Feedback: Delete old content that no one does anymore to make room for new content

[Jeeqbit]

Their QA team consists of hundreds of people, so testing guildhests should be quick and easy relative to everything else.

People still do guildhests because meeting sprouts in them is extremely common. A lot of the time it is the very first multiplayer dungeon of any form that a sprout does.

Doing levequests is actually something you may find new players doing, even if nobody would recommend it. They are used as relic weapon steps and to spawn hunts so these would have to be adjusted.

[Tlamila]

Oh look, another troll bait thread. The saddest thing is that nowadays the whole forums activity is being driven by 2-3 trolls, instead of real threads.

[SaberMaxwell]

Yeah I wasn't tipped off to this one enough to check their profile because they weren't a white mage LVL 80 buut...

Wait how is that possible? Lv2 GLD, lv80 AST, nothing else besides crafters? How'd they get to Heavenward to unlock AST?

[TheMightyMollusk]

Wait how is that possible? Lv2 GLD, lv80 AST, nothing else besides crafters? How'd they get to Heavenward to unlock AST?

They did just enough quests to get the freedom to move around the city (the first couple of quests railroad you to the Adventurer's Guild and the aetheryte before they let you go where you want), then bought a story skip and a job boost.

[Fredco191]

Ok, I'm all for them deleting the forums.

Hell yeah!

[AleXwern]

Contrary to what OP said deleting content will make devs have even less time. You don't need to QA old content, and I really doubt SE even looks at it, but if you remove anything you absolutely need to make sure nothing references it and that there's no crashes or other undefined behavior because of deletion of some content. That is some real work and if any crashes happen because of it... well I wouldn't want to be the guy debugging it and I feel sorry for the guy who would have to.
Funfact: Nothing has ever been deleted from the game files. Even the old Tomestones are still there even though the oldest ones were phased out soon a decade ago. They are inaccessible but not removed.

Also this argument

They don't have to do QA on it and by deleting it, it gives them more memory to make new content.

The biggest memory hogger in anything is the graphics and the server side doesn't have them because why would it need them. It likely just has some binaries and scripts and the size of them is probably very minimal if you look at what's taking space. If you are concerned about memory point your finger at player data and I'm sure there's not much you can do to the size of that.

[HollowedDoll]

Har har very funny. It won't be so funny when it starts snowing and you're going around on the streets yelling that it's still fall when the leaves already fell off completely.

Because having snow in june means it's winter.

[Theodric]

I'd rather not see content removed from the game, personally.

Coincidentally I've also recently been polishing off some of the levequest achievements lately - so they're definitely still relevant.

[Kuroka]

I'm fairly certain they've long since stopped QAing guildhests (or most obsolete old content)... or interacting with them at all. Bringing any dev attention back to them would probably result in a net loss in time to make new things if they need to QA it's removal.

Also, that's not how memory works.

All BS aside... im not too sure about that here, ya know? After all they stated multiple times their memory for mount music is actually limited and bc of that we dont get too many different songs xD

[Quintessa]

Has no apparent impact on the devs ability to create new content. FFXI for example has A LOOOOOT of old content that no one has done in over a decade, but content is still being made for it today.

Ok, I'm all for them deleting the forums.

And the lodestone, since people use that as a stalking/tracking device.