Crystal Tower: Do we really have to wait 6 months just to enter the actual tower?

[LoLo]

Before 2.0: "Hey guys! Crystal tower's coming out!"

During 2.0: "yeah! crystal Tower was originally slated for release, but we need to move it back a little to make it just right."

Before 2.1 "Crystal tower is going to be included! It'll be the counter part to Bahamut's coil!"

2.1 , after clearing the 1 level that was before entering the Crystal Tower: "stay tuned for an update to crystal tower in 6 months, where we bring you to the front door of the crystal tower! We had totally planned crystal tower during release! We are not stringing you along for money, honest! Please look forward to it!"

^this

The CT was ready for release before 2.0 even came out. They held it back for "testing". Then when its released we only get a raid that isn't even inside the Crystal Tower. I guess I have to look forward to it 6 months from now. I'll laugh if the next raid is on the bridge leading to the Crystal Tower and that's it.

[Kallera]

/10characters

Ah, I get it. Clearly you intend to point out that the proper way to enjoy an MMO is to not play it. =)

[LoLo]

You got me. Can't possibly have a thought about the FFXIV player base without interviewing them all first. That's the baseline for having an opinion.

Look I think you might just want to review how you communicate on these message boards. You went way off point and are sitting on this esoteric point where you just don't want the raid to sit for 6 months.

You are right. You are assuming that everyone who plays is happy with the Crystal Tower content, yet you have not taken the time to ask everyone. I should have ignored you based off that.

Fact remains that the Crystal Tower comes 6 months from now. You are ok with that. I am not.

[ApolloGenX]

My sub is canceled.

The game is fantastic, but I will come back to it when the stuff they promised is ACTUALLY in game. (and attainable).

It's a beautiful remake of the old FFXIV. It has tons of potential... but I have zero patience for artificial barriers and excuses for half finished content. I will check in at the first expansion. By then it should be a more fleshed out game.

I mean how many times can you re-hash primals (which were part of 1.0)... before you are ashamed?

[BlueMage]

I don't think that one floor of CT is comparable to one turn of Coil.
In the single 'floor' of CT (not really a floor considering it's outside, i guess) we got 4 bosses, 2 mini bosses and some trash. In a single turn of coil we get one of the following: Turn 1: Miniboss, some trash and a boss. Turn 2: Minibosses(?) and a boss. Turn 3: lol! Turn 4: Some trash made into a boss fight, Turn 5: Boss
for a total of 2 minibosses, 4 bosses, some trash and a lol!.

If the labyrinth had been split into coil-style turns (ie first turn is just bone dragon and trash, second turn is just thanatos and atomos, etc.) would you have not complained?

Thiiiiiis.

[Tupsi]

I agree, though I think what is being suggested will potentially backfire. More than likely, the Raids team are the same group that work on Coil and CT. If they break them in half to try and develop floor designs for both CT and Coil at the same time, what we'll get is 1-2 floors in Coil in 2.2 and maybe a floor in CT.

It would not be that drastic. We had 2 Expansion teams with FFXI and one worked on Chains of Promathia while one worked on Treasures of Aht Urghan at the same time and both were perfectly expansion packs (one introducing 3 jobs to boot.) XIV ARR also has significantly more development members than XI ever had including developers from other projects, i.e DQX, KH and console divisions, not just their online division. If they split the load it would be perfectly fine as long as they don't start development one after the other.

For example they want every 3 months to be a big update, they could do what FFXI does these days and break down large patches into "Part 1 and Part 2" a month, for example in late January they could introduce some back quests for Crystal Tower then Mid Feb introduce a section of CT. If CT is built like Nyzul Isle was, they can easily expand it every month or every update rather than every other update.

[AldricBranchais]

My sub is canceled.

The game is fantastic, but I will come back to it when the stuff they promised is ACTUALLY in game. (and attainable).

It's a beautiful remake of the old FFXIV. It has tons of potential... but I have zero patience for artificial barriers and excuses for half finished content. I will check in at the first expansion. By then it should be a more fleshed out game.

I mean how many times can you re-hash primals (which were part of 1.0)... before you are ashamed?

As many times as they want. Because they're pretty much the Old Gods of XIV. You can't truly put them down for good. Also Titan wasn't in 1.0.

[McStagger]

I mean how many times can you re-hash primals (which were part of 1.0)... before you are ashamed?

Because god forbid they actually give people something that was requested, right?

[ApolloGenX]

Because god forbid they actually give people something that was requested, right?

Like player housing?

The game is great. They have problems. They will be fixed over time... which is great. I will re-sub when the game is more complete and they have servers to handle housing...and CT is the actual tower.

They say look forward to it... and I do! I will look forward to it, and come back when it is actually there.

[Tupsi]

Because god forbid they actually give people something that was requested, right?

I'm sorry...what was requested which you may not know judging by your join date:

-Titan
-Leviathan
-More Primals, i.e Garuda (Got), Shiva, Ramuh, Diabolos, Carbuncle, Fenrir, Kjata and so on, basically more FF summon fights.
-Better Relic Quest, if you even played 1.x you'd realize a lot of people didn't even attempt Relic or stopped after seals.
-More content in general.

And no, you weren't being sarcastic.