Lack of content on patch release

[Miyafuji]

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As Magic mentioned: Namazu beast tribes aren't something you can do for a long time, 3 quests per day taking minimal time and effort. Sure it's good for levelling crafters but what about for those with crafters maxxed out?

QoL is nice, glamour dresser is still terrible.

Dungeons have been the same as they were in ARR there's been literally no variation except for Bardam's mettle's 2nd boss. Again, we've had this reduced from 3 dungeons per patch to 1 providing us no variation.
Also your argument about Eureka is somewhat invalid with the upcoming Eureka requiring lvl 20 to be able to enter as far as I'm aware, so best get grinding! (There's also nothing to do in the current Eureka once lvl 20)

Just seems like they want to drag out the content of the patch over as long a period of time as possible to keep people subscribed, just like with the housing.

As someone who's played games which truly lack content in a bad way I can never understand these complaints.

Well thought out discussion thanks for the input, glad you're content with having little to do.

[Jojoya]

Well thought out discussion thanks for the input, glad you're content with having little to do.

There's plenty to do. There's just little you personally want to do.

I don't own SB and yet I still have plenty to do when I log in. Beast Tribe quests, leves and FATES for leveling my alt jobs. The Hunt for seals to buy ventures or Aetheryte tickets. Treasure Hunts trying to get those rare crafting materials that only come out of the treasure chests. Gold Saucer. Gathering and crafting. Gardening. Redecorating house/apt/FC room when I feel the desire or when friends ask me to decorate their houses for them. I don't touch PvP and PotD or I'd have even more to do.

Content doesn't grow on trees. It does take time and effort to create. If you only want new content to do, you're always going to end up disappointed.

[Asiragan]

I won't talk about WoW Legion, since I haven't played it enough to have a solid opinion of it.

However this is a fact that S.E. decided to delay content so that players stay in the game, and this is really not a good thing. This is purely an artificial increase of the lifespan of the patch.

But what's really bothering me, is that they are treating players more and more like kids who can't behave themselves.

Gear with interesting stats or skills? : "To complex, players won't get it"
Parsers? : "They are to immatures, they will fight if we let them have this"
Full patch on release? : "They will just rush it. We need to let them do the patch at the speed we want".

Now, I do not know the average age of the player-base, but I will take a wild guess and say that the large majority of us are mature enough to gauge how much we want to play at a game. To spread the patch like that is just ridiculous.

There's plenty to do. There's just little you personally want to do.

I don't own SB and yet I still have plenty to do when I log in. Beast Tribe quests, leves and FATES for leveling my alt jobs. The Hunt for seals to buy ventures or Aetheryte tickets. Treasure Hunts trying to get those rare crafting materials that only come out of the treasure chests. Gold Saucer. Gathering and crafting. Gardening. Redecorating house/apt/FC room when I feel the desire or when friends ask me to decorate their houses for them. I don't touch PvP and PotD or I'd have even more to do.

Content doesn't grow on trees. It does take time and effort to create. If you only want new content to do, you're always going to end up disappointed.

I used to think like that too, but after 3 years on repeat mode, and seeing that patchs get thinner and thinner or just spread out, I started to burn-out on this. I just hope that 5.0 will shake things up enough so that you don't end up feeling the same way.

[Remedi]

I used to think like that too, but after 3 years on repeat mode, and seeing that patchs get thinner and thinner or just spread out, I started to burn-out on this. I just hope that 5.0 will shake things up enough so that you don't end up feeling the same way.

Don't take offense, but you are simply setting up yourself for disappointement

[Asiragan]

They could release all the content that will ever be in Stormblood, at the expansions release, and in a week people will complain about nothing to do.

If this is the case, either the complainants are trolls or the developers have to seriously rethink the design of the game as this would not be appropriate for an MMO.

Don't take offense, but you are simply setting up yourself for disappointement

You are most certainly right. But one can dream.

If people like it this way, good for them. As for me, I don't think I could go on doing the exact same thing for another expansion.

[Miyafuji]

There's plenty to do. There's just little you personally want to do.

Content doesn't grow on trees. It does take time and effort to create. If you only want new content to do, you're always going to end up disappointed.

You misunderstand as well, as I responded prior I'm talking about this latest patch not the game itself. The game has plenty of content for people who haven't been playing for years. While this patch has been released with nothing but weekly content that takes approx 1-3hours per week to complete, as well as the fact that they've locked the actual content people want in the 4.3x patches. Did you even read the topic?

And honestly? There's very little I haven't done in the game at this point and the thing I mainly wanted to do I now feel the need to wait because of HoH coming out sometime in the next 2 months.