Quote Originally Posted by BigCheez View Post
What shift?

Some of you have very short memories.

https://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...b1db9f007372c/
https://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...86abb201c2437/

Endwalker was near identical in terms of the content that has been released with Dawntrail so far. There really hadn't been much besides 3 extreme trials, a savage tier, an ultimate, the first alliance raid, the intro Hildebrand quest, the first beast tribe and custom delivery.

The problem is not that there has been some kind of shift away from casual content. The problem is that the release schedule is incredibly predictable and formulaic and there's never anything to do for the entire first year of an expansion.

If people perceive there to be less casual content in Dawntrail so far compared to previous expansions, it's because they've finally run out of old content to plug the gap at the start of an expansion.
Perhaps so, but the addition of Chaotic raid, right after FRU, made us even more acutely aware of the lack of casual content, while the hardcores are eating well this patch with back to back hard raids. That is the source of all the resentment. Had they released the Chaotic with a more accessible midcore version, this might have been avoided. Or they could have released the Chaotic after the new exploratory zone when the casuals are busy. Or they could have released the exploratory zone sooner.