Why are most allied society dailies just running around talking to NPCs?

[LisseyCrowe]

I'm leveling the new bunch of jobs that have risen over the last 4 years or so, after which I can spend the next two years hitting max level on all of them. I don't do PvP, so Frontlines is out. I don't find the content I do play to be unenjoyable, although it appears that the ones I've mentioned bring you no joy. Perhaps I only have 30 minutes or an hour on any given weekday to play, and these fit nicely into my routine. Perhaps I can go for a few weeks of not playing at all because I have a life outside of this game.

But no, I have to hate the jobs, or hate the game because ... I level new jobs the way I've decided to do so? What a weird take.

No, but you level them through 5 minute free exp, a roulette that caps jobs to their bare minimum and Hunts that are, from my experience anyway (granted, a biased experience on this one), a hodgepodge of killing something through sheer player numbers more than anything, while telling people who want something more interactive and requiring more effort that that's a bad thing. You don't think that's not necessarily sending a somewhat negative message? You're the one who also said that "New and exciting" has a bad track record and ... I dunno, again, that's not a bit of a doomer take? Low effort content that gives free exp is better than experimental content that involves gameplay that, sure some might dislike, but I'd still take the risk every single time, and wish SE would do, at the very least for the general health of the game.

Maybe I'm wrong but to me it just looks like you want to level for the sake of it. I don't believe that, of course. But it comes off that way, for better or worse.