How raids have hurt this game.

[Defmetal]

Sounds like FFXIV just needs to get more players than. By nerfing Leves and Behest they've essentially made Dungeons the only viable options around 25 and 45.

You get good loot (sometimes) and decent SP.

They should consider giving an EXP bonus for Light and Full Party, like 10 and 15% or something. Yeah so what if it "makes the game easier /emo" it gives an advantage to being in a group and would definitely encourage it. A big problem with MMOs like ff11 and ff14 is that more members = less exp, but in a low population game where solo content is king, you're often better off soloing or doing small parties. They might be better off removing the exp penalties for having more players, or giving an EXP bonus for 4/8 members.

At least, until the game has a higher population.

I noticed on other MMOs, like EQ2 and LOTRO that on "bonus exp days" players log in a lot more. Double EXP weekends often see nearly double the population of players. Perhaps some campaigns that encourage people to log in and check the game out again would be welcome.

Leave server merges off the table because that's usually a sign to the industry your games about to die, and a concession that you can never get those players back.

[Dragonlord]

1. i said on -some- servers. some i noticed have a LOT more people than others. Also some are really jp heavy and others have very few.

2. they have been planning for the future for a year. At this rate by the time the future comes ff17 will be out and no one will be playing this.
If you can't fix -CORE- problems in a year but you have time to fix how pretty the action bar looks then you have a problem.

i can go on:
-Market wards fill up
-the whole "can only get skill points by doing leves in your nation" thing hasn't brought ppl back to the other 2 zones
-quests are nearly all text-based in a market of games with cutscene and voice acting heavy quests
-creating all the best gear as rare/ex stuff essentially makes crafting useless which in turn severely hurts gathering
-economy is still non existant with no real gil sinks and no chance for the future (any economist will tell you they can't gil-sink their way out of severe inflation).
-RMT are pretty well unregulated..
.... can go on and on and on. They can only fix -so- much. Most of these should have been fixed half a year ago and to assume they will just fix all this stuff in a few months is wishful thinking. These are all things that -shouldn't- be problems and will make the game seem fail if they still exist at ps3 release.

Stop QQing, just because people are more intrested in doing the raids *Current content* We all have done behests,leves, and grind parties since launch the raids are awesome, or people wouldnt be doing them now would they? Seriously find something else to do if all you want to do is whine about how the raids are taking up peoples time. If you are not a game devolper you have no clue how long it takes to make new added content to the game. We all know there is no chocobos, and no end game, and what not. We deal with it, and play what we have atm, or we just simply do something else to waste time. Remember its just a game, dont take it so seriously! Come back 1-2years and maybe the game will have all that your talking about. Right now its a breathe of fresh air to see this new content. FYI i have been playing since closed beta, and i have a few minor compliants, but its never been about the lack of content. I knew going into this that the game needed alot of improvements, and i accepted that. Please no offense, but you are wasting your time on this forum... Hell, i might even be trolling for responding to this post. Take care, and happy gaming.

[Wynn]

I would agree with the above poster that the current focus on the raids is to be expected. Everyone has done all the other stuff to death in the past year. Once people get their fix, it will taper off and go back to normal for a bit. That is, until they add something else that is new and then the process starts all over again. ^^

[Chain]

People don't do behest because it's crap, seriously...

Do you think people are going to go out of their way to either waste precious anima or spend 15 min running to a camp for basically zero reward. Behest is nothing more than another leve, its uninspired and thrown together. The best thing they could do is totally remove it from the game or start making it award behest points that could be spent on stuff like dark matter.

[Jennestia]

SE is a corporation that needs to make a profit. So no i doubt they are working at their own pace especially when yoshi-p is barely getting any sleep. They need to fix the game fast or the game becomes unprofitable and there is no reason to invest in an expansion. Remember, MMO's only have a certain number of years before they are outdated.

Thus why everyone choose to make a WoW clone.

[Scape]

so now we have people complaining that we got new content that is taking up peoples time from the older content. Geez. Do some of you sit around brain storming for things to complain about?

[Pulseczar]

so now we have people complaining that we got new content that is taking up peoples time from the older content. Geez. Do some of you sit around brain storming for things to complain about?

Take a gander at the OP's post history and you'll see a pattern. The OP also started nothing but complaint threads over at FFXIV Core.

[Dargoth_Draconia]

Says you are on Wutai OP, but I don't see how, I see people all over the place doing groups and battle and SP grinds and leve groups still. Actually it is the first time I have seen this since a couple months back. Sure the number of people in the game is still low but that will change with time and I hope they don't have to be reduced to merging servers til 10 years down the road.

[AlphaLion]

@Azurymber:
I think this is a pretty short-living phenomena - ppl always gather around new content, soon ppl get what they want and then they go back to leveling. Good thing the raids are fun and offer both nice drops and leveling opportunity.

SP camps have been added to the game and SP grinding parties now are more abundant than before (at least in Lindblum). There are frequent shouts in Ul'dah for various level range SP parties. I suggest that you do a shout for your needed range and see who replies.

It is true that solo SP now is crap, as are solo leves and behests. Yet everything from duo and more ppl is good. Duo SP grinding is actually much more fun than soloing so I think SE is going just on the right path now with the battle system change.

Good luck on your leveling! :-)

[Serio]

Raids seem to have killed off almost all partying and behests.

Raids are partying. That's where the party is at. Behests are great if you catch them, but it's not like people go behest camping.

With solo now a complete joke, this has made rank 25-43ish nearly impossible

Solo is the same as it ever was. They didn't even change soloing. I don't get how it is a joke considering I've soloed from 38 to 42 just fine.

Rank 25-45 is not impossible. R25-35 you do either Rank 30~leves, Toto Rak, or find a beastman camp. Rank 35+ you do the rank 40~ leves and behests (which give really good sp bonuses), find a beastman camp, or do raptors after 40ish.

the search system still fails epically

It's actually not a very difficult system to use. It's just that nobody uses it. I remember back in the day having to explain to people how to join my open party. They were like, "What? There's a party search menu? Why can't you just invite me?" People are satisfied with shouting in Ul'dah, so they don't even bother using the feature. When they added "seek invite" I only saw one person, other than myself, trying it out. If anything, the community still fails epically for not even trying to use it.