Does SE not realise their game has no content?

[Cycloptichorn]

I could level another crafting class to 50, but this is how i did my armourer... Buy mythril and cobalt bars cheap, hand in the leve ( nets extra gil and xp ) . thats fail mmo crafting.

I see people say stuff like this a lot. Here's the question: how's your gear progression on your armorer? All HQ gear, overmelded? No? Guess what, you're no more done leveling that class than someone who recently dinged 50 is done leveling their DoW job.

Without proper gear and without a TON of cross-craft skills, you're not reliably able to do the hardest content. The MMO crafting system didn't fail, you just chose a sneaky route to get sorta close to the top and then declared yerself done.

(apologies if you have, in fact, fully geared up your armorer, but it sure doesn't sound like it from your description)

[Gilraen]

You don't have to level every job to 50 to be done. Believe it or not some people don't like playing other jobs. I for one only like tank classes. As with most games I don't pay attention to story that's what movies/tv/books are for.

Funny you should say that about the story as, honestly, that's the hallmark of a Final Fantasy game, the story. It's why we play them, why we buy each and every one, and why we complain when we're done (oh god, seriously, who thought up the sequels?). I didn't get interested in XIV because it was new, I was interested in the story. And I loved it! I loved the story of 1.0, I love the story of 2.0. Rushing through the content only serves to skip the story and miss the whole point of the game.

[Cycloptichorn]

As with most games I don't pay attention to story that's what movies/tv/books are for.

Just, mind-boggling. Hey, here's a suggestion: maybe try paying attention to the story! You might even enjoy it!

[Starlord]

As with most games I don't pay attention to story that's what movies/tv/books are for.

You are playing a FF game, that is known for it's storytelling above all else. When you got this game, what exactly did you expect to get?

[Nuit]

Did SE notice the game has no content? No idea.

Did I realize the game has no content? Nope! Thanks for telling me though, I was so busy playing every spare moment and not having enough time to do everything I want to do in the game that I completely failed to notice the lack of content. I don't know what I would do without helpful posters like you! Have a cookie.

[Arale]

I honestly think the biggest issue in this game is the methods for experiencing each kind of content are either flawed, overshadowed by FATE's, or simply aren't fun. Some made comparisons to GW2 and to me, that game gives players many options to experience content with different class builds, strategies, and most importantly, more fun and varied ways to navigate end game. Speaking as a player with almost 1700 hours logged for GW2, and a 1.0 beta until now player of XIV/ARR, I think this game has a decent amount of content, just that much of it is imbalanced, too easy, or not fun to do. They need to refine the way players do things so that the activity of crafting, gathering, or doing dungeons feels fun and rewarding, and not like a chore. That's the magic that kept me playing GW2. 2.1 looks to be heading in that direction, but these changes need to happen sooner then later. If the journey and methods of getting to end game, and experiencing end game as well as crafting/gathering/storytelling were improved and were more fun, then I honestly feel we would see less threads like this one.

[Mega_Man_U]

Stuff

See? That's how you do criticism. Not being condescending and/or an asshole.

[Nuit]

See? That's how you do criticism. Not being condescending and/or an asshole.

I don't understand this concept of not being condescending/assohole. If I'm not a horrible person who only evoques anger in others, then they won't notice me and love me for how awesome I am!

[Raelton]

So from what I see, half of the responses are "but you don't have any other classes to 50" and the other half is "how is grinding FATES content?" Then I see "you have to wait for more content to be released."

There's 0 reason to level another class. The Mythology cap makes it completely pointless to level another class until around January, because unless you're getting gear from Coil (which you can only run once per week on 1 Job), it would have taken from launch to January if you capped every week just to get full Mythology gear on 1 Job.

Also, if you actually add up the story for each class, it would take you about 10minutes to read the entire storyline that you get each 5 levels from leveling a class.

There's 0 reason for (me specifically) to level crafting. All of the gear I have is better than what I can craft, and as far as other classes, who in their right mind would want to run CM/Prae/AK/WP a million more times to get the peacock ore to gear up a character that can't even run the end game because you can only run Coil once per week and you'll be doing that on your main class?
Also, you can sell your "services" as a crafter to make gil that doesnt buy ANYTHING but crafting gear that I don't need because the only reason you'd get it is to run Coil that I've already done.

Other then that, there are achievements, Obtain 10million Gil from Levequests. Do any of you realise how long it would take to get that achievement? There's a statistic I read that said about 3years. Whether or not that be true, you can go to a high level levequest and estimate it for yourself.

There's no extracurricular activities and while there are "things" to do, if you compare this to ANY OTHER MMO as release, it has literally the least amount of content. The only reason this game is currently staying afloat is because it has Final Fantasy in the name and if 2.1 treasure hunting or PVP doesn't bring something amazing to the table, this game will crash and burn just like 1.0 did.

[Nuit]

There's 0 reason to level another class

Except fun. Because if you take fun out of the equation, then there is also zero reason the play the game at all. Or any game.