Thread: 2.1 Delayed?

Originally Posted by Pellegri

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1/2. That's it?
3. I still do primal DF for fun (read: Holy crap fun in a game) and to help people who are still needing them.
4. If you're only playing for myth that's your fault. I enjoy helping people through content as well as running the 15-47 dungeons (yes they still exist).
5. I have 4 relics and plan to get them all.
6. You're complaining about no content and you haven't even finished Coil.

Originally Posted by permbanned

This is hardly what anyone in their right mind would consider "a lot of content."

The reality is, that it isn't that much content...It's actually very very little content.

I realize this is a new game and a "fresh launch" but, the reality is that after you finish 1/2 classes, you've run AK/WP over 100 times...AK got boring after the 10th time...And WP got old after the 2nd run...So, what's left? Get your relic...FC's can Relic you within 2 hours...Okay, now what's left? Grind AK/WP to finish. Okay, now what's left? Coil. After 3 weeks of coil, you get it down to 1 night.

Okay, now what's left? Nothing because farming Myth just became trivial and coil only takes 1 night.

There's genuinely not enough content right now to keep me playing...And the lag...Oh, the lag...How I love thee.

Originally Posted by permbanned

So in reality you have 27 hours of relics, 1 hour of coil per week and as much WP/AK as you can grind until your eyes bleed.

This is hardly what anyone in their right mind would consider "a lot of content."

Thats 4 hours a day, 7 days a week worth of play.
Regular people don't get to play much more than a few hours a day, and sometimes not even consecutively.
Game shouldn't revolve around the top tier raiders, but neither should it revolve around the regular players. A healthy balance needs to be struck.

Originally Posted by Sylve

Thats 4 hours a day, 7 days a week worth of play.
Regular people don't get to play much more than a few hours a day, and sometimes not even consecutively.
Game shouldn't revolve around the top tier raiders, but neither should it revolve around the regular players. A healthy balance needs to be struck.

While i agree with permabanned. I also agree with this statement so much. The problem is its hard to tell people or explain this to them. So many people want to do every little thing to rush Twintania down, you would think they realize the second they do that is the second they all quit... but no....

Originally Posted by Mishini_Dracoto

I'm just going to point out that Sky was released in Rise of Zilart expansion. Sea was released in Chains of Promathia expansion.

Yes, when FFXI Came to NA, RoZ was included. Presumably however, NA wanted to get the game at the same time as JP. Yay we have it! not as much content is in the game as when they would release a first expansion. Really, tough Beans.

Also, FFXI was modelled off of EQ (The most successful MMO at the time)
FFXIV: ARR is modelled off of WoW (The most successful MMO at the time)

The type of content is very different. That's a different discussion however, which has been beat to death.

Apparently it needs to be beaten more because releasing a new raid every 2 patches won't bring success. We have played mmo's that have followed that path for 10 years now. Enough is enough, we need something different. XIV will not thrive if it just copies the WoW patch model.

Fact:
-Hardcore MMO Raiders will consume content faster than it is possible to create.

Lets try this. SE makes a new Raid harder than Coil every 2 weeks.
Hardcore FC Raiders will create grueling raid timetables in order to be the first to clear each one before the next one is released.
Result? members of said FCs will become burned out on the game, or potentially cost these people their personal lives.

You can't make quality content without time.
Time is something MMO's have a lot of. People need to understand that and stop rushing through everything.

Personally, I'd much rather look forward to big updates with a lot of different things for people to do. Incredibly short tiny updates that only add things for the top 5% of players isn't exactly a good idea.
Even if you rotated the content coming out for raiders and normal people, the raiders would cry that the casuals are ruining it for them.

Imagine the stress on the Developer Team to make quality content in such short bursts.