Empty promises hurt

[yesnt]

This is not about whether long patches are ok or not, I want to know how that makes you change your feelings and behavior toward the game?

Back then I preordered Dawntrail and, of course, I was aware I wouldn't get all the content at once. But all that hype I had in the beginning completely vanished. By the time occult crescent arrived, I was merely mildly interested. I still haven't finished it. When Beastmaster finally came around, I was already so detached, I gave up after collecting a couple of beasts. Just don't care anymore. I am mentally turning toward Evercold and I am afraid they'll do the same thing again and leave me dry. How convenient that they didn't show us much anyway, huh.

I have been waiting for the housing update and now the new release date is 8.1. I bet when 8.1 comes, it will be 8.1x instead. I didn't update my house for a year because I thought the update would come "soon", because why put in all that work only to destruct it with the next update which is "soon". Soon is when...? In 5-6 months from now, maybe. I will believe it when I see it.

And what about all the hairstyles from the contest in 2023? That was 3 years ago, guys. 7 of 40 hairstyles were released so far, correct me if I am wrong. A couple of these look really low effort too. I have considered buying from the cash shop, but to be honest, they don't look that great either. Some of the hairstyles look like a wig on some races.

There are also some items from the 2019 furniture contest that still aren't released: https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...6aeb21e8a45a2d

I am very disappointed with the empty promises. I am a roleplayer, so I will subscribe either way, but I am not shopping cash shop or merchandise anymore, definitely not a collectors box. My hype feelings are completely gone, unfortunately. :<

[LanaC]

Blue mage </10char>

[JohncarterIx]

i won all my houses number 43

[ThreeBeastSmile]

Well, if you remotely like doing PvP in this game, you need look no further than Astralagos being "locked" for... how many years now? For being an abject empty promise. Might reach a decade and it's still there and yet very much not. Instead we got a redraft of FoG out of nowhere, and it didn't really improve anything for that map. BR was fine as it was too, or they could've just modified the middle and left the ground level untouched, as that part was ruined imo. It used to be a good map for me, but now I rather sit out. But the Astralagos thing really is a thorn, just remove it from the DF please and stop pretending...

I'll mention that this is also the first time where I couldn't be bothered to 1. watch a keynote live at least in part and 2. catchup on it after. It's very much a "I'll see it when I see it" situation this time, for better or worse, that also remains to be seen.

[Alice_Rivers]

At least with regard to contests they are careful to say:

* If an entry is deemed to be excellent, Square Enix may decide to implement it into the game in the future. Note that there is no guarantee that winning entries will be implemented into the game.
* Entries that did not win may also be selected for implementation in the future.

That does not excuse the housing interior expansion not turning up though.

[Absurdity]

Well, if you remotely like doing PvP in this game, you need look no further than Astralagos being "locked" for... how many years now?

Astragalos was locked in patch 4.55 back in Stormblood, which was February 12 2019.
So we are close to waiting 8 years for the supposed rework of it, gonna happen any day now. A lot of the remaining playerbase probably never saw the thing since they started in Shadowbringers.

But I like to point towards a more recent example of promised expansion features just being a bunch of smoke.
Dual dye channels were a major selling point of Dawntrail during the usual hype cycle. It is now almost 2 and a half years since Dawntrail's release and not even half the items in the game have their second dye channel.

[Jeeqbit]

This is not about whether long patches are ok or not, I want to know how that makes you change your feelings and behavior toward the game?

No change at all. I personally find the extra time useful to finish all the grinds in this game. Still need to finish that big FATE grind for the mount for example, and finish upgrading relics.

By the time occult crescent arrived, I was merely mildly interested. I still haven't finished it.

What were you expecting? They promised a Field Operation and we got one. If you've seen the pattern of how content releases in this game, it's always a copy+paste of the last piece of content of that type, with a different coat of paint, and the only other thing being substantially different the exact arrangement of fight mechanics ie. ins, outs, knockbacks, etc.

When Beastmaster finally came around, I was already so detached, I gave up after collecting a couple of beasts. Just don't care anymore.

Personally, collecting the beasts was the most fun part. I caught mostly hunts. It was insanely fun catching S ranks, A ranks, B ranks and FATE bosses. Seeing those huge things go all blue was such fun.

I don't really find Crucible fun. Just cookie cutter FFXIV fights with the opposite gimmick that we normally have (too few heals when we normally have too many).

I am mentally turning toward Evercold and I am afraid they'll do the same thing again and leave me dry.

Either way, I'm excited enough for the MSQ even though I know the WoL will mop up all problems and dust their hands and even though I know there will be no real internal conflict between allies and that they'll all just nod their heads in agreement. Also excited enough for the raids.

How convenient that they didn't show us much anyway, huh.

They said this is because people expressed not liking spoilers. But I feel by this point they've inevitably slipped about as much as they normally do anyways due to releasing their usual dungeon and zone previews, combined with what you can already deduce from the trailer and Norse mythology. And the Launch trailer will spoil even more of it anyways.

I have been waiting for the housing update

And what about all the hairstyles from the contest in 2023?

There are also some items from the 2019 furniture contest that still aren't released

Of all the things, I can't say I care about any of this at all. Not a glam person really and I just content myself with an empty apartment where I dump rewards in storage.

definitely not a collectors box

This is the first Collector's Box I've ever ordered. Not sure what has come over me. I think the cloth thing will look nice. And hopefully the key as well. Don't care about everything else, including the "expertly crafted" model.

[ZephyrMenodora]

This is not about whether long patches are ok or not, I want to know how that makes you change your feelings and behavior toward the game?

It made me decide today to give up my house and unsub. The extra months of nothing to do that I'm interested in adds up. There are higher quality experiences to be had in life than just doing all the game's grind for...what exactly? Low quality / low interest repetition for some achievement isn't important to me.

Released from this burden and feeling irritated at myself for letting it happen, I'll probably wait until mid-expansion to have accumulated a bunch of content to do at once and then unsub again.

After DT, which I subbed the entire time due to my house and not because I was happy with DT, I don't feel like rewarding them with pre-orders and endless subs for long patches and minimal content of interest.

I also was waiting on the house changes they previewed ages ago, only to keep moving the needle on release, and at this point I just don't care.

[Vespar]

I am very disappointed with the empty promises. ... My hype feelings are completely gone, unfortunately. :<

I understand COMPLETELY! The content types I was waiting for did not arrive until nearly the end of Dawntrail. I was so hyped for occult crescent... until we got the bait and switch of sorts... By that I mean the inability to level actual jobs inside which defeated the whole reason why I loved the previous contents (Eureka/Bozja) and killed the whole thing for me. I stepped foot inside of it OC three times. Ijust could not bring myself to care about it. I wound up doing my entire relic outside of OC content and that was a struggle too since very few weapon designs appealed to me.

Then came BST ... I was so stoked for a "creature-collector" content! That is until I reached level 30 and the crucible tanked any and all excitement I had for it. BST became solely about the crucible and stole my enjoyment of the content that I enjoyed for the first 30 levels. After the first round or two of the crucible I quit. My husband ended up getting me all the reward items because I just could not care anymore about it. Since then I've barely logged in. I recently tried the keyboard brawler but that content is so overriden with cheaters I am now forcing myself yet again to log in, do 1 or 2 runs and then log out until I can stomach another round. It feels soul crushing.

The only thing I have consistently shown up for has been the MSQ patches and I nearly quit on those prior to the 7.2 patch.
Dawntrail and the content we got from it sucked the excitement out of me, save for the later MSQ and Arcadion Normal. I don't raid now since my FC nearly died from Dawntrail, so Savage is meaningless to me and since most of my FC left because of Dawntrail's failures, I gave up on extremes too.

I can only hope that Evercold will be different and bring back the light. What I've seen thus far feels different but the missteps of the last two keynotes mostly regurgitating the NA fanfest information leaves me questioning if I should dare to hope for better. Please don't screw it up, SE!

[Arthur-Holt]

* If an entry is deemed to be excellent, Square Enix may decide to implement it into the game in the future. Note that there is no guarantee that winning entries will be implemented into the game.
* Entries that did not win may also be selected for implementation in the future.

Why call it a contest wtf?