No August update?

[Mirabelle]

after 2 weeks people will be just as bored stupid as we are now all jobs will be 95 by then people will be complaining about the overcrowded camps that will come with the empyrean nm's voidwatch will be rushed into for a week maybe 2 until they have tried it out and walk of echoes will still be dead

Some people will be. Certainly not everyone. Those that play at a more casual pace will still have lots to do.

The hardcore players have always been a paradox. They work so hard to become the ultimate machines of efficiency with all the best gear and macros and rip through everything new that SE offers, then they complain that they are bored. Why they can't just slow their pace down, take time to smell the roses, and then always have something to do in the game is beyond me.

[Elexia]

Some people will be. Certainly not everyone. Those that play at a more casual pace will still have lots to do.

The hardcore players have always been a paradox. They work so hard to become the ultimate machines of efficiency with all the best gear and macros and rip through everything new that SE offers, then they complain that they are bored. Why they can't just slow their pace down, take time to smell the roses, and then always have something to do in the game is beyond me.

Ultimate Player: "Simply because If I don't do it before you or not the first to complete it I wasted my time playing this game for x years and it's meaningless to do it after everyone else has done it, I need to continually reassure myself that I'm better than you even if I'll have nothing to do beyond sitting in port Jeuno till the next update."

In short.

[Sparthos]

Nearly 5 months after the last major VU, it isn't ok for players to want new content especially when Abyssea is so simple to complete if you actually go about it properly.

No one's gonna bash SE for the mini update setup they've run with but lets be serious here, XI is solely Abyssea and doing content that you might have ignored for years because well... it wasn't ever popular. The job adjustments are appreciated but what good are new toys when you don't have the targets to use them on yet?

I log in these days to decorate my Mog House.

[Greatguardian]

Ultimate Player: "Simply because If I don't do it before you or not the first to complete it I wasted my time playing this game for x years and it's meaningless to do it after everyone else has done it, I need to continually reassure myself that I'm better than you even if I'll have nothing to do beyond sitting in port Jeuno till the next update."

In short.

Or maybe some of us just like a challenge. Some of us like being the best that we can be and still being pushed to our limits. Some of us just like pushing those boundaries and feeling legitimately accomplished when we win. I could care less if everyone or no one else did the things I do or got the things I got.

I don't give a flying frap about being better than you. I care about being better than myself. The pompous, hate-filled crap that people spew in regards to endgame players on this forum is beyond ridiculous. There is no innate moral high ground associated with being a casual player. All your statement demonstrates is an abundance of insecurity and arrogance. Someone "having more" or "accomplishing more" than you does not mean that they did so by cheating, or with a lack of moral fiber. Sometimes they just worked harder, or plain got luckier, than you.

I do want content that challenges the best to be better. Why? Because I like becoming better than myself.

[Elexia]

Or maybe some of us just like a challenge. Some of us like being the best that we can be and still being pushed to our limits. Some of us just like pushing those boundaries and feeling legitimately accomplished when we win. I could care less if everyone or no one else did the things I do or got the things I got.

Indeed. This is what we all like.

The pompous, hate-filled crap that people spew in regards to endgame players on this forum is beyond ridiculous.

You're new to FFXI, or you honestly never paid attention to the game's endgame community till the population dropped. There's a reason you may see "pompous hatefilled crap spewed about endgame players, a reason many of us long time players are aware of, granted a lot of those players have quit, but XI's endgame was well known to have a highly arrogant and asshole community with few good seed.

I do want content that challenges the best to be better. Why? Because I like becoming better than myself.

We all do.

[Greatguardian]

Indeed. This is what we all like.

That's the point.

You're new to FFXI, or you honestly never paid attention to the game's endgame community till the population dropped. There's a reason you may see "pompous hatefilled crap spewed about endgame players, a reason many of us long time players are aware of, granted a lot of those players have quit, but XI's endgame was well known to have a highly arrogant and asshole community with few good seed.

I've been playing since release, have killed nearly everything in this game, and have been a leader in an Endgame linkshell for years. Yes, there were definitely some childish morons in the Endgame field, but that has always been true of every facet of every game ever made.

The Casual community? Just as bad. Frankly, I consider the Casual community to be a lot worse due to the sheer volume of players in it. Everyone already knows who the few arrogant/retarded jackasses are in the Endgame community, because the community as a whole is so small. With the casual community, you have a significantly larger sample size to draw crappy, arrogant assholes from.

Of course, far be it for me to make sweeping generalizations about a group of players based on a few exceedingly loud people that ruin it for everyone else. It's significantly easier for people to just lump all Endgamers together and label them as horrible people because it makes people feel superior in their own way. For all the clamoring about Endgame players needing to make themselves "feel superior" to everyone else by lauding over their accomplishments and gear, Casual players have a horrid tendency to overcompensate for this perceived threat and laud their alleged moral superiority over the rest of us in kind. It's distasteful.

We all do.

Yup.

[Quetzacoatl]

Wait, did you guys honestly think that the update would be in august?

Granted, considering there was much focus on that roadmap thing, there will always be delays for every company that wants to put out a product. I wasn't even really expecting anything that said we were going to get an update anytime soon this month, either.

Patience, young grasshoppers.

[Leonlionheart]

"Think"ing the update would be in August is completely different from hoping it would be in August.