Out of touch? PLL

[CuteBucket]

And so, to conclude this circus, here I am, a person who achieved Elemental Level 60 in Eureka, who also helped a friend a year later also achieve it, a person who's done the Anemos Relic, who's completed Bozja and two relics from it; and I am telling you right now... It wasn't enjoyable to me, at all. But I did it anyway. I'm in the metrics you posted, I'm one of those statistics you're so fond of. I dislike field content, I despise their very concept. And you know what? When the next field content arrives for Dawntrail, I'm going to do that too, and I'm going to hate every minute of it.

...Why? You can just NOT do it if you hate it so much. There's a bunch of content I don't do in this game because I have zero interest/tried it and didn't like it. I just don't understand this mindset at all. Please leave the field content alone and find something else to do so those of us that enjoy it can go have fun without hearing constant bitching about how some of my favorite content in the game is awful to the point that SE removed it to the detriment of the last expansion. Stop forcing yourself to play content you hate, seriously, life is too short for that.

[lolnotacat]

...Why? You can just NOT do it if you hate it so much. There's a bunch of content I don't do in this game because I have zero interest/tried it and didn't like it. I just don't understand this mindset at all. Please leave the field content alone and find something else to do so those of us that enjoy it can go have fun without hearing constant bitching about how some of my favorite content in the game is awful to the point that SE removed it to the detriment of the last expansion. Stop forcing yourself to play content you hate, seriously, life is too short for that.

I agree that people shouldn't do content they don't like. That's why I did Diadem, Eureka and Bozja for about 30 minutes each before never stepping foot in them again, despite the fact I really wanted to do DR and BA.

One thing I'm skeptical about is the fact that the removed field content in the EW schedule is solely due to feedback. I really doubt that's the case, even if that was stated somewhere. The reason why is that the XIV team should have every important metric behind field content. Total hours played, average time played, where players dropped off, bottlenecks, etc... The fact it wasn't added to EW suggests to me a few things:

1. Field content wasn't as popular as they had hoped, and they couldn't see the value in creating more of it for EW.
2. Endwalker side content also wasn't as popular as they had hoped, and despite the fact that the cost to develop Island Sanctuary, Hildibrand, etc... was (probably) much cheaper than field content, the ROI wasn't there either.
3. Bringing back field content for DT means they think they may have found a happy medium between development cost and what they hope will scratch the itch to appease players and keep them engaged for the entire expansion.

I'm not sure what to expect for the new field content, but my expectations are low because the XIV team has shown they're not the type to do large shifts in design unless it's more simplification. I hope other players enjoy it though.

[Erzaa]

...Why? You can just NOT do it if you hate it so much. There's a bunch of content I don't do in this game because I have zero interest/tried it and didn't like it. I just don't understand this mindset at all. Please leave the field content alone and find something else to do so those of us that enjoy it can go have fun without hearing constant bitching about how some of my favorite content in the game is awful to the point that SE removed it to the detriment of the last expansion. Stop forcing yourself to play content you hate, seriously, life is too short for that.

Some players do it because they enjoy it, others because they want the relic, others yet are indifferent to content and just do it because it's there and there's nothing else to do, and a small few I'm sure do it out of an obsessive compulsive need to unlock everything.

For me, because they attached story and lore to it, and I want to experience it. I like unlocking the little cameos that pop up in the MSQ.

And in Bozja's case, I also really liked how the RDM and MCH relics looked, and I wanted them. And Bozja wasn't nearly as bad as Eureka, there were fun parts in Bozja, just the one off relic grinds weren't one of it. But, usually, if there's no story attached and I find the content not fun, I'll skip that, sure.