End game... Bored. The facts.

[Orsnoire]

A week? It's been six weeks since release and 2.1 is still months away? How on earth can you call that rushing?

It's a nice sentiment to be understanding about development but sadly that won't make anyone less bored. The existence of an excuse, no matter how good it is, does not add a single bit of content to the game. Also comparing to WoW at release would be great for the game if not for the unfortunate fact that it isn't 2004 anymore.

Am I the only one who finds this post ironic coming from someone whose top level is 37, with literally 0 levels done in either DoH or DoL?

Yeah....it doesn't matter the specific timeframe. If you "rush" through content without bothering to do lateral progression, you're rushing and doing it wrong...at least in this game.

The entire conflict in this thread is about the core game mechanic for FF XIV: it's designed to get you to develop more than a single job. If you decide not to play that mechanic, I really have only 2 things to say to you:

1) This isn't the game for you.
2) You're doing it wrong.

The entire game's longevity and ongoing progressive interest revolves around developing your character's lateral skills (i.e. DoH/DoL and cross-class abilities), not about solely the gear grind (although that's undoubtedly PART of the game's progression curve). If you only try to level a single job to 50 and do only that one job's gear grind, you're missing the lion's share of the game.

--and no, I don't mean in terms of content, as obviously it's repeated content. I mean in terms of satisfaction, functionality, and enjoyment.

Back in the "golden age" of MMOs, it wasn't about someone's e-complishments or even their e-peen or their gear, it was about the experiences that you got to have online. Lateral progress in XIV is a move back in that direction, and if you choose not to do it you're literally avoiding most of the game. It's entirely possible that you despise that kind of game play...

Bottom line is that FF XIV is a gen 2 MMO ("WoW clone" if you prefer that misnomer) that also creates a casual environment emulating the lateral progression models of gen 1. It just seems to me that too many are expecting it to be something else, and not accepting it for what it is...and if what it IS isn't for you, then move on for heck's sake to something that doesn't give you so much angst.