Content drought....

[Bourne_Endeavor]

If dungeons weren't faceroll easy then you'd see a lot more people complaining about content drought considering how many parts of the casual playerbase are afraid of doing extreme trials, the only type of midcore content in the game.

Why is it every time harder dungeons are mentioned someone jumps to extreme primals or savage levels? They don't need to be that hard, but difficult enough to require more than a pulse, if even that. The Vault was an excellent dungeon. They could even pull ideas from higher floors of PotD where you have priority mobs that need to die quickly. There's a wealth of potential beyond braind ead easy corridor with re-skinned bosses. The devs even openly acknowledged people find dungeons boring nowadays hence why they dropped one in odd numbered patches. It's almost like the current design has become incredibly stale.

[Skivvy]

Doesn't mean it wasn't a problem. Otherwise, wouldn't the game have peaked higher than 5-600k subs?

I couldn't even get to the point where I could unlock subjobs, and not for a lack for trying. The people in the LSs I was in were never up for helping in, so after 3 weeks of that, I quit.

Regardless of our own personal experiences making it past level 20, it really has nothing to do with the original comment that you responded to. XI did not suffer from content droughts like XIV does, which is the point that was made previously.

For better or worse, XIV is designed to be incredibly casual and it lacks decent long-term content/goals.

[SenorPatty]

Its content drought like this that makes me wish SE had invested in expanding content on parts of the game that have been left behind. Adding STRPG mini games and different racing modes to the Gold Saucer for example.

Another thing is choosing quality over quantity when it comes to sidequests. Last week, I accidently discovered the Tales of the Dragonsong War sidequest (the one that leads to the Haurchefant Emote) and it was soooooo goood. Like, very nice. They should focus on creating quality sidequests like that rather than a 1001 sidequests where most of them are boring fetch quests.

I could go on but point being, if there was more side content like what I listed in terms of quality, then when content drought begins, people could go to those things and be entertained for a bit longer until the next one.

[Deceptus]

I feel like the problem with Eureka is that, it’s been delayed for so long that, if it fails to be anything but astonishing, it’s going to be under even more scrutiny because it was delayed at least twice, and the developers haven’t revealed much other than it’s supposed to be some amazing new type of content never before seen in an MMO.

Basically this. The HW relic was utter garbage for so long because they delayed it.

[Bernkastelx]

They mention eureka going in and fighting nms that is fine and all but being a ffxi player I never want to see that only can enter once a day or anything like that again. I am fine if they do it like diadem time wise but when they throw words like notorious monsters gets me worrying again, that it is going to be abyssea all over again.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

Basically this. The HW relic was utter garbage for so long because they delayed it.

Actually, the HW relic was awful because they attempted to balance it around Savage raids, which just happened to be Gordias and Midas.

[Kohdo]

Can anyone really claim there's a content drought? I think it's less a lack of content and more a lack of content that you're personally interested in.

[Derio]

I actually enjoy not having any content right now. It is allowing me to play other games and beat games that I have pushed to the side and enough time before 4.2 and Monster Hunter World comes out.

[alimdia]

I feel like the problem with Eureka is that, it’s been delayed for so long that, if it fails to be anything but astonishing, it’s going to be under even more scrutiny because it was delayed at least twice, and the developers haven’t revealed much other than it’s supposed to be some amazing new type of content never before seen in an MMO.

Why do they keep doing this? Why the veil of secrecy? This is hurting their game more than it's helping. I get they had to delay it, but considering it was supposed to be launched months ago at the very least they could have talked about it and shown something, instead we have absolutely nothing but hyped words.

My friends list and FC keep getting emptier in terms of active people, and it doesn't seem like SE is concerned at all at the player retention leak.

[Gleipni]

For me,since the launch of stormblood there is a content drought,
Now i can see people reading taht and hitting caps lock but let me explain:
The MSQ was,for me, a real pain to do,the story was meh~~ during the whole thing it was "Go fetch" quest and there you go get that for him,there you go get that for someone else,sometimes when you were lucky you had to do some instance fight were it was fun,but not enough of them.
You hit lvl 70 painfully,you want to beat the big bad guys of the story for now,and you beat it in a tastless fight in a Dungeon,<== same mistake than for gaius for me,make the human form beat easy,he transform and still get rekt in less than a 30min with a group of PU.
then you do the omega basic ....no comment on O1/2/3,the O4 was nice,too bad it was the only one,and thats it,you wait and do the same daily/weekly to get stuff for the savage not here yet.

The savage come,with a group of random,we beat O1/2S in a matter of 1 evening <== already a bad sign.
And there it start,the real "content" O3/O4S you struggle for some time,you get some laugh,you get some rage during the raid,but thats IT,it is the only thing to do,so for week you just connect to do some savage.

here already you feel there is nothing beside to do,fanboy will shout "there is hunt to do,leveling your class,craft"

The only thing for hunt is to upgrade stuff and get materia,the end,there will be the some courageous guy that will do it for the tiger, leveling a class ? not really a objective,or maybe if you get fun to see 70 on you profile, craft ? to make gils and ?

then after all that wait 4.1 is here.... WOW so much content :
MSQ finished in a matter of hours
24 man raid,,cool thing was fun to do and that ff12 vibe ♥
going to the flower garden of ala migho ....?
Hildibrand quest,great,but that was just a tease
tribe quest ? tribe quite useless apart from mount and emote, to be honest even ARR tribe quest are more usefull because of the stuff they sell,even HW tribe were selling stuff usefull,like the gnathe ingot and all... so yeah,get your mount and shhhh
UZnair canal ? aquapolis 2.0,nothing more nothing less,and the hidden one ? same thing with 1 more door...and so less chance to open the good one
Squadron ? everyone do 10 for emote and the END
Housing ? AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
and then,1Dungeon and 1 trial ==> lifespan 1/2days
AND thats everythign we got to do for month,FOR MONTH so yeah,there is clearly a content drought and its not the fanboy and girl by saying "do hunt" that will change it,still wondering how Stormblood got the "Best expansion award".