What does Heavensward actually bring to the table as an expansion?

[savarna]

I misunderstood nothing. I simply do not feel the same way as you about the game design. People can rush through content if they so desire. Do they NEED to? No. That is their choice.
Alexander wasn't going to stand up and walk away to parts unknown if nobody entered it by a set point in time.

That is the main problem! A lot of us do not rush trough the content lol. I only play 2 to 3 hours, 3 - 4 days a week and with little effort I have catched up with everything up to date, just to the point of logging in to do my Ex roulette and AS. Is this fun to you? I find it rather disappointing due to the lack of creativity at this stage of the game, as how they keep the same formula on every patch they release.

Yeah I can try something new as there is much you can still do in the game! I'll take my mount to fly across those beautiful and abandoned areas that no one revisits



Epic fun!

You might be thinking ''If it's so bad then why don't you quit?'' The answer is because the game mechanics, art, graphics, story, engine performance, stability, up time service and system in general are not bad, it's enjoyable! However, it they would listen to the community they could turn it out into a better experience. It has potential and reason why I haven't give up on this game...yet.

[Deathscythe343]

That was similar to FFXI's Merit Point system wasn't it?

That I could not say, as I did not play FFXI.

[YeaniNah]

Everyone have the right to have their opinion of the game.
Me i love the game and i'm a slow and not hard care gamer. Sometime i would online but be afk or playing another game on another screen while talk to my FC. I got my DOL all 60/ armorer 60 ..and DRK 60 only
I didn't do they last 2 dungeon or alexander YET. Because i love taking my time
And i respect other who enjoy going fast

But please don't try to justify that the game is crap for everyone. Your not me and don't have the right to put me in the "Everyone" words..... cos i'm sure there is people who love that game and are happy the way it is. And i don't mean that you are wrong about they should put more stuff because i can't wait for new things tp be add ^^.

I just mean that i like playing that game amd ot's the best game i've played and i try alot of games that got deleted of my pc after 3-4 month of playing ...

Im subscribe since Jan 2011 and play it since then and didnt think of deleting it even at 1.0 had alot of fun ..i dont know why my forum say 2012 feb ..but on my sub account said : " Jan. 12, 2011 FINAL FANTASY XIV Registered" so with that you can see with my character profil when i say i love playing slow :P i didnt lvl all the class

[T2teddy]

1. Goblin invasion
2. Dragon hunting
3.Ishgardian training grounds
4. allowing your chocobo to enter the ishgard chocobo arena, getting them to fight and learn AI exp and see them fight on their own while you watch as a 'second' and suggest commands to them and you can fight other people's chocobos too
5. Or having a big server wide project for crafters and gatherers to get that big ship working...like having a group of 4 crafters working on a part of the ship and each crafter will get x seconds to perform one turn before the next crafter in the party adds in the next move.

SE hire this amazing creative mind!

However, if they would listen to the community they could turn it out into a better experience. It has potential .

100% agree with this

[SasukeUchiha81]

No it is not. None of them are. How dare you try to equate these ideas of mine that are not unique nor innovative yet not present in XIV as endgame content to elements of that game. Are you trying to sentence these ideas to death? Do you realize where you are?!

Seriously though, I thought of XIV's areas first before barfing out what I wrote. I did not run to XI first or ever, through out my write up.

OMG.. "Do you realize where you are?!" I'm dead, so true, I am sorry.. Lol

[Daralii]

SE hire this amazing creative mind!

Anyone can come up with grand ideas when you have no idea how to implement them, what the constraints of that implementation are, what the actual demand is, etc.

[Craiger]

SE is making the same mistakes that every other MMO developer have made...

They spend by far the most development time on content that players spend the least time on.

That's always how it has been. More players are leveling several times in FFXIV than most other MMOs, but still... They spend lots of time making big areas that has nothing special in them, and they are only really used to it's fullest when you are leveling, and even then, only when you're doing side quests.

Most of those areas should have been focused on endgame content, which could be pretty cool.

Then you have dungeons... 8 new dungeons, but only 2 that you really do once you're 60. Dungeons take time to make, so why not give us 3-4 dungeons in Expert roulette, and take the development time for the remaining 4-5 dungeons, and develop some mid-core content at 60.

There are ways to make the leveling from 50-60 pretty interesting, while making most of the new content for endgame, instead of spending most time on content before endgame.

[Kosmos992k]

Most of those areas should have been focused on endgame content, which could be pretty cool.

Are you insane? The end-game community is demontrably the minority of active players. The official census and Playstation trophy data both confirm how small the end-game community is. End-game is the content seen by the least number of players in the game. Maybe you've forgotten the target market for this game?

[Craiger]

Are you insane? The end-game community is demontrably the minority of active players. The official census and Playstation trophy data both confirm how small the end-game community is. End-game is the content seen by the least number of players in the game. Maybe you've forgotten the target market for this game?

Maybe we have different views on what endgame is.

I don't mean content like Alexander Savage... I'm talking about content in general that you do once you've hit 60 and gone past the very fast gear up phase (Law). Fractal and Neverreap is endgame IMO at the moment for example, cause you need to do them to get the Eso tomes. I'm talking about content that stays relevant for while at the maximum level.

If you're complaining about not having enough to do in the game, then you've most likely experienced endgame... that's how I look at it at least.

Leveling is just a tiny part of the game in the end, and the longer the expansion have been out, fewer and fewer players will be leveling, and the areas will become more empty every week.

All those areas added, but everyone is still just idling in some city or maybe going out to gather once in a while (just flying through the areas)

[Elim]

A lot of ideas has already been posted by people here and in other threads that have spawned recently, for example, it's been already tried and said that crafting is crap

One of the reasons endgame is boring to me right now. I still craft and gather, always will, but red scrips kill my soul. Crafting in general is not fun right now. Savage is cool, but it's not that exciting due to farming story mode beforehand. My static records our kills, and at the end of every Alex savage video I don't say a word. Whereas at the end of every coil video I'm screaming in joy.

FYI (not to the person I'm quoting, just to whoever) none of what I just said means that I "don't like the game". It's simply how I feel about some content this time around.