Quote Originally Posted by aveyond-dreams View Post
The content that drew me to this game is battle content. If it has nothing to do with fighting, it is unlikely to interest me or get me to chase after a reward unless it has something extremely sought after at the end of it. This did not hold for Ishgard Restoration for the most part. This also does not hold for Gold Saucer. Gold Saucer activities are jumping puzzles and minigames, not fights.



You cannot sell me a sub on minigames alone. Thank goodness I have an army of alts and a backlog of gear to collect, otherwise there would be no justification to stay subbed beyond the first month of these earlier patches that lack relic/exploratory content.

Adventurer Plates I fully support as they are a good avenue of player expression and do not have the massive accessibility issues that Housing does, and are likely to appear at the start of instances moving forward like they will start doing in PVP in 6.1. They are not as pointless as stickers, nor are they as limited as most fashion accessories, who I remember got over 30 minutes dedicated to them in a Shadowbringers live letter once.

I am thankful that patch 6.1 will be giving me at least something long term to do in the form of the new PVP gear at the end of that grind, but I see no reason as to why things like a Deep Dungeon or the first step of a relic *must* be delayed for so long after initial launch.
I tend to agree on Deep Dungeon or relics though if the relic step is too easy then people will just complain about how fast it is. I think because they're trying this new format of releasing side quests later that that got pulled in. This whole format with ending a story at 6.0 is something new. I'm willing to give them this time to experiment. Maybe doing this lets them balance out their personnel resources more evenly so people can get vacations and days off. And if we go through these patches up to 7.0 and it doesn't quite work, we can offer feedback on where this or that patch felt more bare and suggest maybe releasing X content earlier or later.

To Kaurhz, I think maybe it's the phrase itself. "Go play other games" kind of implies they aren't welcome in this one. Everyone is welcome in this one. I think the spirit of the idea is to enjoy your time in the game. Don't force yourself to log in just because you think you have to. And if you aren't feeling it that night, don't. That's the path to burn out. Do something else that is fun. XIV is designed so that it will be there when you get back.