Lack of content and another level increase looming

[Runespider]

So I'm just curious what everyone thinks about how FFXI currently is, especially with another level increase coming soon.

With Abyssea almost every piece of content FFXI had was made obsolete, this would of been fine if there had been swathes of new content added after abyssea or regular addons/expansions but neither of these things happened.

Right now FFXI has very little content, Abyssea being the main show in town and it's very easy to cap on that or at least get bored of it, increased level cap will only make this worse.

Personally I think once the novelty of the new spells and level wears off (a few days) the increase will deepen the boredom many of us have been feeling.

All I can see being a slight saving grace is making voidwatch easier for the masses and that becoming more popular but it's too small an event to really do that on it's own.

So yeah I think the silly payment options linked with the serious lack of content FFXI has are going to cause a major dent in the playerbase, it's harder to justify paying for something when you have to manually pay every month and know you are pretty much bored our of your mind with what they are offering for it. Even moreso when they make you pay more than the actual sub costs.

They don't even really bother to show any teasers of the upcoming updates anymore, Abyssea release was a peak and now we are stuck down in the trough...and looking at how the dev team is working it's likely we are going to stay there.

[Seha]

New content is coming, so wait before saying the game is done.

[Tagrineth]

Keep in mind while Voidwatch is currently small, it's going to get expanded. There are four total Voidwatch phases planned, and we've only seen Phase I.

[Malamasala]

If only voidwatch had drops that were good.

[Morgantisthedon]

Amongst other things besides Voidwatch there is 2 new things coming. Look on the 12 month road map.

Dungeon Crawling (name tba)
The Last stand (name tba)

Those are two more possible good events coming also ^^

[Leonlionheart]

Voidwatch does have drops that are good... See: Rancor Collar, Ganesha's Mask, Strendu Ring. The rest are meh/situational though.

Too bad the drop system kinda screws you over though. I like the concept, a lot actually, but the execution (WHM can get Fazheluo Radiant Mail, while WAR can get Anhur Robe at the same time and there's nothing they can do about it but /toss) is rather poor. Instead why not make the bodies have a system like sea, where you turn in an item to obtain a piece of gear, except this would be piece of gear of your choice instead of Aura of Adulation = Novio Earring.

[Monchat]

They released the level cap increase too fast. They should have waited 6+ monthes before each increase. for the level 95 cap they will give us renewed old lv75 events like they did for sky/dynamis: assault/limbus/slv/einh/znm... I dont mind as long as its not working with synergy, but with magian instead. This will be easy for them and give time to build real new content for the level 100 ( ~summer 2012). New content takes time, im not in a hurry.

[Malacite]

SE: Please ignore the above poster.


6 Months? Dude are you kidding? The rate they've been doing it at is just fine. Some people are just burned out on Abyssea is all. Chill out, take a seat and wait.

Assuming they keep some of the promises the old devs made, we still have yet to see the new "AV type" mob that was promised for WotG that was supposed to be within the WoE.

[Runespider]

Some people are just burned out on Abyssea is all. Chill out, take a seat and wait.

You have a lot of faith in them, given everything I've seen since Abyssea I don't have that personally. They refuse to say anything about any kind of expansions, the updates since Abyssea have been really really cheap (fixing little things instead of giving strong new content that's needed with increasing the level cap). What the heck is the point of increasing the cap up and up and doing nothing with it? We should be getting addon packs with each level cap increase and lots of content besides, not like we are paying cheap subs to not demand proper quality content.

[Chamaan]

They're adding more confluxes to WoE. I'm thinking that's where all the 90-95 gear is going to come from. Whatever doesn't get added to VW anyway. I just really hope we get a 7 Abyssea zone since Sea ends up where it ends up at the end of the Abyssea storyline. That final mission's still unresolved so I'd like to go to Abyssea Al'Taieu.