Quote Originally Posted by frostmagemari View Post
I think the idea is that people want dungeon content to be better when they complain that they're boring, not that they want to have them start being cut from the development cycle bit by bit.

Because a lot of the additional content that SQEX puts out isn't something that grabs a person's attention for more than a week (Blue Mage); or they only design it so they're internally happy with it, and then spend the rest of the expansion trying to fix the content because by in large, very few of their customers were happy with their pet project that they spent all that time on (Diadem and Eureka).
And dungeons do? Ask anyone in-game and they'll likely tell you that a dungeon's appeal ends after the third or fourth run and becomes just another place to farm weekly tomes or another randomized location for expert roulette. SE doesn't want to make 4 man dungeons anything more than just a place to progress story with a little bit of lore and glamour attached to them. For difficult challenges, they focus on the 8-man content where they can work out balance easier as well as getting more job representation than a 4-man savage dungeon would. And I'm fine with that, others are not.

Or if they want to get more experimental with dungeons, they can work on adding more public dungeons on a smaller scale like the Baldesion Arsenal which besides the way you access it (instance hopping and portal reservation sucked), was warmly received by the players that enjoyed Eureka and those that wanted the Ozma mount.