The Decline of FFXI: Forums, Gameplay and Nostalgia

[Karbuncle]

We cannot expect every single silly or asinine idea will be added to the game. This Forum* was more about the open discussion of ideas, and feed-back on upcoming content. as well as some suggestions. They do listen, they just can't listen to everything. especially with a very limited staff and development time.

The Community Reps have responded to a lot of threads, and the good ideas will generally get looked into. And how is the game slowly becoming a "Solo" mindset, when just about every announced new event for this update requires a minimum of 3/6 or 18 people? I think if Anything they're moving back to their roots of "Team oriented" playstyles.

The mobs and bosses aren't "A lot easier" per-say, Go fight Rani and Shinryu without a brew. The mobs are fine and dandy in terms of difficulty, its the fact that Brews exist that makes them do-able by most failure groups. A lot of Abyssean mobs are just as difficult, if not more so, than past mobs (PW and AV excluded).

The only difficult fights of past days were PW and AV, anything else is Nostalgia-vision. The mobs weren't difficult or hard, in fact the most difficult part of a lot of fights back at 75 was claiming the mob. Besides, as a game progressing, players tend to get smarter, Enemies become easier due to finding a pattern, or learning how to fight it. eventually every enemy becomes "Simpler".

I won't deny Atma/Cruor has put the game on an Easier track, To sound like a broken record, mobs like Rani, Raja, and Shinryu show that even with Cruor/atma, There are still challenging opponents, what ruins that is Brews being so readily available. However no ones forcing you to use one if you do indeed want the Challenges.

I see shouts every so often for Non-brewed Shinryu on Asura.

On the topic of the Wyvern thing, Yah, It may sound simple on our side, but it would take a lot of time and effort to program it in, i hate to say it but you should really consider .dat swaps if you want your wyvern to be prettier. Maybe down the line they'll add this.

What needs to be understood is that right now they're limited on Production time, and staff. The ideas we think now are great that can't be added, might very well be added down the line when the team has more free-time. While it may seem like they aren't listening or taking ideas, they are.

Even if their response is "not right now" we need to accept they're probably very busy with the upcoming updates, and while i really agree something like a Wyvern color change option would be fun, I'd sooner take "Content" over "Something accomplished through .dat swaps" if i had to choose between the two.

Trust me when i say, They are taking our ideas, each post they make is proof of that. Even if not every single thread gets attention, I'm sure they're looking through them and presenting them to the Reps.