IS it just me... or is FFXIV boring?

[Bladenite81]

Ive been playing for two weeks, I have one battle class up to 50 and then I was so loving the crafting classes that I wanted to master those first. Then I found that materials were just too insanely expensive so I took up the gathering so I could get most of my own materials.

This game is built for someone to play at their leisure without too much reproach for being out of the rat race of world first dungeon clearings. I like it, personally. I dont care what dungeons somebody else cleared and flexing my epeen does nothing for me. Honestly the fact is hardcore players including hardcore pvp players comprise very little numbers on any given game. They are catering to what makes them money and the larger player base and that is the more casual player.

[Dliver]

meh most of the complainers are hard core players

But I think that's part of the problem: the game as it's set up now funnels people entirely towards hard core end-game content: endless dungeon runs for gear, hard mode primals and Coil.

If the game was aiming for casual friendly, PvP should've made it in the initial release, along with a casual raid. I know these are coming in 2.1 but everything about 2.0 seemed focused on hard core players. Those players are probably getting burned out by so much repetitive content, while casuals feel like they're done when they finish the story and are then asked to farm endlessly for a raid they'll never do.

[Bladenite81]

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I disagree. I think your perception is a bit biased. I came into this game with a friend from Rift. I expected nothing and so far I have been pleasantly surprised. Now, I don't feel pushed to finish anything..I have not even finished the main story. That is not to say this game is perfect, it is far from it, its just to say that I enjoy the game warts and all at this very moment. I will not achieve my first step into Titan or the Coils for a few weeks yet I would guess and even when I do, its not something I will do for hours on end. Ill go, get a few things and then go gather or craft because I enjoy it and if I do not enjoy it, then Ill go lift some weights or hang out with my RL friends.

[Vladislav]

Game after hit 50 & getting DL + relic turning in , week cap , Coil PT and lv up something when real bored . Verdict : yes game boring atm ;( , but let's give SE time to fill game with content )

[Keyblade]

Game after hit 50 & getting DL + relic turning in , week cap , Coil PT and lv up something when real bored . Verdict : yes game boring atm ;( , but let's give SE time to fill game with content )

This is a brand new release game in 2013. So your telling me im supposed to expect almost 0 endgame. Youve got to be kidding right.
Its the casual gamer which ruined things. Devs dont care about the hardcore player anymore.
"Oh , please dont grind in my game cause im accomidating for the casual player who only wants to play 1 hour a day" WTF. So your designing your game in such a way that if i grind to max level really fast i have nothing to do. Yeah fail.

[Ithilien]

This is a brand new release game in 2013. So your telling me im supposed to expect almost 0 endgame. You've got to be kidding right.
Its the casual gamer which ruined things. Devs don't care about the hardcore player anymore.

Now, I will agree with you that devs should never tailor a game to the "casual gamer;" a casual gamer being a gamer that, typically, either desires to only play an hour or so a day or can only play an hour or so a day. These casual gamers also typically wish to experience end-game content and achieve the highest tier of gear. These course of tailoing ruins games. WoW is a fine example of this. Anyone who played Cata at launch will remember just how difficult heroics were, and how difficult Blackwing Descent was. Those players will also remember just how swiftly Blizz stepped in and nerfed those dungeons to the ground... so much so, that a dps could literally go afk for the dungeon without having any major effect on the group's progression. While this might be a bit exaggerated, it really took away from the game, it started the expansion down a path of ruin, but worst of all, it didn't help players get better - in fact, many players got worse.

Again, it is not the point of this thread to nerf the game. I don't want the game to be nerfed; rather, I am addressing some areas that I believe require adjustment. Server lag is a major issue - hopefully, it is not just accepted as a bug, and will be eliminated in time.

[Maqaqa]

Lets be real it doesnt take a pro to get bored here.
Im half casual and leveled and geared two jobs to 50, and now im either doing coil (fun), farming AK/WP (not so much) and crafting food (meh).
When CT gets out im sure it will be nice but not so challenging in i90 gear.
How long will i last?
Im sure the devs are well aware of this, and i hope they will work on it.

[Keyblade]

Lets be real it doesnt take a pro to get bored here.
Im half casual and leveled and geared two jobs to 50, and now im either doing coil (fun), farming AK/WP (not so much) and crafting food (meh).
When CT gets out im sure it will be nice but not so challenging in i90 gear.
How long will i last?
Im sure the devs are well aware of this, and i hope they will work on it.

I agree with you. If i keep going , I can get full i90 gear on my tank. I could full DL my other 2 classes. But if i can already do everything with Full DL. Is there much point. I can see CT maybe mixing it up but unless it can offer something better then DL and not as good as i90 Myth. In addition to being faster and more efficient then AK/WP it will to fail like all the other instances.

[TeganLaron]

It's just you.

[CatofNineTails]

@ Keyblade LMAO! this game was set up for the hardcore players first it was the legacy players steering the ship through Alpha and most of beta. what they created is what the long time FFXIV playes kept cheering for in the beta forums anyone who disagreed with the way it was going was being banned from the forums because the hardcore fans kept reporting them for the most retarded reasons after they swarmed the threads with STFU and go back to WOW posts.

the lack of endgame is totally on their backs because they kept asking for retarded vanity perks for being legacy and trolled any thread that didn't call the game the second coming of Christ! what was supposed to accommodate the casual players kept being changed so the hardcore players wouldn't keep whining about no challenge. stop trying to blame casual players for the direction the game went they didn't keep kissing Yoshidas ass at every decision along the way the legacy players were.

The hardcore players cheered for the lack of time leveling not the casuals who in fact asked repeatedly to have longer leveling.
the Hardcore players kept cheering for the gear grind as endgame.
every time anyone said the game is going to be boring after 50 the hardcore kept saying "its only beta just wait"
when the game launched the excuse changed to "its only launch just wait"

sorry but I and many others don't think waiting 2-3 years for the game to have interesting content after level 50 is worth a monthly fee.
besides the way the game is set up now they would need to build from scratch the same kind of content post fifty as they created for pre fifty Not going to happen any time soon. the current direction is simply add more grind gear dungeons that have little reason to exist beyond getting a set of gear for the next pointless dungeon.