Thank you for the free weekend. It reminded me why I quit playing.

[Riepah]

I am too lazy to read all this, but it's nice that you take the time to write up your opinion in such a manner, SE might appreciate the feedback.

[Hiruke]

I am too lazy to read all this, but it's nice that you take the time to write up your opinion in such a manner, SE might appreciate the feedback.

I doubt it. I don't think anything could convince the dev team that FATEs and Guildleves aren't very good, even though they're not. In the quest to create "content for everyone" they've created "content for no one". Folks who actually seem to enjoy stuff like FATEs and LQs are in an extreme minority.

Similarly, I don't think you could ever convince the dev team that it might be a GOOD thing to be able to send tells in dungeons. They only see negatives, and think everyone needs to be coddled to prevent people from arguing with each other. Well, guess what... People fight with each other constantly, all the time. Disabling core functionality and creating boring content to "ease" people through it isn't good.

Ironically, dev team likes to introduce content that actively DOES incite conflict between players. For example, the spiritbonding system. Because materia is so annoying to get, and worth so much at high tiers, folks like to spiritbond tons of their trash gear in dungeons/Crystal Tower etc. This seems to irritate other players, and start fights. What I think is even funnier about this is if there were dps meters in the game (which they will not add because I guess it will incite conflicts), you could actually see how much of a dps loss it was to spiritbond however much gear they were spiritbonding. Maybe if you got a good player with spiritbond gear who was wildly outdpsing a bad player in "good" gear, they'd leave that poor spiritbonder alone.

Or, dev team could revamp FATEs, revamp LQs, get rid of spiritbonding, and work more on actual fun, engaging content instead of the mindless grind festival this game is quickly becoming.

I'm not holding out a lot of hope, though, so hopefully what little is fun will be fun enough until something better comes along (at which point I expect a mass exodus from this game - currently SE is lucky that most all MMOs are somehow even worse than this one).

It's kind of disappointing because this game DOES have a LOT of potential... The dev team seems unwilling or unable to capitalize on this, however. I really wish they would, though. I want to love this game.