HUGE Problem in FFXIV - Dead Content and Reward Structure

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Published on February 14, 2022 7:34:53 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65rsK6U8_Us

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Final Fantasy XIV (2010)

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If you can't complete the MSQ Trials you're stuck on, what are you meant to do? Players are raising this as a concern that it's becoming too hard to progress past some fights in the game! Titania, Praetorium, Zodiark, The Final Day

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Timestamps:
0:00 We have a HUGE problem in FFXIV
0:40 Rewards and motivation is key in FF14
0:58 Castrum versus Praetorium rewards
2:34 PEOPLE LEAVE CASTRUM AND DODGE IT!
3:23 Let me not get on a soapbox though lol
4:09 BEGGING for help to get MSQ Trials done
5:30 THE DEEPER PROBLEM! Rewards!
6:57 The lack of rewards identified
7:56 Great reward sources exist
8:00 Expert Roulette Dungeons
8:20 Hunt Trains
8:51 Trial Roulette rewards are bad
9:44 What are your thoughts?


Houston we might have a problem.

People are dodging castrum like it’s on fire, MSQ Trials are dead, and unbearably long super queues hours long which means today we’re talking about content that is relatively unpopular or in more charged words dead. I’m going to first talk about the problem at hand and the lurking larger problem behind that and then I’m going to work on discussing some solutions.

We all know rewards and motivation are key to getting people to do something, anything really. This isn’t a gamer or zoomer sort of problem, this is a fundamental to human nature.

Time goes in and reward goes out and we want to optimize that.

So what we’re seeing here is inherently exactly that problem.

While this is far from the first time I’ve heard this problem, it’s a problem any veteran of final fantasy 14 can tell you has been a problem for years.

It takes very little effort to notice that praetorium and castrum meridianum are just simply tremendously unpopular content for most players with a few key exceptions.

First off is that when you run MSQ Roulette the praetorium will give you an astonishingly large amount of experience for essentially sitting down and turning on netflix for an hour

Now hilariously enough that spins into the second option you can get for MSQ roulette called castrum meridianum which is a far more active dungeon, takes something like 30 minutes or so to clear and gives significantly less experience-- history points to people actively queue dodging and leaving those groups for dead. Which at various points in time became considered acceptable and then at other points unacceptable. 3 thousand upvotes over a year later, downvoted into oblivion a year earlier.

Your instinct might be to assume that I’d step on a soapbox and claim these people are all terrible. I hate that kind of preachy hypocritical nonsense, reality is when even I was leveling and I hit castrum I would audibly groan and if someone else left first I’d be the first person to follow after because yeah it’s a huge difference.

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