Quote Originally Posted by Chihaya View Post
FFXI was over 10 years of content on a horizontal progression - meaning there's a lot of old content that you can do and still obtain decent rewards from it.
Sky, Sea, land kings, ENM, ZNM, Voidwalker, Voidwatch, Bahamut, KS30/99, Limbus, Dynamis, Salvage, Assault, Nyzul isle + more
So much different content to choose from when level cap was 75 - some content are more challenging than others, allowing hardcore players and more casual players to choose what to do. Though I heard Adoulin switched to a ilvl system... so I don't know if these are still relevant.

FFXIV is on vertical progression - where old content/rewards get phased out. There's not that much to choose from other than the current top raid/CT series or just save current tomes for gear.

This is a big part of why I need to take breaks every so often, honestly. There's a lot of cool stuff in this game that it seems like almost no one runs anymore because there's literally no reason to unless an animus book forces you or something. Pharos Sirius, Wanderer's Palace (original, not HM), and a bunch of other dungeons are beautiful and fun, but no one does them because they don't need to. They're obsolete and will probably be obsolete forever, and that's sad. The end result being that there's a VERY small amount of content that SE encourages everyone to spam at once until the next update comes out....and then spam THAT new very small amount of content while forgetting about the old stuff. I can't even bring myself to do ex roulette now, not even for alexandrite.