Everyone is praising the 5.5-month patch cycle!

[sindriiisgaming]

If you are taking months to do a 30 hour jRPG that’s 90% a VN then I’m not sure you are the majority audience any more than people who finish it in a day

Outside the story there is basically nothing in the expansion launch (levelling jobs to the new level cap doesn’t count)

genuine question, but why doesn't that count? its content. im confused why leveling.. in a game.. in an mmo game.. wouldn't count as content.
Isnt that runescapes entire thing? and its still going after 30 years.
it kinda of feels like, you are deciding for me, what is content, and also not giving me, or anybody else, the proper respect in regard to how we play the base expansion. for example i still have not finished everything in dawntrail despite doing 14 hour day shifts for 3 months now. im curious what the internal monologue about that statement is. I do hope you'll share it

[Heavenchild]

genuine question, but why doesnt that count? its content. im confused why leveling.. in a game.. in an mmo game.. wouldnt count as content... isnt that runescapes entire thing? and its still going after 30 years.
it kinda of feels like, you are deciding for me, what is content, and also not giving me, or anybody else, the proper respect in ragrd to how we play the base expansion. for example i still have not finished everything in dawntrail despite doing 14 hour day shifts for 3 months now. im curious what the internal monologue about that statement is. I do hope youll share it

Does not count because it is the same system since muuuch too long. That makes it very boring to level up again and again and again.
The way to level up and get gear is always the same. After 2-3 expansions it's hard to feel that as 'playable interesting content'.
It feels more like lazy copy paste. And it also feels pointless, because the gear will be outdated fast.

If you can enjoy this, then this is totally fine. But a lot of people don't. And you have to respekt that, too. : )

I am in FFXIV since 2016/2017, and later came to the forums. And for me the same leveling-up-again process meanwhile feels not interesting anymore.

[Supersnow845]

genuine question, but why doesnt that count? its content. im confused why leveling.. in a game.. in an mmo game.. wouldnt count as content... isnt that runescapes entire thing? and its still going after 30 years.
it kinda of feels like, you are deciding for me, what is content, and also not giving me, or anybody else, the proper respect in ragrd to how we play the base expansion. for example i still have not finished everything in dawntrail despite doing 14 hour day shifts for 3 months now. im curious what the internal monologue about that statement is. I do hope youll share it

RuneScape is a totally different ballgame because RuneScapes 25 or so skills (RS3 has more skills than OSRS by 5 I believe) that all level differently to each other and internally at different levels and they all unlock different functions, quests and interconnection with each other. Levelling agility is different to levelling cooking and levelling archeology at level 12 is different to levelling it at 84 and all skills require different tools, locations, and different amounts of money to work on properly

Meanwhile 14’s jobs all level exactly the same way and provide no unique benefits to levelling more than one of them (except the one mount you usually get at each level cap). You level BLM the same way as you level WAR and you level WHM the same way at 12 as you do at 93. Their gear and their requirements are all the same and they all require the same amount of money (nothing)

It’s why I don’t consider getting shares fate 3 in the DT zones as sufficiently different to getting shared fate in the EW zones

Is that an excessively narrow view of what constitutes content……..I guess you could argue it is but to me if you are grinding (which is totally fine I do like grinding) the content needs to change as you grind, this is something RuneScapes skills get very very right and 14 gets very wrong, in an average expansion only really levelling the first job you use in one MSQ is anything “different”