SE - 2.2 is Going to Cost You Greatly

The story was absolute rubbish. The moment I had to sniff a chocobo I knew that there was not going to be anything interesting but all.

Fun fact: it's the quiet ones that leave first. The vocal ones actually care about the game.

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Originally Posted by Prototype909

People want meaningful open world content. Not rehashed FATEs that nobody wanted to begin with. Running in a convoy from point A to point B is not what anyone wants to do.

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Like what? You can have something like Sha of Anger which may work but you'd still be stuck using FATEs since it would have to follow rules similar to Behemoth and Odin.

You could do a "grind 5000 mobs with the weapon equipped" but then you'd be crying that 5000 is too much or something

HNM *spit* isn't going to happen with the way the game is currently designed, so that's not an option and I sincerely hope it stays in FFXI where it belongs.

The devs chose to go the way of the splinters of Atiesh/fragments of Val'anyr but using FATEs to encourage people to leave cities instead of limiting them to bosses in hard mode dungeons, CT, or worst of all, Coil.

Your ilk asked for more stuff to do. Your ilk asked for relics and gear to become something not everyone could get. Like with a monkey's paw, you got your wish, but not in a way you expected.

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Originally Posted by snowybell

The story was absolute rubbish. The moment I had to sniff a chocobo I knew that there was not going to be anything interesting but all.

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I'm not sure what was so terrible about the story. There's a revolution brewing, we have a bunch of refugees that will probably become the bulk of the population of Revenant's Toll (my guess is that place is going to change its name once the new expansion hits), we have hints to the dagger/stealth class Yoshida has mentioned, an entire allied faction to the Scions that went missing ,and the ending scene from the Hildibrand questline even had someone walking away with a great sword equipped.

The game has become a chore for me since 2.2 hit. SE seems to be heading back towards the FFXI days with their game design and I agree it will cost them greatly. I've no problem with SE adding longterm goals or content that takes time, but when that involves stupidly low drop rates on low level content it's just bad game design.

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Originally Posted by Spanky

Oh do you ? You mean you have 3 characters so you pay 3-4$ more a month than it costs for 1 character, thus paying more to get more... right?

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That only valid if they pay on monthly basic, pay in advance you the higher character limit for same price as single character account.

This patch is not as bad as some people think. Its fine. I dont see a lot of people unsubscribing, on the other hand I think there had been TONS of people who just came back after the update that servers cant even handle the instance stress anymore.

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Originally Posted by Ronyx

This patch is not as bad as some people think. Its fine. I dont see a lot of people unsubscribing, on the other hand I think there had been TONS of people who just came back after the update that servers cant even handle the instance stress anymore.

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No! Can't you see?!
All these server instabilities must be because of too much unsubbing going on..
some people..

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Originally Posted by Calyanare

The Atma grind isn't a "long term goal", as a matter of fact there's nothing goal-oriented about it. You just grind and grind with no measurable progress--either a given FATE allows you to progress or it doesn't, and there's no difference between the two until you get your result. And yeah, a lot of people had theirs within 12 hours, but I (and many others) have been grinding these for 3 days and haven't gotten a single one to drop (and yes, I had my Zenith equipped the whole time; I'm not stupid).

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Are you serious? No measurable progress? There is 12 items, each time you get an item you are making progress. You can count how many items you have, that is the definition of measurable progress. Basic science.

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Originally Posted by Pibz

No! Can't you see?!
All these server instabilities must be because of too much unsubbing going on..
some people..

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In all seriousness, I fear that some of that can be blamed on removing the auto loging feature. Of course I'm just speculating.

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Originally Posted by Ashgarth

just because you and your friends dont like it, doesn't mean the whole of the playerbase doesn't...

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Yeah... you realize you just created a fallacious argument, right? Of course the reciprocal applies. The contextual point is that--factually--players are leaving the game despite certain people being pleased with the changes.

I love how you got any upvote's for an undeniably fail point... laughable.