Is this the future for the rest of ARR's upcoming expansions and updates?

[Cod_Eye]

Dungeon grinding for gear grind Is the vision for Yoshi and his team for the forseeable future? The sad thing is previous version of XIV ended up being pretty good game comparable to where ARR stands at this moment. Even the update notes are not very encouraging.

As a previous player of 1.0 I'm not happy with the direction Yoshi and his team are taking this game, I feel like I'm playing a cross between WoW and GW2, not a great fan of both of those games either.

Is this the game you guys wanted? is Yoshi going in the right direction for those that played the previous version?

Personally I'd like Hamlet back and chocobo escorting to name a couple, I'd also like to see more open world content instead of this entering instances to do everything.

I haven't bothered to log into the game for last 4-5 weeks, I'm done with dungeon grinds tbh.

[Zafrei]

Personally I never played 1.0 but I'm loving this game. The sheer variety of activities while levelling (quests/FATEs/crafting/dungeons) has meant I haven't gotten bored once. As for endgame and expansions, they are only just releasing their first update, game has only been out for three months. Name another mmo that announced new landmasses, classes and quests this early on? It doesn't happen. New content will come, let them get updates #1 and #2 out of the way first before condemning it eh?

[chococo]

Personally I never played 1.0 but I'm loving this game. The sheer variety of activities while levelling (quests/FATEs/crafting/dungeons) has meant I haven't gotten bored once. As for endgame and expansions, they are only just releasing their first update, game has only been out for three months. Name another mmo that announced new landmasses, classes and quests this early on? It doesn't happen. New content will come, let them get updates #1 and #2 out of the way first before condemning it eh?

Whether updates are coming or not, whether they are given time or not, the game philosophy will still be a vertical progression gear grind. New updates render old content obsolete. It's like putting a hamster in one of those treadmill things where they just keep running for the sake of running.

[Dyvid]

Whether updates are coming or not, whether they are given time or not, the game philosophy will still be a vertical progression gear grind. New updates render old content obsolete. It's like putting a hamster in one of those treadmill things where they just keep running for the sake of running.

Is there an emote for scratch ones head in puzzlement? It's an MMO. They all have the same treadmill run. And yes, FFXI did too. It's the nature of the beast. If they didn't give players a goal with every new update, nobody would resub.

[chococo]

Is there an emote for scratch ones head in puzzlement? It's an MMO. They all have the same treadmill run. And yes, FFXI did too. It's the nature of the beast. If they didn't give players a goal with every new update, nobody would resub.

Not saying there won't be a grind for an MMOs. Like you said there will always be a need for new objectives to keep ppl resubbing. But how fast things become obsolete in this game is the issue. WP > ifrit > garuda > titan > relic. The time you spend farming, say an ifrit or garuda weapon, you could've gotten your relic already. One weapon/gear in each tier outclasses the predecessors entirely.

[Killance]

If you have no valid input then stfu and read and reply to another post that your brain can cope with.

That makes your thread invalid now.

[Babydoll]

I feel the same as you op, this game needs more open world content. More end game open world content to be exact...

[Naraku_Diabolos]

I feel the same as you op, this game needs more open world content. More end game open world content to be exact...

That's because you got all your classes/jobs to Lv50 in 1.0, silly! You only had ARN with SMN/SCH to play with

I haven't gotten bored with the game yet. I'm going to try and get one of each item crafted in my crafting log, and harvesting items off one by one in my gathering log, too. I'm also going to try with the fish as well. That's my long term goal!

[Davionx]

I feel the same as you op, this game needs more open world content. More end game open world content to be exact...

This game will never have either

[DSN]

I feel the same as you op, this game needs more open world content. More end game open world content to be exact...

Kind of hard the world is pretty small when compared to other games. If you are a crafter who farms their own materials you learn this really fast.
There some materials that drop from one specific enemy and there are 6 in the entire game all in one spot over farmed / botted / camped, the solution to this is to have more than one camp for these enemies but they are out of space already.