I lost my motivation, Can you help me find it?

[Talia_Hailwind]

[BreathlessTao]

Gold Saucer

Agree. It should have been fun, but the fact that they made GS such a massive grind in the first place already took the fun out of it. TT completely screwed up with cheats left, right, and center; chocobo races pretty much the same with unctontrollable chocobos that you spend ages to rank up only to toss aside for the next and repeat again, not to even mention people who didn't mind not even controlling the bird, just getting in and going AFK.... And indeed, it's quite odd that not a single new item was added to the prizes... Whoever was so into those old ones already got them, whoever hasn't been, won't suddenly start caring. Let's not even mention the gender unbalance either. (And just one example, the twins' books for SMN/SCH prizes, as neither has a weapon available there, have been suggested, I think, well before the expansion... not even a word on any of it.)

PvP

I'm not even into PvP, but Frontline looked (and felt, the ~3 times I tried) fun... was ruined by GC/queues. This new mode they just added? I didn't even unlock it! I saw the new gear and the exact same thoughts - yet another longrobe/longskirt reskin, yeah, thanks, not gonna motivate me.

Housing

Could buy two medium houses now, just look forward to it - when they add new wards again, that ain't even gonna get you one, because they'll jack up the prices once more (based on calculations about gil owned by players, no doubt, nevermind all the RMTs and bots). But yeah, the fact that there are 1440 plots per server for both ALL FCs and ALL INDIVIDUALS, and they thinking it's ok, especially with all the housing items they keep pushing out ("cannot be retrieved once placed" to preserve rarity, biggest idiocy i've ever heard, i swear)...... beyond ridiculous. @_@

Crafting

BWHAHAHAHAAA....crafting x'D stopped doing that thing when I realised they expected me to shell out millions for materia to have everything ridiculously overmelded, after capping all the classes of course. No thanks. And the way they talked about the scrip system making things "more accessible" for everyone?... Yeah, I laughed. Bitter laugh, bad joke, but still a laugh.

Lastly, was I the only one shocked that we didn't get a 3rd free retainer with all the new craft mats?

This is what was said here.

So let me get this straight, if everyone went and got the micro transaction retainers the server would crash?
I'm not buying it, its just greed IMO.

One of my biggest gripes right now, indeed. For all the times we hear the excuse of servers this and network that... Man, that issue surely disappears quickly if we can pay a little extra. Disappears so much that we can pay a little extra for triple the amount of additional retainers as before. Servers and networks, yeah right.

I would also post some stuff about the none existence variety of glamor in this game, but I've posted enough about that on the forums now as it is.

Sadly, also true. Either the nth reskin, or an item that's so convoluted to obtain it doesn't help anyone but the RMTs and the top ~1% of players, already ridiculously rich, to get even richer. Or they're unfairly gender-locked, creating a lack of balance, for no reason. BEEP that. >.<

Waiting half a year for a house,
Dressing my white mage up as a nun,
Or making a ton of gil/MGP that I will never spent is not my idea of "fun".

Waiting for a house since 1.0. Been saving since 2.0. /hi5
Dressing my SMN/BLM in long robes and the same long skirt model time and time again. With the not-so-occasional repaint of the very same item as three levels before. /hi5
I'm not even "making" gil tbh, I just save up what the game awards me.... no idea why, I can't see an actual house for myself down the way in any reasonable time. :/ MGP I stopped caring about, do one daily cactpot and /shrug.

As a former Hardcore player (or so I believe myself, playing for 30-40 hours per week since launch) and now down to a low-Casual (playing 2 hours Max per week), I can see how boring it has become, forcing you to do lame side quests just to give you extra XP and then, unlocking Aether Currents so that you will end up flying.. that is if you can climb over the unreachable rocks, forces you to go all the way around to find the only route..

I used to love exploration, now I just want to get it done with, so that I can enjoy the Main Story.

DUDE, I so feel you on the currents. @_@ Second most infuriating thing in the expansion, right after Moogle Hell Churning Mists.

They had Casuals in mind for this game; I highly doubt it.

There, said it. I feel they pretty much forgot about the casuals somewhere between 2.1 and 2.55.... but yeah, that's the gist of it.

[Luvbunny]

It's pretty clear they just want you to re-sub for a month, check all the new things, and just cancel subs right after that - come back in 3.1, or wait till 3.3 next summer when they add TONS of contents for everyone. This is NOT a game you pay for every month, it's something to come back every 2-4 months to check how things are, you will never fall behind for too long, which is a good thing. It's nice SE went out of their way to make sure we can save money and just pay them 4-5 months a year to play this game.

[Mhikail]

Nothing we can do for you. A lot of us are on the same boat.
I wish they added Blitzball at least...I heard they were probably going to add it...
But since I'm thinking 4.0 will be water world, then it'll probably be then. I really hope the game gets better.
It's sad how boring this has gotten...not even 2.0 had gotten this boring this fast.
It has nothing to do with rushing inb4 someone says that...we've been 50 for years
and all we got was a 10 level jump to do the same BS over and over...

[Phireblast]

I more or less agree.

Gold Saucer
I was absolutely hyped for Gold Saucer because I (foolishly) thought it would be another endgame activity to me. Now, I just collect cards for me to not use.

PVP
PVP(in any mmo for the matter) is a fucking joke in all aspects. I really don't see the need to explain.

Crafting
Crafting is mostly irrelevant. I'm not even going to talk about gathering since that's more of a supporting class for crafters. Other than food and (mostly) outclassed gear, what's the point outside of the "fun" factor? What do you even plan on doing with all of your gil? Oh wait, one example might be:

Housing
Housing wasn't kept on top of for it to be successful. Most of your population gets gated out by gil so that either the rich or the players who bothered with RMT for some reason can get it. Bam. One of your few interesting incentives to have gil barred out just like that. I hope you have a FC that believes in crowdfunding.

Endgame in general
This here is just a personal gripe of mine. Unfortunately, this is something that spreads across most if not all MMOs and there isn't much to be done about it: Lack of things to do. This game has extremely vertical gear progression which sort of ruins the concept of a "customized character". Once your get your item level 1000 equipment, great! You're done gearing for the next few months! Now go raid!...wait, you said you've beaten everything and have it on farm? Uh.....go level your other classes even if you don't like them! This can't be! You've done that?! Wait! Instead of quitting, how about your gear them up just because! One might say "stop speeding through things too fast!". However, if they hand out these upgrades like candy so easily(law tomes flying out of the window, alexanader dropping 4 tokens now even though I admittedly like that), it's pretty hard to NOT speed through unintentionally.

tbh, i only log in just to do roulettes or raiding. Only reason I still play this game, or mmos for the matter is because there really aren't too many good games out.




tl;dr: i hate things feed me food

[Ashkendor]

Could buy two medium houses now, just look forward to it - when they add new wards again, that ain't even gonna get you one, because they'll jack up the prices once more (based on calculations about gil owned by players, no doubt, nevermind all the RMTs and bots).

Every time they've added wards, they've used the same prices. Not the original prices (which were utterly insane) but the ones that they tweaked those down to. No reason to think they'll change now.

[Luvbunny]

Is it too much to ask to add a housing system similar to FFXI? That old game has a personal housing with 2 floors, plus a little island for you to explore. And you can raise your own critter pet, as well as doing planting of your own + gardening. Why can't they just add that here and send everyone to a different instance when they log in to their public housing project....

[BreathlessTao]

- Add 30 Esoteric bonus to daily high level roulette. Add 5-30 esoteric to all high level dungeons, ONLY if you run it as level 60 jobs, no reward is given if you do it as level 50-59.

More like add bloody experience points to those dungeons. >.< It's completely asinine for those not to give any exp at all, even though now we have a cap 10 levels higher than when they were introduced. Was fine back then, but now it just makes no sense.

Every time they've added wards, they've used the same prices. Not the original prices (which were utterly insane) but the ones that they tweaked those down to. No reason to think they'll change now.

I lost track of the "no reason to think" cases tbh... The cases which always ended with a "well we should've thought so" sigh. So yeah personally I can't be an optimist anymore. :/

[Sandpark]

Waiting half a year for a house,
Dressing my white mage up as a nun,
Or making a ton of gil/MGP that I will never spent is not my idea of "fun".

I don't know. The dressing up as nun could be fun depending on the situation.

[Luvbunny]

More like add bloody experience points to those dungeons. >.< It's completely asinine for those not to give any exp at all, even though now we have a cap 10 levels higher than when they were introduced. Was fine back then, but now it just makes no sense. I lost track of the "no reason to think" cases tbh... The cases which always ended with a "well we should've thought so" sigh. So yeah personally I can't be an optimist anymore. :/

Totally agree, it is fine they don't want to do it at launch because they want people to run the new dungeons instead, BUT it has been a month already, everyone is moving on.... They should hot fix this and add XP just to the bosses on each dungeons (maybe total XP varied from 175k-275k depending on which dungeons you get) - this would give us suddenly 15 more dungeons to cycle on top of the 6 new ones.

They should also add Esoteric bonus on high level roulette, maybe 75 esoteric once a day. This will give everyone an option to not have to do expert roulette if they don't want to, and still able to cap esoteric. Also this way you can cap your esoteric in 3 days doing only daily roulette.