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>Whole game is designed around Normal Modes that you're absolutely supposed to do blind or you ruin the experience
>the last 5% of the game is some dastardly Lost Ark styled "Watch a guide" bullshit where trying to learn it blind is immaculate suffering
>said 5% of content dies within the patch(es) it's introduced and gets major dev time attributed toward it
>nobody ever reruns the content afterward unless they're cheesing it or trying meme solo savages 2+ expansions ago

XIV is fucking wild, you'd think they would try something, anything, to get people to play the content they spend exorbitant dev time on and they don't. The entirety of EX, Savage, and Ultimates has been a downward line in participation with a brief stop in 6.05 where hundreds of thousands of new players got their first dose of savage, were burnt by it, then it was right back to line going down for 6.2 and 6.4.

At this point it's exclusively a higher end raiding game, even the adventuring forays that are basically made for normies/midcores have been snatched away for upper raiders only now. Occult is just Bozja 0.6 but without a CLL or Dalriada and they skipped straight to DRS 2.