Anyone else just feeling really disapointed this expansion?*vent*

[magitekLuna]

To the point of SE "miss the timeing for the content" . The people say they are not miss the point. Take what we get in 6.25,why it's so late when it need to be content that relevant at the start of the expression not mid of it. Same for the new deap dungeon, why it's in 6.3/4 and don't 6.1 . It's things like this that are a problem.

[Carin-Eri]

I have mixed feelings about Endwalker to be honest. Overall, I loved it - but that doesn't mean I can't see the flaws/issues, which have been much discussed already over several threads, in the story.

However, looking past the post-playthrough discussion/hindsight/reflection, the question I always ask myself is: Did I enjoy when I played it? And yes - I did. At the time I played through Endwalker I absolutely loved it.

[VelKallor]

What about the new set of NA servers constantly getting delayed

Right now, the entire world, which isnt just America tbh, is still reeling from major issues with chipset shortages and semiconductor production problems. COVID brought those to a slam stop, and it will take time to regain headway, staffing REMAINS a major problem worldwide.

Optimistic projections say maybe first quarter 2023 to get up to even a modicum of speed, clearing the backlog and rebalancing the HUGE supply vs demand chaos?

Deloitte says mid 2023 , my gut call says close to last quarter 2023. I also have to note that what is being produced is going to things that are far more important..like the TCAS systems for airliners.

What do they do?

They make sure that aircraft a and aircraft b dont meet by accident at 35000 feet

Patience.

[kaynide]

To the point of SE "miss the timeing for the content" . The people say they are not miss the point. Take what we get in 6.25,why it's so late when it need to be content that relevant at the start of the expression not mid of it. Same for the new deap dungeon, why it's in 6.3/4 and don't 6.1 . It's things like this that are a problem.

You can't have everything given at the start of the "post expansion period". The entire point is to keep people playing with new/fresh things to do over the year+ between expansions.

Palace of the Dead was released in 3.35
Heaven-on-High was released in 4.35

Why are you surprised the 6.x deep dungeon would be anything but 6.35?

[Wolwosh]

What I find most disappointing this expansion is the community tbh, mostly pf.
I want to join a Sephiroth Unreal party they make the req ilvl 615 for some reason, so I can't join.
You write 2 kills for Sephi and after 1 kill half your group leaves screwing over the rest..
I want to do the new Ex as a Sage but the group already has a SCH i'm not welcome either, even though its a great combo.
I'm seeing so many groups not fill because they desperately don't want 2 different ranged or whatever even though there is next to no DPS check..
The community is turning into a big meme and i'm not a big fan of it.
Haha PLD/MCH are bad reddit says? lets exclude them from joining our group then.

[ASkellington]

EW has just been so thoroughly meh to me, it doesn’t feel like FFXIV 6.0 it feel likes ShB 2.0 and I didn’t terribly care for ShB outside of its story either considering it gutted how much content we got per patch, homogenised they jobs like nobodies business

Thiiiiiis right here. I'm not disappointed with EW. I'm disappointed with Shb. EW is just an expanded Shb in terms of battle content to me. Not in how much we're getting per say, but the quality. 7.0 is likely going to make or break it for me. Especially with the AST "rework" coming.

[Supersnow845]

What I find most disappointing this expansion is the community tbh, mostly pf.
I want to join a Sephiroth Unreal party they make the req ilvl 615 for some reason, so I can't join.
You write 2 kills for Sephi and after 1 kill half your group leaves screwing over the rest..
I want to do the new Ex as a Sage but the group already has a SCH i'm not welcome either, even though its a great combo.
I'm seeing so many groups not fill because they desperately don't want 2 different ranged or whatever even though there is next to no DPS check..
The community is turning into a big meme and i'm not a big fan of it.
Haha PLD/MCH are bad reddit says? lets exclude them from joining our group then.

While I agree people need to learn that SCH/SGE is a great combo you can’t really blame the community when square does such a bad job of class balance, PLD/MCH/WAR/RDM were actually detriments in 8 week 1, sure still banning them is a meme but if square has the jobs so homogenised why are they still so badly balanced, same as the “healer split” what did it actually achieve other than people not liking SCH/SGE

[Johners]

The key focus of Endwalker 6.0 was finishing off the big story arc which you can clearly see in basically everything else being Shadowbringers 2.0 plus once you factor in the pandemic, it's super apparent what we're playing. This is going to be a big challenge for Square Enix going forward because unless they've got a big design overhaul for 7.0 (beyond just the graphics), they can't bait us with the big finale.


I moved over to FFXIV from WoW in early 2021 and while I've enjoyed it, now thatnthe honeymoon period is over there's clearly areas of concern. The story arc is done and while we're moving into the next one, there's no guarantees they'll hit the same stride. More importantly, there's clear issues with job design and a number of technical limitations they've shown no signs of actually fixing so everything gets designed around it. Island Sanctuary, for example, is a discount field operation masked as casual content with a mission table mechanic. All fairly standard stuff in XIV but it's kinda boring and I've not been back. Housing and the long requested glamour catalogue are also waiting proper fixes that Square Enix are probably aware of but have neither the budget nor time to deal with.


In a way, this is probably the ideal time to quit or at least scale back the investment into FFXIV if you're a long-term player, especially if you're feeling jaded with the development direction. This is something I wish I'd learned earlier in WoW after willing sitting through Warlords of Draenor and Battle for Azeroth before finally moving on after six weeks of Castle Nathria at the start of Shadowlands. That said, the issues were game design rather than technical limitations impacting what could be made and Blizzard typically have been good at modernising the underlying technology powering their MMO.


I don't really know what to feel about the rest of 6.x and heading into 7.0. On one hand I do still enjoy playing the game but I can see the concerns going forward and what SE are realistically going to do with their cash cow MMO. Likewise, Blizzard have seemingly pulled their head from their backsides and are actually listening with Dragonflight looking pretty promising. Not to mention there's the Riot Games MMO and if they nail that like they've done in the FPS and MOBA categories, it's going to be a huge title. Destiny 2, GTA Online and other "MMO-lite" stuff is still pretty good as well.

[Wolwosh]

While I agree people need to learn that SCH/SGE is a great combo you can’t really blame the community when square does such a bad job of class balance, PLD/MCH/WAR/RDM were actually detriments in 8 week 1, sure still banning them is a meme but if square has the jobs so homogenised why are they still so badly balanced, same as the “healer split” what did it actually achieve other than people not liking SCH/SGE

I agree, but i'm not talking about week 1 clears.
I'm talking about basic farms like the Storm's Crown.
There it really doesn't matter but I see it happening there too, job exclusion not so much anymore, but really unnecessary req's making even joining a group a serious drag.
And then finally their full meta fills and they still can't clear

[Jettinson]

The way i read OP kinda reminds how much i felt with Warframe when i was feeling like that... and what i did was to simply stop playing like for real. I could say to wait for 6.3 but when you are feeling very unsatisfied and burnt out, it is very hard to get back to the groove.

The only thing i can't sympathise is the housing lottery and it is not just because i do not care, simply because it was to be expected.