5.4 and 6.4 "content" listed.

6.4

Raid series
Dungeon
Varient Dungeon
Trial
Extreme Trial
Unreal

5.4

Raid series
Dungeon
Bozja
Trial
Extreme Trial
Unreal

4.4

Raid series
Dungeon
Hard Dungeon
Trial
Extreme Trial
Eureka

3.4

Raid series
Dungeon
Hard Dungeon
Trial
Extreme Trial

2.4

Dungeon
Hard Dungeon
Hard Dungeon
Trial
Extreme Trial
Trial
Raid series

[R041]

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To be fair, we didn't need an exploratory zone in ARR. All of ARR was the exploratory zone, and each zone was pretty engaging and busy with something going on.

[Masekase_Hurricane]

5.4

Raid series
Dungeon
Bozja
Trial
Extreme Trial
Unreal

4.4

Raid series
Dungeon
Hard Dungeon
Trial
Extreme Trial
Eureka

4.4 was only 1 dungeon saint moch hard, was no eureka that came in 4.45. Bozja was also 5.45. Im in two minds calling unreal new content too to be fair.

[DPZ2]

4.4 was only 1 dungeon saint moch hard, was no eureka that came in 4.45. Bozja was also 5.45. Im in two minds calling unreal new content too to be fair.

Sorry, but the source material I used (provided by the person I was responding to) incorporated everything from patch 4.40 through 4.45 in its listing. To be clear, Eureka was first released in patch 4.25 ... long before the 4.4 patch. Similarly Bozja was first released in patch 5.25.

You also ignored the dungeon The Burn, which was released in 4.4.