Out of touch? PLL

[Jeeqbit]

Savage tends more into hardcore in my eyes, midcore would be extremes and field content (like the duels) but that’s different from person to person so whatever.

What about deep dungeons then?

I'm just annoyed that the different activities and information seem to be scattered over dozens of different Discord servers.

That information is usually available in the game, or from the official manual on the lodestone, or from a competent observation of the game's behaviour. Aside from wikis and youtubers, many journalists now cover this game and its various systems on their websites.

It's just that players are not very good at reading the information available in the game, they are not good at finding the official manuals on the lodestone and they are not good at observing the game the way I would as a veteran player and looking up information online will often just confuse them. Case in point, Active Help explains a lot of things I have to tell new players about on a regular basis.

So yes, a lot of information is on discord servers, but this is just a nice community trying to help people. It's not actually the only way. There is just so much in the game and so much information to consume about it that unless you've played as much I have, you will probably just be confused by it all without something like a discord community for what you're doing.

This one is baffling to me, honestly. I would assume they would want to push out field operations as soon as possible because it's a massive time sink, especially for people who only play every now and then. I'm not sure why they're holding off until casual players will have lost interest because there's no content for them to do.

Because actually developing it takes time. It stands to reason that a large-scale content involves large-scale development.

[ovIm]

Because actually developing it takes time. It stands to reason that a large-scale content involves large-scale development.

No one says that these things do not take development time. But Square Enix is a big company, and if they truly wanted to, they could hire people (or move them from other departments) to make content like that right after expansion launch, and once every patch cycle. People are criticizing that Square does not prioritize development of that kind of content, drip feeding us at a slow pace. This is truly only a project management issue where either resources are misallocated or priorities are misaligned.

[CNitsah]

Because actually developing it takes time. It stands to reason that a large-scale content involves large-scale development.

let's conveniently ignore the fact the complaints about the lack of field operation have been a hot topic for more than 2 years... Which is long enough to plan your development in a way it could be released in 7.1.

[Jeeqbit]

let's conveniently ignore the fact the complaints about the lack of field operation have been a hot topic for more than 2 years...

Well yes, I agree, but it seems SE only got this information near the end of the expansion from Zepla's video and frantically added it to the fanfest announcements at the last minute.

The thing is though, if you know this game, you know they plan their content cycle prior to the expansion's release. So all the content in Dawntrail is decided around the time they are doing the 3 fanfests and then it's set in stone after that. So although they only found out about our wish for Field Operations from Zepla's video, they were only looking for this information at that time as well.

I don't know why they do it this way and make it set in stone but it's how they do it. For example, they said they were making 3 variant/criterion dungeons in EW. If the first one flopped, it wouldn't matter, because they had 3 planned and that was set in stone tbh.

[PercibelTheren]

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The game's UI is atrocious and nobody can be blamed for having issues getting information out of it. Same goes for the Lodestone. The early 2000s called, they want their website design back. The Lodestone is a mess. I hate using it even more than the scattered Discords. The different gaming news site articles are worse still. The only outlier is the wiki. The wiki is actually decent.

People have been complaining about the lack of a field operation for literally the entirety of Endwalker. They could have pushed that earlier on the development timeline if they wanted to. Also, we're talking about one of the biggest Japanese gaming studios. They can throw more money, people and development time on things, they just choose not to.