My feedback on the method of obtaining relics in Endwalker

[strawberrycake]

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A scathing indictment on the playerbase and honestly the genre as a whole but it's not far off. This is why the genre is trash.

As much as people don't like the reality of it, you're not gonna work if you don;t get paid. You're not gonna waste time if it has no results, be it pleasure or relaxation, that's a reward for your time wasted. Genre isn't trash because it rewards time. It;s trash because a bunch of people who don;t wanna work for anything came into the genre when there's literally other genres that they can play that reward them for simply existing and turning on the game.

So many other MMOs have blended Social interaction with rewards and grinds and people remember them fondly, we're having this issue in XIV now because so many people hear casual and forget they have to play the game to get something. Nothing should be handed to you for free, nothing should be unearned. Nothing would matter if given away for free.

Many of us would rather create memories and make friends and push content to enjoy our subs the most and want to do explore and complete as much engaging content as possible. If the Genre is Trash because we want rewards for our efforts, then dang working for anything in life is must suck for a lot of people.