SE - 2.2 is Going to Cost You Greatly

[Astralos]

LOL
Cause a few pieces of materials each 18 hours is now "paid-market advantages". LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL.
Ventures are utterly useless, crafting is useless, and what crafting gives, gil, is also useless. Such paid advantage lol.

Really? Now that I'm up to Quick Ventures, I'm finding Lotus Leaves that go for 30k each.

[PlanckZero]

Really? Now that I'm up to Quick Ventures, I'm finding Lotus Leaves that go for 30k each.

Lotus leaves are only "expensive" because they come from leather maps hunts... which no one does.

They're also used in a single recipe for a piece of outdoor housing furniture... not exactly a thriving market you can rely on.

[Apeachs]

I just hate the damn dungeon lag...

[Arkghyom]

You are welcome to leave. But unless you are willing to show a masters degree or above in marketing, I am hesitant to believe you are qualified to make such assessments as far as the subscriber base.

In the end, the ebb and flow of subscriptions is the subject of speculation, and always there will be amateur critics and speculators who will try to make definiative statments as to the course of the game's success.

What can be said with certainty is that a number of 'thousands' lost or gained in this situation is actually a minor concern. It was stated by Yoshida himself that his intended success marker for this game was 400k subscribers. It has been confirmed by Yoshida that we exceed that number in daily unique player log-ins as of shortly before this patch. That said, one can speculate that they could lose 'thousands' of subscriptions and still be well within the safety margin for their marker of success.

One could speculate that they are experimenting with ways of appealing to broad levels of the audience with each differing patch, and this one simply happened to favor one aspect of the audience.

I don't think you need a piece of paper for stating the obvious.

[Astralos]

Lotus leaves are only "expensive" because they come from leather maps hunts... which no one does.

They're also used in a single recipe for a piece of outdoor housing furniture... not exactly a thriving market you can rely on.

*shrug* It's still extra gil. And there are tons of items that sell for less but much more frequently that I can get multiples of (including HQ), per retainer, per hour. The potential is there.

[Rapoza]

great patch, keep it coming.

[Felis]

It's not what we believe, it's what Square Enix is obviously doing with this because they did it with 2.1. We (the players) know many some of us will be done with a lot of this content long before they even begin to tell us "please look forward to it."

fixed it a bit

[Luxx]

the worst thing abt this patch is the ungodly lag in the dungeons/instances that aint fixed yet o-o;

[Alexander_Dragonfang]

Really? Now that I'm up to Quick Ventures, I'm finding Lotus Leaves that go for 30k each.

And what advantage over me do those 30K give? Let me answer for you: None.

[Felis]

paid services that give market-advantages

I have 6 retainers without a paid retainer.