So has SE confirmed they don't want us playing the game?

[Iscah]

And for those of us who have alts it will be near impossible to do the event on all of them. Hard enough with just one character.

Are your alts all on the same data centre? Mine are, and the event was active at the same time for all three. Plus I saw people from other worlds in the same data centre. So it's quite likely that if you see it's available on one world, it will also be available on the others, and there is plenty of time to complete it for multiple characters within the three-hour period.

[Krojack]

With the release of Pagos and how the only way to really get anywhere in it is to grind monsters till your hands fall off, and FATEs that take forever to spawn, so much grind content in one patch and with the release of the Rising and an instance that's never spawning, have they confirmed that they don't want us to even play the game?

Like I been here waiting for 8 hours in total and I still haven't even seen the Rising recruiter. I think SE is subtly pushing they don't want us here anymore. Great content SE 10/10, give whoever made this a promotion. Truly a great representation of 1.0 and possibly a second calamity. Will you release A Realm Re-Reborn next?

Sounds like your system was broken. I saw the NPC at 1am last night. Just checked and he's still there.

[worldofneil]

Sounds like your system was broken. I saw the NPC at 1am last night. Just checked and he's still there.

Yours has probably gone and since come back. Omega's NPC was also around similar times to what you've just said, but was missing for the entire daytime in between.

[Aerlana]

Feels like they did this too avoid overwhelming amounts of people doing the instance all at once.

I did rename this expansion to "FFXIV : congestion" Raubahn Xtrem, short time pipin Xtrem, DF Xtrem on the monday. Some congestion (short again) for omega deltascape unlocking, again some raubahn Xtrem, Housing Xtrem, mobile-app congestion.
Congestion everywhere.
So probably right, they cant manage to have enough control on their own servers, so they find cheap way.

BUT THIS ONE get kind of stupid if this is it :
When he spawns, discords / general chat will say and everyone will rush in.



Probably Dev team dont know what to do to be original... simply

[Liam_Harper]

Personally I think it's a bad case of "Developer Vision". Blizzard did it when they created WoD or made the decision to remove flying completely for good and it was catastrophic for their sub numbers until they went back on all their bad ideas. The famous "you think you want it, but you don't" quote.

Basically Yoshi had a vision for Pagos (and perhaps other content). This nice vision of complex content that would engage us for months and have the whole community working together, discovering NM spawn methods, most efficient grinds, most efficient exp gains, grouping together and helping each other out and feeling satisfied when we finally earned the end result. Sounded great in his head.

Sadly, like some ideas, it didn't work out in practice, certain aspects were overlooked and certain ideas were bad and it was a mess. This happens in game development. However, Yoshi, so throughly invested in this idea and its wonderful vision and having poured many development resources into it has latched onto his ideas. He possibly feels it's our fault for not seeing the content for what it is, for being slow or impatient and not discovering how truly great it is. He maybe feels "if I just wait a bit longer, they'll learn to love it, they'll see it properly". In the end he's almost forcing the idea on us. He can't let go of it and concede after coming this far.

This has happened with several games and has never ended well. Hopefully Enix realize this before doing a lot of harm to their own game.

[Claviusnex]

Personally I think it's a bad case of "Developer Vision". Blizzard did it when they created WoD or made the decision to remove flying completely for good and it was catastrophic for their sub numbers until they went back on all their bad ideas. The famous "you think you want it, but you don't" quote.

Basically Yoshi had a vision for Pagos (and perhaps other content). This nice vision of complex content that would engage us for months and have the whole community working together, discovering NM spawn methods, most efficient grinds, most efficient exp gains, grouping together and helping each other out and feeling satisfied when we finally earned the end result. Sounded great in his head.

Sadly, like some ideas, it didn't work out in practice, certain aspects were overlooked and certain ideas were bad and it was a mess. This happens in game development. However, Yoshi, so throughly invested in this idea and its wonderful vision and having poured many development resources into it has latched onto his ideas. He possibly feels it's our fault for not seeing the content for what it is, for being slow or impatient and not discovering how truly great it is. He maybe feels "if I just wait a bit longer, they'll learn to love it, they'll see it properly". In the end he's almost forcing the idea on us. He can't let go of it and concede after coming this far.

This has happened with several games and has never ended well. Hopefully Enix realize this before doing a lot of harm to their own game.

I think this is also the thought behind the housing fiasco such that it becomes a face saving reaction rather than what is best for the game.

[Hestzhyen]

Japanesse and French translations that some people posted yesterday. Said the recruiter has an irregular spawn time, the recruiter did not show up here on Lamia until late last night and I have not been on too see if its still up. Feels like they did this too avoid overwhelming amounts of people doing the instance all at once.

That's fine and all, but I have a pretty irregular work schedule myself and often work 60 hours or more every week. XIV advertises itself as casual, but waiting for irregular/random spawns is not when the spawn window is in excess of like 10 hours. Do I have to pray I get lucky in the 5 hours I'll get to do the event this week?

If I wanted to play XI it's still there for me to sub and log into. And please, SE, get rid of this "players want the worst of old MMOs" nonsense. Most of us want to play a modern game that's learned from what players really didn't like in the past.

[Astral145]

LOL this is hilarious... starting quests has the npc saying thank you for playing the game and cant believe its been 5 years....bla bla bla.... then the npc goes on about how they are looking forward to creating more content for years to come........ then afterwards there is no npc to continue the event.... lol it must be April 1st.... This game is going to crap...

[Seddrinth]

With the release of Pagos and how the only way to really get anywhere in it is to grind monsters till your hands fall off, and FATEs that take forever to spawn, so much grind content in one patch and with the release of the Rising and an instance that's never spawning, have they confirmed that they don't want us to even play the game?

Like I been here waiting for 8 hours in total and I still haven't even seen the Rising recruiter. I think SE is subtly pushing they don't want us here anymore. Great content SE 10/10, give whoever made this a promotion. Truly a great representation of 1.0 and possibly a second calamity. Will you release A Realm Re-Reborn next?

If that aspect of the game doesn't interest you then you can always play other part of the game. SE is trying to provide content for different playstyles. You are not obligated to do something you don't enjoy. I only do dungeons, raids, and trials. I don't do anything else in game because it's a game and I only do what I feel is fun. You seem melodramatic saying SE doesn't want you here. Are you just looking for attention?

[Hestzhyen]

If that aspect of the game doesn't interest you then you can always play other part of the game. SE is trying to provide content for different playstyles. You are not obligated to do something you don't enjoy. I only do dungeons, raids, and trials. I don't do anything else in game because it's a game and I only do what I feel is fun. You seem melodramatic saying SE doesn't want you here. Are you just looking for attention?

The Rising is an event meant for everyone, to show thanks to all the players. Doesn't matter what you play the game for -crafting, roleplaying, raiding, or social fun- you can participate.

If SE expects people not to do this for the same reason they don't expect people to to EX/Savage/Crafting/Hunts, then... what the heck are they thinking? And do they think unexpected random spawn timers are a fun way to get players chatting and engaged with each other? Sure we're talking more, but it's out of frustration and confusion more than anything else. Between this and Eureka I'm honestly worried they're listening way too much to the small minority crying for XI-style torture.