Where is the gameplay?

[Wildheaven182]

This is how FF has always done events. It's got nothing to do with DT. I honestly can't remember them having an engaging event outside of the Fall Guys collab. It's pretty depressing but complaints have been made over the years and no changes have been made.

Yeah, doesnt mean its good.
I think the fanbase has been tamed by their loyalty into being conditioned to accept mediocrity.

[LilyPendragon]

Yeah, doesnt mean its good.
I think the fanbase has been tamed by their loyalty into being conditioned to accept mediocrity.

Any time "this is how it's always been" is stated in an argument, you know the rest can probably be safely discarded

[Striker44]

Yeah, doesnt mean its good.
I think the fanbase has been tamed by their loyalty into being conditioned to accept mediocrity.

For me, as someone who enjoys the game, it's not so much "accepting mediocrity" as acknowledging "every game will have its own individual strengths and weaknesses." Over the years, I've played GW, WoW, GW2, SWTOR, and FFXIV. Each one has had certain things that made me enjoy playing it while I did and certain things I didn't care for. I'm just enough of a pragmatist to recognize that no single game will "do it all" and just because Game A has a certain feature doesn't mean every game should have it. Seasonal quests aren't what brought me to FFXIV, so I smile at the ones that bring back references to other characters you've interacted with along the way (some seasonal events tend to continue a storyline from year-to-year while others just repeat themselves) and just shrug at the others. People on this forum love to take everything to extremes and just outright bash the developers...and then wonder why they don't get taken seriously...it's honestly a little amusing. I play FFXIV for the story, the music, and the veritable ton of side content, and all of those continue to please me in DT.