Bozja is extremely disappointing (especially the 5.45 update)

[Lauront]

When the community posts threads such as "Is Lyse ugly?" then I see why they might not listen to all of western players demands... They do listen, but they also do their own thing as any development team does.

What do you think the noise:sound ratio is like on Reddit or Twitter by comparison? In the end, it is their forum, one which they moderate this way, although I find the example you cite to be a rather odd one. Hardly the most egregious of content. His point is they'd get better quality feedback if they acted so as to clean up their own forum and actually engaged with the community here more.

Reddit in particular is a joke with its downvote system and how easily it's abused. They can't control Reddit or Twitter but they can do so here.

[StriderShinryu]

Yeah, guess this means I not only won't bother trying to further my relic weapons, won't bother trying to get the ones I don't have yet, and won't bother even starting the next ones in the next expansion. No point in caring about the content and then having the rug pulled out from under me once I'm half way through.

And the biggest middle finger of them all to me personally? Essentially locking a new hair style people have been wanting for literal years beyond a random drop at the end of content people won't even be running in a couple of weeks time. Just buy it on the Market you say? Yeah, not when it's going to cost more than a House, assuming you can even find any listed (and that goes for both the House and the hair style).

[Lauront]

@the OP I agree. There's elements of Bozja I like (the story is pretty good so far), and they did improve on some aspects of Eureka but the overall experience to me so far has been worse. I also liked each of the Eureka zones better. At least I like the relic (BLM) and the new armours, I guess.

[Steviejd]

What do you think the noise:sound ratio is like on Reddit or Twitter by comparison? In the end, it is their forum, one which they moderate this way, although I find the example you cite to be a rather odd one. Hardly the most egregious of content. His point is they'd get better quality feedback if they acted so as to clean up their own forum and actually engaged with the community here more.

Reddit in particular is a joke with its downvote system and how easily it's abused. They can't control Reddit or Twitter but they can do so here.

So you think a sexist thread is hardly egregious? I thought this was a decent community, seems things have changed as this game has gotten more popular. Why would they want to engage with a community that calls them arrogant or having a big ego?



Edit: Actually never mind I'm done. I shouldn't have returned to this forum and certainly shouldn't have posted anything.

[Lauront]

So you think a sexist thread is hardly egregious? I thought this was a decent community, seems things have changed as this game has gotten more popular. Why would they want to engage with a community that calls them arrogant or having a big ego?

Yes, I think it's hardly egregious in the grand scheme of things. I can very easily point to worse on either of Reddit or Twitter. If a little bit of humour in poor taste is an excuse for SE not to engage with its own fanbase, they need to grow thicker skin and also get their moderation staff to do a better job if it bothers them. I'd also say it's dubious to call it "sexist" per se.

Any developer hiding from their fanbase because of some rotten elements in it is going to lose sight of otherwise valuable feedback. Especially if they begin only consulting echo chambers, and particularly ones that can bury dissenting opinions through downvote systems, which are not reflective of community opinion at large but just the sensitivities of anyone reading a thread at any given time.

[OvernightSiren]

Some people legitimately enjoy Eureka and have been actively enjoying Bozja. I had a lot of fun with Bozja and the Castrum instance. It was fun going in with a group of 8 and managing to more or less save 4/6 of the prisoners with our 8 players while getting the masses to go do the other two.

I'm looking forward to seeing the new stuff whenever I get home from work and can actually play for a bit.

Just because you don't like something doesn't mean there aren't people who do enjoy it.

I guess you didn't actually read my post--I enjoy Eureka. Bozja is missing all the parts that made Eureka good. It's JUST fates.

[TheMightyMollusk]

Bozja is in no way remotely better than Eureka. It is lesser than Eureka in every single way. No future proofing, no accomplishment for ranking up, etc.

On the other hand, no Pagos.

[Rymi64]

Bozja is in no way remotely better than Eureka. It is lesser than Eureka in every single way. No future proofing, no accomplishment for ranking up, etc.

It's future proof in the sense that it's shb leveling content and it has npcs that help you in the skirmishes and has stuff like mounts and hairs that you can only get there.

[Liam_Harper]

The fate balance in Eureka also worked--NMs scaled with the number of people in a zone. Meanwhile I haven't the faintest clue what the balance in Bozja is based on, because some fates take wayyy too long to die while others die in an instant and there doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason.

There's a system to it, although a fairly bad one. Bozja is divided into 3 sections and FATEs in each section scale to the number of players in that respective section. You can see the idea behind it to make sure new players aren't stuck, but the theory is way off. The majority are obviously doing FATEs. A Fate spawns North and most of the instance goes there. During this, another FATE spawns mid, checks for the number of players and sees a low number because they're all North, so it scales low. 2 minutes later 50 people come down from the North to do the mid FATE, which is scaled to pathetic weak and it gets zerged in 30 seconds.

[SohkyonAyhan]

I did an Alliance Raid and got one there but this just encourages bad behaviour as people will do an Alliance Raid Roulette and leave if not teh right one.

I wonder how much of an impact memory farming will have on Alliance Raids overall--on the one hand, there is already a problem with people dropping out of the longer alliance raids (did an Ivalice raid recently where a healer and two dps dropped as soon as they saw which it was). On the other hand, now people have a reason to specifically queue for something other than the CT raids, which means Alliance Roulettes will hopefully have a bit more of variety, and it'll be easier to pop queue for the Mhach and Ivalice raids.