Please, stop making new content!

[Demon6324236]

I know this sounds like a weird request, but really, stop please.

Adding more and more content to the game would be great if the game were ok how it is now, because your just adding things to make it better, building on it. The bad thing is, that is not how things are right now, you need to address the problems the game has right now, new content be damned. Besides that, fulfill old promises, I understand the idea of getting inspiration to do something new and make new content, really, I do. The problem is that if you keep just adding new content and never going back to fix what has been left undone or you do not do as you say its going to end badly. Right now many people are leaving the game for various reasons, many of which you should be immediately concerned about rather than putting it off.

Look at what you are doing right now, your working on Monstrosity, Skirmish, Delve, Reives, Mog Gardens, and many other things, all of which you said are coming in the next two months. But what is missing? Inventory, RME99s, Spells, Traits, and Abilities for various jobs, fixes to jobs which are broken or not used like SMN or RDM, or even the AF for the new jobs, the ones which right now are very unused, GEO having limited use in new content and nothing more. Last but not least there is Cait Sith, which has gotten so bad I now am calling Cait Sigh because its what I do every time I am reminded of it.

Why are you so hell-bent on making something new when the foundation you are building on is so weak and crumbling as we speak? You need to fix up the place, reassert a sense of balance, give people what they want so they will be happy, not rip the game apart and start over. We have been here for years, you have changed the FFXI we knew and loved, you are making it into something different, we never asked for this, we asked for changes to the game, but never anything close to this. By what you are doing in these changes you are making us all feel as though this is not even FFXI anymore, its an entirely different game. Please do not forget, FFXIV is on the way, you are working on another game, not that, we want FFXI to stay FFXI, new things added, some things fixed, but we want FFXI.

Right now we have a lot of problems with the game. Adding something new sounds great, but what are you really doing? You are creating more content which will be stun zerged. You are creating more items which we already cant fit into our inventories. You are creating more content where people will be excluded because of their job preference, or lack of special, new pieces of gear, which are so far above the rest. You are creating a tree that no one is following, an outline for levels which no one cares about, a plan to have us do every bit of content climbing a latter, but Delve has shown us just how badly that fails here. I understand what you are trying to do, but what you are doing is not the same. If you continue to create content like this you will end up finding it was all for naught because by the time you are finished there will not be enough people left to enjoy it anyways.

This game has a great deal of things to do, its a decade old, its hard to make everything work, but we do not need everything to work. We need some specific problems fixed, things of which have been promised for a long time in some cases. Without these things, the game is falling, and unless something is done, it will continue to do so I'm afraid. Even if it was not you exactly, we were told certain things were on the way, Cait Sigh, Inventory, new SPs, and so on, rather than making something new, would it not be better to focus on giving us what was already announced before? I know you have announced these things too, but by waiting your just putting it off once again, the longer you wait the more it seems it will never even come in the first place.

So I ask of you, please, stop adding brand new content, stop trying to cram in more things. Worry about the issues we already have with the game, fix the foundation, fix up the first part of what was built, and put in what was already planed, so when you do build upon it you are building something great! If you continue doing what you are now, I fear you will only end up building something which will fall shortly after, this game does not deserve that fate, it is not the way it should end.





If possible someone please repost this on the other Forums to see how many agree or disagree. Also if you agree please do not forget to click like. I hope by doing so we might influence a change in their actions. As this game is going now I fear the end of FFXI is coming soon due to recent changes in development and the fact so many are leaving or have already left. Thank you.

[Daemon]

There's just too much gear and instead of giving us more space or fixing moogle slip storage... They are going to add yet more gear looking at the outline for the summer... Sigh.

[Ziyyigo-Tipyigo]

There's just too much gear and instead of giving us more space or fixing moogle slip storage... They are going to add yet more gear looking at the outline for the summer... Sigh.

They're giving demonstrably better gear from here on out instead sidegrade swap pieces. No longer requiring players to lug around 5+ complete sets of gear simultaneously is how you solve the inventory problem with extreme prejudice.

[Demon6324236]

They're giving demonstrably better gear from here on out instead sidegrade swap pieces.

I have yet to see a new piece of gear for my RDM which fills 2 roles, allowing me to create space, all I have seen is new gear which allows me to throw out 1 old thing for 1 new thing. My RDM has more sets than almost any other job could I would think, between, this is the list. Enhancing, Cure, MND Enfeeble, INT Enfeeble, Stoneskin, Fast Cast, MAB, Refresh, Party Buffing, Merit Spells, TP, TP-Acc, TP-DT, PDT, MDT, KoR, DB, CDC, and Req. Out of all of those sets, not a single piece that was added and new fulfilled 2 roles, giving me more inventory space, in all of Adoulin so far. So I find it hard to believe that my 140ish inventory needed for all of my optimum RDM gear will be shortened much, as SE often hates to stack many stats on 1 piece.

They may not be side grades, but they still did not save me extra room, if anything, they are so much better at different things I now have more reason to pack my inventory with more gear. Before, if I had a pair of hands with 10 Magic Accuracy and 10 Magic Attack, but there was a pair with 12 MAB and another pair with 12 Magic Acc, I could go with the first of the 3 and be content. Now its more like 10 on the pair of hands with both, but then 24 on the other 2 for their separate stats, now why would I only wear the one pair, when I could carry these much better hands around and be so much better?

This is all somewhat off topic though, shared my opinion for arguments sake, but back to the matter at hand.

[OmnysValefor]

They're giving demonstrably better gear from here on out instead sidegrade swap pieces. No longer requiring players to lug around 5+ complete sets of gear simultaneously is how you solve the inventory problem with extreme prejudice.

You say that but, for instance, I've got four more earrings now, and still can't justify dropping Brutal.

My paladin still has something stupid like 6 bodies?

AF3
Relic+2
Twilight
A TP Body, there's a few different ones I have and can use
Mekira
WS's have different mods so I have a few different ws bodies, though I could just Twilight Mail ALL THE THINGS (sarcasm).

I have
Movement Legs
Fast Cast Legs
PDT Legs
WS Legs
A macro piece *just to make invincible better* Legs

As Demon suggested in another thread, we need a way to convert some of these into key items. My Ogier's Leggings (plate feet) are better than my Valor Leggings+2, but I still carry them around for the sentinel enhancement.

And then I had to unlock Mijin Gakure enhancement for my nin relic+2 legs just so I could store the silly things.

[Duelle]

They're giving demonstrably better gear from here on out instead sidegrade swap pieces. No longer requiring players to lug around 5+ complete sets of gear simultaneously is how you solve the inventory problem with extreme prejudice.

...oh my god. Someone actually gets where the inventory problems come from! +1 to you, sir.

I have yet to see a new piece of gear for my RDM which fills 2 roles, allowing me to create space, all I have seen is new gear which allows me to throw out 1 old thing for 1 new thing. My RDM has more sets than almost any other job could I would think, between, this is the list. Enhancing, Cure, MND Enfeeble, INT Enfeeble, Stoneskin, Fast Cast, MAB, Refresh, Party Buffing, Merit Spells, TP, TP-Acc, TP-DT, PDT, MDT, KoR, DB, CDC, and Req. Out of all of those sets, not a single piece that was added and new fulfilled 2 roles, giving me more inventory space, in all of Adoulin so far.

Considering all we've gotten is either more mage gear and a handful of decent melee pieces we happen to be on, it's not a surprise to see we didn't get much.

That being said, I wouldn't mind them holding off on stuff if it meant them actually putting effort in fixing jobs like RDM to be either more useful or better set in the game. RDM went from refresh-bitch to heal-bot to nothingness (Abyssea) to token (Voidwatch) to poor gimmick (Adoulin). I'd like to see my job fixed.

[Daemon]

They're giving demonstrably better gear from here on out instead sidegrade swap pieces. No longer requiring players to lug around 5+ complete sets of gear simultaneously is how you solve the inventory problem with extreme prejudice.

Hmmm 50% -PDT on 1 piece, 25% Haste on another.... When that day comes maybe then ill have enough inventory space to receive the drops from VW logs logs and more logs, petrifact, cells from salvage, seals from abbysea, currency and forgotten stuffs from Dynamis, beastcoins and synthesis from limbus, Coins, devious die, liminal residue, synthesis materials jewels, ingots, more logs from WoE, kindred seals, Ores, flint stones, Loots from abbysea exp parties, Magian trial items sobek, Briarius, Itstapaplatol, quests that require you to carry several pieces of equipment for reward such as stearc subligar, sigh.... I could be here all day writing items... Oh did I mention +2s? I think I forgot that...oh and the million eye drops from kaagan, Fajin boots enough to put Payless out of business...then there's alexandrite...SE sure knows how to add stuff.

[Naraku_Diabolos]

I cannot agree any more with the OP and this thread. I am quitting FFXI for good because of bad inventory space (I only have 35 spaces in there, and it's full of armor and weapons for my jobs), I find it hard to make gil on there (I don't craft), I cannot find parties to go into, the AH is in shambles (I can't even purchase scrolls for my jobs because the prices are too high and I lack the gil, plus inventory space) with its prices (so people are selling on the streets of Jeuno like it's a city market in a foreign country by shouting what they are selling), and so on. I've moved on and I call FFXIV now "HOME." The FFXI producer could learn a thing or two from Yoshi-P about how to make the game better. I just think FFXI is now stuck in the past with its architecture and UI. At least Yoshi-P listens to our feedback and has made FFXIV a much better game pre-ARR.

[Nebo]

They're giving demonstrably better gear from here on out instead sidegrade swap pieces. No longer requiring players to lug around 5+ complete sets of gear simultaneously is how you solve the inventory problem with extreme prejudice.

None of the new gear solves that problem. They are just stronger gear swap pieces that are demonstrably better than previous gear swap pieces in certain situations...and yet not stronger than previous gear in certain situations.

There is nothing you could really "Full-Time" and be better for it.

Case in point: I have added 6 new plasm earrings to my inventory. And still can't get rid of previous ones because they come out ahead in certain situations.

For THF, Manibozho Body beats Thaumas at certain ACC percentages and Ddex values, but Thaumas wins handily in many situations. So one did not allow me to get rid of the other.

Even loki's Kaftan still Beats Manibozho in certain situations for Sneak Attack and Trick Attack so its not even replacing other (better) body options in that case.

It's just more swap pieces for me, not getting rid of all my sets.

[DarkStoneDragon]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but if you don't want more content, but put in what they promised, isn't that still "adding more stuff"?