[To the Devs] We need content like in FFXI called Abyssea

[Cailae]

Man I would love to have Abyssea-like content in XIV. Tons of NMs, multiple progression paths, low-manable. I definitely wouldn't mind seal farming to get new AF. Way better than "Oh you capped your points this week, come back next week for your piece of gear." It'd not like it would have an effect on leveling speed, that's already through the roof.

The more I think about it, the more I think this game would benefit from having Abyssea-like content. I miss proccing.

[KHShadowrunner]

I think i'm the opposite.

Bring me Dynamis content.

There's tons and tons of 4 man, 8 man, solo tasks that can be done. Ok maybe not 8 man, but I can think of 5 events at least that are 8 manned, more like 10.

Give me an epic 24, or if you really want to satisfy, a 48 man mega-fest of death, destruction, and sweet loot.

I know I'm a loner on that though. Think i was the only person in all of Cait Sith that found Dynamis to be an actual fun event.

[Weltende]

I would like to think this thread was a ruse.

Then again, I would like to think that every "import X content directly from FFXI even though it's a completely different game" thread is a ruse as well.

[Cailae]

I think i'm the opposite.

Bring me Dynamis content.

There's tons and tons of 4 man, 8 man, solo tasks that can be done. Ok maybe not 8 man, but I can think of 5 events at least that are 8 manned, more like 10.

Give me an epic 24, or if you really want to satisfy, a 48 man mega-fest of death, destruction, and sweet loot.

I know I'm a loner on that though. Think i was the only person in all of Cait Sith that found Dynamis to be an actual fun event.

Dynamis tweaked a bit would be fine by me. No insane entrance fee, more than one instance of if at a time per server, decent drop rate would be fine. Even with a 3day lockout. I enjoyed Dynamis. I just never enjoyed the drama over gear and currency.

[Reiterpallasch]

My favorite part was when you linked a picture that stops showing data before abyssea was even released.

There was no longer job discrimination

Aside from the fact that if you weren't a WAR MNK or WHM nobody wanted you, yeah sure no job discrimination at all.

[Genjisamurai]

I smell troll

[Kirosuu]

what?realmreborn again?when he gonna go to WoW?its been long time since he threaten to leave FF14 and back to WoW if dev not grant his wish

[Ralemont]

My favorite part was when you linked a picture that stops showing data before abyssea was even released.

Someone claimed Abyssea ruined FFXI and caused 200k subs lost. Another claimed 60% of subs were lost due to Abyssea. I linked a graph that showed a loss of 150k subs in the span of a year and a half BEFORE Abyssea, because it's the only graph and/or sub numbers I could find. If you'd like to show numbers about how many subs were lost during Abyssea, I'd love to see it. But we all know neither you nor the posters above have any evidence for this.

In any case, what the graph does show is that even if Abyssea lost another 150k subs during its run, it was doing just as well (or just as badly) as the crappy content released before that caused the general decline of the populace. Have fun showing Abyssea "ruined" the game and led to its subscription decline.

Seriously, anybody have any data at all?

Aside from the fact that if you weren't a WAR MNK or WHM nobody wanted you, yeah sure no job discrimination at all.

I was talking about exping, but even talking about seal mobs you are wrong. Every group needed at the very least BLM and BLU for procs, and THF was often quite useful as evasion tank/TH. Don't forget that there were often seal NMs that were preferably kite-burned, and I often used SCH for that. Additionally, seal mobs (and +2 mobs) dropped multiple different types of tokens, meaning it was easy (combined with the ease of leveling new jobs) to find willing members, if you didn't have close friends in an LS.

But sure, for the tough fights not every job was welcome; many physical DD for example. Perfect balance resulting in all classes being equally welcome is impossible, but Abyssea did a better job of it than any other FFXI endgame event I can think of.

[Steeled]

There was only one thing Abyssea got right: the boss model (not the atma stuff, just the bosses). Being able to go with your group when you wanted to go was good.

Worm parties were as bad as fates, but the thing is: XI arrived there out of necessity. Dwindling leveling population made grouping very difficult. XIV skipped the good years and went straight for the mindless leveling.

[realmreborn]

There was only one thing Abyssea got right: the boss model (not the atma stuff, just the bosses). Being able to go with your group when you wanted to go was good.

Worm parties were as bad as fates, but the thing is: XI arrived there out of necessity. Dwindling leveling population made grouping very difficult. XIV skipped the good years and went straight for the mindless leveling.

ATMA made it more fun what u talking about