Thread: Concerns about Content Patch 2.1

"2.1 is just a few weeks away". Ty Yoshida, faith remains strong in you and your team!

Originally Posted by Naoki_Yoshida

Patch Operation and Cycle

It’s been three months since the launch of FFXIV: ARR. If you’ve have been focusing on a single job and leveled it all the way to the cap, there’s a chance that you’ve hit a dead end in content. We’ve envisioned a two and a half to three month patch cycle for FFXIV, with patch 2.1 originally scheduled for late November.

Semi related and would really like to see some dev response on the subject... Are there any plans to fix the backwards way raids are being released? Releasing lower tier content 2-3 months after higher tier content can't remain a thing.

Using the congestion issues at launch as an excuse for patch 2.1 delay.... Development delayed for a month but server problems lasted for two weeks.

Originally Posted by Troop86

Using the congestion issues at launch as an excuse for patch 2.1 delay.... Development delayed for a month but server problems lasted for two weeks.

I wasn't able to consistently log into the same character until late September. So... I would say 4 weeks sounds about right for me. 1 week of ridiculously unreliable early access, 2 weeks of terribad 1017 login spam, and 1 more week of intermittent access.

Originally Posted by Grizzlebeard

Nice to have an insight on your processes but I still don't understand the inability to up the dungeon exp now. It's not something that requires testing presumably, just an adjustment to the exp modifier. Why penalise people wanting to level some way other than Fates in the interim when it's something that takes minimal effort and would garner you a massive amount of goodwill from the playerbase?

You're seeing this from a player's perspective, not from a designers. Probably the most common mistake when trying to backseat design. It sounds simple, but that doesn't mean you wouldn't TEST it. No developer is ever going to make a change without testing it. Plus, they also need to figure out how big or small the change needs to be, to maintain FATE popularity but to encourage dungeon delving.

I'm personally awaiting the change myself before I level any other Disciple of War/Magic, but seriously, c'mon. You have to see the big picture here. As YoshiP mentioned himself, its about the long-term.

Here is my take on things and the state of the game. This game is alot of fun but the way some things are, it either goes too fast or too easy. Example is crafting and fate grinding. You have hard core players who will put in alot of hrs to reach high level but you also have casual players who are still playing through the story. It's a good step that SE is making dungeons viable as this may help solve the problem of players having to wait 60mins for a DF group. What happens when people have level 50 everything. There's not much to do because getting to 50 in jobs or crafting can be done in 1 day. They only jobs that are on par is DOL and we know they take forever to level. There is also a very big problem with RMT and mining bots and it seems like nothing is being done. You kill one and 2 takes its place, much like roaches.

The problem is that we as players pay the price for your mistakes and also 2.1 gives little in the way of content to do for those free companies that are decked out in coil gear because crystal tower gear is weaker.