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[Lambdafish]

Nobody has actually answered the question, and while I feel like I have things I can still do (raiding sometimes, levelling other jobs, and sometimes even attempting to actually get my nexus), the game has become quite stale in my eyes, this thread has just become a personal attack on the OP who has the right to express a concern over the content that he is subscribed to.

My answer is that I am personally really looking forward to the floating island and lord of verminion content, which are not behind gates and I hope that these pieces of content see longevity and will actually last more than a few patches unlike the hunt (which could have, but SE decided not to, in fact they decided to make HW hunts irrelevant less than 4 weeks after release, gj guys )

[Caimie_Tsukino]

Nobody has actually answered the question, and while I feel like I have things I can still do (raiding sometimes, levelling other jobs, and sometimes even attempting to actually get my nexus), the game has become quite stale in my eyes, this thread has just become a personal attack on the OP who has the right to express a concern over the content that he is subscribed to.

My answer is that I am personally really looking forward to the floating island and lord of verminion content, which are not behind gates and I hope that these pieces of content see longevity and will actually last more than a few patches unlike the hunt (which could have, but SE decided not to, in fact they decided to make HW hunts irrelevant less than 4 weeks after release, gj guys )

New contents like LoV are always welcomed, but they really need to fix the CORE problems. Otherwise, the game gets stale again within 2 weeks of new content release.

Not to mention, every new mini game will have bugs, problems, exploits, issues that worth ranting about. Introducing new content is more like a "diversion" that takes players' attention away from the real issues, rather than facing the real problems themselves. But this diversion in the end, just creates even more problems, and thus even more things for the developers to resolve. Look at Triple Triad! People are still ranting about the drop rate of rare cards being too low! The RNG just sucks there... people can win over an NPC like 80 times, and still not getting the drop they want.

People are not subscribing for the mini games like Triple Triad or LoV. The dev needs to focus more on making the primary contents more interesting (like raids... people are really bored with Alex & Alex S), fixing the balance, improving the stale economy, release the gates for 2 star crafting, bring in new recipes, make specialization more useful, etc.

[Lambdafish]

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I actually completely agree with you, I was just throwing LoV out there as something that we are getting that we can look forward to. In my eyes the game completely lacks Midcore content, which is a shame because it used to be quite good at it, during 2.0 the midcore content was finish your zenith and beat the HM primals, which was great preparation for coil, and was enough (for 3 months) for the masses to do as "difficult" (titan) content. My main issue is that bismark and ravana didn't last 4 weeks, let alone 5 months, had they been viable content for the duration of the patch, things would have been fine.

A suggestion I have is to dramatically increase the amount of valued "non gear upgrade" rewards to keep content relevant. add minions, mounts, titles, or idk, something crazy like housing items to the primals, to coil, to CT, anything that adds longevity to these pieces of content and makes more relevant content without making more content. Kirin was great because it made all ex primals from 2.1-2.4 relevant content again, and players actively participated in this old content and made 2.5's 5 month patch cycle a lot easier for me, its even gotten to the point where people might be running 2.x Ex primals more than HW Ex primals, which is a hilarious, and rather sad thought