Boring Endgame

[Balipu]

What we really need is 3.1 Everything will be okay then.
I remember when I finished the 2.0 Main scenario with the Praetorium. The ammount of stuff to do whas frankly overwhelming. Coil attunement, CT attunement, hard modes for the 3 original primals, hard mode dungeons, Odin, the continuation of the main scenario, the relic questline which was actually pretty good for the first phase of the weapon, the postmoogle questline and Hildibrand.

Granted that was during 2.3 so there was a lot of stuff to catch up to so I had no illusions that 3.0 will be anything like that, but ya know as fun as Neverreap is it gets tiresome when you run it three times a day. I'll guess I'll do hard mode Brayflox and Halatali and unlock hard mode roulette. Least I won't get the same dungeon over and over again.

[NeaturalBomber]

Clearly if you don't think there is enough content to tie you over till next patch your kidding yourself
Here are some things to do to
1. Crafting this will take you a month maybe longer depending on how long you do it for
2. Hunts gear upgrades
3. Lvling multi roles to be flexible with content
4. FC airship
5. Triple triad card collection
Just in these 5 ideas will take you a good few months without a job in real life
Stop crying and experience all aspects the game has to offer they have done plenty to keep you going till there is anoither patch release

[Pikachu_Pizza]

You are complaining already? We haven't even got 3.1 isnt it a quick to judge? Stop playing so god damm much.

I'm new to this game and there still so much to do. Maybe(and it sounds like it) you've just been playing for so long that there really isnt much left in game for you to do.

Go play outside. You earned it.

[Cinicus]

Maybe in this theme park of a wonderful game we could just get some horizontal progression??? Just maybe that would spice up EG...? Allow the players to have 2-3+ options for EG style play and builds....man that would be awesome!!!!

[BlaiseArath]

Clearly if you don't think there is enough content to tie you over till next patch your kidding yourself
Here are some things to do to
1. Crafting this will take you a month maybe longer depending on how long you do it for

I truly am sorry if I come as off salty here, I try not too but it doesn't help sometimes I'm not trying to call you out at any point so try not to take offense... if you do, I understand, but I'm more upset with SE not learning than I am people enjoying XIV. You're free to love XIV, just as I am free to be disappointed in it. its like a Parent who loves their kid but is sad they became a stripper. I don't hate XIV, I still love it, I'm just disappointed in the direction its going. Make sense? Okay, okay. Moving one.

I leveled my craft to 60, working on two more... but to what purpose? For the Worthless achievement points? SE already said crafted gear won't be nearly as good as it was in 2.0 to not overshadow raid gear... So level crafts to... craft useless junk armor? Its not your fault the armor is going to be sub par, its SE's, I don't understand their logic in making crafting useless outside of ... I guess... Airship parts and furniture?

2. Hunts gear upgrades

This is more of a case of "Forced to do it" rather than "Want to do it" for almost everyone... and its not because I don't like the idea of killing NMs, NM hunting is hands down my favorite idea and concept in the game, its just the Hunt system is one of the most poorly implemented things in XIV right now, and they haven't improve it one bit. Everyone hates Hunts, almost universally. The daily/Weekly ones you get from the board can be a nice distraction, good exp, and decent gil, I really like what they did with those... but the A and S are universally referred to as the sh*ttiest thing about FFXIV. I think to clarify what I'm saying here is the idea is good and it should be improved upon, not copy and pasted from 2.0 with no changes aside from now every zone has TWO!

3. Lvling multi roles to be flexible with content

Leveling isn't content. But I like that we've come full circle and people are saying exactly what they said when this discussion came up in 2.0...

4. FC airship

I've done this... let me tell you how it works. The entirety of it is literally, you get 4 people in your basement and one person clicks "Yes" on a menu only he can see. Then you wait like 4 days for it to return on its own with a handful of crafting materials you can sell for about 20 gil a pop. Until we can actually fly the Airships and do content with them outside of "Click yes to win"... They're not worth bringing up. They're essentially gil-sink retainer ventures right now. Workshop looks cool though.

5. Triple triad card collection

I kinda agree here, I actually love Triple Triad, or I did before XIV ruined it. I understand removing the "Pick one" when you win rule as it would make collecting too easy... but with Random, Roulette, card restrictions that NPCs don't have to follow, the game goes from my favorite side game in a Main series Final Fantasy... too an unfair unbalanced, arbitrarily restricting RNG crap fest of a game. Not even the soothing awesome melody of "Shuffle and Boogie" can help me forget that "Random" is a rule that in its entirely reduces TT from a game of strategy to a game of dumb luck.

And the thing is, The problem is content shouldn't be only about "How long will it take?". People here aren't so much upset that the content isn't long enough, its that its just... boring, a repeat of everything we already had to do in 2.0.. Think about it, half the things you named were the exact same things we were doing in 2.0 to pass the time, is it not at all sinking in that this is exactly what the complaints are about? Yes, we have this wonderful expansion, but two weeks in and everything is exactly the same as it was in 2.0+. Hunts for upgrades, Dungeons for Base armor, Raids for high end armor. Its the same thing over and over. Thats the complaints people have here.

I do log in to do some of the things you mentioned, I got goldsmith to 60 because nothing else felt fun... then I started up Miner again (its 57), and its nice too, but to what ends are these?

Also you forgot Treasure Maps, though I don't blame you, most people forget they exist too lol... Those are fun too, I just wish they had more variety... like maybe occasionally a Map will spawn a harder "NM" Enemy, that will make the end chest yield better loot, or simply more of the rare loot. Would be really fun popping a chest to see a Named-Boss mob spawn instead of "Territorial (X)".

You are complaining already? We haven't even got 3.1 isnt it a quick to judge? Stop playing so god damm much.

Check another "Stop playing the game and it wont be boring!".

[ExponentialDecay]

FFXIV is fine. I am so glad I don't feel obligated to log in every day. The last thing I want is a game I enjoy to become a second job where every second I'm not logged in doing Content is detrimental to me.

And the thing is, The problem is content shouldn't be only about "How long will it take?". People here aren't so much upset that the content isn't long enough, its that its just... boring, a repeat of everything we already had to do in 2.0..

LOL, no, people in here are complaining about that exactly. That there isn't """"enough"""" to do. That is explicitly a complain about time to completion. They are literally complaining that they only log in for raids, and do nothing else, and that there aren't enough raids for them to do(that they don't need to spend as much time doing raids). Or they complain about the time required to hit level cap(not enough time spent leveling).

[BlaiseArath]

I'm genuinely sad to say I can't honestly tell if you're being facetious or not :I

[NeaturalBomber]

Blaise I did enjoy your reply XD . But I do like what they have done with the gathering and crafting side I actually enjoy crafting now do to the amount of options you have

I agree they need to change things but they can't just drop everything and start from scratch to keep everyone happy . They are slowly making things different starting of with the crafting and gathering with script hand ins and a variety of ways to lvl up
I assume things will change over time don't jump to conclusions and say there creativity is terrible like a copy paste for a school project
Making a large scale upgrade in minimal time so players don't whine wouldn't be a easy task
Raids and primals will get ajusted over time to keep players interested hopefully soon but we can't expect elitist to cope with the lack of endgame raid content when they probley live in there mums basement no job and live on a video game

[DukeBurden]

You are complaining already? We haven't even got 3.1 isnt it a quick to judge? Stop playing so god damm much.

I'm new to this game and there still so much to do. Maybe(and it sounds like it) you've just been playing for so long that there really isnt much left in game for you to do.

Go play outside. You earned it.

I like how this comment provides absolutely no debate towards this topic. Just because YOU'VE just started the game doesn't mean we have. A lot of this community has been playing since launch. If I just started this game, I'd be overwhelmed too. But that's not where most of us are. Most of us are BORED as crap in end game.

[DukeBurden]

You are complaining already? We haven't even got 3.1 isnt it a quick to judge? Stop playing so god damm much.

I'm new to this game and there still so much to do. Maybe(and it sounds like it) you've just been playing for so long that there really isnt much left in game for you to do.

Go play outside. You earned it.

Also, just because someone clears content fast doesn't mean they play a lot. Some people are just smarter and more efficient with their time. Some people can clear content faster with less time due to a higher skill. And again, we are solely talking about ENDGAME here, not all the stupid fill bullshit(alts, crafting, gathering).