Playerbase Mood

[Dzian]

1. Where do you come from to XIV? Play WoW, FFXI, GuildWars, ESO?

Various MMO's namely XI though. 2002-2010 certainly the longest time I spent playing one (quit when they released abbyssea,) everything else I played was dropped in 2-3 months.

2. Do you like how the game currently progresses?

Nope. The progression is so fast that gear and rewards hold no value. There's no real sense of accomplishment in getting it. Nor any real reason to aim for stuff just grab whatever has the highest I level and go.. No point making the effort to tweak stats when all your work will be junk next month.. even titles and things are worthless because end up being easy to get any of them so no prestige or value.

3. Do you want it to stay that way? If no, what changes would you make?

3. Sense of worth. Getting a piece of gear should feel good for more than 30 seconds. Should last a lot longer to..

If that were the case You'd probably see a lot more players invest in it. they might meld the stuff they get cos it won't be tossed in a month. Or they might try harder content to get those better secondary stats or something. Where as now players just don't care. Which i270 piece is the easiest. Oh look that shire has lol parry but it's 270 and it'll be replaced in no time so who cares..

It's kinda weird personally seeing as the game is designed around gear but the gear doesn't hold value or feel satisfying to get. so what the game deems the reward to be isn't actually rewarding (Excluding glamor)

Its also wierd when many players will put in 10 or 20 times more effort into getting a drop because it'd be good glamour or something than they do about getting a drop because it's actually better.

Players will also spend an eternity farming an ex primal for a bird that is exactly the same as every other mount. But they won't ever touch a raid that offers a better piece of gear or an improvement to there stats..

Players will also spend 10s of millions of gil on glamour items like the cashmere ponchos and stuff. But won't spend a 100k on melding there gear cos it's a waste of money when it'll be tossed next month.

Gear needs to last longer and actually feel valuable..

Sometimes I feel we're in a paradox (We as in my friends and I at least). I think the games ok but isn't great. I only really play it because my friends do..
Yet many of those friends also say the games ok isn't that great but they only really play it cos we do..