Final Fantasy 14 players can't help themselves: MMO diehards dogpiled the "casual" Cosmic Exploration content so hard it's caused community debate on FOMO and time-gating

Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail cinematic screenshot showing Alphinaud Leveilleur, an Elezen boy with short white hair
(Image credit: Square Enix)

The 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Final Fantasy 14 community is once again in shambles, but this time it's not over 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:a poor event reward or 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Dawntrail reviews – it's related to patch 7.2♌1 and its introduction of Cosmic Exploration, a new instanced form of collaborative casual content.

At least that's what it's supposed to be – but fans are saying it's anything but "casual" now, as more invested players bulldoze progress through Cosmic Exploration and 🎐leave others with nothing to do. A recent meme shared on highlights the issue, with the caption reading "Cosmic Exploration on populated servers be like" and the attached image saying "Cosmic Exploration just arrived... aaaaand it's finished."

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on the platform shows fans criticizing 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Square Enix for the debacle, titled "Cosmic Explorati🐽on infrastructu🍌re expansion already finished the morning of Day 1?" The OP questions how the developers didn't "think to add some sort of basic time gate."

Not everyone feels the same, however. "FFXIV players are the type to finish a small segment of tiꦇme-gated content and start dooming that they finished all the content and there's no time gating," reads a elsewhere on the site, seemingly pokജing fun at those complaining that Cosmic Exploration isn't properly time gated. Another expresses a similar sentiment: "I feel people are overexaggerating how much they missed on Cosmic Exploration."

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It's all almost too reminiscent of Island Sanctuary's own release in Final Fantasy 14 back with patch 6.2, and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:how quickly players were optimizing it rather than enjoying it as the relaxing, casual content it was meant to be. You ca♔n always count on MM🧔O stans to min-max, though, I suppose – especially if it's multiplayer-based content that requires collaboration rather than a single-player focused instance like the Island Sanctuary.

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Anna Koselke
Staff Writer

After spending years with her head in various fantastical realms' clouds, Anna studied English Literature and then Medieval History at the University of Edinburgh, going on to specialize in narrative design and video game journalism as a writer. She has written for various publications since her postgraduate studies, including Dexerto, Fanbyte, GameSpot, IGN, PCGamesN, and more. When she's not frantically trying to form words into coherent sentences, she's probably daydreaming about becoming a fairy druid an𒀰d befriending every animal or she's spend🌳ing a thousand (more) hours traversing the Underdark in Baldur's Gate 3. If you spot her away from her PC, you'll always find Anna with a fantasy book, a handheld video game console of some sort, and a Tamagotchi or two on hand.

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