Why is "It's something to do" apparently a valid defense?

[Madjames]

I know I for one would stop complaining if


1. They took out the stupid raid timer and added 10-15 bosses in ONE raid instance like Vanilla, BC, Wotlk, Cata, and MoP in wow with trash included that can drop rare stuff or even mounts. The raids in this game are one hit wonder loot bosses, more like primals. The raiding isnt even raiding. Give me back my raids. Most hardcore friends of mine REFUSE to play this game because sadly, your one hit wonder primal boss fights are not raids and they refuse to play a game like that.

2. They stopped limiting us into the ground just so we are forced to buy extra retainers. I am paying a subscription. I should be allowed to mail my alts, transfer as much gil as I want between them and have twice as much space per character as I have now without paying extra. This is the ONLY subscription based game where we MUST pay extra for extra space.

3. Take out the HQ crafting requirements from the relic. This relic should be obtainable with TIME invested only. If you are going to force those of us who refuse to run your so called raids into having to use crafters to get high end gear then you had better start requiring all of the hardcore raiders to do so as well. Make their weapons and armor start requiring HQ specialty crafting only items to get said weapon or armor and see how they like it. If you are unwilling to do that SE then STOP punishing one playstyle and not the others.


You do that and I guarantee you that this game will become the new wow.

[DPZ2]

They took out the stupid raid timer ...
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3. Take out the HQ crafting requirements from the relic....

A few comments as a follow up:

1. Rare items and/or mounts did not start popping up from raids for quite some time. I do like the fact that if you are 20 levels higher than older raids you can almost solo them now. As for raid timers -- for most of WoW's raids, there was a weekly timeout for repetition -- you could only kill a boss once for loot over the week.

2. With two retainers, I have more bag space available than for the first 5 years I played WoW, starting in Burning Crusade. Every F2P game out there charges for more bag space in one way or another, even the ones that have subscriptions [personal knowledge after purchasing inventory space in SWTOR two weeks ago, while subscribed to the game]. I'd prefer having 4 of the 8 retainers be free though.

3. The original relic required HQ crafting AND melding of materia. It wouldn't bother me at all if they ditch such requirements for 3.x. Just be aware that for many expansions, all raiders in WoW HAD to have some crafting skill to make higher-end gear or add gems with stats [Blacksmith Bracers come to mind] in order to raid 'correctly'. It's not an idea limited to FFXIV.

The grass may look greener, but that's generally just a trick of the light.