Since you are spending resources on events

[Starlord]

Perhaps we just perceive value differently. The type of quests that have been added are not now and never will be important to me. Raiding is not now, and never has been important to me. Events are obviously not important to me. Now being able to buy and sell goods quickly and easily IS important to me. Being able to administer a guild properly is important to me.

Being able to have a battle with a group, that does not involve my weapon skills going off 5 seconds after the mob died is important to me.

So in short, none of what you mentioned has helped keep me interested in this game.

The only thing they have done up to now that has brought back any interest is making it possible to have a group sp party again that is actually beneficial to the players participating. Unfortunately since battle is so easy right now, that is not fun for very long, as no real strategy is required, and gear doesn't seem to matter etc.

In your comments its about you. In mine its about me.

Your one person that says this.. out of how many people? 10,000? and 9,000 being generous here are enjoying the game rather than to listen to Petty complaints like these

that is all...

People that don't want " Content" or anything that keeps us interested in the game, shouldn't be around these forums nor the game, because Content is WHATS KEEPING THIS GAME ALIVE! Do you know what would happen if there was no Content? The Game not being Updated? What would the Fans think? How would they react to the sudden stoppage of the games "Content Development"? Do you? The Player base will slowly Dwindle to nothing and when they have finally fixed the core Problem you so Strongly feel that's it needs to take priority will in the end the result to FFXIV's Demise!

Is that something you truly want Capt. Barbosa?

[captainpicard]

Your one person that says this.. out of how many people? 10,000? and 9,000 being generous here are enjoying the game rather than to listen to Petty complaints like these

that is all...

People that don't want " Content" or anything that keeps us interested in the game, shouldn't be around these forums nor the game, because Content is WHATS KEEPING THIS GAME ALIVE! Do you know what would happen if there was no Content? The Game not being Updated? What would the Fans think? How would they react to the sudden stoppage of the games "Content Development"? Do you? The Player base will slowly Dwindle to nothing and when they have finally fixed the core Problem you so Strongly feel that's it needs to take priority will in the end the result to FFXIV's Demise!

Is that something you truly want Capt. Barbosa?

The player base on my server has already dwindled to near nothing so I don't see the stop gap measure of "add content now!" as a success or keeping the game alive unless alive means on life support in ICU with a priest dressed in WHM AF giving the last rites with the fan's tearfully looking on from the bedside.

I am not familiar with the Capt. Barbossa ref as I haven't seen the movies, but Wikipedia says this is related to those Johnny Depp films.

Just to use an analogy that you are free to malign and call inappropriate, uncomparable, or whatever colorful disagreence will be forthcoming:

If you have a car, that has tons of options, heated seats, auto-navigation, unbeatable sound system, luxury beyond your wildest dreams, but it has a couple of foundational issues, like, it takes 4 people to start the car, or it only runs on the blood of virgins, or whatever-

How many people will actually want this car? Not many, because it has fundamental flaws that hold it back from being successful. You can't buy virgin's blood at the Exxon station, and usually you don't have 3 other people there to help you start your car. Even if you do, at some point this becomes frustrating to the point its just not worth it anymore, and instead you get a Toyota or a Ford that just starts up and drives without the need for virgins blood or 3 other people to make it run.

Same for this game. It has so many foundational barriers to success, that no amount of glitter can fix that.

[Starlord]

The player base on my server has already dwindled to near nothing so I don't see the stop gap measure of "add content now!" as a success or keeping the game alive unless alive means on life support in ICU with a priest dressed in WHM AF giving the last rites with the fan's tearfully looking on from the bedside.

I am not familiar with the Capt. Barbossa ref as I haven't seen the movies, but Wikipedia says this is related to those Johnny Depp films.

Just to use an analogy that you are free to malign and call inappropriate, uncomparable, or whatever colorful disagreence will be forthcoming:

If you have a car, that has tons of options, heated seats, auto-navigation, unbeatable sound system, luxury beyond your wildest dreams, but it has a couple of foundational issues, like, it takes 4 people to start the car, or it only runs on the blood of virgins, or whatever-

How many people will actually want this car? Not many, because it has fundamental flaws that hold it back from being successful. You can't buy virgin's blood at the Exxon station, and usually you don't have 3 other people there to help you start your car. Even if you do, at some point this becomes frustrating to the point its just not worth it anymore, and instead you get a Toyota or a Ford that just starts up and drives without the need for virgins blood or 3 other people to make it run.

Same for this game. It has so many foundational barriers to success, that no amount of glitter can fix that.

You still dont get it do you?

I can careless what you say, because in the end Im enjoying the game for what it is and its only improving, Haulting its progress will only do the game worse, If you stop the games progress the game WILL ulitmately die.

Seeing as you don't care about the Games Success I'm going to put this as bluntly as I can for you Its rude but at this point hearing your Petty complaint about something that will cause this games destricution, It leads me no choice but to say this:

" Please if you have no desire to help with the games future and your concerned to Halted the games Progress when they are working with the engine along side of make content to sustain the Current playerbase, and if you want to take that way from the players the "Always Something to do" feeling Then please respectfully leave this area and come back when you feel FFXIV is ever to your standards*

Fixing the games engine is something needs to be done yes I agree, but telling me and the rest of the FF Community to take a backseat and Halt progression of content and expect us to play the same repeating stuff for a year or 2 then you got another thing coming.

[captainpicard]

You still dont get it do you?

I can careless what you say, because in the end Im enjoying the game for what it is and its only improving, Haulting its progress will only do the game worse, If you stop the games progress the game WILL ulitmately die.

To quote an old line from Bones, Circa ST2:TWOK---> "Jim, He's dead already"

You don't get it. YOU are the minority. The MAJORITY is not enjoying it. This forum I assure you does not represent the MAJORITY.

If the MAJORITY heard they shut this pig down, and started retooling it from the ground up, then it may generate some genuine interest in it when it relaunched.

[captainpicard]

The Minority is the same 15 people on the forums bashing the game on here, as the rest of the players on the game is actually enjoying the game and the game has a Server rise on besaid you do the Math. and you know what its people like you that really piss me the f*** off!

As I said I can careless what you say and i;m sure alot of people agree that your nothing but a low life troll I'm sorry for the language and Mods you can remove this post if you deem it necessary but this little tard has pissed me off to my Boiling point!

Couple of points:
1. I believe they recently made it so only active players can post on the forums (if I am wrong about this then my mistake)
2. The majority of people who have played this game moved on and don't even care enough about it to post here.

You may see me as a low life troll. That is fine.

The reality is if I didn't care about this game and want it to be successful, I wouldn't be posting on this forum, with the hopes that some mod or dev will read my post and think there may be some wisdom in what I say.

[User201109011315]

The Minority is the same 15 people on the forums bashing the game on here, as the rest of the players on the game is actually enjoying the game and the game has a Server rise on besaid you do the Math. and you know what its people like you that really piss me the f*** off!

As I said I can careless what you say and i;m sure alot of people agree that your nothing but a low life troll I'm sorry for the language and Mods you can remove this post if you deem it necessary but this little tard has pissed me off to my Boiling point!

I guess it depends on one's definition of majority.

The MMO market is teeming with potential customers, many millions of them. The best way to make an MMO is to target a portion of these players and cater an MMO for their tastes, niche or otherwise.

FFXIV currently maintains a small fraction of MMO players, a playerbase of 30,000 If I am not mistaken. If these 30,000 players are one's definition of "the majority" (i.e., the small fraction of people that are actually willing to play this game), then perhaps one needs to reassess one's definition of the word "majority".

[User201109011315]

Seeing as you don't care about the Games Success I'm going to put this as bluntly as I can for you Its rude but at this point hearing your Petty complaint about something that will cause this games destricution, It leads me no choice but to say this:

" Please if you have no desire to help with the games future and your concerned to Halted the games Progress when they are working with the engine along side of make content to sustain the Current playerbase, and if you want to take that way from the players the "Always Something to do" feeling Then please respectfully leave this area and come back when you feel FFXIV is ever to your standards*

I think everyone has different ideas on what will destroy and save this game. I for one am of the opinion that destruction of the armory system, optimal rank system, and oversimplification of the crafting system will destroy this game. Others think to the the contrary. They think that this will in fact save it.

But I think most can agree that a lack of shadows will NOT be the death of this game, although they would still be nice, all the same.