Time to Quit

[Deo14]

I consider myself midcore and things are fine to me. Ofc that's opinions. Much of what you expressed doesn't apply to everyone. And my point still stands. Console take part of these spaces just fine. If you have literally nothing to do that is in fact partially the players problem. It's never a question there being something to do, it's willingness or want to do said things. No real right or wrong there.
I don't Limsa dwell nor do I raid. I run things that I find fun.

No need to go into hyperboles, I'm sure some people who consider themselves midcore are having fun, but if you look around in forums and reddits, you cannot deny content could be designed better for us.

Variant is hyper casual, while criterion has 2 savage difficulties. What's the deal with this, why is there always insane gap between easy and hard content? Relic "grind" is not a grind, it's by-product of you running your daily roulettes. A participation trophy, if you will. Not a fan of BLU, but from what I've heard, update isn't really breathtaking, but I might give it a shot. IS is just badly designed, I like farming and similar, but it just missed the mark completely, I just go there once a two weeks, if I don't forget about it completely. It's neither relaxing or interesting, it's just clicking on nodes, copy pasting spreadsheets from discord and that's about it. Tried to get into EO, but it's full of gotcha mechanics. Not a fan of losing hours of progress, just because I didn't had guide on a second screen. I find crafting fun, but there's not much to craft after first week of raid tier. I'll make next step of crafter relics and won't use them for much, that's about it.

Problem is that I want to play the game, but there's simply not much to do. In GW2, I always had plenty of stuff to do, I was naturally burning out while playing it. After 3-6 months, I started to enjoy it less and less, and eventually swapped to other games, and that's completely fine, after few months, I returned with full energy, and none of my progress was lost, since the game is horizontal. In FFXIV, I feel like I'm being forced to stop playing, since there just isn't anything meaningful to do. I would get it if each major and .x5 patch a gave us at least 1 month of meaningful gameplay, but it's really 1 or 2 weeks tops.

Skyrim mods are infinitely more sophisticated than FF14 mods though. FF14 mods are mostly just glams and UI. Skyrim mods change the entire gameplay:

Don't worry, I'm fully aware of that, I have 252 GB Skyrim installation on my PC right now, and that's after I deleted downloaded archives to save some space. Both games focus on different stuff, there's more choice in clothing (or lack of clothing) and similar in FFXIV, while Skyrim has more gameplay-altering stuff. FFXIV is very limited in that sense, but because of this limitation, it's really surprising how popular FFXIV is for modding.