November? really?

[TruebladeNuke]

*shakes his head at people who say 3.0 didn't offer much*

Three new jobs, increase level cap with new skills included (and crafts to cover the increased level cap), unsynced party (ie solo dungeoning), loads of new dungeons, new primals, flying, new zones, new city, new idle town, new gear, new hunts, new quests, new gathering systems, FC crafting, airships... am I missing more? Probably.

If anything, we're very spoiled with how much we get in the patches (how many games would give you something like Gold Saucer in a patch?), some of them are near-expansion-quality in themselves. I have no issues with lack of content and I play a lot.

Glad to know I'm not the only one who thinks this way. The 3 new jobs in particular have kept me quite busy, but I'm now finally getting close to having ALL of my jobs at 60. Yes, I play as all the roles. I like them all. And this isn't even getting into all the other new things the expansion brought. Personally, I think too many people are only focused on the endgame stuff. (Which is somewhat lacking, I'll admit that)

And by the lords, the way some of the people are acting in here when they found out the developers took a break. They're freaking human too guys! Geeze, I already knew gaming communities were selfish, but yeesh.

EDIT: My one and only concern about Patch 3.1 is that it'll be competing with other major release titles around that time. Fallout 4 in particular jumps to my head, but I've got my eyes on Star Wars Battlefront and the new Tales of game too.

[ViktorMestrovic]

Complaints here are valid.. so many statics have broken up.. and that live letter just cost me another two great players. Census alone will tell you that a3s is a head banging experience. Telling us that you're going to be lazy and create 210 pink gear that has random old appearances so you don't have to develop new models... lol.. another easy peasy ctish raid..probably with ilvl 200 or 190 gear.. and mob grinding the islands for those pink items.. I'm sorry, but since HV release this game is going the route of 1.0 failure. There's already virtually nothing for middle core raiders to do in previous patches and this one provided half of that. "get gud" yes.. I got good.. I do great damage.. my members try their best, too. but are all too often foiled by prime time network congestion where ping goes from 120ish for them to 300ms and that's on VPN..

[ViktorMestrovic]

I have fibre optic cable... I am next door to Japan.... without admitting, actively, they block the ip of the country I am in.. I pay for 3 different VPN's plus battle ping just to get a connection to the game capable of putting out the DPS which a3s requires. I basically pay 30+ dollars a month to play ffxiv. I was there for the crapdom that was 1.0 and I have my legacy status for seeing 1.1 through 1.4 to the end. Their dev team is not very large... let's forget about deserving vacation and let's get better servers and stop being cheap.

[ViktorMestrovic]

Hire more staff and quit releasing boring content and content that doesn't really do jack all for the gaming experience..oh look something like a moogle house!!.. sort of... This is what they spend their time working on while there are so many other glaring issues? PvP is a joke and something like a beta version of ArathiBasin wherein you work hard as a team (maybe) and then the game spawns two S rank nodes next to the other team in time to give them the win on a silver platter lol.. It's being grinded for glamours not for fun. We're sick of doing neverreap and frac every week. It's devoid of anything resembling joy.There's more entertainment to be had flipping burgers at McDonalds.

[ViktorMestrovic]

The most sickening part of this entire situation is that ironic Yoshida npc quest that tells us they learned from their mistakes and actually listen to their players now.. what a load of garbage. They aren't going to listen until they see how many subs vanished at the end of September/October. Artificially inflating subs with promises of Twintania mounts from ppl dumping their cash to do it, because their actual friends refuse to touch this game is not going to be there this month. It's time for the SE development staff to "get good."

[Greyfrost]

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I haven't played my MGSV:TPP, while I do get your point, most developers/creator release the same category of things within close to same timeframe.

Mobile phones, consoles, pc parts etc etc.

If they're willing to risk it, then they believe they stand a chance otherwise it won't be wise/profitable to do so.

[Loony_BoB]

I agree with you, I'm sure they deserve some time off. But if they plan on having long periods with no patches they should give people things to kinda grind towards. Ex roullette will only go so far. Overall I'm not upset because I'm still plugging away at the crafting stuff.

Do you have every job at L60, A4S done, full eso gear, full red scrip crafted gear max melded with Penta Vs, full TT card set, every mount, every minion, all glamour items, full airships in your FC? Not to mention a top tier chocobo.

If there's one thing there is not lacking at the moment, it's grind. xD

EDIT: I notice your last bit about you not being upset btw, this is more a general comment towards the 'grind' bit xD

[SuperZay]

More profitable than half your development staff dying of heart failure from working 80 hour weeks.

5 months, man. 5 months break. 5 months of no content. And then we'll get 2 dungeons which are straight lines with 3 boring bosses and a bunch of boring trash in between.
People really are going to excuse this in the game they are playing and are paying for?
I understand there are no self-respecting customers among fanboys, but c'mon, even YOU should understand 5 months is a bit too long.

[Loony_BoB]

For those concerned about what other games XIV will be competing with: It'll be competing with them anyway. If they didn't put the patch out at that time, Eorzea would be even more dead than it is now. This means that some people will XIV over Fallout 4 etc, while others won't. But when they are done with it, they will be back. Over time, it should hopefully balance out the number of people running content in the game quite nicely.

[Loony_BoB]

5 months, man. 5 months break. 5 months of no content. And then we'll get 2 dungeons which are straight lines with 3 boring bosses and a bunch of boring trash in between.
People really are going to excuse this in the game they are playing and are paying for?
I understand there are no self-respecting customers among fanboys, but c'mon, even YOU should understand 5 months is a bit too long.

I'm curious as to which game it is that you're comparing FFXIV to, where 3 months is standard between patches of XIV's quality and they NEVER delay for 5 months (this is the first time we'll be five months between major patches, and that's if you don't include red scrips/Alex/Savage as a major patch).