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

[Noodle_Trinidad]

I'm honestly worried they're listening way too much to the small minority crying for XI-style torture.

Please lets not even blame FFXI here. Its been said way before Eureka even came out in Stormblood that it was their next attempt at Diadem and lo and behold its Diadem minus the gathering and FATES being turned into NMs or have we forgotten about Dinosaur Island? Its an issue with the fact that they can't accept that since its first iteration the Diadem style content has failed and they can't even iterate on it in a proper manner even though player feedback has given a good chunk of ideas to help spice things up in there. Only reason Eureka is more prominent this time around is because its Relic, had it not been for the system being tied to it we probably would have scapegoated something else besides FFXI for the lack of engaging and long lasting content that isn't dead once a new patch is out.

The game fails to offer anything worthwhile or worth grinding for any aspect. Neat glamours are shafted into the Cash Shop instead of being transferring into Crafter Recipes and they've yet to give them a reason to be worth anything outside of World First teams given how easily Tomestone armor eclipses crafted armor, though thats more an issue of the lack of build variety given how streamlined it is. Anything that you could grind or want will never hold any trophy value like most MMOs since it seems nothing is safe from being reused given the Zodiac Relics themselves were eventually reused. So what is a player to do if the grind isn't rewarding since if it holds any trophy value it'll eventually be given out like candy alongside all gear losing its stat value once a new iLvl drops?

[GenericMagus]

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?

OK, let me say this. Any content put into this game is avaliable to the player base to do. That's what the game sells itself on what you can do in game. If you only raid and dungeons and only battle content, more power to you and I'm glad you can find enjoyment in it. SE, while making broad content, still releases it with the intention of everyone being able to play it, even raiding as people come in and out of raiding. Just because you claim it'a "for different playstyles" isn't a defence against criticism. If it's bad, it's bad. No defence should excuse poor planning, GMs and mods actively hiding from people, SE being silent on it and just utter radio silence between the people who most likely spent literal DAYS waiting for this, for a 20 minute event that celebrates FFXIV and features re-used items from Legacy.

No content is exclusive to one playstyle, as it should be as FFXIV promotes a theme-park style of being able to do everything and get into anything easily. What you must remember is that this event is meant for EVERYONE, a celebration of 5 years of FFXIV and a thank you to the playerbase and its fans. With how terrible the event is, it's a massive letdown and a disgrace not only to the people playing, but to the game itself because of SEs bad decision after bad decision in this patch.

The only attention I want is the attention to SEs actions and why 4.3 is a disaster of a patch as a whole, and they should be held accountable, not swept under the rug because take my word as it is now, things will only get worse with silence and quiet acceptance of this. No more companion app rip offs please, no more terrible Pagos, no more ineffective and copy-paste content.

[Moogly]

Perhaps it's a cross promotion with Blizzard. They just really, really want people to check out Battle for Azeroth.

Well people who got bored of farming light in Pagos, will instead go farm azerite/rng loot in WoW.

I rather keep farming light lol (got my war main to 120 and quickly got fed up during the heroics farming process - unsubbed, again)

Oh, and about OP, odd since I didn't have any of the problems he's mentionning : even ran that rising instance twice in a row.
I was in a Pagos, and at 5 PM we had a server message saying the Rising event had started. I went there immediately after my Pagos run and npc was there.

[Usho]

The game has become medicore at best these days imo. The game's dev team needs a better director. One who won't hold the game back anymore. I think Yoshi-Pees IS the second calamity. Soon as he came on board and made the repetitve formula, the slow decline began. The game died more imo when they made Jump Potions for the game. Yeah, that brought new people, but it also brought stupid people along for the ride, who use those potions, start at lvl 60, TEN LEVELS below the current maximum level and play jobs they have no experience on.





Seriously who doesn't know how to use their damn tank stances at level 70? Fail. SE has turned Mogstation into QVC or HSN (home shopping network), with the cute little shopping cart for all your fantasias and ugly carbuncle mounts and $7 emotes that should've been a in game reward. >_>


I already stated in mult-threads how I feel about Eureka so I won't mention that trainwreck here. I'm just saying, the game needs new life. It's so stuck up it's own as* that it doesn't see how stupid the current state of the game is. Companion apps? Kupo nut currency? WTF is this? Bitcoin?? *facepalm*


I'm looking forward to the next FF MMO, hopefully one without Yoshi-Pseses running the ship.




/2 cents

[Stanelis]

The game has become medicore at best these days imo. The game's dev team needs a better director. One who won't hold the game back anymore. I think Yoshi-Pees IS the second calamity. Soon as he came on board and made the repetitve formula, the slow decline began. The game died more imo when they made Jump Potions for the game. Yeah, that brought new people, but it also brought stupid people along for the ride, who use those potions, start at lvl 60, TEN LEVELS below the current maximum level and play jobs they have no experience on.

I m fairly confident SE games have been designed by their marketing teams for a while now. FFXIV would have been far worse without Yoshida, but a single man can only do so much in the face of corporate greed and mediocrity.

[Liam_Harper]

Well people who got bored of farming light in Pagos, will instead go farm azerite/rng loot in WoW.

I rather keep farming light lol (got my war main to 120 and quickly got fed up during the heroics farming process - unsubbed, again)

Aye, got tired of that too, but does make you notice something over here.

Dungeons in ff14 are almost dead. The gear is rubbish. The tomes aren't necessary at the moment and other sources give far more. There's no other good loot or replay value. The relic has been moved away from dungeons entirely.

I can't remember the last time I ran a dungeon tbh. There's no reason to. Which is a shame, they can be fun and look amazing and are definitely more engaging than hit 2000 training dummies in a big field.

[Theodric]

The original Pharos Sirius and Amdapor Keep were wonderful. I do wish we'd go back to the days where dungeon content was tougher.

[Omegaher0]

The original Pharos Sirius and Amdapor Keep were wonderful. I do wish we'd go back to the days where dungeon content was tougher.

So do I. The dungeons were fun, but not INSANELY tough. It also meant people were playing the normal content more. Now, mostly everyone is in Eureka grinding, just to be able to get into the next area for more grinding. And sadly, I don't have time for that. It takes me about an hour and a half to two hours gain a lvl right now (I'm elemental lvl 7). Most of my FC is already far higher than me so they can't help me. There are hardly any parties on, either, due to the times that I play (late at night). And the fact that the later areas require a party to go nonstop killing for hours at a time just murders the small amount of enthusiasm I had for the content. Which means, there's really not much else for me (I can't do the savage raids due to anxiety).

It makes me sad that the way the game is going. I'm sorry if I made anyone mad with my post.

[TheGrimace]

Dungeons are my favorite content in the game, so it disappoints me that SE has shifted away from their creation and importance.

[Adventica6]

Just because a fate wont pop or an npc won't spawn doesn't mean they don't want you to play, it means they want you to question your life choices.