ok atleast they can add the other expansions from FFXI like sky and sea
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Chains took a long time to build in Abyssea and it wasn't so well suited to just quick bursts of levelling like FATEs are. At least FATEs are fairly constant XP from when you arrive to when you leave. And it was in fact Abyssea was far more tedious because you usually ended up in the same spot fighting the same things for 3-4 hour at a time, no variation, only moving as far as the page NPC and back. And then you had the fell cleave parties with 14-16 leeches. I like that FATEs require active participation and you can't just cap a job whilst AFK.
They have said multiple times before FFXIV was even released that content updates will happen every 3-4 months.
FFXIV ARR was released on August 27th 2013, it is now Nov 12, 2013. So the game has been out for two months and 15 days.
They have content but they are following a schedule to release content targeted to their casual audience since they are in more numbers than hardcore. Sorry but that is just the hard reality of the situation. My suggestion is to play another game while you wait for content updates if you are hardcore.
I suggest that every [To the devs] or whatever topics requiring the devs to cater to our wills to be renamed [realmreborn].
making ff14 like vanilla ff11 would not cause ff11 to lose subs. because ff11 now doesnt play anything like vanilla ff11.
If I remember correctly, after 1.0 was going down the drain they moved the team from XI who were responsible for Abby over to XIV and the guy who was in charge of XIV went back to XI (then put out to pasture), so it could quite well be that the team currently in charge of XI are the ones who thought Abby was "a good idea" so careful what you wish for...... Currently XI is back to the "content which requires more than 2 people, a nin/mnk + whm to complete" stuff.
Actually the Abyssea leveling system is already there in FF14, mix that with FATE and you have the fastest way to level. Japan group already knows this and use it to their advantage, working as intended. They gather a group of 8 and then spam regular mobs while waiting for FATE to pop which is about every 7-10 mnts max, all the while stay in ONE small area. Usually they camp the not so popular FATE areas, around La Noscea.