Eureka: Like it or hate it, life once again returns.

[Penthea]

Games seemed alive and vibrant to me since I started playing mid HW and hasn't ever slowed down. Content has always been good. Maybe it's just becuase I've played games which were actually dead, and know what that is.

I know exactly how you feel. I played WoW during Warlords of Draenor, the expansion that nearly killed the game. People I knew were quitting or taking breaks left right and centre. Many very very old guilds fell apart or stagnated. Cities were noticeably far less populated. It was a very sad time for the game. Although I don't play it anymore I'm glad it has redeemed itself enough to keep going strong.

Some people seem to think XIV is already a sinking ship. I'm certainly not seeing signs of this. Eureka has been very divisive but most players still have enough fun in the rest of the game to keep going happily.

[Linx0r]

I dunno SB has been a steaming pile compared to HW. SE needs to switch it up

[FunkYeahDragons]

YMMV. I am actively looking for a new game to play until next raid tier. Multiple circles are pretty much just doing Eureka in the evenings, and I don't want to commit to that kind of a grind after work or trying to semi-match their level. At least with Diadem, that didn't matter.

Normally I like to help out with Savage learning parties or run normals with an FC I hang out in on my alt, but even those are drying up right now, so outside of my own weekly clears there's literally nothing I want and my sub lapses in a week.

[Texa]

Didn't they say they were going to update Eureka on every odd-numbered patch? The patch that will just have one dungeon? I think I recall that but it's been so long. I think that would be a good pace to keep the place active if the rewards are spaced out enough. Most people I know haven't really bothered with it much yet, but that's largely because they're waiting for the lockboxes to not projectile confetti all over their inventories.

[Remedi]

Supposedly the zones are 4 so they'll have do update it at least 3 times

[Janhyua]

I for the life of me haven't played ffxiv for so many hours in a day since launch all I do is login to expert dungeon and log off and login for static raid and log off...

But ever since eureka... Man 14 hours a day in eureka for the past 4 days

It was a fun experience for me but it's rather dead for me at this point I would go only if my friend ask me to tag along for body guard service

[Vstarstruck]

Games seemed alive and vibrant to me since I started playing mid HW and hasn't ever slowed down. Content has always been good. Maybe it's just becuase I've played games which were actually dead, and know what that is.

I know exactly how you feel. I played WoW during Warlords of Draenor, the expansion that nearly killed the game. People I knew were quitting or taking breaks left right and centre. Many very very old guilds fell apart or stagnated. Cities were noticeably far less populated. It was a very sad time for the game. Although I don't play it anymore I'm glad it has redeemed itself enough to keep going strong.

Some people seem to think XIV is already a sinking ship. I'm certainly not seeing signs of this. Eureka has been very divisive but most players still have enough fun in the rest of the game to keep going happily.

I really question your ability to look close enough. I am not sure when and if it started in 2.0, but mid HW+ it def followed this:

Every time there was a new feature or patch, housing esp, activity raised exponentially. After a month or so of the "big patch" activity declined. FFXIV activity acts as a wave where activity contentiously goes up and down depending where the game is at during patch cycles and what the patch did. Some patches got a small spike in activity few days to a week before a release for a new patch to prepare for it.

mid HW this was def taking place though and all though SB, it is the same pattern. One of the SB patches took longer then normal causing the dive to be more felt, it was after.. 4.1 to sigma release I believe, it had a 2 month slow period and felt it more then I usually do. "it never slowed down" is def false.

[KDSilver]

Not a troll or anything but...

Of course it does, it's "new", and that's the first "real fresh" content Stormblood has brought us until now.

[Fynlar]

I think this says more about the mediocre tepidity of Stormblood's other content than the quality of Eureka.

Once you've eaten nothing but tasteless porridge for a year, even a single moldy bean will count as "shaking things up".

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/10char

Thinking about it, sacrificing one dungeon wasn't a bad thing. Let's be honest for a moment, dungeons in this game aren't great. Doing roulettes is a chore and I'd rather have some variety.

Speak for yourself. Would gladly take the 3 dungeons per patch in ARR over the halved amount we're getting now if what we're getting in exchange is stuff like this.

[Ronivan]

I didn't like the place, I tried level a bit when I discovered that you need to party beggar and run around at the mercy of people who are at level 20 to get scraps of exp from fates. I don't like the kind of content that are made for a few, not for everyone. Its most likely they will change the mechanics of the place in future patches, guess its time to give the place a break until then. I don't pay subscription to get frustrated.