the normal content is too easy

[Carin-Eri]

i'm going to be honest here, I find the comments about the lack of content quite amusing.

Prior to FFXIV becoming my primary game, I'd played another MMO for over a decade. That game was/is of the Free to Play variety and whilst that model was, originally, quite generous it became less and less so to the point where it's business model revolved around FOMO fueled events and sleazy gambleboxes courtesy of an EP with a background in smartphone games. Said business model resulted in that game priortising cash shop 'tools' to play within the game rather than actual game content. These days the content drops generally comprise of one new episode (good for about 20 - 30 minutes of play time) every four or five months and the 'events' simply put new rewards into recycled content.
It also sufferred from Powercreep. But we're not talking the sort of powercreep I see discussed here. The last time I played that game I joined a queue for a piece of so-called 'Advanced' content which used to take approximately fifteen minutes to complete; it was over in literally twenty seconds.

I started playing FFXIV mid-December, generally playing for a few hours almost every evening (and a little longer when had days off work here and there). It took me slightly over three months to get from the start to the current end of the MSQ. The other game that I played for over a decade? No exaggeration; a new player can get from start to finish in about a week.

So between the sleazy business model, the Devs inability/ lacking interest in address the overwhelming levels of powercreep and the only new content being "buy this new thing", I decided to follow a friend's persistent recommendations and try FFXIV. And I haven't looked back. Complain all you will, but it could be a LOT worse.