Square Enix should retire the relic quests with Endwalker

[Thurmnmurmn]

It's those participation medals that drive players interest in content.

Past or present, the relic was nothing more than a participation medal.

Savage mount? Participation medal.

Ultimate weapon? Participation medal.

Until players learn to value what they do more than what they get, rewards are just participation medals.

If the previous ones were participation rewards, we wouldn't be hearing square patting their backs over the completion rate of the current ones.

A participation reward is something you can get with little effort. Essentially it's celebrating mediocrity.

Honestly if they continue down this route, I would suggest doing 2 relics. One slightly worst one that you can get the easy way. Then a better one that requires more of a grind in something like exploration content. Maybe even make the harder one dyeable like how savage vs normal raids are.