Feeling Underwhelmed with 3.4

[Balipu]

Underwhelming? Sure I mean we only advance 5 questlines(Main, Hildi, Scholasticate, Anima, Warring Triad), get four pieces of pve group content (Xelphatol, Gubal Hard, Sophia, Alex), get more pvp features, triple the current ammount of PoD floors, a new reason to redo old content, and squadrons.

Here's a tip OP. Never play wow. Ever. Blizzard places half this ammount behind time gates, calls it an expansion and asks money for it. Funny thing is, lots of people are satisfied with it. I'm sorry 3.4 is not to your likingl. Truly.

[Laurima]

Content not even here yet and disappointed, underwhelmed.

WOW...

Give it a chance.

[RubyCirha]

I'm pretty excited for most of it and we shouldn't have to wait to long for the 3.45 for relics and other things probably like 2 weeks or so like all the other patches

[Lufir]

Content not even here yet and disappointed, underwhelmed.

WOW...

Give it a chance.

The thing about FFXIV is that we are offered patch updates with all too predictable content. We know that we are getting A B and C every even or odd patch. Is that bad? Not necessarily. This current method of how they release patches assures their playerbase on what to expect in the forthcoming months. However, this starts to become very monotonous and well, too predictable. If I take a break in 3.4 and return for 3.5, more likely then not, I wouldn't be asking myself: "Hmm what's new in FFXIV." It would be more along the lines of: "How does the final Shadows of Mhach raid look?" Because, you know, we already know purposes of the 3.1, 3.3, and 3.5.


The purpose of my post is not to display disappointment towards the content I have yet to play. I've no doubt Alexander will be fun, the story will be amazing, and the Primal will be awesome for a month or so. Rather, I am underwhelmed because of the same old song and dance of "new features" being added that are actually becoming passed off or masked as new content. In other words, ask yourself this: Is a relic weapon actually new content if you have to constantly grind previous patched dungeons and raids? Is a new pop-up-book-UI-thingy actually new content if said NPC sends you to clear old Coil and (more) dungeons for rewards?

[Lufir]

The new dungeons, trials and the raid look great to me. Main scenario expansion is always good for me (as long as there aren't too many meaningless fetch quests).

Squadrons are basically dead to me because I don't find retainers interesting. I'll use them if they give me nice stuff. Ignore if that isn't the case.

Diadem could be interesting, or it could be a massive failure. 235 gear doesn't sound promising, lol.

The biggest things aside from the actual content, imo, are the Nocturnal Astrologian+Card changes and the Egi Glamours. If the Egi Glamours aren't in the patch, well, that's one less thing I have to look forward to. =|

I am really looking forward to the main scenario. It definitely looks exciting. To be honest, it doesn't seem like Egi glamours were even mentioned or addressed at all. And ugh Diadem...it has such great potential but the execution is just sad.

[Lufir]

Here's a tip OP. Never play wow. Ever. Blizzard places half this ammount behind time gates, calls it an expansion and asks money for it. Funny thing is, lots of people are satisfied with it. I'm sorry 3.4 is not to your likingl. Truly.

Funny thing is I played WoW until Cataclysm. From what I hear, people had very mixed feelings about Mists of Pandaria, while Warlords of Draenor(sp?) was a complete disaster and nothing short of single patch of content. Although, I have a friend who currently plays Legion and says it is very fun and redeeming of Blizzard's past screw-ups. All that aside, I want to be excited with new content, instead of the same predictable routine. Remember when Ninja was released? Amazing huh? I'm not asking for a new job, though. Just something fresh that breaks their (and our) routine.

[RLofOBFL]

Yoshi has like 20 people on his team.


Give.
Him.
A.
Break.


He is giving us everything he can.

[ToniRomo]

That looks like a lot of fun stuff to keep me entertained for awhile.

[Vantol]

Yoshi has like 20 people on his team.

That's not true. Games of this scale usually have 300-400 people working on it (excluding server maintance people, support and others, with them number should be around 700-800). And I don't understand how it takes 3 months for, let's say, 100-150 people to develop 2 dungeons, 1 trial and 4 raid bosses and another 100 people and 3 months to develop same-old mechanics with new colors.

That is the reason why people complain and aren't satisfied.

[AlexanderThorolund]

I feel like people will complain no matter what.

Agreed. Threads like this are getting really boring.