Where is all the content?

[Shibi]

It does need to be taken into account that one world is not one server - it's probably at least 6 servers containing quite specific components and might be several servers more than that in truth.

Yoshi said in the last live letter a world was made up of "tens of servers"

We did get a picture of the OCE datacentre too showing its maybe 5 or 6 worlds.



Edit: I think the 6 cabinets furthest from us might be the worlds (35 servers each), the closest three might be some of the instance servers shared for the datacentre. There are more off camera too.

[Xavier_Firbold]

Thank you for that giggle, I needed that xD

[Saraide]

Zones
Ultima Thule is the smallest zone we have EVER had based on walkable terrain. Labyrinthos is also tiny compared to the likes of Heavenswards areas or even Stormblood. The Ruby sea? All zones in EW have at LEAST half of the area available to explore. The Mare Lamentorum was hailed as a completely new world for us to explore and yet it's as big as both areas of Uldah put together.

While most of the complaints look like to be over rather minor things blown way out of proportion and story being up to taste of course, this take about zones is just straight up bad. Size does not equal quality and the old giant areas with basically nothing of worth in it were terrible. Ruby sea is the worst offender at that, as a majority of the large open space in it doesnt even have fates happening. It's just water. There is no reason for ruby sea, western coerthas and dravanian hinterlands to be as large as they are.

[xxmiamorecadenza]

No one is forcing you to play. You are free to exit and do something else.

I’m going to be honest. But it seems like every time someone criticizes this game in particular they’re told to quit it outright and play something else.

Are we just not allowed to state our issues with a product without being told to get out?

[Kes13a]

Indeed, nobody is forcing us to play, however we are paying for a service and therefore have the opportunity to either congratulate or complain.

If you're in a restaurant and the food comes through half cooked or wrong, do you complain? For me it's the same principle, if you're paying for a service you have the right to comment about said service.

To take this away from a patron is nothing short of censure.

if I am at a restaurant, and the food is half cooked or wrong, unlike you, I dont feel the need to create a scene and complain... I just leave. some people like to create a scene and drama, and others, simply cant be bothered if expectations arent met. life is too short to spend it whining. just move on. life is much happier that way.

no one is taking away your ability to whine about things you dislike. but its a little entitled to take it as a "right" to complain, since thats only a one way street (unless you subscribe to WoW who feels its their right to complain about the subscribers right back)

[RdehlikaJenma]

1. New gearsets include: Level 73 and 75 dungeon sets, 570/580/590 tomestone gear, 19 unique job sets for combat, 15 new sets for tradecraft classes. Add to that, what, a four new weapon sets from dungeons, from one of the EX trials, Savage Raid, and two from tomestones. not to mention at least 13 new 'weapons' for tradecrafts. - Nice try.

2. Hell of a lot of new, fantastic OSTs, as well, what's your point here? Not enough music composed by Soken WHILE HE HAD CANCER?!

3. Ultima Thule is also remnants of shattered worlds, maybe the reason it's the 'smallest one based on walkable terrain' is for thematic/story reasons? Labyrinthos, again, could well be that size because it's literally an over-sized storage facility, while Mare Lamentorum is both a prison, and spacecraft, it's not a 'whole new world' it's a satellite. A satellite which is FAR larger than Ul'dah The comparison to Ruby Sea is laughable too, as it has about as much walkable train as Ultima Thule.

4. There have been TWO examples of voice acting in raids, beyond combat lines: The final two Coils raids, due to wrapping up the story of the Calamity, and Eden because... give Gaia a voice? I'm not sure why. The lac of raid voice acting is the norm, not a deviation from the norm.

5. Something, something lack of purchasable parts and raw materials needed to build servers, combined with an unprecedented exodus to FFXIV from WoW after highly popular streamers started playing, followed by the Blizzard lawsuit scandal driving more players over

On top of this, none of what you have complained about in the OP is CONTENT aside from the zones, which you are intentionally misrepresenting. So, to answer your title's question: Look around. The raids, EX trials, new dungeons, the new treasure dungeon.... about the same amount of content as Shadowbringers. Plus everything before Endwalker you haven't done.


6.

Elidibus states that we would be unable to communicate and affect things because of our intangible form. We also don't affect anything, we tell our story, and Venat acts.

Why not warn us about Meteion? Because Zodiark was keeping the Song of Oblivion at bay. There was also the fact that if Hydaelyn had told us outright, what could we have done? How would we have got to Ultima Thule? The moon was too big to reach the speeds needed. What guarantee was there that we were strong enough to stop Meteion before we killed Zodiark? Before we went to Elpis? There was none. The only way Hydaelyn could know if we were strong enough is if we had gone to Elpis. At that point, we had killed Zodiark, and Venat knew that we had done so before our jaunt to Elpis, considering we told her. For us to have gone to Elpis, we had to have killed Zodiark, had to have proven ourselves through that specific feat, our fight against her was the final test, not the first.

For someone who claims to adore this game, you have a LOT of nitpicking of things that... well, aren't true. Funny, that.

[OhNooo]

As of writing this they've just released a stripper pole on the MogStation... Really?

LMFAO this has me dead omg

[xxmiamorecadenza]

if I am at a restaurant, and the food is half cooked or wrong, unlike you, I dont feel the need to create a scene and complain... I just leave. some people like to create a scene and drama, and others, simply cant be bothered if expectations arent met. life is too short to spend it whining. just move on. life is much happier that way.

no one is taking away your ability to whine about things you dislike. but its a little entitled to take it as a "right" to complain, since thats only a one way street (unless you subscribe to WoW who feels its their right to complain about the subscribers right back)

Isn’t criticism what caused 1.0 to be rebuilt from the ground up? The phrase ‘the developers are listening’ is often praised and if a game developer outright said ‘If you don’t like it than leave’ - they’d likely be hit with bad PR in response.

[Johaandr]

I feel the zonez from SB, shb and ew are made for Giants…. I wish they coulf make some stuff bit smaller

[Kaurhz]

SNIP.

[1] I don't think your opinion, nor the opinion of a couple of people on Reddit or the forums constituting as 'most people' - Besides the precedent has always been the case that the first tier of crafted is a reuse, practically the case since Heavensward. If you actually bothered to look at the items you'd notice they have some differences. Personally, I had them pegged on reusing Ivalician raid gear, not PvP gear. This point for me just reeks of complaining about recycled assets because you didn't like the asset they recycled. Much like many others have done. Ohh buuhuu, they recycled Ktiseos from Shadowless (Oh, but it's ok if they reuse Woad - Wink wink)

[2/4]If you also did your research you'd realise the certain theme in a certain expert dungeon is not a reuse, but the primals remix, something actually befitting the theme of the dungeon. You'd also realise that themes in raids has never been a sure thing either. Some of them using 1, some using multiple. Was never an established standard to begin with. Neither was the voice acting for raids. Shameful, sure? But an established standard? No. Besides, I would argue the story of this expansion has the most voice acted cutscenes of any previous expansion. Disappointed or let down by the lack of voice acting in the raid story, sure? But a content cut? LOL

[3] I'm glad we've managed to reduce ourselves to complaining about walkability, despite it arguably being one of the best and most well designed areas we've had in a long time. All I need to do is compare Radz-at-Han and Old Sharlayan to the abysmal likes of Idyllshire, or Rhalgrs Reach. Not that I necessarily disagree, but if you're going to make a point don't be selective about your data points, but use them fairly. But I get it they should design their areas around walkability and not quality. - if we want to reuse your point about the restaurant, the presentation and quality of your dish matters just as much as the size of it.

[5] Great, another armchair network/server engineer.

Budget constraints will have been established long before launch of the expansion, and in their initial development of the expansion. I don't think anyone really foresaw this level of player growth, and nor is budget you can simply change on a whim.

[6]I don't necessarily disagree about the story but the whole point of warning us sooner is a complaint for the sake of it. Regardless of when we were warned there's very little we could do about it in the first place, given we already had to contend with the empire, and the Ascians - I doubt they're going to listen to Hydaelyn or lay off their schemes whilst we get whisked off into another stage of the universe. Besides, they probably didn't even have the inception of the direction for the story until long after the events of ARR/HW.