State of the Game prior to Liveletter

[Mimilu]

Oy bad! BAD! NOT IN PUBLIC!

WHAT?! I'm just saying what we're all thinking! (ꐦ ಠ皿ಠ )

[Vahlnir]

WHAT?! I'm just saying what we're all thinking! (ꐦ ಠ皿ಠ )

[Mimilu]

Your water bottles can't hide what's inside! >:v

[Ryaze]

Rez makes extremes easier and no rez made BA harder.

Extremes aren't hard and don't need rezzing in the first place. No rez made BA punishing. BA isn't and never was hard.

Do you expect enough new content to give you a brand new experience 365 days a year? Armies of developers would struggle to achieve that. That's how many work on a lot of AAA games. Unless you find something to do such as mount collecting or RP, the only way to get a year's worth of content is to play other games as well.

No I expect there to be some form of new, replayable interesting content that is released sooner than 11 months after expansion launch. Based on ShB patch trends and the 6.15 timetable, that's when 6.25 will release. 11 months after EW launched. Waiting nearly a year after a game launches to get expansion content. In what universe is that acceptable for both a AAA studio or a subscription based MMO. Try playing another MMO and see the type of content that is released and when. These are dungeons. A single dungeon with what is likely going to be slight differences in difficulty. We used to get several dungeons per patch. SB saw entire field zones starting with 4.2, on top of dungeons.

New content types from the patches of an expansion are advertised in the marketing for the expansion. It's always been like this. When content was not staggered over smaller patches, it overwhelmed players and forced them to prioritize, then created a patch lull that didn't need to exist if content was staggered.

Stop being a shill. It never overwhelmed the player base. People enjoyed having relics to do at ARR launch. In fact the playerbase complained in SB that Anemos came out in 4.2 instead of 4.1, as well as in ShB when the first relic step was a gimmie instead of repeatable content.

Not everyone has done them. A lot of newer players asked for the old fights to be made relevant again so they could enjoy them. You don't have to do them and you can buy the rewards off the market board instead.

Then they can MiNe them. That's the nature of MMOs. You miss out. Nothing is ever quite the same as when it releases. I don't care about the stupid Faux leaves rewards. Old content that an intern can upscale to current level isn't content, it's a joke.

The island looks massive and I think they were implying that we will slowly gain access to more of it over the expansion.

The island looks smaller than Anemos. SB saw 4 distinct field instances. Island Sanctuary will have the main release and 2 updates. How is that good in relation to what we used to got in the past? Why settle for less?

[Adamantini]

I was going to make a post about how much SE has stopped worrying about details, but seeing how much fanboys defend SE, regardless of whether it's wrong or not, I prefer not to waste my time.

[DiaDeem]

A: HOW DARE YOU LIKE AND DEFFEND THE GAME, SHILL!!!1
B: HOW DARE YOU CRITICIZE THE GAME, HATER!!!1

You guys...

[Kaurhz]

I was going to make a post about how much SE has stopped worrying about details, but seeing how much fanboys defend SE, regardless of whether it's wrong or not, I prefer not to waste my time.

Yet you elected to waste your time regardless by posting this monologue, designed at part to garner some likes.

What people need to realize is that any statement or opinion, especially one made on a forum can and is always subjected to being targeted by contrasting views and opinions. This in the modern age is a difference of opinion.

and you just proved my point =)

You don't even know what I had to say on the matter, and you've already raised a shield.

No, I stated that an opinion made on a forum is always subjected to one that contrasts from your own -- I don't think this creates the implication of whether I agree or disagree with whatever viewpoint you may have, but good try regardless. Continue wasting your time like you said you wouldn't.

[Adamantini]

Yet you elected to waste your time regardless by posting this monologue, designed at part to garner some likes.

What people need to realize is that any statement or opinion, especially one made on a forum can and is always subjected to being targeted by contrasting views and opinions. This in the modern age is a difference of opinion.

and you just proved my point =)

You don't even know what I had to say on the matter, and you've already raised a shield.

No, I stated that an opinion made on a forum is always subjected to one that contrasts from your own, but good try regardless. Continue wasting your time like you said you wouldn't.

and keeps proving my point, now acting aggressively hauhuahuahuahuahuahua

[Striker44]

Extremes aren't hard and don't need rezzing in the first place. No rez made BA punishing. BA isn't and never was hard.



No I expect there to be some form of new, replayable interesting content that is released sooner than 11 months after expansion launch. Based on ShB patch trends and the 6.15 timetable, that's when 6.25 will release. 11 months after EW launched. Waiting nearly a year after a game launches to get expansion content. In what universe is that acceptable for both a AAA studio or a subscription based MMO. Try playing another MMO and see the type of content that is released and when. These are dungeons. A single dungeon with what is likely going to be slight differences in difficulty. We used to get several dungeons per patch. SB saw entire field zones starting with 4.2, on top of dungeons.



Stop being a shill. It never overwhelmed the player base. People enjoyed having relics to do at ARR launch. In fact the playerbase complained in SB that Anemos came out in 4.2 instead of 4.1, as well as in ShB when the first relic step was a gimmie instead of repeatable content.



Then they can MiNe them. That's the nature of MMOs. You miss out. Nothing is ever quite the same as when it releases. I don't care about the stupid Faux leaves rewards. Old content that an intern can upscale to current level isn't content, it's a joke.



The island looks smaller than Anemos. SB saw 4 distinct field instances. Island Sanctuary will have the main release and 2 updates. How is that good in relation to what we used to got in the past? Why settle for less?

Oh, please stop claiming to speak for other people. Personally? I felt the content release schedule was fine. I have a full-time career. I play maybe an hour or so a day, and I take my time enjoying all the sights. And new content has already come out since EW launched. In the meantime, you're more than welcome to unsub while waiting if you finish the content quickly and get bored. Heck, the dev team even encourages you to do that. FFXIV isn't meant to be a daily chore. Kick back and relax a bit, eh?

[akunsa]

As a healer main, and someone whose been playing astro a lot this expansion, seeing them push back the changes onto DRG & AST just made me worry so much. Im praying they just bring back sleevedraw from SHB. Honestly, I almost don't want them to touch anything on astro specifically until they start giving us healers a "real rotation" like we want.