Easy Content Idea

[Ath192]

You know what would keep people busy and would be minimal effort and kind of cool. Design a few sick outfits for each expac - ARR, HW, SB and SHB that you can unlock by beating all the new game plus entries for each expansion.

These could be unlocked in the Tataru's Boutique shop thing in Sharlayan or just through an achievement.

You barely have to think anything since it's all there, if it's through Tataru's shop then maybe a few quests about going down memory lane and how recounting the story inspires tataru to design a new outfit and it's not AS monotonous as repeating the same fates over and over plus it adds an incentive to repeat what arguably is the highest quality content in the game, the MSQ.

When 7.0 rolls around, you add one for EW. This would be similar to how the wandering minstrel is inspired to give you new fights after you recount your stories to him.

[RicaRuin]

'Keep people busy' - as someone with multiple Alts, I can tell you that MSQ barely takes any time if you skip all cutscenes. Since you can just unsync all the duties and have flying, that's wouldn't really take much time.

[Ath192]

'Keep people busy' - as someone with multiple Alts, I can tell you that MSQ barely takes any time if you skip all cutscenes. Since you can just unsync all the duties and have flying, that's wouldn't really take much time.

So be it if you want to speed run it. I'm betting you would go for the outfits right? There you go. It's not a bad incentive to use NG+ and for a lot of us we would take our time and remember details we may have missed the first run.

[DragonFlyy]

Weren't you just in another thread complaining about people wanting re-run events? This is basically the exact same thing.

[Ath192]

Weren't you just in another thread complaining about people wanting re-run events? This is basically the exact same thing.

Yes, when you rerun events with the same rewards you don’t give anything to the veteran players. When there’s rewards for everyone then we all win.

You’ll notice in that post how the OP was interested in the car. If they want to develop original content then I’d be even happier. But this is a solution to provide something grindy for those who want to keep playing the game and want a new reward out of it.

If it came across as “I want new events instead of the same ones every year” = “never add new rewards as a replay incentive” then that wasn’t my intention.

[Kaurhz]

I think they should provide better rewards for achievement tokens, like actual rewards. Not the hand-me-down rewards that were formerly known as veteran rewards.

If they did -- they would actually encourage people to do more with the game, and partake in more areas of the game, similarly, if they were to implement more creative achievements. People need to be encouraged to interact more with the game, frankly, and the game itself doesn't do that, through reward structures or otherwise. This is the biggest problem.

The game doesn't need more content, it just needs more incentive to replay content, or engage in it meaningfully. All these ideas, whilst nice are ultimately short in the grand scheme of things.

[Ath192]

People need to be encouraged to interact more with the game, frankly, and the game itself doesn't do that, through reward structures or otherwise. This is the biggest problem.

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All these ideas, whilst nice are ultimately short in the grand scheme of things.

Forgive me but, this is exactly what's being proposed here. A way to interact with the game and use its existing systems to its advantage, it's a similar approach to Elden ring as well sans the difficulty hike because people wouldn't tolerate it around here.

I don't believe these ideas to be short in the grand scheme of things if they keep coming, because it's going to take an agglomeration of these to change the grand scheme of things. So when you add up all these little ideas people suggest here and there, you get a grand change.

I do support your idea to better utilize the achievement currency as well. There should be enough to keep people going for more achievements.

[Shinkuno]

Forgive me but, this is exactly what's being proposed here. A way to interact with the game and use its existing systems to its advantage, it's a similar approach to Elden ring as well sans the difficulty hike because people wouldn't tolerate it around here.

I don't believe these ideas to be short in the grand scheme of things if they keep coming, because it's going to take an agglomeration of these to change the grand scheme of things. So when you add up all these little ideas people suggest here and there, you get a grand change.

I do support your idea to better utilize the achievement currency as well. There should be enough to keep people going for more achievements.

they probably mean interact with the world, msq is a single player experience and doesnt affect the game around it

the game feels very dead outside cities cause there is no incentive to just go out and interact with the game, the game is more than just the msq. If anything, there needs to be less incentive for anything MSQ related

[Ath192]

they probably mean interact with the world, msq is a single player experience and doesnt affect the game around it

the game feels very dead outside cities cause there is no incentive to just go out and interact with the game, the game is more than just the msq. If anything, there needs to be less incentive for anything MSQ related

I can agree with this sentiment, anything to give life to the overworld. I will counter that there is no need to create a fork on the road. When we can come up with low effort feedback that can give players who want to sink time into the game a reason to do so then there’s no reason they couldn’t all be taken into account, or at least a group of them.

So adding a couple of achievement outfits for NG+ does not mean they can’t also come up with overworld activities.

However, I would encourage you rather than just give reasons for being upset, which I feel are valid, also come out with suggestions to add that would make it better?

What’s a good idea you’d like to see happen?

[Shinkuno]

I can agree with this sentiment, anything to give life to the overworld. I will counter that there is no need to create a fork on the road. When we can come up with low effort feedback that can give players who want to sink time into the game a reason to do so then there’s no reason they couldn’t all be taken into account, or at least a group of them.

So adding a couple of achievement outfits for NG+ does not mean they can’t also come up with overworld activities.

However, I would encourage you rather than just give reasons for being upset, which I feel are valid, also come out with suggestions to add that would make it better?

What’s a good idea you’d like to see happen?

There has been countless suggestion, and enough other games to look at where the overworld doesnt feel dead, but its always deflected with "but what if i want to afk in limsa???? i only have time to play 10 minutes per month!!!"