Item level / vertical progression query

[Mostfowl]

In all honesty for all the defending I have done for xiv, the game is just boring at this point. They released it without enough challenge or content and all there is to do is log in > cap your tomes > log out. Even the ridiculous method they implemented for getting crystals and shards to craft (by mining and harvesting) makes it so crafting isn't even a viable option. I mean who wants to craft when you need to slowly farm shards and you need 11 of them to make 1 item.

That being said I resubscribed to ffxi to see how things went (albeit I did this on my alt account since there was so much talk of accounts be hijacked on other sites and I didn't want to risk my main) and not only is there nothing to do, there was no gusgen mines or other lower lvl pts going on, the worm pts consisted of so many underskilled/equipped and low lvl chars that exp was a crawl and since my char is so far behind, I have barely touched SoA content, I cannot get anything done. So whats the point of xi or xiv right now?

Its so sad, xi was so great and no matter the content it was always busy years after release. I mean look how hard it was to get into dyna before they changed it. There were always salvage groups, MMM groups, Nyzle groups, Limbus groups, einherjar groups, etc etc. Now its crickets everywhere. Even most aby zones have maybe 1 person in them if that.

Vertical gear progression was just not a good idea. Sidegrades made the game and taking that away took away ffxi. If sidegrades were so bad, as some ppl imply, how come content was still buzzing 5 years after release? This was my first and only mmo for a long time and its sad to see it die but that's exactly what this new method is doing.

Sad days

[predatory]

In all honesty for all the defending I have done for xiv, the game is just boring at this point. They released it without enough challenge or content and all there is to do is log in > cap your tomes > log out. Even the ridiculous method they implemented for getting crystals and shards to craft (by mining and harvesting) makes it so crafting isn't even a viable option. I mean who wants to craft when you need to slowly farm shards and you need 11 of them to make 1 item.

That being said I resubscribed to ffxi to see how things went (albeit I did this on my alt account since there was so much talk of accounts be hijacked on other sites and I didn't want to risk my main) and not only is there nothing to do, there was no gusgen mines or other lower lvl pts going on, the worm pts consisted of so many underskilled/equipped and low lvl chars that exp was a crawl and since my char is so far behind, I have barely touched SoA content, I cannot get anything done. So whats the point of xi or xiv right now?

Its so sad, xi was so great and no matter the content it was always busy years after release. I mean look how hard it was to get into dyna before they changed it. There were always salvage groups, MMM groups, Nyzle groups, Limbus groups, einherjar groups, etc etc. Now its crickets everywhere. Even most aby zones have maybe 1 person in them if that.

Vertical gear progression was just not a good idea. Sidegrades made the game and taking that away took away ffxi. If sidegrades were so bad, as some ppl imply, how come content was still buzzing 5 years after release? This was my first and only mmo for a long time and its sad to see it die but that's exactly what this new method is doing.

Sad days

You should have read the forums before you resubbed, you would have seen my complaints and I'm from Bahamut. SE managed to kill this game, and they did it with an expansion