Where is all the content?

[Melorie]

Every expansion is like that, OP. The formula is quite rigid, and imo the biggest hype of a new expansion is mostly towards the continuation of the story and a few new fights.


Also LOL at people thinking like the dev team is made by three people they see on live letters. Small indie company all over again.

[EgilTheStressedMage]

In things you aren’t doing for reasons.

[MoofiaBossVal]

2. Hell of a lot of new, fantastic OSTs, as well, what's your point here? Not enough music composed by Soken WHILE HE HAD CANCER?!

Why is the score of this game dependent solely on one man? Surely Soken has assistants who could step up and release tracks. And Square could also contract other composers to fill in the gaps. Contract Uematsu, or Sekito (he did The Last Remnant's awesome powermetal), or Hamauzu (FF10 and 13), or even Sakimoto (FF12, Valkyria Chronicles), etc.

[Batbrat]

OP you are so right ugh I didnt like a single thing about Endwalker either, lazy lazy lazy!!! Ok so anyways, I'm gonna keep paying every month anyway. But I just need everyone to know that I am NOT! HAPPY! with what I'm paying for. This is MY money! So everything should be exactly how I imagined it to be. My money, my way. Don't you dare tell me not to keep spending it on what I don't like. That's annoying!! Here you go Soken, here's an extra $50. God I hated Endwalker. Let me cut a check to Yoshi right quick, I'm sure he could use a new bugatti. Can't believe they're just taking the money I'm handing them...without even doing what I like!! Where's that one writer-oh right, Ishikawa. Ishikawa do NOT speak to me, you did not let me hold graha's hand in any cutscene not even once. Here's 3 tickets to Disneyland, you, soken, and yoshi have a great time alright? SO disappointed in you ugh.

All this money I'm giving and you couldnt even buy the servers that dont exist. Yet again, I am let down by the very same people I continue to give money to. How does this keep happening?? I just wanted to play a video game that I really loved....get that Pokemon game out of my face-it's literally a collective hallucination, no other games exist. GOD none of you understand me

[StriderShinryu]

OP you are so right ugh I didnt like a single thing about Endwalker either, lazy lazy lazy!!! Ok so anyways, I'm gonna keep paying every month anyway. But I just need everyone to know that I am NOT! HAPPY! with what I'm paying for.

Bingo, and this is really the issue. No one is saying you can't complain, and it's not really that at least some of the OPs issues don't have merit. Plus there are a bunch of issues that the OP doesn't mention. The problem is that people keep bringing up their complaints again and again (and again).. but keep playing and paying for the game. Again, there's nothing wrong with criticizing but if you're going to do that then at least put the only weight you can behind it and stop playing. Find something else that floats your boat or, at the very least, just stop playing FF14 if it pains you that much. This is the true source of many of the "Just go play another game" responses. It's not that most people who say that are personally hurt that you're criticizing their dear FF14, it's that you're clearly not having a good time playing FF14 but are so obsessed with it that you just can't let it go.

To go back to the restaurant analogy that's been brought up a few times in this thread; this isn't about going to a restaurant once, being unhappy with the food and complaining and/or writing a poor review. This is about complaining that the food was terrible, the chicken was raw, the tables were dirty, the chef is a liar, the owner is a crook, and the bathroom was a mess... but going back every week for years because the wait staff are good at keeping your water glass filled and the Italian place that used to be in the same location had great linguine.

[Snorky]

Bingo, and this is really the issue. No one is saying you can't complain, and it's not really that at least some of the OPs issues don't have merit. Plus there are a bunch of issues that the OP doesn't mention. The problem is that people keep bringing up their complaints again and again (and again).. but keep playing and paying for the game. Again, there's nothing wrong with criticizing but if you're going to do that then at least put the only weight you can behind it and stop playing. Find something else that floats your boat or, at the very least, just stop playing FF14 if it pains you that much. This is the true source of many of the "Just go play another game" responses. It's not that most people who say that are personally hurt that you're criticizing their dear FF14, it's that you're clearly not having a good time playing FF14 but are so obsessed with it that you just can't let it go.

To go back to the restaurant analogy that's been brought up a few times in this thread; this isn't about going to a restaurant once, being unhappy with the food and complaining and/or writing a poor review. This is about complaining that the food was terrible, the chicken was raw, the tables were dirty, the chef is a liar, the owner is a crook, and the bathroom was a mess... but going back every week for years because the wait staff are good at keeping your water glass filled and the Italian place that used to be in the same location had great linguine.

This^ when I tell someone play a different game it's not because I don't want to hear a criticism about it. It's that most complaints (not all of the) usually have a lot of hyperbole or the complaint is so bad it would change the way the whole game works because this person complaining isn't happy. Why keep paying for something that you obviously don't really like? Someone has to say it because God knows some people distort every little fault like it's the end of the world as we know it. It's like the one who cannot get it through their thick skulls there is a semi conductor shortage and on top of that one of the major producing factory's just had a fire. When I see someone in one of these threads denying it I just think why bother giving a serious answer. Just play something else if you are that unhappy.

[Arcelor]

OP you are so right ugh I didnt like a single thing about Endwalker either, lazy lazy lazy!!! Ok so anyways, I'm gonna keep paying every month anyway. But I just need everyone to know that I am NOT! HAPPY! with what I'm paying for. This is MY money! So everything should be exactly how I imagined it to be. My money, my way. Don't you dare tell me not to keep spending it on what I don't like. That's annoying!! Here you go Soken, here's an extra $50. God I hated Endwalker. Let me cut a check to Yoshi right quick, I'm sure he could use a new bugatti. Can't believe they're just taking the money I'm handing them...without even doing what I like!! Where's that one writer-oh right, Ishikawa. Ishikawa do NOT speak to me, you did not let me hold graha's hand in any cutscene not even once. Here's 3 tickets to Disneyland, you, soken, and yoshi have a great time alright? SO disappointed in you ugh.

All this money I'm giving and you couldnt even buy the servers that dont exist. Yet again, I am let down by the very same people I continue to give money to. How does this keep happening?? I just wanted to play a video game that I really loved....get that Pokemon game out of my face-it's literally a collective hallucination, no other games exist. GOD none of you understand me

I agree with you, is our fault for keep paying them, lets rest our sup at least 1 month so they'll understand, lets hit them where it hurts, MONEY.

[Dewslam]

Everything involving Meteion really is a blight on the story, imo. The expansion's story isn't bad for the most part, but the moment you go back into the past it all just kind of shits its self and any time she comes back into the plot that stank makes its hard return. I don't care about her at all because she comes literally out of nowhere in the back half of the story, forcibly demands the spotlight despite having nothing of value to actually say and her cheesy jumpscare 2000's flash game horror aesthetic is just...bad? It's especially galling when we kill basically every other antagonist in the first half of the story and the game spins its wheels for a little bit going "OH NO WHY DIDN'T THE CRISIS STOP" only to reveal that this thing we have no way of knowing existed was secretly responsible for everything this entire time, retroactively making the *entire story* up until now feel just a little bit dumber. Every bit of plot revolving around Hermes and Meteion feels like it was written to rule on convenience and circumstance. Sure was cool that Hermes invented a memory blasting magic machine no one could bypass or avoid except you, sure was convenient Azem spent the next forever just...not bothering to try and fix that memory hole issue. Sure was cool that everyone forgot the space birds existed completely and utterly until just in time for you to go back into the past and learn they existed. By writing Meteion into the story like this, now it feels like every character has slightly less agency and slightly dumber motivation.

Also finishing up the storyline with another series of fakeout deaths was just kind of impactless at this point.

[hynaku]

With no new content other than savage there is no point for me to even get the new tomes gear. The worst expansion ever for FFXIV for content.

[Ravor]

I personally hate this kind of thread of lack of content, you guys simply focus on raiding, battle etc, here i am busy with gathering and crafting which is a lot of stuff to do, yes, more than a year playing this game and i never do savage when it was appear, i am busy doing crafting and treasure map and will do a 1 month focus on fishing soon, thank god the dev know that some players are like me who doesnt really care about doing savage, i am playing games to have fun and my fun is not doing savage, and this game have way many content aside from savage, if you guys already bored or finished doing your fun, that is a good game design, to actually have a finish line, not an endless grind or time gated content, you can play other content which is a lot or stop subscribing and play other game