Ishgard restoration missed opportunity.

[Gula]

Swing and a miss - just like NG+. Was looking forward to both of these features when they were announced - and both have failed miserably.

*stares at the literally dozens if not hundreds of gatherers and crafters condensed in Ishgard/HW areas*

Uhh. Maybe Masamune is just low pop? Cause there's been nonstop level up animations on my screen to cause a seizure. I want to know what you think a success is if this is a failure.

They shouldnt do this as a "server effort" thing, what about the ppl who work 8 hours/day and got only 2-3h to play on weekdays(if they lucky). I just resubbed after 3 months to check the new things, honestly i didnt expect much from this ishgard thing and still disappointed.

I got 2 jobs, one being full time. Sounds like a you issue with how you prioritize time and XIV as a whole.

[SenorPatty]

I got 2 jobs, one being full time. Sounds like a you issue with how you prioritize time and XIV as a whole.

So basically he should plop his butt down the minute he gets home from work, forego any housesold chore/activity and game ff14 till the wee hours just to feel like he contributed an "event" that, might I add, gets involvement from other servers?

I mean, I get the point you're trying make here, and we could all start one upping each other with how many jobs we got but cmon, let's not pretend like the restoration was well implemented enough to warrant the idea that "y'all got reasonable time to do it".

[Nalien]

So basically he should plop his butt down the minute he gets home from work, forego any housesold chore/activity and game ff14 till the wee hours just to feel like he contributed an "event" that, might I add, gets involvement from other servers?

What exactly is stopping people from contributing to the event, though? All you potentially miss out on is the FATE and minor upgrades to the zones aesthetic which you can see when you get home, so unless you cannot play for days at a time you're not likely to miss out on much (if you do, well there are plenty of comparison screenshots kicking around now). Anyone can still contribute the same way as everyone else by crafting and turning in items... If people aren't doing that, because of limited play time... Well that is on them honestly... They've made a choice to prioritize other content over this... Nothing is stopping them from getting home and deciding to craft towards this, only themselves and their desire to do something else... If that's really a problem, can I complain that I haven't cleared Deep Dungeons? I've never put effort into do them, but that's just because I'd rather do other content. If I choose to I can still go and do them though, just like if I choose to I can craft some crap for Ishgard and turn it in to contribute... If I don't see the zone upgrade directly... So what? Most players probably completely missed out on Revenant's Tolls transformation over the patches, but I don't see anyone complaining about that. End of the day you can still walk into the Firmament and likely see it upgraded compared to your last visit, and know you helped to contribute to that if you actually traded some items in to earn the Scrips for whatever rewards you wanted...

If it's a Doman Enclave style progression cutscene people are worried about missing, rest assured you've missed nothing. There isn't anything like that. You finish the FATE, your screen flashes, then you turn around and notice a pile of bricks has moved. There's no fanfare, no NPCs thanking you for rebuilding their house single handed. The closest thing resembling any of that is the flavour text on the notice board, which we can all read whenever we want...

I get the disappointment behind missing something like this, but it's such a minor thing that I really don't think it's worth getting worked up over and labeling the content as a failure... They set up the Ishgard Reconstruction like this, rather than like the Doman Enclave, because they wanted to provide a world event. It's a success in that regard (and the regard that plenty of people are participating, leveling crafts they otherwise wouldn't have touched, providing a fairly low cost set of recipes to practice with, etc.), and for everyone who doesn't want a world event like this there are plenty who do want such an event. It's nice to actually have a part of the game feel somewhat alive, rather than just a series of static instances that only change when I, the protagonist, walks in. This is an MMO after all, sometimes the developers are going to create content that caters to one subsection of players over another.