JP: Yoshi P should step down, FF14 is a sinking ship, in response to interview

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I feel like there's a distinct difference between casual content and busy work.

Collecting things like emotes, Triple Triad cards, barding, etc; vistas, verminion, completing all the entries in Varients, fate grinding, island sanctuary, these are a few things I consider casual content.

Mining 4000 times in a zone or finding 20000 pieces of Accursed Hoard to me is pure busywork. I know that's probably divisive since people will still point and say that mining that same few spots in Thanalan 4000 times is content since there's an achievement for it but I'll never be able to think of that as more than padding. I am glad that you and other hunters enjoy that sort of thing, I'll never rip on someone for liking what I don't.

A few simple things that would really help, since negative feedback without possible suggestions is frowned upon, is repurposing older content. Have us go back to Eureka and Bozja. You already have the zones and structure, put something there for players to go back to if they've completed the place. New items, glamours, field records to add to our collections with delicious lore, luring players back with things to get would help bridge gaps in content. And there's the added bonus of helping players that haven't been there before experience it without the struggle they sometimes face now.

Let's expand the pvp series idea and do that for pve content as well. Wondrous Tails is a tiny start and I know they trot out the Moogle Trove when there's a lull but having something on a permanent basis would be nice. Give us a handful of tasks everyday, similar to the vault in GW2. It could be tasks like "solo queue in DF for x dungeon" or "go do x amount of fates in lakeland". The solo queue removes the issue of just doing it with a party of blue mages or just filling it up and gently shunting people to various queues to help fill them for other players. You still have the roulettes but maybe a small exp bonus on that solo queue task with a currency to buy from a rotating list of items. Small things like this at least help give reasons to log in every day since the tasks would be the only way to get the special currency. As for items, it's a shame that the mog station is the dumping grounds for old event items- they'd be some of the perfect items to put in there for people to log in to grind for. Maybe there could be vouchers for things like old glams from dungeons or raids (like you could get a chest for EW Raid pants and get those pants you've never been able to win from that Nier raid).

I'm just spitting out ideas so these would need to be heavily balanced and adjusted but I feel like there's just more that can be done here. Something between content that pulls too many resources and busy work that's not particularly appealing.