Square Enix should retire the relic quests with Endwalker

[Volgia]

Go back to the Live Letter with the 10 year Roadmap (think it was 68?). They don't want the game to be considered a MMORPG anymore because that has deterred many of the long time Final Fantasy fans from picking the game up. They want the game to be considered a RPG that can be played alone or with friends.

The point of the relic is there being a destination, and content being developed for said destination (Eureka, Bozja, or even re-doing old 24 mans and stuff to it), they decided to not develop the content and I am not a RP player to artificially create myself a journey instead of getting what they were supposed to deliver. I think this is even worse for people who have limited time to play.

Changing the game from an MMO to a live service FF single player game is another subject here. I think it takes guts to ask me to play a very mediocre single-player game experience because other FF fans don't like MMOs. They have 14 other games and spin-offs they can play if that were the case. We don't even have the option to experience the story with our friends unless it's done artificially.

To me these changes aren't being made with any kind of player in mind, it's made because they just didn't want to develop the content, or even to cut development cost. This redirection where they say that the community complained so they removed the content is getting old, because I think what most of the community wanted was to fix some jankyness not for the content/core mechanic to disappear.

As for "Adapt or move on", we should first complain to the developers that this isn't the direction we want, and if there's no change in Dawntrail then sure, Adapt or move on. But if you say nothing and keep a defeated stance really, nothing will change.