Yoshida-san, Where's the Challenge? Where are the Real Changes? END GAME Content?

[Belial]

See, you're making generalizations about people. Hardcore Player A, Hardcore Player B, Hardcore Player C, Hardcore Player D & Hardcore Player E are all different kinds of players, but you're one of those people so content to lump people into large categories simply to disregard opinions/ideas from the individual.

People like you literally make me "lol." How do you survive in the real world without getting back-handed for your ignorance?

[Kallera]

You have a great point and agree but it seriously is taking way too long. Yeah yeah I heard things take awhile etc... and XIV was already rushed to begin with but that wasn't our doing, SE did it. I don't care they changed teams blah blah point is it's been 7 months and not one big fundamental change period that's for the better of the game. Sucks to say but game is just losing too many people and at an alarming rate because of boredom. Leves and crafting is all game has to offer which is boring after a few runs.

You forgot to mention our blogsphere and our forums, which is chock full of folks believing their english-laden walls of text to be the one that will be the inspiring whip crack over the japanese-speaking dev teams' heads.

Clearly this will never get old.

[Majidah]

The game is far too easy now.

Where are this game's version of Sky (KIRIN)? Where's Sea (Absolute Virtue)? Where's a real, challenging Notorious Monster (HNM) that makes you think of strategies and is a real tough, brutal fight? One where you may not win all the time, but once you do, you feel REWARDED and SATISFIED?

When Dynamis first came out in FF XI (early years), it was brutal, and maybe having a 50+ Person Dungeon is a bit extreme, but currently FF XIV has NOTHING challenging (except the unbalanced Rank 60+ mobs running around the edges of the current maps (e.g., Doomvoid Guivres, etc.)).

It takes time. I know a lot of the great areas in FF XI were Expansion Packs later.

FFXI was released in america along with its first expansion. Before that there was no sky. Not even absolute virtue.
Asking for these things so early on when there isn't even a set battle system is a bit silly.

[Cairdeas]

FFXI was released in america along with its first expansion. Before that there was no sky. Not even absolute virtue.
Asking for these things so early on when there isn't even a set battle system is a bit silly.

There wasn't even Valkurm Dunes. Which was the true test of most players real mettle in XI.

[Abriael]

If the fact that changes take time for you is a "problem", then you may want to move to the land of fairy tales, because that's the only place where overhauling a MMORPG doesn't take a considerable enough of time.

By the way, Dynamis was brutal? LOL. You sure have a pretty elastic idea of "challenging", not to mention "brutal".

[Kallera]

FFXI was released in america along with its first expansion. Before that there was no sky. Not even absolute virtue.
Asking for these things so early on when there isn't even a set battle system is a bit silly.

I don't see people taking out the guivres and salamanders by the dozen, either. I guess its only too easy until its too hard...

[Commat]

End game character advancement would be super. However, I don't think 50 will be cap once the game relaunches(huge patch+PS3) so in honesty all spending time on that kind of thing would accomplish is taking away time from fleshing out the game into what it has to turn into to survive.

Creating content that less then 30k players will use and then have them pissed off the time was wasted with a cap increase anyway would be silly.

As much as all of us are near-endlessly waiting for huge changes, these aren't it.

[Smokie23]

LOL end game content! are you *** serious!!!
This game should still be in BETA! You can't be asking for end game content...when the game is in this kind of state. Sure the majority of the current player base is waiting for something to do...but you got to realize where this game is coming from. Read the last 3 months news releases and notes and you tell me that there isn't being anything (or much) done??

NO...get the god damn game stable and major bugs out before you even ROLL OUT CONTENT. There are possibilities still that may drastically change how XIV is played. The game is not even ready to be released...lets be honest. The first team SCREWED UP BAD! They rushed a incomplete game out to the open market. One month BETA period LOL...MW is still in the air...the whole battle system is still in the air and you want end game content? How about we get some in-game content first?!!?

[Kiara]

FFXI was released in america along with its first expansion. Before that there was no sky. Not even absolute virtue.
Asking for these things so early on when there isn't even a set battle system is a bit silly.

Hi Majidah, and All,

Oh don't get me wrong, I know the U.S. version of FF XI launched with the 1st Expansion Pack included, so Japan got to bear the brunt of the waiting and clean-up.

But as the years go on, is it "fine" to expect paying customers / players to wait, let's say, 1 year or 2 years for challenging, meaningful content as they get up in ranks?

I know it'll take time, and maybe it's just venting, but there's so little to do right now except try another Class and get that up to 50, and rinse and repeat. Guildleves and Crafting.

The other part of my post is precisely what you're mentioning also: I'm hoping to see the fundamental changes first and hopefully not in another year or 2.

[Kiara]

If the fact that changes take time for you is a "problem", then you may want to move to the land of fairy tales, because that's the only place where overhauling a MMORPG doesn't take a considerable enough of time.

By the way, Dynamis was brutal? LOL. You sure have a pretty elastic idea of "challenging", not to mention "brutal".

Hi Abriael,

What's with the cynical harsh criticism? I'm only trying to politely voice my *opinion*. Is that wrong? Is posting anything that you don't agree with grounds for demeaning the other person? Seriously?

Dynamis when it first launched (figuring out what to do, organizing multiple alliances, exploring the land, etc., taking down Shadow Lord for the first time as a group) was certainly more interesting and challenging than the content we have right now. Guildleves and Crafting. Raptor Parties?