Patch 2.3 Notes (Preliminary)Follow

The Hunt has been added.
The Hunt is an initiative established by the Eorzean Alliance, offering a bounty to adventurers who aid in quelling the threat posed by notably dangerous monsters that prowl the realm.

- Mark Bills
At each Grand Company headquarters, players will find a Hunt board upon which mark bills have been posted. There are two types of mark bills: regular mark bills, which are posted once per day, and elite mark bills, which are posted once per week. These bills list the name and number of targets to be hunted, their location, and the reward being offered for their defeat.

- Regular and Elite Marks
While regular marks denote enemies commonly found in the wilds of Eorzea, elite marks denote powerful enemies that only appear under certain conditions. They are ranked according to the risk they pose: rank B (lowest risk), rank A, and rank S (highest risk). In addition to the bounties listed on the Hunt board, elite marks will yield rewards including Allied Seals, Allagan tomestones of mythology, and Allagan tomestones of soldiery. Players are free to pursue elite marks without procuring an elite mark bill from the Hunt board, but they will not be eligible for the bounties stated on the bill. To learn more of the nature of these elite marks, players can consult the hunter-scholars stationed at every hamlet about Eorzea.

Allied Seals and Rewards
Allied Seals received from the Hunt can be exchanged for exclusive wares by speaking with the Hunt Billmaster at your Grand Company. Rewards include weapons, armor, minions, sands of time, oil of time, and alexandrite.
* Allied Seals can only be exchanged at your affiliated Grand Company.

New marks will be posted on the Hunt board at the following times:
Regular mark bills: Daily at 15:00 (GMT)
Elite mark bills: Weekly on Tuesday at 8:00 (GMT)

I can point you to the Guildleve NPCs.

I can point you to treasure map quest and treasure maps.

I can point you to the 'special' maps you can buy with Myth tomes.

I can point you to the hundreds of copy/pasted quests that send you to a location to kill usually 2-5 of x monster that's "specific to you."

He was correct, this is a new way of doing old content. There may be "new" monsters (leviathan reskin and bears from Halatali hard for example) but it's still very much nothing new perse.

It's new in the sense it didn't exist until 2.3, but it's not a new concept or system.

As said, by now XI actually hit Rise of Zilart, which all who played can agree ws one of the main expansions that "made" FFXI, XIV desperately needs something like that content wise. They're not giving us "Hard Modes" due to fan service either, it saves A LOT of development time compared to making 3-4 brand new dungeons each time.

My FC and I have looked through the patch notes, and for us the content looks awesome. We are a mix of casual and semi hardcore, and there is something for all of us to look forward to. For me, hunts should be fun, the new dungeons look like a sweet way of capping soldiery, and provided it doesn't turn into a cesspool, Crystal tower should be wicked.

Despite this though, there is so much negativity around here about the game these days, it's baffling. People logging in, complaining about the content, complaining about the updates, complaining for the sake of complaining.... I log in daily because I'm surrounded by people who I enjoy playing with, and I enjoy the content I'm doing. The gating of content behind lockouts etc doesn't bother because I work full time, I'm engaged, and real life keeps me occupied enough that gating in a game isn't a big deal. In fact, it helps me as I can't fall behind too badly missing a day/week here and there. If I logged in and had something to moan about every single day, I wouldn't log in, I would play one of the several dozen other MMO on the market at the moment.

Apologies if that came across aggressive, I just can't understand the mindset of people who spend their free time doing something they clearly cannot stand, when I would love to have more time to play if I could.

Ha, the official forums... worth checking out for lulz and breaking news, but I'd never use that as a barometer for how the majority of players feel about the game.

It's much better than some fan forums where there's only praises and anything but = negativity, which is equally not good to find how people feel about the game :p