Quote Originally Posted by caffe_macchiato View Post
Many people here deeply love the criterion dungeons BECAUSE they have no rewards. They want to clear once for the challenge and that’s it. They don’t want to have their time playing other games or AFKing taken up by a mandatory grind. Let’s face it, we’re in a big season for new games coming out. We don’t have time for replaying old content like criterion. FFXIV isn’t meant to be a “main game” like WoW is, it’s a side game. We log in, do dailies or weeklies, then log out or go AFK. We like to get our business over with. Let me play other games Square, I don’t like FFXIV that much and neither do you.
I'm having way more fun doing it for the lore book. >: 3c but then again my favourite game was FF12 so of course I'd go for the text rather than the fancy outfits.
And I think that's the model FF14 relies on. It's clearly a game designed for you to be chill with, it's not going to be so demanding. And at the times when it is, it's very controlled (Savage/Ultimate) and once you do clear them, you'll have nothing more to do than the menial tasks. Square does let you play other games. There could be an argument made that perhaps this is unbecoming of a game with a monthly subscription, but eh.