Feeling Underwhelmed with 3.4

[SendohJin]

And I think that before you make people do something, you should make the content actually good.

You and everyone else, that's easier said than done. That's limited by development resources and deadlines.

It's better to have good content with bad rewards than to have bad content with good rewards.

Neither of those are better, they are both bad for different reasons.

[MomomiMomi]

You and everyone else, that's easier said than done. That's limited by development resources and deadlines.

Development resource that are being poured into rehashing old content. Hence... this thread.

[SendohJin]

Development resource that are being poured into rehashing old content. Hence... this thread.

What exactly do you want them to stop making? New Primal trials? New Savage Raids? New Expert dungeons? New Storyline?

[MomomiMomi]

What exactly do you want them to stop making? New Primal trials? New Savage Raids? New Expert dungeons? New Storyline?

If I had to pick one of those, the dungeons. Reduce to one dungeon and stop moving dungeons out of expert roulette.

[SendohJin]

If I had to pick one of those, the dungeons.

They already did that, that's why they cut down from 3 expert dungeons to 2 in 3.0 so the resources for that could go into stuff like making Aquapolis, PotD and Diadem. You want to cut that down even more? And you know one of them is basically always part of the storyline anyway.

[MomomiMomi]

They already did that, that's why they cut down from 3 expert dungeons to 2 in 3.0 so the resources for that could go into stuff like making Aquapolis, PotD and Diadem. You want to cut that down even more? And you know one of them is basically always part of the storyline anyway.

If something has to be removed, yes, it should be something that's just a duplicate anyway. And like I said in my edit, they should stop getting rid of them from expert roulette. We shouldn't be limited to two dungeons in a single roulette.

Ideally though, the solution is to hire, or train, more staff. Their team being too small is not a valid excuse, and I'm amazed at how many people simply accept it. Sure, we can't do much about it, but doesn't mean we should defend them for having a small team.

But whatever. As long as they continue as they are now, I play this game less with every patch, and that's not such a bad thing. So I do agree with you on one thing: I should (and do) be playing something else. I only sub one month per patch now, and I was actually considering skipping this patch.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

If something has to be removed, yes, it should be something that's just a duplicate anyway. And like I said in my edit, they should stop getting rid of them from expert roulette. We shouldn't be limited to two dungeons in a single roulette.

Ideally though, the solution is to hire, or train, more staff. Their team being too small is not a valid excuse, and I'm amazed at how many people simply accept it. Sure, we can't do much about it, but doesn't mean we should defend them for having a small team.

But whatever. As long as they continue as they are now, I play this game less with every patch, and that's not such a bad thing. So I do agree with you on one thing: I should (and do) be playing something else. I only sub one month per patch now, and I was actually considering skipping this patch.

This is a Square Enix problem. We can complain all we fancy, but if even Yoshi hasn't gotten them to bolster the team, our choices boil down to either play the game as is or move on to something else. Making forum posts isn't going to suddenly change SE' stance. They don't care.

Reducing dungeons down to one would only increase the sense of repetition. I do agree they should do away with Expert Roulette. But only one new dungeon every three months means we're more likely to see Neverreap or Antitower than the actual new dungeon. I suppose the better question is what exactly do you want them to replace it with or add?