Would you care if SE ignored you?

[moriandrio]

They keep ignoring anything about a black mage revamp. No matter what the content is, if the class isn't enjoyable why do the content?

I won't be excited to do anything if I am still solely casting Thunder lines spells on most bosses, or AOE fire on trash mobs. Black Mage should be this "What do I want to cast? I'll pick this, ok do I want to focus on one target or all of them?'

Not different to other games, everywhere you have spells that always do most dmg and those are used and the rest is just to have em. Remember FFXI how often did you use something else then Burst II or Freeze II on HNMs or wow it was all about arcane spams etc.

[Jinrya-Geki]

I never played Black Mage in FFXI.

I played Wizard in EQOA. Not only did they have Fire/Lightning/ice spells, but Wizard Fury lines which ignored defense. And I used all of them. Which is why I hated wow.

Stop limiting Wizards/Mages/Casters to 3 different spells, they need variety. Otherwise just called them Flame/Ice/Lightning mage and excel only at those and makes them worthless for a lot of content because a boss may resist them.

[Azurymber]

This is still going on? did i said that they made enough content to get you to 50. Even made solo dungeon and made other stuff to level up if dungeon/quest was not your cup of tea? @Starlord they have over 300+ people working on 2.0 with a new engine/tool Yoshi-p said they could add loads of quest within short time. Updates going to be quicker and with less bugs due to the new engine/tool and servers.

Sure i'll wait to release to see what going to be in the game but i'm sure they be enough for new players to do. Us players would just have get busy level up the new class and doing quest to crystal tower is release.

Not to be critical but they said they had a new amazing engine for efficient updates at 1.0 as well....

[Starlord]

Not to be critical but they said they had a new amazing engine for efficient updates at 1.0 as well....

I remember that as well somewhere, saying with this new engine we will be able to get updates at a faster rate. Meaning Instead of 3 months to get content out it could be 1.5-2 months an update.

[Zenaku]

Not to be critical but they said they had a new amazing engine for efficient updates at 1.0 as well....

They have said that working with 1.0 engine is hard and take to long to learn/fix issue with 2.0 engine is faster and quicker to learn and easy to find issue in the game. From the alpha test you can tell the stress test work without a issue. In 1.0 i remember beta 1 we log in for 5sec and they had to shut down they did that for 3weeks. So i'm guessing from how things are going the alpha version is working fine with load of people.

I think it save to say that the new engine is doing just fine which mean more update and more stuff for both low level and high level.

And my point was that they already made enough content for everyone to get 50 and enough stuff to do for low level and even solo dungeon. The only thing is level 50 have to wait for crystal towers to be release by the time enough new player reach that level the crystal tower would be release that what i was saying.

[bobbygunz]

Most of the old players aren't even finished with the current content. They don't have all primal weapons, hamlet and darklight gear or relics. These things will keep people busy for a while.

Of course, there are some people who have completed everything. I do hope they'll add something new to do but I don't expect them to build us 10 new things for the release (nor are they going to).

Not everyone has OCD. FFXIV has the option to play all classes, but it does not mandate that you have to play all classes. For some people, getting all primal weapons is just obsessive and pointless. They want the weapons they can use on their main classes, and then want to move on.

I think the reason we try to 100% complete things at present is because , well, what else are we going to do?

So saying people haven't completed all content because they havent grinded everything 100+ times just depends on the definition of "completion". Many gamers might consider that a bit excessive.

[Yucie]

Actually, they've said it will be slower.



4Gamer interview 16th August 2012. Quoted from Reinheart's translation, bolded by me.

Devs always say things to make their games sound and seem longer than they actually are.

You'll probably be able to gain a few levels every hour or so for the first 10 levels, and continue that pace until maybe.. level 20ish, with a level every hour or two.

It won't drop off until probably 25 or 30. And even then, there will still be PLing available in the game.. so who cares?

[Avraym]

Where did they say leveling would be faster oO
And ofc they will focus on stuff for the new ppl. If they don't they will leave the game really fast again. Adding only high end content would mean the new servers would be empty soonish and thats something SE doesnt wants.

So probably we will see upates for low and high stuff, but i think it will be by far more for the lowies in the first months.

I must of been thinking DoH/DoL. Regardless, ARR is casual orientated, i highly doubt it will be hard or even stressful to level up.

[Wynn]

I think if I were SE, I would treat the game like it is: a new game. They really can't consider the "needs" of a small group of people who will literally begin the game at max level. To make this game a success, they must focus where the majority of their player base will be and that won't be where we are.

Besides, there is always Arcanist. We can go experience the game anew on a level 1 class while we wait for the rest of the population to catch up to us.

[Jaimie]

They keep ignoring anything about a black mage revamp. No matter what the content is, if the class isn't enjoyable why do the content?

I won't be excited to do anything if I am still solely casting Thunder lines spells on most bosses, or AOE fire on trash mobs. Black Mage should be this "What do I want to cast? I'll pick this, ok do I want to focus on one target or all of them?'

That pic is hilarious, and disturbing at the same time.