Communal outcry against sub-prime gear lockouts

[Enfarious]

Have you ever heard the prhase "too many cooks spoil the broth?"

Hiring more people only gets you so far. More people also means more red tape and more people to manage those more people and a dev team can eventually collapse under its own weight. You can't just throw more people at it. Do you have any idea just how many people are and have worked on this game? Did you ever watch the credits? the FFXIV team is HUGE.

Lockouts aren't a simple annoyance, they are a necessary means of pacing MMO content due the inherent difficulty in creating content faster than players can play it

Your absolutely right.
And.
It all went wrong when they made leveling not take more than a week. One of the mechanics of a new MMO that tends to save it from this whole train-wreck of everyone is done already, and we need lockouts, is slower leveling progression. Sadly that ship has sailed.

[Ruenis]

Extreme Primal drops i90 so should be locked. It's to stop people like me from gearing all of my classes. Notice the 'hardcore' players don't really complain about CT locks? Cause we already have craft melded gear that is equal or better, so we don't really care. It's the casual that complains about CT locks. Don't kid yourself if you're not willing to outfit yourself in full DL or craft what makes you think you want to run CT a bunch of time hoping for that one piece.

Omg, this guy said that the one who complains are not the hardcore masses. Expect thousands of basement dwellers go on nerd rage.

[Wobble]

Posted this in another thread but it's relevant here also. Lots of players whine that they play Monday but then take the rest of the week off as they have nothing to do, but if there was no lock they would get everything in a day or maybe a week and then complain for not having nothing to do. It's really a no win for SE either way. I mean stop QQ about it and do something else in the game. Maybe level a craft or gathering job, I find them very relaxing, level other jobs that are not 50. If you have done all of this maybe, just maybe help out random people that are shouting for help or help those in your linkshells maybe even do both. There may be little content at this point but there is far from nothing to do in the game, and as someone said already there will be plenty as patches happen.

[Cid_Grim]

Speak for yourself. I'm not crying about anything.

I'm looking forward to the new patch.

[Tenku]

The solution to all of this is to appease the hardcore players who plays many hours a day by implementing UNIQUE MATERIA with a .02% drop rate from open world mobs. Unique and Untradeable! That should keep us busy the rest of the week.

[Arkista]

Posted this in another thread but it's relevant here also. Lots of players whine that they play Monday but then take the rest of the week off as they have nothing to do, but if there was no lock they would get everything in a day or maybe a week and then complain for not having nothing to do. It's really a no win for SE either way. I mean stop QQ about it and do something else in the game. Maybe level a craft or gathering job, I find them very relaxing, level other jobs that are not 50. If you have done all of this maybe, just maybe help out random people that are shouting for help or help those in your linkshells maybe even do both. There may be little content at this point but there is far from nothing to do in the game, and as someone said already there will be plenty as patches happen.

FYI before I start CoB or any content that offers the best gear in the game should have a lockout. Now.....

I keep seeing this mentality pop up in other threads about the whole loot lockout. That some players are going to get the best gear in a singe freaking day, if there were no caps and then they would be done.... Wrong. A week maybe someone can max out gear on one job but I doubt it.

I guess people seem to think that the RNG gods are on everyone's side and that every single run they do a piece of gear drops they need and they would win it.

I posted this in another thread and seems to fit here

"Also Lots of people like myself would like to play more than one class and gear them up to the max it going to take time. There's 8 classes/jobs even if it did take you one week to max out a single job in gear that is at least 8 weeks of content to go through. And patches are suppose to happen every 2 1/2 to 3 months right? 8 jobs 8 weeks = 2 months. And with RNG I doubt very many people are going to be lucky enough to get max in a week".

So if a handful of people are lucky enough to get their drops done super fast then that's their problem.

And a lot of the ones you claim that "QQ" every week have a lot of ilvl90 gear and there's no incentive to go back and do content with weaker rewards once you've capped for the week.

[zdub303]

The solution to all of this is to appease the hardcore players who plays many hours a day by implementing UNIQUE MATERIA with a .02% drop rate from open world mobs. Unique and Untradeable! That should keep us busy the rest of the week.

Untradeable materia that you can slot into what?

[Tenku]

Untradeable materia that you can slot into what?

How about a Relic +2 weapon that has a materia slot that requires an epic quest line which includes defeating the 3 Primal Extreme fights and Ultima Bane fight? Upgrades your Relic +1 weapon to Relic +2, voila, your Relic +1 isn't replaced by Allagan weapon anymore, but having Allagan weapon will help defeat the primal extremes. SE should just hire me.

[zdub303]

How about a Relic +2 weapon that has a materia slot that requires an epic quest line which includes defeating the 3 Primal Extreme fights and Ultima Bane fight? Upgrades your Relic +1 weapon to Relic +2, voila, your Relic +1 isn't replaced by Allagan weapon anymore, but having Allagan weapon will help defeat the primal extremes. SE should just hire me.

Except primals and ultima are i70 requirement... im positive none of those fights are gonna be harder than twintania is.

Also, hope they learned from their mistakes with these easy questlines awarding BiS weapons.

"WTS +2 relic clears, 1M! PST"

[Meleena]

Its better with the lockouts