Who else is bored? Same Content and Formula...Was SB a waste of money?

[Shurrikhan]

If repetition and lack of new content were an issue, then how does Call of Duty continue to thrive and survive?

Opportunity for autonomous reiteration. Games that amount to primarily spreadsheet simulation alone are less impacted by variance such as the factors experienced across play. Their moving parts occur primarily before the gameplay even starts, and thus do not compound or interact in potentially exponential ways. Compare a PvE raid to any popular MMO PvP mode. The latter will usually seem more self-reiterating because of the added moving parts. They may cycle back to a predictable regression, but the majority expands on itself in a way that makes it constantly, in at least some way, new.

[zylo1010]

I feel there's so much to do and with my work I dont have time so I've defaulted to leveling gathering classes finally until I have time to do other stuff.

[Sparhwk]

They already produce more content in patches than any other MMO that I know of.

I'm laughing so hard you honestly believe this.

[Duffers]

All of this being said I don't play for just the game. I play for my awesome FC which goes and does events at least once a week. Maybe you just need a new way to enjoy the game that way! The true end game is spending time with friends, and of course, that GLAMOUR

Is your FC recruiting???

[Quoyan]

I don't really think you can judge an MMO's content by the number of people watching streams. As someone else mentioned, there are a lot of reasons streamers' views might drop off.
Honestly I can't see how watching someone play XIV could be fun anyway. Even for PVP or raiding, that just isn't where its entertainment value lies.

We don't even have all of the content for Stormblood yet. We're getting a new 24-man raid and a new deep dungeon among other things, it's not like there's no new content.
Granted all of this is stuff that's been done before, but can you really blame SE for putting their development hours into things that they know have worked well previously? Trying to break the mould can be expensive, and the exciting new content you create can end up being a spectacular failure and a huge waste of development time.

Sure, I wish SE would try more new stuff, but tbh I enjoy this game for what it is; a linear storyline with fun stuff on the side.

[Tetsujin]

I wish the way to gear up wasn't so linear, if that's even the right word to use. I hazily remember needing accessories from Ultima Weapon, farming Mog for some other accesory back in 2.1 or 2.2, not just relying on an endless tome grind. That was fun, the expert roulette was also much more fun in the past IMO, not a fan of the 2 and/or now the 3 dungeons. Maybe it's just me but I feel like the content release has slowed down a lot over the time 3.x was current, at least in ways that matter.

[Kaurhz]

This is why I'm glad I have the completionist mindset. I'm never bored provided there's something to do, and I hardly plan on stopping anytime soon. I play quite frequently as well.

Personally, I'd much rather them stick to the current formula, that clearly works, rather than them making a completely new one that could possibly go disastrous with no actual good timescale. Bear in mind this MMO is developed for the more casual playerbase. Not the type that sit logged in for around 6 hours a day in a single sitting doing pure content. If you can't handle that then sap your games up a little.. A little bit of this, and a little bit of that.

My only real gripe is the open world content. It just seems too face-rolled, it'd be interesting to see something that actually forces, or makes it near mandatory for you to pair-up with people and make friends in the process. Ohh, and some of the platform-esque instances. I can understand O1S being a platform, but Lakshmi just felt needless in my eyes.

I do admittedly feel sorry a tad for the more hardcore playerbase that can beat a given fight in 1-pull. I guess being bad has advantages. Some of the new elements they added were quite interesting, but at the same time felt like it got obnoxious fairly quickly (mainly due to overuse). I'd LOVE to see dungeoneering-esque stuff added especially with Eureka. Something that stems outside of the usual monotonous go do [x] FATE, and attune to [y] aether currant. But again, I'd much rather the formula that works than something that potentially doesn't work. Bardam's Mettle was fairly interesting to see with the trial as it was something I saw as fairly unique so I kinda hope they do go a little away from the typical combat, and something like a trial, or find/gather [x] item (where [x] item isn't just essentially kill more adds, and collect.

[Ksenia]

My only real gripe is the open world content. It just seems too face-rolled, it'd be interesting to see something that actually forces, or makes it near mandatory for you to pair-up with people and make friends in the process.

Look at dungeons. Remove room wide AoE and one shot mechanics and what are you left with? Not to sound to critical but the Devs in this game never figured hard out. Just, how do we make it take longer?

[Eldevern]

About dungeons, they don't necessary need a whole new game. The problem is there is nothing unexpected : always the same run one the same map. Unfortunatly, the idea I have : random generated map for dungeons (not true random, some kind of preset) is probably not possible with the current core of the game thought both servers and games stations are capable to handle such feature.

They could add some secret treasure, secret room... there are possibility. The problem is rush. People rush. Maybe some kind of unexpected random would provide them a little motivation to go a bit slower and take the time to study their environment. But it needs to be fun and/or interresting.

[Remedi]

They could add some secret treasure, secret room... there are possibility. The problem is rush. People rush. Maybe some kind of unexpected random would provide them a little motivation to go a bit slower and take the time to study their environment. But it needs to be fun and/or interresting.

Secret rooms would work for the first 2 hours, then ppl would simply go for the quickest route to complete the dungeon, maybe premade parties with friends would love the thing, but average ones no, honestly it's not that kind of playerbase anymore.