The Content Cycle needs to break.

[Connor]

There needs to be a reason to do side quests. Remember how you had to do a small quest to unlock dyeable armor? We need a reason to go down and help a small fishing village and hear about their writing and be rewarded with a unique fishing outfit or an emote at the end of it all.

Wait, interesting quests with unique or otherwise exclusive rewards? Not in my FFXIV

You’ll take your ‘Talk to 3 people then return to quest giver’ for pretty much every single quest in the entire game’s 11-year lifespan and you will like it. Hell they made literally an entire numbered Final Fantasy game based around that concept, it’s called FFXVI lol…

If you want more there’s always ultimates/savages/extremes… (/sarcasm)

Inb4 someone says ‘there content if you want it you just aren’t looking hard enough’ . I don’t really care if I can spam leves to get 100,000,000 Gil achievement or that I can ‘just do ultimates in PF bruh’ (lol), or that I can totally go ERP in someone’s basement and that’s totally ‘content’ lol.

Players basically get to choose between ‘literally making up their own content (RP)’ or ‘join a static/PF and smash your head against ultimates until everyone else beats it with third party programs so the entire ultimate exercise was entirely pointless’. Not what I’d say is an approachable game design lol…