We Really Need To Talk About The State And Path Of FFXIV

[Magic-Mal]

Why not both? Give us maps full of stuff to do for all those that want this and also give us more dungeons, better raid bosses and more. Its not like they would need to only do one of them. I mean they somehow put all the work into perform which is also something probably only a small part of the community really deeply uses. Yet they have done so.

Also if we argue about only doing it once: Why should they even care about a good story? Players only do it once right?

And I think the key to "one-time" content is that the experience itself needs to actually last. Make the content simple but engaging. The issue with the devs is that they try WAY too hard to make some complex new mini-game with a bunch of mechanics then doesn't even make it fun or give it any kind of reward incentive. And after they release it they basically abandon the game to make a new one instead of expanding it.

If they made a simple open-world activity like catching pets or races they could make a ton of them every patch.

Catching minions? They already have the models, they just need to put them in the world and copy/paste the programming for each one(theoretically).

Same for races.

[Alleo]

And I think the key to "one-time" content is that the experience itself needs to actually last. Make the content simple but engaging. The issue with the devs is that they try WAY too hard to make some complex new mini-game with a bunch of mechanics then doesn't even make it fun or give it any kind of reward incentive. And after they release it they basically abandon the game to make a new one instead of expanding it.

Sadly that seems the way they go. ^^; Inventing the wheel new into something way too complicated. For example dyeing your chocobo or even LoV (People just wanted something like Pokemon). Honestly right now I feel that they would do something like catching minions on maps and make it into something complicated with three layers of RNG.

[Magic-Mal]

Sadly that seems the way they go. ^^; Inventing the wheel new into something way too complicated. For example dyeing your chocobo or even LoV (People just wanted something like Pokemon). Honestly right now I feel that they would do something like catching minions on maps and make it into something complicated with three layers of RNG.

I can see it now...

New Feature Added: Animal Catching!
> Minion animals will now be able to be found and captured within the open world with the use of the new Capure Net tool!
> A total of 10 minion animals can appear on the maps of Stormblood.
*Players must have completed the quest "Stormblood"
*Players must be a Level 70 Disciple of Land job
*Minions caught will be unsellable and untradable
*Minions caught once cannot be caught again
*The Catpure Net cannot be used while mounted
*The Capture Net cannot be used while diving or swimming

> Players will be able to keep minions they catch and house them in their own estates!
*Estates can house a max of 2 pets
*Apartments cannot house pets
*Pets can only be placed by the owner of the private estate or Free Company Estate

> More animals will be added over time.

[Lubu_Mykono]

I can see it now...

New Feature Added: Animal Catching!
> Minion animals will now be able to be found and captured within the open world with the use of the new Capure Net tool!
> A total of 10 minion animals can appear on the maps of Stormblood.
*Players must have completed the quest "Stormblood"
*Players must be a Level 70 Disciple of Land job
*Minions caught will be unsellable and untradable
*Minions caught once cannot be caught again
*The Catpure Net cannot be used while mounted
*The Capture Net cannot be used while diving or swimming

> Players will be able to keep minions they catch and house them in their own estates!
*Estates can house a max of 2 pets
*Apartments cannot house pets
*Pets can only be placed by the owner of the private estate or Free Company Estate

> More animals will be added over time.

Nintendo might sue.

[WhyAmIHere]

Nintendo might sue.

Nintendo does not and cannot copyright the notion of taking monsters and capturing them to use in combat.

[Magic-Mal]

Nintendo does not and cannot copyright the notion of taking monsters and capturing them to use in combat.

I was thinking more of the MHW endemic life capture system xD. Don't know where Nintendo came from.

[Alleo]

I can see it now...

Thats still way too harmless. Hmmm...you need a certain (specialist) crafted item to try to capture it and one part of it only drops in Pagos in certain chest that has a drop rate under 0,1 %. The other one can be found in Diadem 2.0 because we want to keep the content alive. After you crafted it you can only use it once and the pet itself has only a capture rate of under 10%. Also it has a certain time and weather condition to spawn and if its spawns you need to wait a random amount of time to try and capture it...also this is not a pet that only spawns for the person but is catchable by everyone. Happy (toxic) hunting.

Community reaction: That is too complicated and not fun.

Devs: See we do exactly like they asked us to do and they still complain.

x) It may be a bit over the top but I honestly can start to see them doing something like that..

[Aster_E]

Community reaction: That is too complicated and not fun.

Devs: See we do exactly like they asked us to do and they still complain.

Oh, it hurts... So poignant @_@

[Magic-Mal]

Thats still way too harmless. Hmmm...you need a certain (specialist) crafted item to try to capture it and one part of it only drops in Pagos in certain chest that has a drop rate under 0,1 %. The other one can be found in Diadem 2.0 because we want to keep the content alive. After you crafted it you can only use it once and the pet itself has only a capture rate of under 10%. Also it has a certain time and weather condition to spawn and if its spawns you need to wait a random amount of time to try and capture it...also this is not a pet that only spawns for the person but is catchable by everyone. Happy (toxic) hunting.

Community reaction: That is too complicated and not fun.

Devs: See we do exactly like they asked us to do and they still complain.

x) It may be a bit over the top but I honestly can start to see them doing something like that..

You forgot one part! Obligatory: You can only catch a maximum of 2 pets per week.

[ko_]

Thats still way too harmless. Hmmm...you need a certain (specialist) crafted item to try to capture it and one part of it only drops in Pagos in certain chest that has a drop rate under 0,1 %. The other one can be found in Diadem 2.0 because we want to keep the content alive. After you crafted it you can only use it once and the pet itself has only a capture rate of under 10%. Also it has a certain time and weather condition to spawn and if its spawns you need to wait a random amount of time to try and capture it...also this is not a pet that only spawns for the person but is catchable by everyone. Happy (toxic) hunting.

Community reaction: That is too complicated and not fun.

Devs: See we do exactly like they asked us to do and they still complain.

x) It may be a bit over the top but I honestly can start to see them doing something like that..

To be honest. I bet the devs say that NOW! With diffculty, with raiding, and with euerka. I can see them saying that already. " but you wanted things to be easier, and wanted FF11 systems in XIV." :c