Please don't shorten our monthly campaigns

[Kahla]

The monthly campaign are part of the main reason I have an excuse to play or do certain content. If these campaigns get limited to 7 days of the month, I'm not sure why I'd want to play the remaining 3 weeks of the month and would likely just cancel my subscription and play something else.

If anything spread the content out. As of now there's a lull of content until the update so if people are so concerned about missing out on content, move it so it's happening during this period a week before the update... Makes more sense then reducing a reason to log in and play by 2 weeks...

[Alhanelem]

The monthly campaign are part of the main reason I have an excuse to play or do certain content. If these campaigns get limited to 7 days of the month, I'm not sure why I'd want to play the remaining 3 weeks of the month and would likely just cancel my subscription and play something else.

If anything spread the content out. As of now there's a lull of content until the update so if people are so concerned about missing out on content, move it so it's happening during this period a week before the update... Makes more sense then reducing a reason to log in and play by 2 weeks...

Perhaps you didn't read the reason the upcoming campaigns are shorter... they're not cutting content here. Also, two campaigns were made forever campaigns as well.

[Kahla]

"Also, as mentioned in our recent update, the July monthly campaigns will be somewhat shorter than usual.

We're running this as an experiment in regards to feedback we received stating that there is too much going on when both Vana'Bout and the monthly campaigns are running at the same time. Conversely, this means that there will be less time for players to take advantage of the campaigns, so we have tried to pack in as much content as possible."

https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/threads/62999

Now this part I might be ignorant too but wasn't the whole point of Vana'Bout when it was first introduced that if we did enough of them our normal monthly campaigns would last longer? Now because of it they're reducing our normal campaigns by 2 weeks.

Also... No one really cares much about Mog Garden, even when the event is happening. The Dark Matter Augments are almost meaningless at this point; it's still nice to try to get niche things like Refresh on Herculean for idle sets. I will agree it's nice quality of life improvement but it's not that impactful.

[Alhanelem]

Frankly I'll be happy for the campaigns to change more frequently.

[Kahla]

But is that the case? All I see is there's Campaigns from July 11th to July 17th and that's it.. No second round of campaigns to follow that up. If I'm mistaken I'd love to see where I missed that part. All I know is things were absolutely fine the way they were and I have no idea who's complaining about not having enough time to do content and their solution being, "we'll shorten it". Something just seems really sus about all of this like there is something left out we're not seeing yet.

[Alhanelem]

But is that the case? All I see is there's Campaigns from July 11th to July 17th and that's it..

They don't normally announce multiple sets of campaigns at once.

[Dragoy]

I appreciate that they've seen the feedback regarding Vana'bout and other things going at the same time (probably from the Japanese side only, but still).

I did feel like I was missing out on pretty much everything else that was going on last time.

However, I was going for the title, so I had to do every single Vana'bout objective every single day. Without going for that, I imagine people would be/were able to do what they preferred doing.

So, perhaps rather than shorten everything else, actually fix Vana'bout instead. I am curious to see what "content and settings making it even easier to play" means for this "special round", though it is weird to think of it as a reward (and will it be one-time only?).

[KeonNeon]

IMO reducing the length of the campaigns is a poor solution to there being too much going on. Now that there isn't campaigns going on at the same time as Vanabout, the wait times for ambuscade and other Vanabout related content has gone up SIGNIFICANTLY. 45 min wait to get into a single ambuscade is ridiculous. God forbid you want to do an ambuscade on multiple characters in the same day. At least when campaigns were up along side the previous vanabout there were other compelling things for people to do. This game does not have great entry systems especially for older content, so making vanabout the only thing going on just makes congestion way worse than it ever has been before.