Suggestion to fix the "Boredom" problem

[Leonlionheart]

My advice to people like you is either get a full time job or get a few other hobbies. If you are playing the game 24/7 of course you are going to run out of things to do. If you play like many of us that have jobs and families (few hours in the evening and on weekends if we're free), you most certainly are not going to be running out of stuff to do.

If you have been playing Abyssea since the start, it's almost impossible for you to NOT to have run out of things to do.

Honestly if I wanted to play 25 hours a day it's no ones business but my own. Do I have to play that long per day to get 5/5 +2, an Emp or four, or a Relic or two? No. You only have to play 3~4 hours a day, even for a relic (honestly only two hours a day for a relic).

My advice to you is to suck less.

[Karbuncle]

If you have been playing Abyssea since the start, it's almost impossible for you to NOT to have run out of things to do.

Honestly if I wanted to play 25 hours a day it's no ones business but my own. Do I have to play that long per day to get 5/5 +2, an Emp or four, or a Relic or two? No. You only have to play 3~4 hours a day, even for a relic (honestly only two hours a day for a relic).

My advice to you is to suck less.

I have 15 jobs to get +2 Armor for, and, If I'm feeling lucky, Empyreans ! I wont run out of stuff to do for a long time.

Level more jobs NUB! :P

Also on the PVP its not that people are scared, its just unless you're an UKON WAR, SAM, or Some other heavy DD, its not really fun, Because you spend most of your time being one shotted by Empyrean Weaponskills.

Because something tells me PVP Balance wasn't in consideration with the new Emp Weaponskills >_>

[Leonlionheart]

I have 15 jobs to get +2 Armor for, and, If I'm feeling lucky, Empyreans ! I wont run out of stuff to do for a long time.

Level more jobs NUB! :P

Also on the PVP its not that people are scared, its just unless you're an UKON WAR, SAM, or Some other heavy DD, its not really fun, Because you spend most of your time being one shotted by Empyrean Weaponskills.

Because something tells me PVP Balance wasn't in consideration with the new Emp Weaponskills >_>

WAR, SAM, and DD are simply TERRIBLE at PvP. RDM, PUP, DRK, SCH, BLM, DNC, and BLU all excel so much more than the big DD jobs. NIN can take out nearly anyone with nukes.

Honestly the only completely overpowered job is BLU, but that can be worked around if you run away when you see Chain Affinity and/or Efflux. Don't let them get Quad off on you.

Any job that can Silence (even as sub) gains a substantial chance to win, but again if you're smart and run away and wear out the silence you'll build resistance and be able to finish them off.

Plus, if you gear for PDT against a big DD, they'll be doing roughly 25% of the max damage they'd do outside of Abyssea. So, if Ukko's Fury does 2500 damage outside, it'll do 625 damage to you inside. Not to mention it's very difficult for a WAR to get TP if it's gravitied/bound/slept/paralyzed/slowed, etc. Run away when Blood Rage/Warcry is up (If 5/5 Savegery they gain a 6~7% crit rate from tp bonus, careful), you won't have a hard time dealing with the damage output in 1v1 pretty much any job.

PvP is actually completely biased towards non conventionally powerful jobs, like PUP and COR.

I also have several jobs that can still use occasional work, but I mean you can finish a +2 in 2~4 hours (barring most +2 that require VNM stages).

[saevel]

If you have been playing Abyssea since the start, it's almost impossible for you to NOT to have run out of things to do.

Honestly if I wanted to play 25 hours a day it's no ones business but my own. Do I have to play that long per day to get 5/5 +2, an Emp or four, or a Relic or two? No. You only have to play 3~4 hours a day, even for a relic (honestly only two hours a day for a relic).

My advice to you is to suck less.

I've been playing this game since before it had English, and I have yet to run out of things to do. Of my six main jobs three of them aren't full +2 yet and I only have ~one~ emperian weapon. Yet there are people out there that are almost 20 jobs 5/5 +2 with 5+ emperians and 2+ relics. So what you have done / desire to do is entirely dependent on your free time available along with what friends / LS support you happen to have.

If your bored, then it's because you need to take a break and do something else for a month or three. Your not bored because of lack of game content but because you've burnt yourself out and have lost the desire to further burn yourself. Go do something else for awhile and recharge, the desire will come back.

[Leonlionheart]

I've been playing this game since before it had English, and I have yet to run out of things to do. Of my six main jobs three of them aren't full +2 yet and I only have ~one~ emperian weapon. Yet there are people out there that are almost 20 jobs 5/5 +2 with 5+ emperians and 2+ relics. So what you have done / desire to do is entirely dependent on your free time available along with what friends / LS support you happen to have.

If your bored, then it's because you need to take a break and do something else for a month or three. Your not bored because of lack of game content but because you've burnt yourself out and have lost the desire to further burn yourself. Go do something else for awhile and recharge, the desire will come back.

Done that, twice since Heroes came out. But I've come back to a game that hasn't had new content for MONTHS (VW? K finished that, barring plates, in 2 weeks)

[Runespider]

Done that, twice since Heroes came out. But I've come back to a game that hasn't had new content for MONTHS (VW? K finished that, barring plates, in 2 weeks)

This is the problem. I don't even mind them making us pay for these mini expansions if needbe but damn give us good worthwhile large chunks of content regular. It's getting really stale.

[saevel]

Done that, twice since Heroes came out. But I've come back to a game that hasn't had new content for MONTHS (VW? K finished that, barring plates, in 2 weeks)

VWNM would be find if the drop rates were decent. My LS does one night a week of VWNM's, but that's more to get all our members win's on every one of them. We also plan to farm the high tier ones for drops, but don't expect to get much out of it.

Otherwise there is plenty to do still in Abyssea or even Salvage / WoE if you really want. If your one of those players who plays constantly then no matter what they do your gonna run out of content ultrafast.

It boils down to this, there are two types of players in this game. The first has lots of free time and will dedicate most of it to playing this video game. They can get and get things done on a daily basis. Then you have the players who like myself can only play a few days a week due to work / social obligations, we get on whenever we have time (I schedule three days a week). Now if the content developers developed content just for the first group, then the second group will be left out and eventually quit as nothing is obtainable without spending months at it (salvage / old dynamis). If the developers develop content that the casual players can participate in and get things done, then the first group will "finish" everything really fast and complain about being bored.

Ex. Emperian weapons,

Instead of 50 items required for the first stage, increase it to 250
Instead of 50 items for second stage, make it 300
Instead of 75 items for third stage, make it 500

Instead of 8 seals per +1 item, make it 24
Instead of 10 seals per body +1 make it 30
Instead of 6 items per +2, make it 18
Instead of 9 items for body make it 27

Make all the seals / items / weapon drops not guaranteed with them only dropping at all on a successful proc of yellow / blue.

There I just fixed your "boredom" problem, you'd STILL be grinding away your items right now, of course I also just screwed over every casual player as it would take them insane amounts of time to finish anything. By simply jacking up content "requirements" you can easily make it "harder" and last longer, you also tend to piss off the players who actually fund the company.

Right now if I go into the game, I can guarantee Goku is being camped and people are still doing T3 Emp pops and +2 runs. By virtue that it's still constantly being done, then the older content has not run out. Just the faster players have run out of things for themselves to do.

[Alkimi]

Done that, twice since Heroes came out. But I've come back to a game that hasn't had new content for MONTHS (VW? K finished that, barring plates, in 2 weeks)

Just checking your profile for a few minutes you have plenty still to do. You haven't finished any of the storyline missions, perhaps get those done. Or maybe start gearing up your mage jobs.

[Zatias]

I've gotten bored with this game because I have finished every major storyline it has to offer. A good story has always been my major drive to play any game.

Working on my Relic had become a daily, frustrating chore. Even if/when I do finish it, are there going to be any new storyline battles for me to use it in? Empyrean grinding had also become a chore and I'd rather not farm a Relic to use to grind more stuff XD

I guess my point is people are entertained in different ways. Therefore, there is no one fix to stopping the "boredom problem".

[Tsuneo]

I've only been logging in to do Dynamis everyday, but I've become bored of that. The idea of having a relic was exciting at first, but what will I even benefit from having one. The current events in FFXI bore me to no end, and I've come to the realisation that me having a relic won't make boring events fun.