Same thing again.

[Nedkel]

Well, basically you could point out that entire game is basing on exact same principles.

Raids, dungeons, trials, alliance raids, pvp everything.
Even Witcher 3 is not going to look deep when you realise all what you do in that game is... go there, watch cutscene, kill, go there and repeat.
Damn real life is the same, go to bed, wake up, go to work, come back, play FFXIV, go to bed. xD

[Ransom]

1: Do stuff.
2: Do other stuff.
3: Do different other stuff.
4: Repeat.

If you simplify your terms enough there's literally nothing in the entire universe that doesn't work this way.

[Granyala]

Sometimes I fel like I'm the only one who actually enjoys hunting for aether currents heh.

Naah you're not.
I always got a kick out of getting the attunement the moment I finish the MSQ of a zone.

As for the increased ride speed: didn't see the point, waste of prerfectly good gems if you ask me. It's not as if the zones were huge and we were on foot.

[noxen]

Holy shit guys, they've cracked the code!

They've uncovered the secrets to literally every video game that's ever been made!

[Alucard135]

1- Start game
2- Play it
3- Close when done
4- Repeat

When will we every break this cycle?

[TheMightyMollusk]

5: ???
6: Profit!

[Liam_Harper]

1. Collect aether currents - Be Happy that it's not like WoWs flight, do you want to get every beast tribe to max just to have p1 unlocked.

Exactly this.

I'm glad FF14 does the same things that work. Unlike WoW which goes "hey, flying seems cool... let's delete it!", "hey, some classes are looking fun, let's re-do them from scratch!", "hey, gearing seems good, let's mega-rng-titanforge it with rng sockets!", "hey that reforge feature seems handy, let's delete it", "hey, apexis and that mission table were very unpopular, we'll double up on that".

You enter a new WoW expansion literally hoping they only wreck your class a little and dreading the fact that literally any feature you enjoy could be removed.

By all means Enix, throw the same enjoyable game at me. I'm fine with that.

[xbahax92]

I actually enjoyed exploring one more map at the "end" of the story. I was pleased when I entered it, another atmosphere, another great soundtrack. Another small "adventure", while I was already guessing/sad that the story is about to end. Maybe you forgot how other MMO's work?
You had the chance to stop and do something else once in a while. Nobody is telling you to burn yourself out.

[Krotoan]

.. They added literally hundreds of hours worth of content that ISN'T MSQ progression. If you ONLY find value in the MSQ then alright, point I suppose but it isn't as if we were surprised they did this?

[Enla]

.. They added literally hundreds of hours worth of content that ISN'T MSQ progression. If you ONLY find value in the MSQ then alright, point I suppose but it isn't as if we were surprised they did this?

Like literally making fates relevant again. My hands are screaming at me for doing over 120+ fates in the last few days but my wallet is very /very/ happy that we get rewards for doing them.