Bored...

[Tebhi]

I stopped playing a few months ago; I finally came to the realization that grinding out ranks was a waste of my time. Why? I don't want to play a shell of a game that feels like a chore when I can wait months (or years) and play a complete game that is fun AND rewarding. So, for now, I come here to see how the game is progressing.

[AlexiaKidd]

I can't help to think that the lack of communication might also have something to do with E3. They might want to keep major info for E3 so that the whole videogame industry takes a 2nd look at FFXIV. Patch 1.18 coming after E3 i'm sure is no coincidence too.

Ah that is a very good point but do you think they will have enough changes in place to actually promote it at E3. I'm not so sure, if they promote it at E3 and people come back and they haven't got the content ready then they will just leave again only this time it will be harder to get them back as they would be less likely to give it a 3rd shot after being burned twice. I don't think they will do much promoting until they think the game is ready, which will be PS3 release.

Who knows though maybe they do have a load of stuff ready to go and are just waiting for the finalised battle system and job system. If that's the case though then this goes back to communication and they should tell us.

[Chardrizard]

i am usually on neutral side, but "it" had hit me last week. Ive done nothing in the past 4hours logged in, i went to chop trees for 1hour and NPC everything, i am burnt out.. especially after knowing i won't be getting anything for at least another month and a half, it's kinda sad.

[Onidemon]

February:

1.15a

March:

1.16
1.16a

April:

1.17
1.17a

I forget when he made that promise but he's kept it the past 2 months. Argue all you want about the size or original intent but there are indeed two patches per month for the last 2.

Also the post your e referring to does make a good point. Why would you want to rush him further when rushing this game out was the reason it sucked in the first place? I'm perfectly fine with them taking their time and making sure it's good. Yoshida has said multiple times on multiple topics that he doesn't want to put anything in the game without sufficient reason or purpose.

Have you seen the content of .a patches? These are not patches at all, hotfixes with stuff that took almost no time to work on. I can do without 3d TEXT popping up when i join a party or the postion/size or color of my HP bar....

[AngryNixon]

The short of this is that, as far as being bored with what's available now goes (also hi Alexia), you can safely put this game on the dusty shelf of shattered dreams until mid-June at any rate until 1.18 to check back in, as per the most recent letter from the developer.

What more one can do in the interim I don't know.

[BruceyBruceyBangBang]

For the 500th time. Development on major things are not released quickly. If you're bored, do something else til everything is done. Also, since Dec there have been a lot of changes, but I understand that there isn't anything drastic to catch your eye.

MMOs, before they are released, have content being worked on a year in advance. FFXIV does not have this luxury and their new direction in development started in January. This is the major difference between FFXIV and other MMOs who had a clear direction 8-12 months before their launch making sure they had a lot of content for each of their version updates/patches.

Don't expect anything huge til June as the letter states.

[Gramul]

Have you seen the content of .a patches? These are not patches at all, hotfixes with stuff that took almost no time to work on. I can do without 3d TEXT popping up when i join a party or the postion/size or color of my HP bar....

1.17a included a new quest system. Yeah it wasn't much, but it's a nice way to get guild marks.

[Arcell]

Have you seen the content of .a patches? These are not patches at all, hotfixes with stuff that took almost no time to work on. I can do without 3d TEXT popping up when i join a party or the postion/size or color of my HP bar....

I see two patches. I'm aware they were smaller but they were still patches. He never promised size or amount of content, only that there would be 2.

[Griss]

If you have hit the burn out wall, take a break. honestly its a game its is supposed to be a digital distraction for your down time. if your not having fun with it walk a way for a while. or if its one specific aspect of the game that's running it for you don't mess with it.

Hell i'm in the middle of a bit of a burn out my self. i don't log in that much as of late. but when i do i have fun. be it hunting nm's or running side quests or hanging out with my shell mates doing what ever.

[Seif]

For the 500th time. Development on major things are not released quickly. If you're bored, do something else til everything is done. Also, since Dec there have been a lot of changes, but I understand that there isn't anything drastic to catch your eye.

MMOs, before they are released, have content being worked on a year in advance. FFXIV does not have this luxury and their new direction in development started in January. This is the major difference between FFXIV and other MMOs who had a clear direction 8-12 months before their launch making sure they had a lot of content for each of their version updates/patches.

Don't expect anything huge til June as the letter states.

Dear lord. Development does take time but this is beyond absurd. NO feature I've worked on in any genre has taken as long as the tiny small minuscule edits they're doing. I've seen entire animation systems being re-written and hand animated from ground-up in the time that SE has managed to scale up dodos.

It's another thing to cut SE some slack because of bad management but accepting that they have accomplished NOTHING substantial is just blind faith.