Cosmic Exploration progression is poorly handled

[Minneyar]

Do we know if our concerns about this content are even being looked at? I was curious if the Japanese peeps had the same issue but as far as I can tell their side of these forums is empty of new posts. Do only the English forums get much comments or do they post problems elsewhere? Or just don’t complain because of their culture?

From what I've read via machine translation, quite a few jp players are upset with the design and implementation of this content.

Check out this thread, if you have an auto translate plugin for your browser it can translate the page for you as you scroll and you can read their replies.

https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...E3%83%AC/page4

[Neoyoshi]

I really think people are blowing this out of proportion, or they aren't really understanding why those first 2 steps of 'PHASE 1' (btw) went so quickly. Step 3 of this FIRST PHASE (btw, again), being 'Habitation Module & Cosmoport Preparations' is taking the longest.

All this is feeling like manufactured drama (at least to me it is). If anything, people should be up in arms about how ass some of the missions are; that's what I'd think folk would be complaining about more than anything.

And don't get me started on what they choose as our Mount reward for the meta-achievement this time around.... I'm sorry, but there are so many more problematic things people should be talking about regarding this content versus the server progression, which is... like, nothing.

[FuturePastNow]

I was there when my world (on Aether) unlocked the Cosmoliner. Here's what you missed: a 40-minute FATE to recharge the batteries of vibrating robots (absolutely thrilling content), followed by 100+ people running over to the new thing that appeared and riding it in a circle around the map. Then we all went back to breaking rocks.

[DivineP]

SQE and the devs listening to feedback?
Now that's truly something out of this world if that happens.

To me the new dyes and them being exclusive to there sceams of desperation to make people do the content.
And like many others who craft or gather casually and not.... Savage Level this content is something I cna stomach 1 hour per day at most.

I'm not one to defend SE but to be fair there is a lodestone post that explains they've looked at videos etc.

[Saemi_Tatsuya]

I think timegate-ing progression is somewhat backwards in this situation. The event is not particularly exciting to begin with. Furthermore, let's think about what would happen if they did timegate it. Then they have to have a specific time at which this new event would take place, likely during a weekly reset. People who can't make this time wouldn't be able to see the progression anyways. Furthermore, it doesn't incentivize playing when the bar is capped, which would drive down engagement. All of the interesting gameplay is through the quests which are available all the time, the mech missions, which happen at 20min intervals and the red alerts, which happen once every 4-8 hours as I understand it.
Alternatively, you could make the event quests available as a solo instance, but again, I'm not sure most people would willingly go and do one since it's just running back and forth.

[Exmo]

The progress fates are very boring. I can't believe the devs thought this constitutes an enjoyable experience. After spending 30 minutes running from A to B to recharge moon rovers, I'm disinclined to participate in any other progression events in future.