Please, stop making new content!

[Yinnyth]

Several people have raised complaints that there is only one thing to do in the game right now: delve. They also say it's boring and they're not willing to keep grinding away at it, so they quit instead. What you're suggesting would put all future additions to the game on hold while fixing older issues. These two matters seem at odds with one another. On the one hand, they could stop everything and deliver on old promises, help rebalance job functionality, and give us nothing new to explore. On the other, they could continue revising SoA and giving us new diversions while they slowly work their way towards the things which are currently side projects.

Don't get me wrong, I'd be ok with what's currently in the game to keep me occupied for a few months, but there would come a time where even I would grow bored with a lack of things to do. Perhaps instead of halting all progress on SoA storyline/quests/events, they could just redirect some of their attention and work towards the things you're interested in a little bit faster than they originally intended?

[Demon6324236]

Several people have raised complaints that there is only one thing to do in the game right now: delve. They also say it's boring and they're not willing to keep grinding away at it, so they quit instead. What you're suggesting would put all future additions to the game on hold while fixing older issues. These two matters seem at odds with one another. On the one hand, they could stop everything and deliver on old promises, help rebalance job functionality, and give us nothing new to explore. On the other, they could continue revising SoA and giving us new diversions while they slowly work their way towards the things which are currently side projects.

Don't get me wrong, I'd be ok with what's currently in the game to keep me occupied for a few months, but there would come a time where even I would grow bored with a lack of things to do. Perhaps instead of halting all progress on SoA storyline/quests/events, they could just redirect some of their attention and work towards the things you're interested in a little bit faster than they originally intended?

That's the thing though, I have no faith that as long as they keep trying to build forward they will actually do the stuff they have left behind as well. Even at the slowest of times we have still seen nothing to do with some of the most important updates, like the UI, job fixes, or inventory, other things like Cait Sigh have been around a long time without much work ever shown on them. After so long, even if they worked on them slowly, I would expect them to be done right now. Hell, at this rate, I would think Cait Sigh has not been worked on at all in a long, long time, because I think if they had only 1 person who worked on it, and they worked on it only a hour a day, every day, it would have been done long before now, let alone actually devoting some time to it when there are so many players looking forward to it, and it has become such a symbol of their failure to keep their word on announcements!

So far as conflicting things, I understand your point, but at the same time, by putting off this I think the RME update would be sooner as well, as it seems to be on the back burner right now, and it is a primary concern for many players as well.

[Nebo]

Several people have raised complaints that there is only one thing to do in the game right now: delve. They also say it's boring and they're not willing to keep grinding away at it, so they quit instead. What you're suggesting would put all future additions to the game on hold while fixing older issues. These two matters seem at odds with one another. On the one hand, they could stop everything and deliver on old promises, help rebalance job functionality, and give us nothing new to explore. On the other, they could continue revising SoA and giving us new diversions while they slowly work their way towards the things which are currently side projects.

Don't get me wrong, I'd be ok with what's currently in the game to keep me occupied for a few months, but there would come a time where even I would grow bored with a lack of things to do. Perhaps instead of halting all progress on SoA storyline/quests/events, they could just redirect some of their attention and work towards the things you're interested in a little bit faster than they originally intended?

I think a lot of people would be less bored with delve if they could come on the jobs they love, instead of "R/E/M/D DRK/MNK/PLD? No? K, come WHM, SCH, COR or BRD"

To people that really love DRK MNK WHM SCH COR and BRD (and to a lesser extent standing there and super tanking NM's on PLD...which is not really PLAYING the job), they may not get bored.

But the people that are forced to play DRK MNK WHM SCH COR and BRD when they would much rather be playing RUN, THF, DNC, BLU, BST, RDM, BLM, SMN etc, are more likely to get burned out playing delve because they are not enjoying the game play on a job they like.

They may also be frustrated because if they don't have one of those jobs.../shout groups will not take them...and delve linkshells won't accept their application. So making friends and joining groups becomes very very difficult (and, at times, impossible).

As Mr. Matsui said, most other MMOs don't have this issue due to auto-group finders and MUCH more intuitive grouping mechanisms...but FFXI doesn't have that. So we have to find another way to alleviate this situation if the game is going to survive (maybe it won't/they don't want it to?).

If they put a more immediate focus on some of these things in the short term....

• Job adjustments, making more jobs valuable and playable in delve
• Low man content of a significant content level with solid rewards
• R/E/M updates so that our Leaders don't leave and our economy doesn't completely tank (lets not kid ourselves, this affects all of us, not just the players that equip the weapons)

...there would probably be a lot less boredom across the board. I mean, people are STILL farming dynamis all these years later because it is a viable income source and a way to build toward some of the most powerful weapons in the game.

If players start to actually be allowed to play the jobs they love, they will be more motivated to from groups, join groups, do things. People will feel good about that.

A big part of fixing this issue is talking to us more...and LISTENING to what we have to say (maybe even read the NA forums from time to time ).

Because the development team simply does not understand many of these issues. Whatever calculations they are using to gauge DPS and job balance (as mentioned in the DRK thread about Twilight Scythe) are not matching reality. There is a disconnect and they really need to work with us if they are interested at all in finding it.