Quote Originally Posted by Noumenon View Post
No offense, but you speak on behalf of a tiny segment of the playerbase.

Most gamers actually want to play video games, not just collect mounts or glamours. Good for you if you're satisfied with grinding EX 100 times, but for the vast majority of players, that is mindnumbingly dull, regardless of the reward behind it. 24-man raids are even duller. Both you and Xeno are focusing on the rewards that the content give you when most of the dissatisfaction people are feeling now is with the actual content. You are satisfied with the rewards, he is not, but neither of you are tackling the fundamental issue that the gameplay in FF14 is now extremely stale.

The carrots only work on a small minority of players - minority because data shows that this game has an insanely high churn rate - more than 20% every single patch.
Despite all its flaws and being built on the same stale combat system EW can at least claim the somewhat dubious title of “expansion where they tried quite a bit of new content”

But then you look at all the content and it all died on patch, nobody runs CV dungeons, nobody interacts with IS besides setting up the weekly spreadsheet, it’s all just there

Meanwhile 2 expansion old field content still has a massive and lively playerbase because there is so many glam and mount accessories locked behind eureka

If people truly didn’t care for mounts and glams eureka would have died on patch on CV would be flourishing, instead it’s the reverse