My review of patch 3.3 (Not for the Honesty)

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Originally Posted by Brannigan

A big problem with Diadem is that it was half baked and way too unrestricted so it led to people doing what is most efficient: standing in one place chain pulling. Unfortunately since none of the monsters in there have any depth beyond "I put a debuff on you then do a tank buster," the entire zone is super boring. I think by the third time I entered I couldn't stand to play it for more than 15 minutes. Also this ultra boring ultra easy activity gave the best rewards in the game by far. Hoooooooooly hell what a misstep on something that could have been awesome.

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Yeah that was my point, neither diadem nor aquapolis look like they had a lot of effort put into them. That's not necessarily bad by itself but there's room for more content if the same # of people that worked on 3 dungeons are working on the content now. And yeah aquapolis being a casual way of doing tomes and making gil was pretty much guaranteed to be received well, but it's already losing its steam judging by map costs and pf frequency.

I don't know how big the dev team is but I imagine it's quite the strain to be developing all this content alongside another full expansion. WoW didn't add new content this quickly iirc. It's like that triangle of project mgmt thing. You can either have it fast and good but not much of it or a fair amount of good stuff but released much slower. Or you can have lots of content fast but then it's terrible. You can't have lots of good content at a fast pace.

Add to all that we're also getting expansions (so far) way faster than WoW did. Also, they are trying new things. Diadem (that was trash tho), Aquapolis, Palace of the Dead. All new things a and then forum posters dookie on it immediately; which I imagine is quite disheartening.

I can't speak for anyone else, but I'm alright with the content right now. The game became much more enjoyable when I became casualcore. Trying everything a bit at a time that the game offers is better than trying to ex/raid all the time.

Is almost as if they released content for it to be dead. And they never overhaul or fix it. Diadem and Aquapolis are such good ideas gone terribly wrong. Hunts were the same. Goldsaucer same...

Developer team needs to start caring about the shape of their content.