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.
Do people forget we actively pay a sub with these weird talking points? Or that there are massive time gated systems that mean we need to stay subbed, or to keep our housing?
People get excited for new systems coming out to help pad the in-between, but when it's a big let down we're often told "You're not actually supposed to play the game, Yoshi even said so."

The most rewarding thing for me to do right now is to sit at a Summoning Bell to AFK do Ventures and craft, because over the years I just see us culling things down even further until there's nothing left to do other than a 2 day gimmick released every 6 months, and MSQ once every few years.

FFXIV doesn't need to be a main game, I just want it to at least be a game.