This game needs a lot of work...

[Luso]

I have to agree with op. The vision of this game has changed and I don't think its for the better based on the type of content we have been receiving after 2.0.

The game feels repetitive and bland. Classes/Jobs are not very unique (4xDamage, 2xTank, 2xHeal) which leads into the patterned battle/combat system we have. The open world is wasted, and not challenging at all. Maps were a step in the right direction, but this is taking too long for content that should be in the game at launch.

I loved the original vision of this game. I enjoyed many things the game used to have in 1.x that are no longer here. Yoshida, I don't like the direction the game is heading in and I'm sure I'm not alone with this opinion.

[DurtiMonkeyToe]

I have to agree with op. The vision of this game has changed and I don't think its for the better based on the type of content we have been receiving after 2.0.

The game feels repetitive and bland. Classes/Jobs are not very unique (4xDamage, 2xTank, 2xHeal) which leads into the patterned battle/combat system we have. The open world is wasted, and not challenging at all. Maps were a step in the right direction, but this is taking too long for content that should be in the game at launch.

I loved the original vision of this game. I enjoyed many things the game used to have in 1.x that are no longer here. Yoshida, I don't like the direction the game is heading in and I'm sure I'm not alone with this opinion.

Not everyone can be pleased all of the time.

[DurtiMonkeyToe]

A patch every 3 months IS faster than any mmo I've ever played. The thing is, its uninteresting content because of how the game is designed. Yay another boss that doesn't drop anything and I can facerollallovermykeyboardwhilerollingaroundinmypillowscoveredinketchupandstillwinevenwithdownsyndome. Yeah CT was a backwards patch but that's because they were too busy re tuning it for all the horribads.

That is your opinion.

[Roris]

If there's anything 'lazy' in this game (aside from graphics but I'm not discussing that here) is the reuse of assets.

Of the bosses in CT, Atamos and Acheron are the only unique mobs.

Atomos was around the end of 1.0 as a proto FATE so he's a legacy model too, not to mention all the mobs from XI, XII and XIII just straight imported from their respective games without any modification. It'd be ok if they reused previous designs but at least updated the models like they did with the Adamantoise or even Goobbues and Goblins but they just gave up halfway. Even if recolors are a series tradition they've been overdoing it way too much and haven't really introduced many new enemy models.

[L-D-Omlette]

If there's anything 'lazy' in this game (aside from graphics but I'm not discussing that here) is the reuse of assets.

I'd say it's the playerbase

[Lumiin]

That is your opinion.

Omg really? I didn't know that. ._.

[Autymnfyres]

I believe that they work really hard to put out the amount of content that they do. There would simply be a lot less if they didn't reuse old dungeons as hard modes, it's a good way to get more mileage out content.

Whispers...inexpensive, less-work-load-bearing way of an illusion.

[Autymnfyres]

To be fair, Pharos Siren was a re-use of the Siren from story

I'd like to know if those that think content is coming too slowly have ever been involved with software development, and if so, to what degree.

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Interesting question. Here's mine: I'd love to know the timeline of the design and development, I'm sorry, re-development of the current version of the game we are now playing. Then I'd be able to make a more balanced and informed opinion about justification of why apparently there 'just hasn't been enough TIME yet to produce fresh content'. We both know that info is not going to be divulged.

What is available though is the playerbase voicing questions and being disappointed who have reasonably been questioning the rehash of 'new content'.

[3Jane]

its not going to die with how it is.

This part is definitely inaccurate.

[Krokov]

This part is definitely inaccurate.

Inaccurate how? why does everyone or why do a lot of people seem to portray all these doomsday events for the game as its going to die its going to die since none of us have any real thorough documentation on how well or not well I games doing can only rely on reports from internet sites and such.