Quote Originally Posted by Zadist View Post
I think that the biggest problem I am having right now is that when I log on there is nothing I can just get into and have fun with. Maybe it is because I have been playing a lot of single player games recently and Blade and Soul due to the drought of things to do and am getting used to the instant gratification of fun that comes with that. Pop in a disc and I am having fun and getting into something from the moment I turn on the console. It didn't always used to be this way.
I think you understand where I'm coming from. A lot of people are taking issue with my thread title "finding the fun" but from my experience on these forums it's because some people are very literal minded (or intentionally interpret things literally in order to be argumentative). Finding the fun is a term that came from D&D and I used it as a hook and to make a connection to FFXIV dev mindsets. A developer is basically the dungeon master so this is not a stretch. But a more appropriate title for this thread that might appease the literalists is "waiting for the fun."

It takes inordinate time to find a group for endgame content and a lot of this is because of endgame lockouts. I can't just log on and do my nodes because they only spawn at certain times. Etc. Etc. This game simply does not let players "jump into content" whenever they want. It's a major, major design flaw. This game is great don't get me wrong, but that has got to be changed moving forward (I'll add "in my opinion" just to please the literalists who cannot interpret this to be my opinion without my saying so).