Show your appreciation to Eureka thread

thank you SE. i been away for the game for over 3 months not interested to play anymore. i just game back yesterday to find this update on my last subscription day. i was not planning to re-new, guess wot? eureka got to me . i like the challenge in there, teamwork and progression.

i enjoyed the early days of ARR because, everyone was running around grouping to lvl up in fates, yes fates, they are not that boring its just a boss killing system its how FFXIV works anyway. there was fun fates in ARR like odin and bahamount as well, which gave us a taste of what SE can do if they wanted to.

over the years i got board with the lack of creativity, the hordes of instance dungens 4 man , or 8 man trials. the earlyer fights like titan hm, turn5, turn7 , turn9 were fun to me.

sure savage is always challenging but its not for everyone. i Continued to raid till the last tier, i did not bother with 4.2 for the first time.

but i love that SE is trying something new, thanks SE. it's refreshing, anything new is welcome. it's not perfect by any means but its a start

thank you SE !!

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Originally Posted by NovaLevossida

However, if I were really just doing it for the attention

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You chose an appreciation thread to show your hate and that you were unsubbing. No reason why you couldn't post instead in the hate threads. Your intention was to rain on someone else's parade just because you dislike some content.

I'm really loving Eureka. The grind is satisfying and rewarding IMO. Most of all I'm really enjoying getting a party together and talking to buds while running around and dying. Thanks, Yoshi-P and dev team, I'm having a lot of fun.

Eureka is quite simply amazing, even in its current state. While there are things I would like to see added (such as more objectives, weekly quest, etc.), the barebones of Eureka is still quite something. Going on voice chat and messing around with friends for hours on end is an experience I haven't had in a while and hasn't really been in FFXIV, as everything else is usually in a closed instance like a raid or maps. So could Eureka be improved upon? Absolutely. But it's already confirmed that we will be heading into different areas in the future and I cannot wait to see what they could do with them. Something like Hamlet Defense would be cool and interesting to see. We'll just have to wait and see what SE has in store for us.

I love Eureka, I just wish we had more things to grind for in there xD Maybe ilvl360 job specific gear and ilvl350 5 slot belts and accessories next? xD

Thank you everyone at SE, I know it's not easy and it's not perfect but thank you for giving us time to play it more before giving a dev response. A lot of us were expecting something closer to the questing we're used to where we're given a task and follow that task. It took us days/a week to find the fun in Eureka but now that we found it it's really not that bad. It could be better and I hope for part 2 you listen to our ideas but I want to thank you for Eureka. I also want Yoshida to stay (but I want him to understand that we still want more creativity), part of the dislike is the lack of creativity, so I hope he takes this to heart.

Unlike others who say eureka isnt fun solo, i quite enjoy going after mobs a level or two higher than me to see who can beat eachother into a bloody pulp first. Then again im a warrior, but to fight and actually manage my own hp is plenty of fun! Ya couldnt get anything like this unless you fought a boss fate solo and undergeared, but theres little reason to do those unlesss youre leveling..

The social aspect I thoroughly enjoy. I’ve started to actually want to interact with people again, and have started friending those that are dedicated to actually doing the content. It sucks at the end having an entire wonderful party have to disband due to the timer running out. Thankfully you can PF it.

I had a lot of fun yesterday. It is easily the most social activity in game yet. We were having a nice chat while killing and rezzing. It's something I've never experienced before since this is my 1st and only MMO I've ever played, but it was something I was really hoping to have in game and it seems it's finally here, a place to literally interact and chat while actively playing content. Not easily done in dungeons and raids due to having to actually remember fights and not mess up.

There is nothing to appreciate about Eureka.

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Originally Posted by Ronyx

There is nothing to appreciate about Eureka.

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Except that its fun.

Eureka brought back the feeling of lively world content where everyone comes together with a common goal! It's easily the most social content in the game currently. I've been having a blast even though I didn't like it day 1, it's grown on me and I spent the majority of my play time this weekend in Eureka with my friends!!! Thank you devs for this throw back that is ACTUALLY FUN!

6 page thread on why its great.

99999999999999 page thread on why its not.

Hmmmm....

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Originally Posted by mandodo69

6 page thread on why its great.

99999999999999 page thread on why its not.

Hmmmm....

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People typically don't rush the forums to praise content. Its usually just salty people who want to complain about one thing or another. I enjoyed Eureka for the first week it was out. That said, the content was far more shallow than I was expecting and I don't see long term interest maintaining.

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Originally Posted by Ayer2015

People typically don't rush the forums to praise content. Its usually just salty people who want to complain about one thing or another. I enjoyed Eureka for the first week it was out. That said, the content was far more shallow than I was expecting and I don't see long term interest maintaining.

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Why salty, because they got something to say that goes against your ideas?

I hated the place, that is for sure. I made myself doing it up to lv.19 at least, got my relic and gear. After I've done this, I could not feel like accomplished something, I hope I never need to go through that again.

If you ask me, Eureka and it's ease to farm crystals at high level solves an old problem the game had - that it is hard to switch classes in endgame.

Because of the gear lockouts, if you wish to switch classes for Savage, you need to do so either in very beginning of the patch or near the end of it when gear lockouts are lifted. Before that, you can reasonably equip only like 2, maybe 3 classes when new alliance raid comes up, unless you have tons of gil or can craft 350 pieces.

With Eureka, you can bump every single job in the game to 355 left side(excluding belt), with 5 materia slots as a bonus. This is more than enough to attempt even last savage floor, hence much easier to swap classes if so needed or wanted. Granted, you still need accessories and a belt, but it's still a lot of weight lifted from gearing non-main jobs (and accs are usually the most cheap piece to buy crafted).

It's 50/50. The last few instances I have done have been really bad - LOTS of MPK, some dude got into it with someone and started posting links to savage parse data to try to make fun of him, it's bad in there. Of course, this was expected. The players at the top levels want to keep players at the bottom levels at the bottom, so the MPK starts to discourage players from joining the train (even though that's how most of THEM leveled).

When it's a group of nice people all helping each other, it's great. HOWEVER, it only takes ONE jerk to sour an ENTIRE INSTANCE, and that's a real problem. The GMs aren't doing much, either. I reported two players and got the canned response from GM which usually means they aren't going to bother looking at it, so SE is kind of endorsing this behavior.

I can't decide if I really like Eureka or not.

I'm enjoying Eureka!

I didn't love it to start with, but I didn't hate it either. I'm good with it now though. I have had some really fun social experiences with groups in there, and that is something that is sorely missing from all other content. People are there to get down to business, but if you're standing around on the NM train...you've got lots of time and opportunity to be social with others, and its great. People seem to hate the NM train, but really, it has a special and unique charm to it, and it probably the most social thing in this game for those of us not in huge FC's. So while I don't love all of it, I do like it for what it is, and I hope they don't do anything to mess it up in the future, that would be a shame.

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Originally Posted by GetFoesReqd

People seem to hate the NM train, but really, it has a special and unique charm to it, and it probably the most social thing in this game for those of us not in huge FC's.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDf3im-WiZA

This sums it up pretty well, as funny as it may be. It's all about survival. Social aspect sorta just...happens.

As far as Eureka goes, I suppose in the end I'm fairly passive. I still feel it was lazy design, but I can't deny the benefits. For the first time I have all the jobs I plan to play at some point or another caught up gear wise, accessories aside. It's nice.