Well go find someone else to have the sub discussion with, because I'm not doing it.
Okay? So 8 bosses in Gordian and all of a sudden you'll love the game? I just don't get it. I'd like to see more raid content but I think it'd be at the cost of other content.
People are always unhappy about these fucking games. Honestly, I cannot tell FFXIV OF apart from WoW when it was literally the best and most popular MMO on the planet. Everyone was either crying about how ToC was too short and how it ruined Ulduar because no one wanted to do Ulduar or bitching about how people demanding ilvl for ICC was ruining their experience. I just can't accept the online behavior of maybe most the whiniest game genre fanbase as evidence of anything.
Not to mention the crying about how it's rehashed content.
Actually why do we have to speak in such absolutes here? People ARE still doing Void Ark, granted it's mainly for the upgrade material, and even then people are only going to do it at most once a week because of the inherent design (flaw) of it.
Yeah typo, but anyway it just felt like you were conflating standard obsolescence with the cluster fuck of 3.0 which was expressly a post expansion issue.
You really seem to have a lot of faith in everything dropping Eso and Eso being upcapped as some revitalizing thing for the game, I just don't see that. If they uncap them now fine I don't really have an issue with it
We're talking about gearing alts here(at least I specifically mentioned that), having more access to i200 gear would be great for alts frankly. 205 weapon and full 200 with some pieces of 210 would make your alt raid viable. I mean think about it for a second, there's almost no access to i200 gear, it's locked behind esoterics or locked behind a weekly lock out. I can kind of agree that it's ridiculous that i200 gear is the choke point when it's possibly to obtain an almost endless supply of the upgrade materials.
Yeah god people are really sore about that delay huh? It was disappointing but overall I liked it enough through ARR just to give them a pass and see if we get back to scheduled ... scheduling.
That makes more sense, I guess but alt gearing in WoW wasn't super easy anyway. It required a lot more play time since raids took time to organize and at that point in Wrath you were ideally running 10 man and 25 man once a week on both characters. You got badges for your Tier gear (equivalent of Eso gear) from both daily dungeons and raid lockout. So you weren't getting very close at all to that gear just by running your daily dungeon quests, it'd be five weeks just for your chest alone just by doing dungeons and a weekly easy raid.
edit: I don't remember this all very well and am going off some old wowhead posts so forgive me if I got something wrong.
I guess they could do something to make alt gearing a little easier in FFXIV but I don't see any potential system where "being able to gear two jobs" won't end up used as "gearing my main job twice as fast". I'd be more for just not putting a weekly lockout on Void Ark, maybe instead give someone a bonus on their first roll of the week, or put in a vendor so everyone gets a free item each week. Honestly I still feel like the whole token system from Alexander kind of solves this problem because your Static is going to start passing way earlier and you're going to be able to gear that off spec.