Quote Originally Posted by Lium View Post
Criticism is absolutely necessary in any form. I believe everyone’s opinions are valid, even the ones I disagree with. And I really do mean that.

However, context is important. We are in the middle of a two-year drought in expansions. OF COURSE things are gonna feel stale now. Especially if you, like the OP claims, have cleared everything that interests you.
Overall, I do agree that we are at the end of an expansion, and things always get slow at this point. That being said, something that I don't really understand is how that applies to the argument of not having enough repeatable content. Because XIV has offered repeatable content in the past and cut that type of content from Endwalker. So comments about the situation like 'It's the end of the expansion, what do you expect?' (not a direct quote of anyone, just an example of the argument), that argument to me comes across as very tone deaf, because it's not about the normal drought experience we've seen in the past.

When people talk about things like Eureka and Bozja, they're talking about optional content that gives you different goals you can work toward even in a drought. For example, in the late stages of Shadowbringers, I would spend time grinding up my Bozja HP/DPS/Healing buffs and trying to get the last of the field notes for the mount, something I had the option of doing that is in no way, shape, or form a requirement of the player.

Droughts are a normal part of an MMOs lifespan, but that is not a real counterargument to not having new content during the expansion that offers some sort of incentive to go back to it. Now, I don't think that argument ultimately matters anymore, at least not at this moment, because Dawntrail is presumably going to add that type of content back into the game. There's no more point in criticizing the lack of that in Endwalker, unless that content turns out to not do what it claims of course, but we won't know that until that content actually launches.

Quote Originally Posted by Striker44 View Post
It's not actually "endlessly whining". I was just mimicking your tone of inherently insulting anyone who happens to have a different opinion than you (by trying to act as if your opinion regarding "meaningful content" was somehow absolute objective fact). Acknowledge that comments are purely your own opinions, and I respond in kind.
Love the blatant misrepresentation for no good reason. Always a pleasure to see. I didn't make any statements about what is or isn't meaningful content, so I have no idea why you're calling me out for that.