My feedback on the method of obtaining relics in Endwalker

[Saraide]

Again you miss my point, this has nothing to do with enjoyment of the content on a personal level, not yours and not mine, you don’t like field content (though I find it hilarious you barely even engage with it then call it bad, pretty much the reason I instapull fates I prep in eureka) I do like field content, neither of our opinions matter

Square created grindy (by 14’s standards) content and made it overwhelmingly successful by tying a relic to it, then they made content in EW and didn’t tie a relic to it and it failed, why would square not tie a relic to their big content piece for the expansion (whether that’s field content or not in DT) when it can help drive that level of engagement (even if the entirety of the engagement of Bozja is not due to the relic it 100% contributed)

If we just use engagement as metric than the current relic has been a massive success and we shouldnt hold the relic back with bozjas.

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.

And here I thought games should be entertainment. For fun. If the genre only works because of bribery and cant stand on its own with fun gameplay then it is a failure.