I'm not excited about the future patch at all. Just one dungeon?

[Hysterior]

I was pretty hardcore in 2.0, doing pretty much everything SE was throwing at us and FFXIV that my main (and pretty much only) game.
I now enjoy FFXIV more as a "game I always go back to" but not sole game.
I don't mind one dungeon in the end. Will play for a bit until my main class is geared and then come back at a later time.

[Shurrikhan]

The fact is that it's not other games in general, but just one.

Probably because it's the game most similar to XIV, by Yoshida's and the dev team's own explicit intent. What flak WoW takes for just being WoW, other games get in discussion just because they're too different and their advantages not as easily applicable. Heck, if any game so much as diverts from the holy trinity, any and all part of it are plague to these forums.

Many here will complain about the game giving us just more of the same, not taking enough risks, or so on, but then refuse any ideas that can't be immediately integrated into a game that' is, by their own admission, overly constrained...

[MOZZYSTAR]

I agree with OP. They really need to add more full-time people to the team (without taking some out) to help delegate so we can have more content without sacrificing any content. It's a big, successful company that's been running for like... 30 years or something even with the occasional financial blunders it has had over the years. They really need to invest more money into FFXIV. Not necessarily time (because Japan legitimately has a word for "working to death," it's a thing there and I don't want anyone to work themselves to death), but definitely money. The budget for the game needs to increase if it's to keep its integrity in tact while maintaining interest by experimenting and exploring new paths.

[Sated]

They're adding so many things that I'm more excited for this patch I keep forgetting there even is a dungeon.
Having more would of course be great, but honestly "my daily EX will have a little more variety" doesn't excite me nearly as much as anything else listed in the patch features - especially considering how much other instanced PvE stuff they're adding. I think they struck a great balance of content.

[Derio]

Hopefully they can use those resources to expand on new open world content. Possibly bring a new dynamic levequests. Anything to mix up the open world.

[Vahlnir]

Possibly bring a new dynamic levequests. Anything to mix up the open world.

So to them it'd be...levequests with Fates. Because everything is better with Fates, and Fates for those Fates.

[Rasikko]

I just wonder... how many years remaining I have in this game, til he turns it into a game I don't love anymore and end up unsubbing for good.

[Jojoya]

I just wonder... how many years remaining I have in this game, til he turns it into a game I don't love anymore and end up unsubbing for good.

Yet he is the one that turned it into the game you loved as well.

Keep in mind that many of us are here because WoW went through the same process. We loved that game - then Blizzard changed it and we couldn't tolerate it anymore while others were happy with the changes.

Players ask developers for new and engaging content because anything will get boring over time if repeated too often. Dungeons have definitely gotten stale because most players want the short and straight hallway to the reward at the end and so developers design them that way. The days of Blackrock Depths (for those who can remember it from pre-Cataclysm WoW) are over in MMOs. For me, dungeons are no more engaging than hunt trains are. They're both repetitions of killing the same bosses in the same places for the sake of the tomestone grind. At least with hunt trains, there's a chance they'll get derailed by a S rank spawn for some variety. Nothing derails the duty finder group tunneled visioned on getting to the dungeon exit.

So if SE has ideas for new content and needs to reduce the number of dungeons they create each patch in order to work on those ideas, I'm all for it. Hopefully they deliver something new that the majority of players, or close to it, will enjoy even if it turns out I'm not one of them. Or maybe experimenting with the creation of that new content will give them ideas on how to give dungeons a fresh new design that will make them more fun in the future. Progress frequently means trying something new and failing before starting over and succeeding.

[Sated]

Cool, I'm one of those WoW players, and I definitely don't want Mythic+ system in FFXIV.

Agreed. Mythic+ is (among other reasons) part of why I stopped caring about PvE in WoW, which in turn is part of why I stopped playing altogether.

A big part of why I'm here now is because FFXIV puts more emphasis on the things I do care about, instead of throwing so much of their back into instanced PvE.

[Omymy]

A big part of why I'm here now is because FFXIV puts more emphasis on the things I do care about, instead of throwing so much of their back into instanced PvE.

Furniture, glamour and mog station items?