Daemon
07-06-2013, 07:02 PM
Hey Devs, I wanted to state my opinion on how I see the current view of the game. I'm sure there will be people who may or may not agree but that is why I said its just my opinion.
Several parts of the game heavily evolves around 18 man alliances. Legion can be up to 36 people I believe. While some content such as NNI is limited to 3 People. Salvage has 3 minimum entry also. Although with the support of Displacers allowing us to low man Void Watch, there is still the limitation of being able to proc VW bosses unless we have the jobs needed.
While at level 99 a few players can dual box some of these areas such as Salvage. However I can see the intention of why these limitations have been placed. To encourage the community to play together as a group. To limit the amount of items in circulatation on the server. I mean rare is meant to be a reward to appreciate right? To offer a difficult challenge so people could not solo these places themselves.
This was all great when the server was fresh, with new players, many on different levels of the game still exploring content because it was new. Times have changed.
Also another problem I believe is that you gave us too many tasks, items, things to do. Because we cannot depend on ourselves solo leaving us in a state to always heavily rely on each other makes it difficult depending on the task, amount of time it takes and the things on our personal list of accomplishments..
But at the current state. These areas are not new anymore. Some places are abandoned. Why? Lack of people or lack of interest.
When I say lack of people. I mean its hard to find groups to do these events.
As for lack of interest? Several people either already passed these areas and don't feel the need to go back or better content has replaced interest over those areas.
I know it's not easy to answer a request like this as change is not an easy thing to do when it comes to programming. However some of us could go back to these abandoned areas and enjoy the previous content better if you could lighten up and allow us to be more independent playing Solo than having to depend on a crowd that's already passed it.
Limitations such as Salvage needing 3 people to enter. Because we can't even find 3 people willing to go with us as I said either because people already passed it or has no interest due to higher content. We end up resorting to work around your limitations by paying players to enter us in. And if 1 person can solo NNI on their own anyways, why not drop the 3 player entry requirement? Remember awhile back you put taxes on our bazaar? And we ended up working around your concept by parking outside of town instead?
And in other Areas it would be nice if you could lower the amount of people it takes to do previous past content because this moment in time in FFXI we barely have new players rolling in while the ones who have stuck around the entire time are already beyond it.
Just my opinion, and if anyone else wants to share their thoughts to this.
Several parts of the game heavily evolves around 18 man alliances. Legion can be up to 36 people I believe. While some content such as NNI is limited to 3 People. Salvage has 3 minimum entry also. Although with the support of Displacers allowing us to low man Void Watch, there is still the limitation of being able to proc VW bosses unless we have the jobs needed.
While at level 99 a few players can dual box some of these areas such as Salvage. However I can see the intention of why these limitations have been placed. To encourage the community to play together as a group. To limit the amount of items in circulatation on the server. I mean rare is meant to be a reward to appreciate right? To offer a difficult challenge so people could not solo these places themselves.
This was all great when the server was fresh, with new players, many on different levels of the game still exploring content because it was new. Times have changed.
Also another problem I believe is that you gave us too many tasks, items, things to do. Because we cannot depend on ourselves solo leaving us in a state to always heavily rely on each other makes it difficult depending on the task, amount of time it takes and the things on our personal list of accomplishments..
But at the current state. These areas are not new anymore. Some places are abandoned. Why? Lack of people or lack of interest.
When I say lack of people. I mean its hard to find groups to do these events.
As for lack of interest? Several people either already passed these areas and don't feel the need to go back or better content has replaced interest over those areas.
I know it's not easy to answer a request like this as change is not an easy thing to do when it comes to programming. However some of us could go back to these abandoned areas and enjoy the previous content better if you could lighten up and allow us to be more independent playing Solo than having to depend on a crowd that's already passed it.
Limitations such as Salvage needing 3 people to enter. Because we can't even find 3 people willing to go with us as I said either because people already passed it or has no interest due to higher content. We end up resorting to work around your limitations by paying players to enter us in. And if 1 person can solo NNI on their own anyways, why not drop the 3 player entry requirement? Remember awhile back you put taxes on our bazaar? And we ended up working around your concept by parking outside of town instead?
And in other Areas it would be nice if you could lower the amount of people it takes to do previous past content because this moment in time in FFXI we barely have new players rolling in while the ones who have stuck around the entire time are already beyond it.
Just my opinion, and if anyone else wants to share their thoughts to this.