So uh, wheres the long lasting content?

[Miracle_Diva]

I wish content in this game would be more than just "kill X amount of things to finish Y instance".
For example, they could remove randomness of buffs/debuffs in Deep Dungeons and give players ability to control what's given, somewhat like in roguelike games.
Or add puzzles to dungeons so there would be more ways to finish the objective.

Instead we get the same formula over and over again, expansion after expansion, with no change.

"B-but you haven't finished all Eureka weapons" - lets pretend I did. Now what? What do I do with them? Put them into storage so they would take up free slots? I don't like how they look like so I don't want to use them as glamour. I also can't use them as a main weapon because it's an outdated equipment.
Before someone runs in screaming "IT'S AN MMO, GO AWAY IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT":
I've played enough years of MMO to get tired of mindless grinding. I get it, grind is a part of this genre and it probably should stay because there're always people who like this kind of thing. Grind becomes very unfun when there's nothing but grind around. "Oi, I've cleared this thing 10000 times and got this hairpin I won't ever use".
A change to certain things would be nice, even if it's a small change.

[Zanarkand-Ronso]

well clearly y'all know best since heaven forbid people want to play at their actual max level. and not be dry on content for 8 months.

A little Hyperbolic, but ok.
Carry On :3

[Wolwosh]

You wait months for new content only to get a fetch quest *cough Tataru*
Paying a sub for 14 really feels worth it atm!

[BubblyBoar]

Unsub until you have stuff you want to do. I know people hate that answer, but that is the actual answer. Please break this conditioning that corporations have poisoned your mind with. It is okay to be done and to stop. You can come back later. It is okay. You are free from the shitty practices that want you engaged with the game every hour of every day of every week.

[Avoidy]

Pretty sure this is just how they design the game's content roadmaps. I have friends who quit this game long before I even started, because they were tired of the dripfeed content model. It's just how the devs do things. They seem proud of it. I doubt it'll change anytime soon.
This post is meant to be neutral, since I find merit in both sides of the debate. On the one hand, I'd like content that feels longer lasting, meaningful, and has replayability. But on the other hand, I'm glad the devs haven't turned this into some calendar login bonus grindfarm game like BDO. All of this is to say, the dripfeed is intentional, it's been here a long time, it's not going anywhere, and because of this, nobody should make XIV their main game unless they're amused by doing the same like... couple of raids/dungeons over and over again.

total shot in the dark btw, @Square, but one cool piece of content that feels meaningful, long lasting, and replayable, is HOUSING. If everyone who wanted a home was able to have one, you'd probably hear a lot less people bitching about the game having nothing to do and nothing to spend gil on, and etc. JUST A THOUGHT haha

edit: To be actually constructive, TERA had guild missions. These were fun tasks you could complete with your guild. Stuff like "run X dungeon 10 times." and anytime someone in your guild ran that dungeon, it'd count towards the guild mission quota. If you ran things together as a guild, you could get it done as a group and have fun playing the game with your guild. Something like this for FCs could be really fun. Give people who need that extra push, an objective reason to do stuff together. Sometimes that's all you really need. Hell, some people would settle on a permanent mogtome event during downtimes, with a rotating reward pool to prevent it from getting stale.

[dspguy]

This was a minor patch. It started off a series of questlines that will be continued later. And added daily tribe quests.

I'm done leveling jobs/classes. I still find things to do every day. And if I didn't, I'd go do something else. I'm not going to login to a game with nothing to do.

[Reap00]

Waiting for people to come here and say "but you don't have to play FFXIV, you can go play other stuff and wait for 6.2"

This is precisely the response this thread deserves even though that was obviously not how it was intended. Do you expect to play an mmo 24 hours a day 7 days a week for the rest of your life? There is life outside ffxiv. Go find it.

[hagare]

THIS GAME HAS NO CONTENT!
*stays subbed*
sigh

[Syln]

Waiting for people to come here and say "but you don't have to play FFXIV, you can go play other stuff and wait for 6.2"

I used to be like that but at some point i want to have to do fun new activities in the game and the only reason i subbed lately is to keep my house and since yesterday, to do tribal dailies too but frankly it's really lacking.

[DPZ2]

oh and should i bring up quite a bit of gear basically being reused assets? or the fact that the story was heavily rushed? if your excuse is them taking 2 years to make an expansion then there's a simple fix to that "money". get a bigger team and surprise surprise more stuff can get done in equal time frames

Ah yes. Reused assets and rushed story. Going from 1.0 to 2.0 was a bit of a rush, wasn't it?