Boring Endgame

[Rumpelstiltzkin]

It took the developers years to accumulate the amount of content FFXI had before Abyssea.

XIV will never get there regardless of how many years it is up though because it is pure vertical progression. It is a very bad way to spend resources and developers will never be able to keep up. We've seen it in other games like WoW before and the same thing is happening here. It likely won't change though because Yoshi has even stated he is fine with people playing for a couple of weeks after a patch and then unsubbing until the next patch. With expansions being just a large patch like this and just new tome grinding with no new different content/horizontal progression people get bored fast. Pure vertical vs pure horizontal progression both have their perks, I just wish XIV could at least find more of a middle ground.

[Sartori]

XIV will never get there regardless of how many years it is up though because it is pure vertical progression. It is a very bad way to spend resources and developers will never be able to keep up. We've seen it in other games like WoW before and the same thing is happening here. It likely won't change though because Yoshi has even stated he is fine with people playing for a couple of weeks after a patch and then unsubbing until the next patch. With expansions being just a large patch like this and just new tome grinding with no new different content/horizontal progression people get bored fast. Pure vertical vs pure horizontal progression both have their perks, I just wish XIV could at least find more of a middle ground.

Never happen, they dug themselves a hole with this regearing nonsense every few weeks....

[Anty]

Never happen, they dug themselves a hole with this regearing nonsense every few weeks....

i still think that can change, there are so many posts about this problem, there were during 2.0 and we have them now.It really is sad because i think they really destroy their content with it. I mean... why bother with so many things, you work for somethign and before you even finished with it, its a new ilvl...

[Anty]

XIV will never get there regardless of how many years it is up though because it is pure vertical progression. It is a very bad way to spend resources and developers will never be able to keep up......

lol yeah at least that is justice. if we have to grind on the never ending tradmill of gearprogression, the devs will also never have a real happy playerbase cause they are programming on content that is outdated the very day it gets live.