Is there a way to fix savage?

[DrWho2010]

it all boils down to

players: I want stuff now, faster, now!
devs: No.
players: weh! (run to complain publicly)

[caffe_macchiato]

it all boils down to

players: I want stuff now, faster, now!
devs: No.
players: weh! (run to complain publicly)

Yep, this.

The devs made savage so that it lasts the entire eight months. So it should take you around eight months to clear. Not one week, not one month. Eight. Whole. Months. FFXIV is a game for everyone, not an elitist toxic/racist/sexist hellscape like WoW. You don’t have to rush. So what if it takes you a long time to clear it in party finder? That’s great! That means more time you have to play your favorite game. As long as you don’t rush anything, you’ll always have something to do. In fact, I still haven’t even cleared P9S yet. So what? I’m busy playing other games too. Surely FFXIV isn’t your only game, right? Besides, there’s so many things to do in this game, it’s impossible to just focus on savage. Take your time as the developers intended.

Don’t like it? Go back to WoW where they have zero content and the devs deleted half the game. Be fortunate that you’re playing the world’s most popular and most critically-acclaimed MMO. We’re so lucky to have Yoshida and the crew work tirelessly to give us such an amazing game. If I could tip the developers with my subscription, I would.

[Atelier-Bagur]

Yep, this.

The devs made savage so that it lasts the entire eight months. So it should take you around eight months to clear. Not one week, not one month. Eight. Whole. Months. FFXIV is a game for everyone, not an elitist toxic/racist/sexist hellscape like WoW. You don’t have to rush. So what if it takes you a long time to clear it in party finder? That’s great! That means more time you have to play your favorite game. As long as you don’t rush anything, you’ll always have something to do. In fact, I still haven’t even cleared P9S yet. So what? I’m busy playing other games too. Surely FFXIV isn’t your only game, right? Besides, there’s so many things to do in this game, it’s impossible to just focus on savage. Take your time as the developers intended.

Don’t like it? Go back to WoW where they have zero content and the devs deleted half the game. Be fortunate that you’re playing the world’s most popular and most critically-acclaimed MMO. We’re so lucky to have Yoshida and the crew work tirelessly to give us such an amazing game. If I could tip the developers with my subscription, I would.

While I agree that the way the savage raid tier is designed is due to those factors which makes sense considering how FFXIV lacks any other hard content and doesnt strive to cater to the hardcore raiders in MMOs. I feel its just a tad disingenous to say that WoW lacks content. Sure, due to its long history a lot of the world and previous expansions are made irrelevant because of them sticking to the current stuff 90% of the time, but they still do at least have timewalking dungeons and raids that cycle frequently for players to acquire relevant ilv gear and items for grinding old reps and cosmetics (which is a helpful idea). And while WoW severly lacks casual content, it makes up for it with a lot of open world activities that players can do. So I wouldnt necessarily say that FFXIV is better than WoW in this regard.

But as somebody who has played Dragonflight and currently on a hiatus, yeah no amount of content is going to keep somebody retained for so long, especially the casuals. People here thinking that FFXIV needs more retention content really need to get over the fact that this can never happen without sacrificing meaningful fun factor. Look at WoW being the prime example of having what FFXIV lacks and you think people over there are happy? Yeah if you look at the community, they're no better off than we are in terms of retention.

Its time to get over that "grass is always greener" mentality. I for one have. You play a game until it stops being fun and when that happens who cares, just move on to something else. Why continue to demand games to keep you tied down to it? This is terrible design.

[Saraide]

I feel its just a tad disingenous to say that WoW lacks content.

You are responding to a parody account, of course it's going to be disingenous.