The Content Drought and How to Survive it

With patch 5.3 being delayed until mid July there's going to be a lot of people getting bored, frustrated, nitpicky, etc, and these things can have detrimental effects on your FC and in-game social experience. Vandalism, sudden outbursts of political ranting, the "we need to nerf X or buff Y because it's difficult" discussions, will all inevitably pop up during these troubling times.

With that said, these are some recommendations given some prior experiences with this and other MMOs.

1) If you own an FC, limit who can do furniture arrangement in the house and make sure only people you trust can withdraw or add items to the company chest.

2) If you own an FC, keep a tight leash on who can spend FC resources for items like stable brooms. Check the log at least once each night to make sure that no one has ran off with multiple 99 stacks of X or Y.

3) If you are going to keep playing during the slowdown on content, think about what you haven't done in game yet and set a goal. It could be getting the Skysteel gathering tools or going back and doing Omega Savage for Glamour, but keep the content to something that sounds doable. Don't try to delve into current savage content if you never liked that kind of content to begin with.

4) Take advantage of the Moogle Treasure Trove event and keep an eye on the lodestone for new events since we are entering the summer months.

If anyone else has anything they want to add to the list feel free. :)

One of the biggest things I can suggest is just to try playing other things, or doing things other than playing games at all. Rather than looking at the dearth of FF14 content as a bad thing, try to look at it as on opportunity to knock some games off your backlist or to try a different game that you hadn't ever tried before. Maybe even spend the time you would usually spend playing FF14 on learning a new skill or developing a new hobby. The biggest issue with FF14 not having any new content right now is really just seeing FF14 as something that has to satisfy your every need for hours and hours every single day.

Right now im at home for about 3-4 weeks, i could have enjoyed that patch but nooo...

I see why they delay it, im slightly annoyed they had such trouble working at home, too... but i really wished they would at least release the Yorha raid, so we can start farming upgrades... or give us the Relic - Imo they shoudvle focused that and give it to us earlier, after all its a very special situation.


Atm i set up everything so far, got my trusty lala to take care of our subs, did most the stuff or need a break from pvp anyways... the most annyoing is i cant farm any more upgrades and capped poetics and the other tome ages ago >_>

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Originally Posted by Colt47

With patch 5.3 being delayed until mid July

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try late july/early aug. Patch 5.3 was originally supposed to be June 16. original estimate was a month and then a couple more weeks was tacked on later.

Vandalism u say?

Are those people still trying to defund the lalas of uldah, crazy idiots I say they are, if I'm strolling through the steps of thal on my way to the local food vendor and I see some auru trying burn down my market boards or loot the good business men and women of uldah or try to loot the dye shop and tare up the repair vendors then buddy I'm gonna join the brass blades and go outside of uldah on ya by bringing the fist of rhalger strait down on you.

And you know why, #LalafellLivesMatter

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Originally Posted by Naoki_Yoshida

Originally slated for a June 16 release, patch 5.3 will be delayed by more than a month at the very least, but we are pushing to keep that delay as short as possible. We will announce a new release date in the near future, so please stay tuned!

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Basically July 21st at the very earliest.

I was worried upon hearing of the 5.3 patch delay, so I called my doctor and thankfully - they said I should be able to survive the content drought in FF14!

It helps that I still find enjoyment in the game.

It's the perfect time to play FFXI, especially after being on sale a little ago. That and level up a different Class/Job

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Originally Posted by Edax

Basically July 21st at the very earliest.

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Your artwork is great!

:)

I started playing through The Witcher trilogy again, hadn't played 3 since 2016, and hadn't played 1 and 2 since 2015, so they are pretty fresh for me. That's like 200+ hours of gameplay.

In general, with my time within FFXIV, I use Trello (any organizer will do) to set up a lot of things I want to do, write them out, and make small incremental steps on doing them. I never get bored of FFXIV, because there's always stuff I want to do, and I can usually pivot on whatever suits my mood.

Sometimes, the spontaneous can upend things. Because of the fast RW queues, I've been trying to get 5 wins a day. This week I have almost an 80% winrate at 30 games so far which means I've been making good progress. :O

I agree with StriderShinryu:

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Originally Posted by StriderShinryu

[...]just to try playing other things, or doing things other than playing games at all. [...]

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It's not like FFXIV is the only thing that exists. Plenty other games, games you loved - not just "enjoyed" or found "great" - to play in the past, new games you haven't picked up, because you were busy with FFXIV or generally something outside of gaming (e.g. tv-series you missed, although I StriderShinryu sure meant something else :P ).
I've been thinking about picking up the Gothic-series or Zelda: Skyward Sword again. But atm, I've still got plenty to do in FFXIV. I don't pick up every content in it, because I don't want to bore or force myself with stuff I don't find interesting. The latter was the problem I had in the end with WoW, as it became more and more of a chore.

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Originally Posted by SturmChurro

I started playing through The Witcher trilogy again, hadn't played 3 since 2016, and hadn't played 1 and 2 since 2015, so they are pretty fresh for me. That's like 200+ hours of gameplay.

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I can't believe it's already been four years since The Witcher 3 was released. How time flies!

I've been catching up on other games that I've bought and never played or finished. I've gone through Tales of Berseria and Nier Automata and now working on Dad of BoyGod of War.

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Originally Posted by Theodric

I can't believe it's already been four years since The Witcher 3 was released. How time flies!

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It's actually been over 5 years, it really has been a... long time. Crazy to think about how time flies looking back. Not so much going forward with FFXIV's content drought..

I'm still playing through Witcher 1 right now, and the game has almost felt new (well the story, gameplay is a bit.. archaic). I'm hoping because of the amount of years that's passed that when I eventually get to Witcher 3 it'll feel really fresh.

Honestly this drought has been great for my friends and my FC. Everyone is trying out new classes and doing random things they wouldn't have before. We all still raid together two days a week. Personally I myself don't have much to do so I usually get on to check buffs for everyone and have been catching up on my backlog.

I guess I'm an oddball because I still haven't made it to the second dungeon in Shadowbringers and I've had it since it was released. On top of that I don't have a single class at 80. I take frequent breaks from the game to not suffer burnout and to allow the content to build up so I don't just burn through it in one go.