Expectations about development of the game

[Kleeya]

While i can understand that people playing since the beginning of the game can get bored with it not seeing enough "new" content, i think you are kinda expecting way too much, and even become out of touch with reality, if you are waiting for totally new concepts every 6 months. Even if the developpment team wanted to do that people above them would never allow it to happen. Not when making video games have become that costly and when investors wanting to be sure to get their cash back prefer to copy what is already selling.

Just look at the rest of the video game market. In 2018 soccer games are still about kicking a ball like i was doing on my game boy, race games are still the same idea as pole position on Atari 2600, rpgs are still about following a story and slaying stuff like more than 20 years ago, etc. Sure the graphics are way better, but the core didn't change. Even the last big hit, the battle royale, is nothing new. I seriously dont get how Pubg can have become so succesfull when it is no more than a plain elimination mode on a big map, i was already trying to be the last standing more than 15 years ago. Fortnite ? Nothing revolutionnary as well, the only quirk being to be able to build stuff while fighting instead of having that in a separate map editor, or doing that during the day waiting for mobs to spawn like in minecraft. And now, tons of other editors are trying to quickly copy that to get their share of the last-new-that-is-not-new-trend before it dies out...

In the end that SE is mainly continuing what made FF14 sells in the past is quite normal. They need to be sure to have enough content that people will follow. And then alongside that they are still trying new little things (not everyone would have bother to add swimming or underwater content so late), but they will never add so much of them that you will be amazed all the time. Especially when the negativity is so strong that sometimes people are already complaining about new content not even launched yet XD

[Derio]

I want more meaningful progression and more achievement rewards. It still imo hasn't done a good job replacing veteran rewards

[MilanFrozen]

What's the point of posting my opinion? It's not like anyone cares or will make changes around it.

[XenoCranel]

anything grindy will become bot infested.