the normal content is too easy

[IdowhatIwant]

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.

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", Complain all you will, but it could be a LOT worse.

I don't think anyone would disagree FFXIV could be worse, but it also could be a lot better as well. Who is going to post feedback on the forums on how to make the game worst. Now most ftp games like Lost Ark are going to have a p2w aspect to it where you can get from start to finish in a couple minutes for the right price. These games usually allow you to reach end game fairly quick as they constantly focus on new end game content and to keep player bases they need constant catch up mechanics. When you add so many catch up mechanics it makes getting to end game faster. But this is a free to play pay to win model which is not a subscription based MMO in most cases.

This game does have FOMO, if you don't start trying to clear savage on release and try to do it a couple months later you will have problems. Every holiday event is FOMO as these items will likely never show up again and if they do it will likely be in the cash shop. Things like Eureka and Bozja are now barren and more difficult to complete. So to say there is no FOMO in FFXIV is untrue. But you have only played since December so you wouldn't really know this.

Now of course coming into a game that is in it's 6th expansion a couple months ago, you will have a lot of content to complete. That is common sense, but if you have played this game for a decade, this game has had a constant trend with it's content patches and the longevity issue with the content it releases. So when some one joins this game in the latest expansion and tells me there is a lot of content, it's hard to take that opinion with any merit as it is common sense. You see on youtube many people promoting the 6.1 patch as having a lot of content, but it in actuality is just a normal x.1 patch with about our 3rd or 4th pvp revamp. You can go and look at previous patches on the FFXIV website and see it's the same thing as usual.