is this game near the end of it's life?

[Remus]

You're missing the point. FFXI's relic grind was huge yes... but what did you get out of it? A weapon the would be BIS for YEARS, a weapon that gave tons of stats and traits, as well totally new weapon skills. The reward was WORTH the grind. As one person long back on some post said "it broke the game how good it was". Now let's compare with FFXIV's relic: It will be replaced by other items with a better ilvl next patch. WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

You would spend more time grinding for it than using it.

Funny you say this because if you scroll down more on the content the game offers they only say gathering, FC, crafting, glamour,housing and gold saucer nothing about raids at least they put down dungeons showing how easy they are lol :P