I'm tired of being ignored.

[PotatoWafflez]

It's not just me is, have you seen all the people posting with problems they dislike. The Econamy being none existant. The caps on mats, The really gamebreaking stuff has been nothing but blanked.

Those are all problems you don't fix over night and can't rush because you can and will screw people over if you do. There is also no reason to communicate their plans before patch 3.1 which is the soonest I and probably a lot of people expect changes or an update on the situation.

[LongsunZhao]

Oh we'll get news after five months of nothing. I hope it doesn't hurt them

[Aomine1992]

They arnt ignoring you but there is only so much a few ppl can do for a million ppl and let's face it most of the suggestions or changes I see are so unrealistic that they would be foolish to respond too or just full of ppl bickering back and forth...those don't generate responses.

From my experience with MMOs devs respond ppl flame them saying they didn't do this or this is untrue blah blah blah so I think they are doing fine they fixed astro and took in account ideas...PLD will never be fixed for those ppl saying it needs it cause simply there are PLDs still doing everything including savage....

Have a nice day.

[LongsunZhao]

Unrealistic to ask for a working econamy so I can actually make use of the crafting roles I've been leveling for the past 8 months. At the end of the day, I never told them to add certain elements in HW which have completely ruined others. No one farms a Primal properly anymore because of the Synch for the vanity weapons. Not like I can even buy them as my money is going on making sure I meet there pathetic gates like Red Scripts. It's like I can't even spend gil before because if I do. I'm missing a weeks worth of items I can't ever get back.

[Sollux]

It's not just me is, have you seen all the people posting with problems they dislike. The Econamy being none existant. The caps on mats, The really gamebreaking stuff has been nothing but blanked.

1. It's impossible to please everyone all the time
2. The Economy is not nonexistent, Combat classes just have very little to gain from most Crafted items and that's removed a decent chunk of gil from the market. This is a big issue that affects a large portion of the community but it's something that simply cannot be solved in a hotfix. Things should hopefully change in 3.1.
3. Combat classes have dealt with caps on their progression since the very beginning, it's far from a new concept, it just isn't something we're used to for Crafting/Gathering. The only players affected by the Token caps at the moment are those who want to craft a ton of items in a week, and in my experience if they have the time/gil to craft more than 3 2-Stars a week they will find a way to do so; such as buying Tokens from others, or doing favors for them in exchange for the use of their Tokens, or outright buying the mats.

None of this is "gamebreaking", and even if they were they're still issues that cannot be solved with a simple hotfix. If major changes are made, they will (Most likely) be made in 3.1. It feels like you're trying very hard to troll, and if you aren't trolling and genuinely feel this way then I'm sorry for you. Either way, I'm tired of repeating myself.

[LongsunZhao]

Thats half the problem. The only thing I craft on a more common bases that came from Heavensward is anything below level 55. I don't attempt to make any of it because of the significant losses, when I can guarentee getting the armors though the tokens themselves. I try and get by on selling the Four Star foods such as Bacon Bread and Flint Caviar.

And none of this still alters the fact, that although things are difficult in game, were just expected to get on with it. I've never seen it so empty. Things are barely selling. So I have to spend most of my week gathering. I can't even cap Esoterics as I spend too much time on these red scripts. If I dont spend the time, I have to spend gil. It's an arkward system that is boring. It's ruining crafts. And were still in the absolute dark about everything going on.

People might think I'm trolling and fair enough. But I'm really worried that an Expansion I've paid for is about to erase one of the main reasons I play this game. The 5 months without any concrete answers doesn't exactly fill me with much confidence. I'm sorry if this offends people. But It's how I feel.

[Astral145]

I knew HW would be a re-skinned 2.0. But like any fare driven individual I thought I would give FFXIV HW a chance to see if the devs and content creator team would learn some lessons of what to do and not to do from 2.0. Sadly they haven't and all FFXIV is nothing but grind grind grind with too many weekly caps. I have played many rpgs, sub mmos and full blown mmos and by far FFXIV is one of the saddest mmo's I have encountered. Sure FFXIV has its moments but at its core its a snooze fest. This game out grows content way to fast. Even worse gear gets thrown away faster than we can actually fully gear 2 jobs with esos. I know that mmos and rpg's are a grind fest but at least they throw in more horizontal progression and allow you to enjoy the gear you grind for a little a while. Many other mmos also add in special traits that you can bind to gear for that extra push or something different in the job you are in.

Speaking of jobs they basically threw brd under the bus then put it back together by a No.Ob dev that honestly couldn't have cared less about BRD.

BLM was made more complicated for no reason at all. Granted the nukes are awesome to look at but its not fun to play anymore. If you lose enochium your screwed and having to worry about something as retarded as timers is just plain dumb which forces you to watch a stupid icon on a screen instead of enjoying the content you are running... bad form in any mmo. I know mnk has a timer but every 3rd move resets it and with all the new skills it has makes it quite easy to keep greace up and maintain it. But with BLM you have to worry about astral fire timer and enochium timer + how much time you have left to reset enochium with Bliz 3 + 4... its stupid and not needed. BLM already had to worry about mechanics and everything else like cast times to keep it's rotations smooth why couldn't they just left it at that?

DRG has it pretty good except for that stupid RNG procs... why do dis? Why not just make a 4th positional hit in each rotation? Sometimes I wonder if the devs were drunk that day and thought it would be a good idea to throw in more crappy rng in the game.

Speaking of rng mch is heavily depended on rng.... nothing like popping the same skill over and over till ogcd's and force proc skills come off cd. But other than that MCH is pretty good but wish it was more of a gunslinger job that another stupid hybrid wannabe support dps job.

DRK is damn good for a tank but honestly it would have been a better as a dps class.

War is just way to OP for its own good nothing like hitting a 5k to 9k crit.

PLD is ummm kinda sitting in the back waiting for some love by the devs....

AST had a bad start but its now standing toe to toe with all the other healer jobs out there.

SMN is well I don't know what the heck it is... The pets now just kind pew pew and nothing much else. No new skills for pets or new pets for smn. IT would have been nice to at least get a few glamour primal skins but no the devs just shrugged it off and just made SMN OP in the AOE department. Basically the devs said meh "here's a few new skills and a few QoL changes to bane now go play and leave us alone"...o.O?

The only jobs that really kept its core game play from 2.0 was mnk (QoL changes for Greece), drg, pld, war (with a huge buff), smn (huge aoe buff), nin and all healers... all the other jobs got a shiny new turd to play with....

So basically after weighing all the stuff FFXIV has to offer is basically nothing but big shiny alligan turds that get thrown at us by big alligan monkeys.

There are 3 things that keep me hooked on a game... Horzontal Progression meaning making gear last longer with really enhance traits to farm for to bind to gear, battle classes... I go by how fun they are to play and how deep the battle ground is... meaning you have to know elemental weaknesses for every mob and boss, allowing you to manipulated mechanics and turning the tides against the bosses you face by using there own mechanics to destroy them... ect. The last thing I look at is how rich the content is. Horizontal Progression falls in line with this as well and of course if can you make decisions that could alter the story somewhat.

FFXIV has some of this but overall its nothing more than a theme park mmo that honestly has no direction at all. The battle classes are a snooze and the battles we are in are boring... its the same ol bs mechanics with no real depth or strategy.

DPS checks are not real mechanics and 1 shot mechanics are not real mechanics.... What makes fights more interesting is learning what the bosses weaknesses are then planning an attack to destroy them. Elemental weakness shine on things like this and adds to the depth of what a mmo should be. BLM could have a lot more than what is now... seriously throwing fire bombs at ifrit is kinda dumb and made zero sense at all. I understand this is fantasy but a blend of reality and fantasy can make things a little more interesting.

Well sorry for the rant but over all FFXIV HW ranks about 3 out of 10 as far as creativity, battle classes, depth of battle play and strategy is concerned. Graphics are 8 out of 10 but that is all it really has going for it. Story is at best a 5 out of 10. It was too predictable and it had no real originality it was basically a rip off of other games and stories out there.

Anyways best of luck to you all out there.... I'll be dropping sub this month because I refuse to pay SE another dime till they get there business straight. They do not offer us a real Pay to Play mmo .

[Kabooa]

All the posts, positive and negative, on the forum don't even account for 1% of the active subscriptions.

Food for thought.

[Sollux]

Speaking of jobs they basically threw brd under the bus then put it back together by a No.Ob dev that honestly couldn't have cared less about BRD....

You DO know this is the Crafting forum, right?

[Silverbane]

You DO know this is the Crafting forum, right?

He may be just reading the "New" posts list, saw the title, and thought his post was appropriate for the thread.

That said, the post was probably no more inappropriate here than it would have been anywhere else ...