No exploratory content

[Koros]

Those on the forums who are tripping themselves defending V&C might want to look at the Famitsu interview, because it looks like Yoshida would disagree with you that the game is "fine as-is". He wants to improve it (as us naysayers do), much to your chagrin.

He says that all the time, when has he actually done it? Like 33% success rate at best

And let's be honest, the vision and the budget are the biggest issues facing FF14 right now. Not individual problems with content. The entire formula is aging and cannot compete with modern 2023 games. Even these "yeah there are problems with variant" conversations are a distraction from the real issue: they treat this game as a milking factory and their vision consists of Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V'ing every expansion.

There's WoW shaking up the formula every expansion and missing the mark 80% of the time, and then there's FF14 calcifying itself around the sacred formula slowly petrifying.