New Content and Rewards

[Camiie]

What the game has turned into is get AF3 and Empyrean weapon for all your jobs in abyssea. That's where FFXI is right now.

Pretty much. For someone like me who is not a terribly hardcore player with a vast amount of resources, I just kinda wonder what it is I'm supposed to be doing these days. Lately I've been chipping away at an Empyrean weapon I'll never realistically have the opportunity to truly complete, finishing up my last bit of AF3, and helping others with their needs. I have some avatar staffs to work on I suppose. Is that it for me? Is that my what I'm left with as ultimate goals? Elemental Magian weapons? Great, I guess.

I really have nothing in game to get excited about. I'm perfectly willing to accept that part of the problem lies with me, but not entirely. Everything released lately seems like a bore, a chore, or a closed door (cute huh?). Dynamis is more productive these days but is as sleep inducing as ever even with the music turned off. NIUR may not be as boring, but the randomness upon randomness with no means of progression just feels like it's going to be a hopeless cause or a "years for gear" scenario. WoE and VW just don't seem to have the public interest to allow a non-leader like me to get on board with them on any sort of regular basis. Combine that with the loot system issues they both have I end up putting those in the hopeless cause category as well.

Maybe I'm rambling and repeating myself from previous posts, but I really do wonder these days if FFXI isn't leaving folks like me behind. Is it meant for me anymore? It doesn't feel like it right now, and I'm not sure what's coming along that will make me feel any differently. I don't know if I'm looking for some reassurance from the dev team, or confirmation of my fears and concerns from other players. I would hope for something other than "if you don't like it leave," but I'm sure there will be some of that. Heck, maybe the "leave" people are right. I just don't know anymore.

[Haldarn]

Pretty much. For someone like me who is not a terribly hardcore player with a vast amount of resources, I just kinda wonder what it is I'm supposed to be doing these days.

Your entire post is where I'm at. Over the last year, pretty much everyone I ever met has stopped playing and it's hard to build up new friendships afresh when only being able to play a few nights a week. This, in turn, pushes the majority of the remaining content I have left to complete out of my reach.

So yeah, here's a confirmation of your fears and concerns from another player.

I have got a ton of other jobs to take to level cap though, which seems to be my only hope for fun (XPing was always the thing I liked least about the game).


Otherwise, what the OP said. It would be nice if we got an updated roadmap with some major new content/changes. Yesterday's was three sets of armour from a rehashed event and a slew of minor tweaks. Can I plz have new areas, a housing upgrade, an enlightened inventory/gear swap system, crafting that influences end-game drop rates, a party-seeking system for all content based on your current progression, Synergy that means my weapons and armour can be augmented on the fly, some useful functionality to the Linkshell Community and, while I'm at it, that Dark Moogle King dude from XIV. All in the next six months.

I fear though, the next six months will bring us one version update of minor job tweaks and higher resolution/different status icons with possibly one of 'The Last Stand' or 'Dungeon Crawling' going live on the test server.

[Luvbunny]

I fear though, the next six months will bring us one version update of minor job tweaks and higher resolution/different status icons with possibly one of 'The Last Stand' or 'Dungeon Crawling' going live on the test server.

The Last Stand is currently known as Legion - as for the dungeon crawling, not yet known if they even plan to do it, blame it to poor performance of FF14 - which now reduced the total servers by half after they start charging.