FFXIV has an endgame problem and it needs to be changed

[Vaer]

but that stuff was HOLY GOD DAMN HARD to get !!
and when you had those you felt really proud !

in my opinion that is what is missing in FF14, "unique" item, with real instance (im sorry but you cant even compare a "dynamis" with our actual 24 raid stuff)

Stuff like this only really works if the gear lasts a really long time. Gear in this game lasts about 3-6 months. Some gear in XI lasted years and years until Abyssea trashed mostly everything.

I don't see it happening since this is a mass market casual game for the most part and implementing a change like this just wouldn't work out too well in the current market as a subscription game.

Knowing that stuff gets outdated pretty fast I would be reluctant to work on anything that took forever honestly even though I played XI for a long time.

The old generation of MMO players are pretty much displaced unless you count those kickstarter games and some fan projects.

honestly for this i blame SE, constantly making old content useless, giving away easily new stuff, making old content easier (unsync, or nerf)
make 90% of the player, noob, etc etc etc

i cant say that i dont understand the frustration of some player that want to have a some real challenge

(again in ff11, this wasnt a problem ...)

Different games really. Some of the player base just solos. You can play the entire game just by yourself for the most part. If you tried to solo in XI early on it was super inefficient so players would get weeded out basically in the leveling process and you couldn't really get anything done by yourself.