Out of touch? PLL

[Hyperia]

The content drought has forced me into taking a break, possibly the first major one I have taken since the game came out a decade ago.

Going from 3 months to 4.5 along with 1 new dungeon instead of 3, everything now tied to the MSQ and no side quests anymore. Where is the relic, it used to come out in .1 patches and for the love of… if I get it via tomes again….

I now avoid the expert roulette as I do not want to play the same dungeon for 9 months straight, I can’t do savage as a new parent and my schedule is too iffy to try to clear an ex trial so that leaves me without stuff to do for probably the next year or beyond.

I also play a healer and don’t like to tank or dps so there is that problem, healers are no longer needed anymore…

So.. tldr.. lack of content and being needed means I’m on a break. I’ll logon to keep my house and access to the forms but not adding much more time to my 18,500 hours played until they add more.

[TemporalFruitsAndVeggies]

I’ll logon to keep my house and access to the forms but not adding much more time to my 18,500 hours played until they add more.

It's hard to be too salty about getting 18,500 hours out of a game, to be fair. That's slightly over five hours a day, without missing a single day, for ten full years. That said, I understand that it's sad to see what feels like the end of an era for a game you've enjoyed so long.

I'm not surprised by the PLL; I imagine the 7.1 patch has been in the works since before 7.0 launched, so it was never going to address most player criticism. But I don't expect the rest of the 7.x cycle to, either, for the same reason. Ultimately it's just more stuff to sit in town and queue for, further cementing the fact that the game is more of an arena battle simulator than an MMORPG. It seems like the devs want to do more with the game, but are so locked into the formula and old, dated systems that they're not sure how to break away. I'll go for BiS for the two roles I play, since I like the group I've been playing with, but I have no interest in grinding Ultimates for months (Savage is the perfect difficulty for me), no interest in housing, etc. I'll just keep playing GW2 to get my "running around an open world with other people" fix.

[ReynTime]

So.. tldr.. lack of content and being needed means I’m on a break. I’ll logon to keep my house and access to the forms but not adding much more time to my 18,500 hours played until they add more.

This is why SE doesn't care for what complaints people have. "Taking a break but still subbing" or "being disappointed but keeping my house" is still a big win for them.

[Kes13a]

This is why SE doesn't care for what complaints people have. "Taking a break but still subbing" or "being disappointed but keeping my house" is still a big win for them.

is this the new form of "just quit"?

basically you are attempting to silence anyone saying the game isnt perfect. which of course you are entitled to on public forums, but lets not sugarcoat it. you are telling people their opinions dont matter and just to quit.

[Carin-Eri]

This is why SE doesn't care for what complaints people have. "Taking a break but still subbing" or "being disappointed but keeping my house" is still a big win for them.

Surely there is room for a 'grey area'?
Those players who're disappointed, but not outright offended? Those players who liked Dawntrail well enough but will also concede that there was room for improvement?

[Reinha]

This is why SE doesn't care for what complaints people have. "Taking a break but still subbing" or "being disappointed but keeping my house" is still a big win for them.

Maybe they should read the complaints of those who still like the product enough to pay for it. I am currently emptying my houses to let them go and don't really care what fixes SE comes up with in a few years, because I won't be here to see them.