Maybe it's time for a casual "strike" if not complete departure.

[Gurgeh]

"I did this, so naturally everyone else who isn't me can do this too."

I'll use a tried and true method you like to use when an opposing viewpoint is offered! You have to be trolling now.

Your point is... 'the' point.
But sadly it doesn't change the reality of the game. I had two weeks off work.
I went back and looked at the dedicated Gpose diary I kept if my DT adventure. It was wonderful. Poses at vistas. A new glam ever 3 MSQ levels. (side quests here and there, I still maintain not a lot) Lots of FATES organically (on foot still) to enjoy the zones.

I was still 'enjoying' MSQ on 20th July, including that 2 weeks off.
I still wouldn't want to do the next expansion differently either. I want to spend 2/3 weeks making the story and the new zones 'feel big', like an epic adventure.
Sadly though, I'm really bored of the casual battle content (such is barely 'playable' content it's so lacking in 'resistance')

So for me, this game can have no future. It's time for me to progress to end game, but how I play is not 'organised' and 'goal oriented' enough. And I absolutely do not want to 'organise' my gaming. It's not why I do any gaming.
I do think it's a shame. I'd only need 2/3 extra weeks, and this casual player might not need to ask for more casual content. Further more high end are going to have months and months of nothing by end expansion. So what's the hurry?
Oh well it's irrelevant.
I know it is fact, from outside these forums, that I am not alone, in it being the game's schedule that is the problem with high end. We were a casual group, that had been mentored by a high end group and came together over extremes, and the new expansion just split us up again, they were 'all' done with MSQ in about 3 days.

Now I think about it, I suggest it might be this schedule that is 'filtering' out players who are happy to do high end, but do not 'massively' 'enjoy' being goal oriented above all else. And so PF is full of the sort of people who abandon before a third pull.

However, I do recognise that does not at all mean that there are very many more than that handful of people I did know who are like minded.

[Lilapop]

Your point is... 'the' point.
But sadly it doesn't change the reality of the game. I had two weeks off work.
I went back and looked at the dedicated Gpose diary I kept if my DT adventure. It was wonderful. Poses at vistas. A new glam ever 3 MSQ levels. (side quests here and there, I still maintain not a lot) Lots of FATES organically (on foot still) to enjoy the zones.

I was still 'enjoying' MSQ on 20th July, including that 2 weeks off.
I still wouldn't want to do the next expansion differently either. I want to spend 2/3 weeks making the story and the new zones 'feel big', like an epic adventure.
Sadly though, I'm really bored of the casual battle content (such is barely 'playable' content it's so lacking in 'resistance')

So for me, this game can have no future. It's time for me to progress to end game, but how I play is not 'organised' and 'goal oriented' enough. And I absolutely do not want to 'organise' my gaming. It's not why I do any gaming.
I do think it's a shame. I'd only need 2/3 extra weeks, and this casual player might not need to ask for more casual content. Further more high end are going to have months and months of nothing by end expansion. So what's the hurry?
Oh well it's irrelevant.
I know it is fact, from outside these forums, that I am not alone, in it being the game's schedule that is the problem with high end. We were a casual group, that had been mentored by a high end group and came together over extremes, and the new expansion just split us up again, they were 'all' done with MSQ in about 3 days.

Now I think about it, I suggest it might be this schedule that is 'filtering' out players who are happy to do high end, but do not 'massively' 'enjoy' being goal oriented above all else. And so PF is full of the sort of people who abandon before a third pull.

However, I do recognise that does not at all mean that there are very many more than that handful of people I did know who are like minded.

imo, just play how you'd like to play. you don't have to organize your playtime to the extent others do, you're gonna find like-minded players eventually; there's more high-end content coming than casual content afaik, could be wrong though.