No exploratory content

[Raraka]

The problem with exploratory zones is there is no system in place to keep them alive after the initial FOMO rush when everyone gets what they want and stops doing them.

I respectfully disagree with this, as I believe Cerberus and Ozma serve as the carrot on the stick to bring new players into older adventuring forays. While old content tends to get phased out as you can (for example) unsync an old raid to get a mount, the inherent progression inside adventuring forays makes skipping them directly for the reward not possible

I can at least say that my experience from starting bozja to getting my Cerberus was and will be one of the most fun things I have done in XIV. Delubrum Savage on itself probably clasifies as one of the best pieces of content in the game not because of inherent design, but by the atmosphere and sense of scale it imposes on anyone trying to tackle it

And exactly that journey is what keeps discord crews like ABBA and Lego steppers filling full raid groups for DRS, both of people trying to get their Cerberus and people that just enjoy re-running it with new players

At this point I may be almost done with bozja, missing some of the harder to obtain titles, but I keep coming back at it, I genuinely find the Lost action gameplay refreshing, so hoping into Bozja, chipping away at mettle or joining a DRS run, helping new players in the southern front farm fragments or taking over leadership in a CLL run full of first timers... I just keep coming back to it

[Supersnow845]

I respectfully disagree with this, as I believe Cerberus and Ozma serve as the carrot on the stick to bring new players into older adventuring forays. While old content tends to get phased out as you can (for example) unsync an old raid to get a mount, the inherent progression inside adventuring forays makes skipping them directly for the reward not possible

I can at least say that my experience from starting bozja to getting my Cerberus was and will be one of the most fun things I have done in XIV. Delubrum Savage on itself probably clasifies as one of the best pieces of content in the game not because of inherent design, but by the atmosphere and sense of scale it imposes on anyone trying to tackle it

And exactly that journey is what keeps discord crews like ABBA and Lego steppers filling full raid groups for DRS, both of people trying to get their Cerberus and people that just enjoy re-running it with new players

At this point I may be almost done with bozja, missing some of the harder to obtain titles, but I keep coming back at it, I genuinely find the Lost action gameplay refreshing, so hoping into Bozja, chipping away at mettle or joining a DRS run, helping new players in the southern front farm fragments or taking over leadership in a CLL run full of first timers... I just keep coming back to it

I have cleared Ozma 385 times, I still run BA almost daily and host it as much as I can

Field content has an implicit replayability the rest of the game just completely lacks

[DixieBellOCE]

I have cleared Ozma 385 times, I still run BA almost daily and host it as much as I can

Field content has an implicit replayability the rest of the game just completely lacks

Same could be said here.

Just one piece of gear to get to +2 and 2 relics to finish in Eureka and i will STILL go back and run BA because the content is actually fun, almost 7 years after it first released.

I still do BA twice a week, on a datacenter that is well below the population of any other (Materia).

And i know damn well that the same group i do BA with (Content Acheivers) run BA and DRS on Elemental DC multiple times a week.

These complainers are lazy and do not wish to actually play the game, that is the simple truth of the matter.