I guess it's time

[Claymore65]

Just because there are things to do doesn't mean they are fun, interesting, or engaging. :B
How many of the activities you listed there are just busy work and how many are actually engaging?

That's, perhaps sadly, the golden question of game design that no one will ever truly solve. How do you make content that is equally engaging and exciting to everyone? The answer, simply put, is that you can't. Some players find PVP to be incredibly engaging, while others hate that kind of competitive play. Some players enjoy the challenge of hardcore raiding, but other players find them unnecessarily stressful and/or time consuming. Some players are intense about glamour, mounts, and minions, spending hours just designing their look. Others love to craft, or gather. Still others revel in the lore and story of the world, eagerly hunting out secrets wherever they might be found.

Basically, "engaging" content differs drastically depending on the person. The best SE can do is attempt to satisfy multiple tastes. That's why they build hardcore raids, easier raids, Golden Saucer content, dungeons, story quests, the (admittedly poorly implemented) Diadem, primal fights, crafting economies, comedy quest-lines like Hildebrand, and soon the Deep Dungeon for those who enjoy smaller party sizes and randomized content. SE is clearly trying to satisfy different urges where they can, though we can certainly argue whether or not they've been successful at it.

[Azrael]

That's, perhaps sadly, the golden question of game design that no one will ever truly solve. How do you make content that is equally engaging and exciting to everyone? The answer, simply put, is that you can't. Some players find PVP to be incredibly engaging, while others hate that kind of competitive play. Some players enjoy the challenge of hardcore raiding, but other players find them unnecessarily stressful and/or time consuming. Some players are intense about glamour, mounts, and minions, spending hours just designing their look. Others love to craft, or gather. Still others revel in the lore and story of the world, eagerly hunting out secrets wherever they might be found.

Everything you said is already in the game. Problem is how it gets implemented. The content feels soulless and put there just because players asked for it but they don't really understand/care about what players really wanted/asked for.
Saying we implemented PVP when it's designed so bad it's still only a checkbox on a paper in the office (refering to the expression the OP used) without even looking at it from a player point of view. Same can be said for most of the other content.

[zosia]

Everything you said is already in the game. Problem is how it gets implemented. The content feels soulless and put there just because players asked for it but they don't really understand/care about what players really wanted/asked for.
Saying we implemented PVP when it's designed so bad it's still only a checkbox on a paper in the office (refering to the expression the OP used) without even looking at it from a player point of view. Same can be said for most of the other content.

Exactly! This also led to half of the content in this expansion being total and utter failures.

(to everyone that just quoted me)

If you don't do half of the stuff PROVIDED by the game, why are you even playing it? Is it really worth paying a monthly fee for doing.....not much?

If you not satisfied, you are playing the wrong game, something that is not catered for you. That's not the games fault but it's the owner. Specially when its quoted extremely dedicated player.

keep up with that suggestion and you will find yourself putting a big black strike through the MMO part of off this RPG game. This game already has a relatively low sub base. It was around what, 700k? like six months ago? Wonder what the sub numbers look like now, lololololol.