Thread: 2.1 Delayed?

Originally Posted by Raminax

I'd like to see the constructive criticism that would follow a small update. Say, 1 dungeon, some new crafting recipes and some class changes.

"Oh my gosh. This new dungeon you released took me 45 minutes to complete and I'm now out of content. You are incompetent, Square Enix. Your mother also enjoys it up the arse."

Also, after the horrifyingly badly balanced and buggy Living Story shenanigans with Guild Wars 2, I sure as heck would prefer less frequent updates that's properly balanced and not buggy. I care not about content every two weeks when it's all a bunch of (buggy and ridiculously imbalanced) grinding for a new set of achievements. <_<

The issue we have here is, that Square doesn't provide a public test realm. Square does the debugging all themself, which you might have noticed, is not the greatest thing they're able to do.

I think Square should give us the chance to help them test the new content, in some way.

Originally Posted by Slate

Square take your time and get it right. The WoW players can go get their fix with pandas if they are unable to wait a mere month.

I don't think the problem is with people wanting more, more than for 3 months in, there is a great lack of content left for players to do. Even if you've been super casual and only recently gotten to level 50, you're running the same 2 or 3 dungeons to grind gear, and will soon be starting on the 'whole' 4 end game raid bosses. Sure, you can level another job, or even a DoL/H, but this is solid grinding of a fraction of the content you've already experienced.

Now lets consider those players that 'went hard' and got a level 50 in 2 weeks and have done the limited endgame content for a couple of months. Hell, let's consider the 1.0 players that have had all the classes level 50 since release. Tell them to stop QQing about limited content, despite the fact that they are paying the same monthly fees as you.

Edit: For the sake of argument, obviously neither of these views are supported by everyone, but I hardly think it is 'unfair' for people to have been paying for 2-3 months and asking for more content, whatever situation they may be in. If people start losing interest in the game, is it their fault, SE's fault, or a combination of both?
I know plenty of people that only log in to raid and cap myth for the week. It is only a matter of time before they stop logging in at all.

Originally Posted by Lithera

Release the content immediately? LOL Okay..so you want a bunch of buggy content that will cause MORE maintenances for people to bitch about?

Guess you haven't looked into other mmos if you think any amount of testing will result in non bugged content. Look at WoW the game with some of the most in depth ptr testing where devs and thousands of players test everything for usually 2 entire months before it gets released. 2 months and thousands of people testing and content still has quite a few bugs and maintenance is required several times in the first week to fix anything major.

Now look at this game where there may be 100 or so people testing said content for a few months, some of the same people that let a major exploit get through and required several weeks to fix on the hardest boss in the game. Do you really think there will be nothing wrong when this releases just because a handful of people have been testing it for a while? I can guarantee even if they had another half a year of testing there would still be bugs, nothing can prepare them for any possible problems the patch will have when they bring it live and the more content they shove into a single patch the higher the chance that shit will hit the fan(and believe me it will when they have literally thrown everything and the kitchen sink into this patch).

Originally Posted by Tupsi

You played 1.x, you know exactly how this can go when it comes to Yoshi-P. Also, the trailers says Winter 2013, which means it could end up being Jan/Feb 2014 as well.

If it says 2013 on that trailer.
How did you get 2014? o.o

Dammit I lost my original post LOL.