Zepla: Endwalker is the Worst FFXIV Expansion I have played

[ZephyrMenodora]

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I feel similar here. I already feel the extended content schedule and am in the spot where I just run a daily and log out, so I maybe play at most an hour a day if I'm lounging around my house. I don't think we are going to get a 6.6 - there is no reason to believe we will. So we have to buckle up for a long period of nothing new to do. I hope 7.0 and any improvements are worth it - it's going to be a tough sell and they will lose subscribers I'm sure at least temporarily for this.

I have 4 relics at the current level and want maybe 1 more, but it's not enough to get me to play more than my daily. If the Relics were another type of grind I probably just wouldn't do them - repetitive content of any type doesn't keep my interest and I'd rather play an entirely new game with new stories and gameplay than grind something I find boring, so I'm neutral on that.

Island Sanctuary and Criterion Dungeons were not for me at all. I'm torn on whether they should try new types of content - if they were amazing then I'd feel differently. In their current state I wonder why they bothered spending time on these things. It's still content though, just none I am interested in. There are probably people though who do like this and will say as such.

That said I have subbed the entire EW cycle and played more than ever in the past. From ARR to ShB I probably subbed maybe 4 months each expansion? So I had a lot of classes to level that kept me interested. Now I'm just left with a few unlevelled jobs I don't really care about so my motivation to spend time on that is diminished. People that started EW with all jobs at 80 must be incredibly bored by now.

If Zepla somehow gets access to Yoshi P and can advocate for more resources to be put back in XIV it would only be a good thing for us here.

[Renathras]

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While I say it all the time, this is ONE time I'd say you should definitely sit and read all of that post.

You would probably agree with most of it if you did.

I feel similar here. I already feel the extended content schedule and am in the spot where I just run a daily and log out, so I maybe play at most an hour a day if I'm lounging around my house. I don't think we are going to get a 6.6 - there is no reason to believe we will. So we have to buckle up for a long period of nothing new to do. I hope 7.0 and any improvements are worth it - it's going to be a tough sell and they will lose subscribers I'm sure at least temporarily for this.

Yeah, I'm not necessarily worried long-term, but I am...cautious, let's call it.

I'm the kind of person that always can find something to do (I mean, I have a number of the "gather X,000 materials from level X1-Y0 gathering node" achievements), but there are limits to how long old content, especially things you only really do once, can carry things.

I've enjoyed EW, don't get me wrong, but I do feel like I'm starting to have to get creative on new things to tackle or old things that I've been slow burn working through for a while finally resolving. If that's true with me, it's probably true with a lot of others. So if the path length is tooooo long (e.g. normal-to-8-months), it's going to be...unpleasant.