Suggestion to fix the "Boredom" problem

[Cowardlybabooon]

I consistently hear a lot of folks complaining about how they are running out of things to do in this game, and I myself can agree.

I can appreciate the new content as it comes, and I like Abyssea as well as the Voidwatch and WoE stuff. I am definitely not writing this to complain.

I think what happened when the level cap was updated, was that we kinda lost track of what our goals were. At level 75 we knew exactly what the "Best" gear was for any given job, that gear was very difficult to obtain, and we were able to take the time to develop a plan and eventually get the satisfaction of obtaining it.

With the new level cap raises, people are a bit disenchanted because armor is relatively easy to get, and 3-6 months after you get it, it is no longer the best. Even if it is still the best, everyone else has it!

I am looking forward to the 99 cap for this reason, but I want to ask everyone if they agree and maybe suggest to the dev team that we need more difficulty at 99, and we need the best armor in the game to be very hard to get! Make items that we can look forward to spending 6 months working toward.

The second suggestion is that we need a place to use our stuff! This used to be merit parties, but now exp flows like water and that is pretty short lived. I am not sure what it will be, but we need a long lasting event that we can test out and maximize our armor and weapons. This COULD be PVP just due to it's never ending nature, but there could also be some other type of currency instead of XP that we would build to earn things. I don't have the answer to this one, but we need something.

Please don't flame thanks :-)

[Urteil]

PvP hurray.

[svengalis]

If it would take me 6 months to get a piece of armor I would cancel my subscription.... now that I think back that's why I quit back in 05... played the game 2 years and couldn't see myself getting the rest of the armor I wanted anytime soon. It's just like VW I don't see myself ever farming 1500 metal plates. I'm a collector so to speak when it comes to mmo's. I find fun in collecting all the good gear for all my jobs. Theres tons of content in this game in abyssea alone if you have say 10+ jobs like me and want all the job specific earrings, back and neck pieces ontop of either empyrean or woe weapons for all your jobs and +2 for them all.

[MojoJojo]

I quit for a few years and have been back for just over a year. When i quit ToAu was in full swing and WotG hadn't been out for all that long. I found my options for a good time were limited, Sky gods were overcamped, dynamis cost 1mil, lost of things required a plethora of people, all fighting over the rarely-dropped piece of gear. Now there is so much to do, things are pretty cheap/easy to partake/accomplish and outside of voidwatch the reward is close to the effort. I'm still getting caught up on things i wish i did before i quit, no to mention moving forward as well. I'm staying pretty damn entertained imho.....

[Leonlionheart]

It's easy to have tons of things to do if you've come back recently, or even 6 months ago. Tons of things for you in Abyssea, even Voidwatch.

However personally I've been utterly bored of this game, only log in to do Kaggen for his belt, pretty much have everything else VW has to offer my character. Finished Abyssea and everything before it months ago.

PvP has brought some form of life to this game for me, it's a shame people are too chicken shit to get interested in it.

[Luvbunny]

They need to come up with a better way to spend player's time than just gears collecting for end game by grinding the same thing over and over...

[Mirabelle]

It's easy to have tons of things to do if you've come back recently, or even 6 months ago. Tons of things for you in Abyssea, even Voidwatch.

However personally I've been utterly bored of this game, only log in to do Kaggen for his belt, pretty much have everything else VW has to offer my character. Finished Abyssea and everything before it months ago.

PvP has brought some form of life to this game for me, it's a shame people are too chicken shit to get interested in it.

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.

[Dais]

I don't know about you guys but I would spend a lot of time in the chocobo circuit if they changed chocobo racing into a kart racing minigame. It will never happen but a man can dream.

I personally really enjoy the many small goals and a couple of medium goals sort I have to work for right now. Large goals in this game can lead to frustration at how futile it can feel building something huge so taking my time with several more easily achievable goals has been a refreshing change of pace from how things were at 75. I do worry I will eventually run out of these goals as the game updates start winding down at 99 though. I know inventory shortage is a factor holding me back from taking on a few more challenges though so if a solution is ever found for that I may add things to the list.

[Juri_Licious]

I don't know about you guys but I would spend a lot of time in the chocobo circuit if they changed chocobo racing into a kart racing minigame. It will never happen but a man can dream.

THIS!!! Do it now SE!!!

[Runespider]

VW for me was a fun event to do in alliances again after Aby, it is NOT an event to get gear lol. I've done uncountable kills of most of them and got nothing I wanted really (aside from some stuff to sell, but I have more gil than I know what to do with anyway).

Abyssea was amazing, they just didn't realise with such content you have to add more content quite regularly. Since they are starving the game again now thats a major problem, the major pullback of subscribers with Aby is dying out as they get bored.

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.

That's not really the answer, the problem is they are starving the game with a low budget. I understand what you're saying but still the problem is the lack of content they are adding when they outdated the mass that was there already.