Please help me understand why i should continue to play a repeat of 2.0?

[Hyrist]

Skizzle isn't asking for the game to be overhauled, he's commenting on the fact that the types of battle content (both current and planned) is an identical pattern to 2.0, rather than mixing it up and adding a new battle system or two. And rightly so. Is it too much to ask for a new type of PvE in an expansion?

Academically? There's only so many mechanics you can add before everything becomes derivative. And we reached that saturation point back before Final Coil. Classes got revamped with differing combat systems than each class personally identified with, and additionally we haven't seen the full of Alexander's Mechanic's yet.

So... yes. Yes it is too much to ask for, in my opinion- when you consider all that we've gotten with this expansion already, within a year and a half of the original full on remake. We can stand to be more patient, and more grateful for what we have. We got an entire single-player's worth of content for the expansion, and there's still more to come.

Instead of griping we can be brainstorming on what sort of systems we would like to see - give them ideas. Reminisce on mechanics from other games and theorize on how they could fit here, rather than demand that they do. There is an entire level of conversational tone that we seem to forget having once we log into these forums, and I feel that correcting such should be a higher priority than airing our frustrations raw.


On a side note. FFXI did not change its endgame wit every single expansion, it added to it. People were still farming for Dynamis drops when Salvage Came out, and Einjherjar was not all that different from Dynamis. It was a very Horizontal game that cannot be accurately compared to a vertical progression MMO.