4.1 - The emptiest patch yet.

[Krotoan]

so in other words, we are all here just complaining for fun when nothing going to be done by the dev.

.. that's a weird way to take it.

More like people are voicing their opinions on what they like/dislike about the patch and likely since this has 70 pages SOMEONE on the team has read it. But replying to it in any official capacity would be a bad idea. State your grievances/praise and move on is the idea here.

[NovaLevossida]

Usually X.1 patches are extensions to the main expansions that precedes them. In 4.1 we will get things which didn't make it in time for 4.0 like the housing area. What really concerns me is that 4.1 follows the same formula as previous X.1 patches adding stuff we already expected. When Yoshi said he will reduce the number of dungeons from 2 to 1 every odd numbered patch it was because they wanted to add another type of content we never had before. 4.1 doesn't add anything "new" except the usual expected stuff. I guess Eureka should be this type of content but it didn't make it in time.

Honestly, it's getting tiresome with all these delays. Odd-numbered patches aren't exciting things to begin with, and when you get to the point where you're getting delayed things that should have been in 4.0 and seeing 4.1 stuff pushed back to 4.2, that just makes it worse.

[Elfidan]

Problems with updates after 2.X:
1.) Content is always cutscene, cutscene, fight, cutscene, to be continued.
2.) Rewards are always "grind to get this set you will have to throw away before you get to use more than a few times".
3.) Things have settled into a rut of "don't stray from the proven formula!".

[Aldotsk]

Could have added more than 12 wards with this empty patch really.

If they had time to add relocation system and swimming.

[Lambdafish]

Problems with updates after 2.X:
1.) Content is always cutscene, cutscene, fight, cutscene, to be continued.
2.) Rewards are always "grind to get this set you will have to throw away before you get to use more than a few times".
3.) Things have settled into a rut of "don't stray from the proven formula!".

2.x was the most formulaic expansion, HW brought feast, PotD, aquapolis, diadem, LoV, and more

[Krotoan]

Could have added more than 12 wards with this empty patch really.

If they had time to add relocation system and swimming.

How does that follow?
They had the new systems developed and tested and ready to implement.. so this means they have the extra bandwidth and server capacity for more wards?

[Rita1989]

2.x was the most formulaic expansion, HW brought feast, PotD, aquapolis, diadem, LoV, and more

2.x was not an expansion but rather an extension of the relaunching of the game so almost everything was new content...

[Aldotsk]

How does that follow?
They had the new systems developed and tested and ready to implement.. so this means they have the extra bandwidth and server capacity for more wards?

If they have been earning that much money for the past 4 years plus few months of new expansion increasing players... then it should be possible to add more server for housing and get extra bandwidth.

[Felis]

2.x was not an expansion but rather an extension of the relaunching of the game so almost everything was new content...

It was also not an extension, but a rebuild.

[Elfidan]

I think what Rita is referring to is the fact that many characters ,and story elements were kept even if the engine was rebuilt from the ground. There was a time in 2.X where you got to use your gear and weapons on challenges rather than replacing it on the first or second run Lamb, also everything you named ended up being a cobbled remake or failure save for PotD. They are putting this expansions relic into a Diadem like zone supposedly , and lord knows I hope it isn't hot garbage but we'll have to wait and see.