Unable to complete "Content:Limbus > Spoils" quests after March Version Update

[Alhanelem]

You don't need to reach master level 50.

You don't need to make a relic, mythic, empyrean, or aeonic weapon.

You don't need to complete all the storylines.

You don't need to master a job.

You don't need to do Chains of Promathia and Seekers of Adoulin.

You don't need to level a job to 75.

You don't need to install Final Fantasy XI.

Don't pull that thread, man. Absolutely none of what we're doing here is mandatory in any way, so don't act like that's an excuse to say something isn't a valid part of the gameplay experience.

This is manufactured outrage. No one was even talking about or discussing this before this happened.

In order to make those objectives completable again they'd have to literally undo all the work they've just done to bring us new content. Is +1 to a counter really more important?

Your comment is 10x more ridiculous than mine could ever hope to be, you're taking what I said and ramping it to hyperbolic extremes. But since you want to play this game more than I do apparently, let's break it down. You're conflating things in the game which have a functional purpose with those which do not.

You don't need to reach master level 50.

This has a functional purpose of increasing character power and making content easier.

You don't need to make a relic, mythic, empyrean, or aeonic weapon.

This has a functional purpose of increasing character power and making content easier.

You don't need to complete all the storylines.

This has the functional puprose of being one of the main objectives of the game.

You don't need to master a job.

This has a functional purpose of increasing character power and making content easier.

You don't need to do Chains of Promathia and Seekers of Adoulin.

You're repeating yourself, as this is encompassed by "completing all storylines" above, but again, this has the functional purpose of being one of the main objectives of the game.

You don't need to level a job to 75.

This again is encompassed by the above but This has a functional purpose of increasing character power and making content easier.

You don't need to install Final Fantasy XI.

This is the literal reason why all of us are here.

Meanwhile, The "Objectives completed" counter is just that, a counter, it can be seen as an interesting statistic but otherwise has no functional use (after a certain point). You're comparing core elements of gameplay with a number in a window that does basically nothing.

They don't have to make everything useful. There's lots of useless things in the game. People have demanded a use for job points after maxing them out. We don't need to ensure every thing always has a purpose.

If you want to make a number bigger just for the sake of making it bigger and no other reason, be my (all of ours') guest. But that doesn't mean they "need' to address anything about it. It is just a statistic, and that's all it was ever meant to be, people read too far into things and assume and decide there MUST be a functional purpose for EVERYTHING.

Answer me this: What could they do anyway? Just give everyone credit for all the removed objectives even if they never played the relevant content before? What about the Vana'bout objectives that haven't returned? What about anything else they've ever removed or changed, like Old Dynamis? Are they not allowed to improve the game just because it might make a certain point total on a counter unattainable?

Giving everyone credit would render the stat more meaningless than it already is. If you see it as an achievement tracking counter, well, now you have "achievements' that people got credit for without ever actually achieving them.

So that leaves us with undoing this update and undoing all the work of the devs trying to make an old content new and relevant again, just to let you get some +1s on a counter that you (somebody) missed. And that doesn't seem like a good option.