How is anyone fine with the 4-month patch delivery schedule?

[SturmChurro]

shows what you know. i can switch between the racial hairstyles available for this particular face at the Aesthetician, and i did just that to switch to a hairstyle that has less clipping.

Oh, so you like the new hrothgar hairs then?

Might be the only good point you've made so far.
i wish people were angrier about how terrible the new Hrothgar Hairstyles are.

Terrible? What do you mean?

[Jason_Ashford]

Might be the only good point you've made so far.
i wish people were angrier about how terrible the new Hrothgar Hairstyles are.

have you somehow missed the 2 threads complaining about it with hundreds of pages?

[Jason_Ashford]

Oh, so you like the new hrothgar hairs then?

Terrible? What do you mean?

funny how when you dont actually have anything to say to respond to the actual topic of this thread, you throw that in my face in an attempt to.. what exactly? to scare me into being quiet? lmfao

[SturmChurro]

funny how when you dont actually have anything to say to respond to the actual topic of this thread

(..) but I suppose nobody actually read my post to begin with

Again.....

(...) I want there to be lasting content with a nice reward structure that can keep me wanting to stay subbed between patches, beyond keeping my house or posting on the forums. Literally, something as little as the game having more quality glamours, mounts, or general collectibles - like for the adventure plate. Just having something to work towards would go a long way to helping alleviate this issue. Things could be added to more achievements for example. (...)

(...) I do not believe a game like this needs to become predatory for player retention, and often times that has the opposite effect.



I don't think a player should have to play another game. (...) I even made it a point to explain that it doesn't need to be predatory. I gave examples of collectibles, as somebody can do that at their own leisure. I think having more reasons to want to stay subbed, and playing during patch lulls would be a step in the right direction for this game.

[MintnHoney]

that's your own personal problem, you felt for their scheme.

First of all, it's "fell." Not necessarily trying to be a grammar nazi, but the phrase is entirely different if you interchange the words, and, in case English isn't your first language, it would be better not to keep the confusion going.
Secondly, why are you ok with a "scheme" in the first place? For a b2p game that forces a subscription payment system as well? That makes it sound like you want predatory practices.

erm, am i the only one who remembers that Yoshi-P explicitly told the community to take breaks from the game to avoid burnout?

This isn't about burnout, the issue is that the content doesn't last.
Also, see above.

[EagleDynamics]

What are players who aren't going to do Ultimate do for four months in 6.1?

1. Do the alliance raid, which probably takes 1-2 hours to complete on day 1.

2. Do the Tataru and Hildebrand quests which take 2 hours judging by previous instances.

3. Do the new extreme trial which takes like 2-4 hours to clear.

4. Waste 5 mins every day on beast tribes, and waste 3 mins every week on custom delivery.

Congratulations that's all you have for 4 months. $60 in subscription fees. That's even less than what you get from the typical AAA single player title.

With this little content they should be accelerating patch delivery, not slowing it down.

tbh i haven't really paid attention to the rate which they delivered patches. to me its ok for now but i'm also a very casual player and i unsub when i finish what a patch has to offer.

[Midareyukki]

we have plenty of content. they just don't make content that forces you to participate for the entire 4 months between patches. so sorry that, that doesn't adhere to your standards of what an MMO should do, but the majority of players are fine with it.

The majority of Hrothgar players is NOT okay with the new hairstyles and considers the ability to only be able to change to the hairstyle that shares our face low-effort and the bare minimum. It's clear that you yourself are alright with it, but just like how you're accusing others of not being fine with the game, you yourself are among the minority that's alright with what we got. You're the one who chooses to settle for less.

[Voidedge_Ragna]

Maybe a bit of a horizontal progress would help the game, but it might be to late for that at this point. The game suffers from the idea that content dies so incredibly fast. And honestly who could be blamed, who wants to run Eden now? Omega? Alexander? etc

SE needs to get their adventure maps out faster, they can help the content draught we suffer at time. Eureka and Bozja kept players busy and offered a grind to those that wanted to do it.

If those were dished out at 6.1 it would defiantly help ... 6.1 at this point is gonna be really ... stale and long.

[Ransu]

You keep insisting this yet I've already listed what the current patch has to offer and that I, specifically, have already done everything. For the sake of review, we have:

MSQ
Endsinger
Unreal
Agiaga
Role Quests
Crafting
PvP

Of those six things listed, I have completed every single one except PvP over just a two week span. And I'm only not done with PvP because I didn't initially bother with it but have since given it a whirl. I didn't rush through the content. None of it has any staying power except PvP as it's all primarily one and done. Endsinger's only longevity comes from if you care to farm her mount. Everything else is weekly restricted and/or over within an hour or two. So what exactly is this content I don't want to do? 6.15 isn't offering a bevy of longevity either. Like I said previously, it's several one and done quest chains. I have no doubt some will be cool, especially hildibrand, but they're over within the hour.

Before you mention jobs previous things like jobs. I have nearly every job leveled to 90. I've only held back on some so I have something to level when Deep Dungeon drops. I have every Crafter and Gather max and fully pentamelded. With the new gear to boot. I've done the role quests. I've done a good portion of the side quests. I have both Hydaelyn and Zodiark's mounts. In fact, I spammed the later nearly 100 times. I've BiS all my tanks, DRG, SMN and am only missing the weapon on RPR and RDM. And all this while taking that break to play other games. So no, I'm not 24/7-ing FFXIV. Nor am I opting not to do content that isn't available. Outside DRU, which I'm currently progging, there isn't anything to do unless you consider grinding 10,000 FATEs for the achievement good content.

And it isn't like I'm expecting something new to do daily. I'd be fine with some meaningful grinds to keep me occupied. How about the relic? Why are we waiting an entire year for one of the few pieces of longevity content to be released? If it came out earlier, that would help satiate a lot of players. I'll go one better and say let the damn thing equal the Savage weapons. Make the steps worthwhile to do. "The raiders will complain!" Very few give a damn at this point. I cleared P4S week two and couldn't give a hoot if week 400, the relic matches my weapon. Just make it something decent and fun to do and not a free poetic dump.

Sounds like a you problem and you should quit the game. You'd be doing us a favor.

[IdowhatIwant]

Sounds like a you problem and you should quit the game. You'd be doing us a favor.

How would them quitting be doing everyone a favor?