Request: Can we go back the old patch model? Content is now spread too thin

Besides the fact that Pagos just isn't fun, a big factor here is that Yoshida delayed Pagos by an entire month and a week just to try to spread content over the patch cycle. If Pagos had come out with HoH we at least would have had some use for that weapon, but as it is right now we're ~4 weeks away from 4.4 with a 30 item level increase, how do we justify having people grind for 2-3 weeks just to use a weapon for 1-2 weeks?

This was a question actually asked in the last live letter and Yoshida's answer was that they always split content, but content was never spread this thin before, normally we would have 4.3 and 4.35 with every other patch being minor changes, now we have major content being split into 4.3 4.31 4.35 4.36, it just makes the content drought more visible and discourages people from sticking around to wait for new content.

if pagos came out same time as HoH no one would be doing HoH. the point of pagos is not to get a weapon you should have gotten better one via clearing god kefka already. the point of pagos is to prep yourself to get the final form of the relic when that is released. you're splitting the playerbase up too much if you release everything right away.

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Originally Posted by DrWho2010

if pagos came out same time as HoH no one would be doing HoH.

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Nope. Every person I know would be doing both, because Pagos is terrible and while a few people may enjoy doing it for hours on end they are in the vast minority. By splitting the patches they're forcing us to focus on each thing ad nauseum until we hate it instead of giving us a variety of new things to keep our interest. This isn't grade school, we don't all have to go to the exact same assembly at the exact same time for it to be successful.

I like the eureka concept a lot, but I do feel like something is going on these days that’s causing me less interest in the game in general... either content is being spread too thin or less effort is being put into meaningful content and rewards. That and I’ve hit a point where I wish players had never asked for old dungeon/raid gear to be made dyable because I feel like the majority of what we get anymore are reskins and it’s a continual letdown patch after patch especially when the new glamour designs aren’t that interesting, are becoming few and far between, or are $18 in the cash shop.

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Originally Posted by DrWho2010

if pagos came out same time as HoH no one would be doing HoH. the point of pagos is not to get a weapon you should have gotten better one via clearing god kefka already. the point of pagos is to prep yourself to get the final form of the relic when that is released. you're splitting the playerbase up too much if you release everything right away.

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By that logic, the relic is pointless throughout. When the final step releases approximately in March should current scheduling remain, Alphascape will have been long since been killed and the relic will offer 120 Determination? Wow... compelling. While I know previous relics have never been much better, they at least were decent progression weapons. With that aspect lost in Stormblood, they really are very grind heavy glamours with little to no purpose otherwise.

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Originally Posted by DrWho2010

if pagos came out same time as HoH no one would be doing HoH. the point of pagos is not to get a weapon you should have gotten better one via clearing god kefka already. the point of pagos is to prep yourself to get the final form of the relic when that is released. you're splitting the playerbase up too much if you release everything right away.

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I kind of have this mindset, especially since early information that the Pagos weapon is at ilevel 370, which is the current cap and range for the weapons already available from the patch contents.

I don't know if its true, but I heard a rumor that Yoshi lost 1/3 of his dev team to the FF VII team because that project is running very behind schedule and needs to catch up. They are also having trouble hiring devs for that game right now so the transfers would make sense. If this is what's really going on, then it would perfectly explain why content is being spread out because the devs are spread too thin.

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Originally Posted by DrWho2010

if pagos came out same time as HoH no one would be doing HoH. the point of pagos is not to get a weapon you should have gotten better one via clearing god kefka already. the point of pagos is to prep yourself to get the final form of the relic when that is released. you're splitting the playerbase up too much if you release everything right away.

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If pagos came out same time as HoH no one would be doing pagos because it's asscancer trash content.

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Originally Posted by Hyperia

I don't know if its true, but I heard a rumor that Yoshi lost 1/3 of his dev team to the FF VII team because that project is running very behind schedule and needs to catch up. They are also having trouble hiring devs for that game right now so the transfers would make sense. If this is what's really going on, then it would perfectly explain why content is being spread out because the devs are spread too thin.

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Why on earth are they having problems hiring devs for FFVII? Deserved or not, it's like their most popular game EVER. If they can't get people to work on the project, they either aren't offering a realistic package or they have unrealistic expectations about their potential employees. And this is part of their overall problem with personnel. They killed XI (for the most part) by moving most of that team to XIV. Now they are going to kill XIV by moving the team off of this?

Someone is making some very bad decisions if this is the case and their company will suffer. I haven't logged in today and I canceled my sub last night. If they don't even love their game enough to keep resources on it, then there's no reason for me to keep investing in it.

2.0 &3.0 relic questline > 4.0