New Content and Rewards

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Originally Posted by Glamdring

So as long as every request on these forums that isn't immediately shouted down is a request (actually, based on the tone more of a demand) to make the game easier in 1 way or another we won't GET a hard fight with a high drop rate or anything of the kind. I sure as hell wouldn't WANT a job as an FFXI dev now.

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The job of a dev is hard? Tough. Suck it up or get out of the business.

They want to challenge me? That's fine, but I'm going to challenge them just as much to make fun, rewarding, and challenging content. Yes, all together all the time. They want me to spend months or even years getting some piece of gear? They better spend months or years of man hours making sure it's entertaining. They expect me to call in 5-17 people to get something done? I expect them to call in the help they need to get content created and problems fixed in a timely fashion without excuses. They want me to put forth time, effort, and planning to earn powerful prestigious gear or complete trials/missions/events/etc? They need to put forth time, effort, and planning to earn my money every. single. month.

Please tell me one event that was really hard and not just a giant time sink or do you mean playing Final HR Fantasy. Before abyssea you fought every mob the same ways. Either straght tank, zerg, or the fall back, kited fight, or combo like burning though ash and trash mobs and fighting a Big boss with one of the three. Nyzul was the only event that added anything to that with the addition of floors objectives and ending in geuss what zerg.

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Originally Posted by svengalis

If they made VW more low man friendly that wouldn't be the case but of course people whined about content being to easy and VW is what we got.

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VW is actually almost as easy as abyssea, except it's not MNK NIN WAR WHM only. Chapter 3 drop rates are pretty reasonable(except HQ weapons) that quite a lot of players who spams VW reguarly already have full set. Personally I enjoy VW more than Abyssea. It's an event that the effort you put in to gear your jobs actually matters, unlike abyssea only proc and proc jobs that matters, and still resonably easy to win.

The biggest problem is, after certain players got full set it's getting harder and harder to make a VW alliance by /shout. Hopefully we can get to cap red light as SE promised so full alliance is no longer needed to do VW. Or make heavy metal drop from every VW with at least 80% drop rate. That'd give more incentive for ppl to spam it. Other wise VW got old fast since there are only a few NMs to spam and most of them are not popular.

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The biggest problem is, after certain players got full set it's getting harder and harder to make a VW alliance by /shout.

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If not for such a stupid drop system people might of carried on doing it after getting their basic wants, or going after HQ weapons. Hell maybe even upgrading their numerous emps, since the trials and drop system is still way too punishing most just stop bothering after they get the body drops they want. I did nothing but VW for a long long time, as soon as I got the 3 bodies I wanted I pretty much bailed on it. Couldn't muster the energy to go after the other lesser wanted stuff considerig how much raw effort, time, dissapointment and gil it took to get those.

IMO they should remove the bullshit synth mats they know we don't take, getting nothing but mats for 100 mobs is like your favorite tv show showing filler episodes 3/4 episodes aired. The slip system they say they are adding hopefully will allow you to trade a slip for a single metal hopefully or a set quanity of them for maybe a pouch, I think that would fix the people not joining cause they got their gear problem. At that point it's guaranteed it's not a waste of time, for people looking for plates and people looking to sell plates even.