Grinding in FFXIV vs Other MMOs

[Ardeth]

As an "outsider" to Raiding ive never understood that... so we grind out Savage gear, have 735, but the first tier of 7.2 will bring 750(?) crafted and normal raid gear, plus new tome stuff so the old Savage stuff is pointless?

Ive always felt they need to spread out Ilvl way further, so we actually can progress...

Or make that progress matter more, but you'd have gatekeeping either way.

I just don't see much of a future in it with these developers. All we really have to look forward to as casuals is content that people hated. I know now people who jump to defend it, but people hated Eureka. People hated Bozja. They will hate the new one. Islands launched as this hyper casual content. People hated it. Could we expand on it and fix it? Nope, just make a new one.

I just can't see this development team being that competent. I'm sorry, I just can't. Exploratory zone 3.0 is just going to be the same boring grindy convaluted mess that it always is. Please look forward to it!

[BabyYoda]

Or make that progress matter more, but you'd have gatekeeping either way.

I just don't see much of a future in it with these developers. All we really have to look forward to as casuals is content that people hated. I know now people who jump to defend it, but people hated Eureka. People hated Bozja. They will hate the new one. Islands launched as this hyper casual content. People hated it. Could we expand on it and fix it? Nope, just make a new one.

I just can't see this development team being that competent. I'm sorry, I just can't. Exploratory zone 3.0 is just going to be the same boring grindy convaluted mess that it always is. Please look forward to it!

I think the problem is Mr. Yoshi team is trying to reinvent the wheel.. we already have successful formula for this kind of content.. trying to add things that will make things much more complicated without achieving meaningful results is what led them to make this kind of content even worst

[Kuroka]

Or make that progress matter more, but you'd have gatekeeping either way.

I just don't see much of a future in it with these developers. All we really have to look forward to as casuals is content that people hated. I know now people who jump to defend it, but people hated Eureka. People hated Bozja. They will hate the new one. Islands launched as this hyper casual content. People hated it. Could we expand on it and fix it? Nope, just make a new one.

I just can't see this development team being that competent. I'm sorry, I just can't. Exploratory zone 3.0 is just going to be the same boring grindy convaluted mess that it always is. Please look forward to it!

To me Bozja felt like the downgrade compared to Eureka... it hat its nice parts but overall.... meh. And the NEED to stop with the "do xyz 200x" grinds...

The first Eureka part was actually fun at times, but we didnt play as they wanted so they slowed us down by force for the 2nd part... I do think theyre competent, but either theyre being held back, or just drop the ball themselves...

[Reimmi]

I dislike grinding for power in any mmo
but i love grinding for cosmetics and money

[Supersnow845]

Or make that progress matter more, but you'd have gatekeeping either way.

I just don't see much of a future in it with these developers. All we really have to look forward to as casuals is content that people hated. I know now people who jump to defend it, but people hated Eureka. People hated Bozja. They will hate the new one. Islands launched as this hyper casual content. People hated it. Could we expand on it and fix it? Nope, just make a new one.

I just can't see this development team being that competent. I'm sorry, I just can't. Exploratory zone 3.0 is just going to be the same boring grindy convaluted mess that it always is. Please look forward to it!

Your personal opinion on field content doesn’t remotely translate to statistically how popular Bozja was

The only truly unpopular field content was diadem