I want to play *This* game

[StarRosie]

Exploratory zones are a mixed bag. While many people say they enjoyed doing them

It's weird watching a lot of these folks wax poetic about Eureka and Bozja like they were beloved content on release. I was around when Eureka Anemos dropped and it dropped to...fairly negative to highly negative criticism. It was also just upsetting for folks that the relics were locked behind it. People did not like the ultra vague quest steps and the "We aren't going to put a map marker for quest steps because we want to force you to 'share information'." and all that. Pagos is Pagos...enough said. Pyros got a pass because it had the one saving grace of "I'm not Pagos!" and Hydratos got a pass because BA is a fun raid. But Eureka as each step released was met with mostly...negative reactions. It wasn't until after parts got nerfed and the folks who LIKED Eureka did 99% of the legwork to make Eureka more streamlined, that it's become more tolerable and fun for some folks.

Bozja got A LOT of flak for having multiple slog grinds almost one after another. Folks were upset that they made doing the Relic steps IN BOZJA far less efficient than fate grinding in HW areas and running Antitower 6 times. Which also then stressed the playerbase because "Hey, you need to be this mettle rank to progress the story and therefore progress the relic! But you've been relic step grinding OUTSIDE of Bozja because it is far more efficient, soooo...you're rank 1. Have fun grinding mettle!" The one time grinds are still a pain point for people just starting Bozja. And DR is basically a barren, empty raid that you have to PF for and then wait 10 minutes in queue just to slog through it multiple times for relic steps. Which is another pain point for people just starting Bozja.

Personally, I did a lot of this stuff on their respective releases and my reactions were mostly "Neat." to "Meh." on most of this stuff. Would I take another Eureka/Bozja area? Eeeehhhh...maybe? If it was just a side thing that didn't lock a relic behind it and was just there for folks who enjoy that stuff, sure. But if it's another relic gate...then no thanks. But honestly, I would much prefer if they put a lot of that stuff in the game's main overworlds, cause they are barren 90% of the time and that sucks, cause this game has a lot of beautiful areas. But ah well. I still got a bunch of other stuff to grind for, so a lot of these complainants don't apply to me.