Thread: Concerns about Content Patch 2.1

Originally Posted by Goodberry

Taemek, I went to your site and saw you are looking forward to EQ Next now. Trust me, with your kind of approach to gaming you will be bored of EQ Next and consider it "garbage" in less than a month. Once, content lasted a year because people, instead of rushing like mad thru everything, took the time to explore and look at the scenery, to role play, to chat, to help other players, to just goof around with friends and guildies etc. Now, if they developed double the content it would simply mean that players would play twice the hours a week. :P

No people still rushed but the reason content lasted was because games weren't easy then, there was a grind and it took a long time, you couldn't hit max lvl in 4 days and raiding was interesting and challenging, you didnt have the scripting and red blobs on the ground.

Guess it sucks for the hardcores, but my FC just ran Coil tonight as a collective (aka not everyone splintering out to other groups) for the first time tonight, so I think we'll have plenty to do between CT, Coil and all the other new stuff.

XI > XIV, enough said. If this was XI it would have been fixed already. Well, maybe not now, but it would have been a long time ago (years)!

Originally Posted by TetsuyaHikari

Honestly? If people are getting bored with the game already, then they don't have what it takes to play an MMO. I mean, what kind of MMO veteran would honestly be complaining about lack of content right now or think 2.1 won't deliver? Probably the same people wondering when the cap will be raised, I imagine, lol.

dont have what it takes to play an MMO ? what kind of vet would be bored? lol this ignorant comment just makes me laugh ... what kind of vet mmo player would be bored? ill tell you the kind of vet that likes to play an MMO and progress their character for more then 1.5 hours a WEEK .... and before you spout off that crap about plenty of content let me say that LEVELING ALTS IS NOT END GAME CONTENT

Yes yes yes. I was thinking this as I teleported around doing fates on another new job last night, I remember playing MMOs where leveling was something I looked forward to because it happened only a few times a week. I remember having to stock up and prepare for a journey and how sometimes spending a day travelling was an accomplishment in and of itself. Unfortunately (IMO) MMOs have changed.

That aside, please don't seriously raise the "load on instance servers" flag. Seriously. I know everyone on the internet is an expert, but I work on a much larger hosted service than FFXIV, and capacity management is part of service delivery 101. Servers are so cheap there's really no reason not to overbuild, especially with the (likely) ability to virtualize (not everything can be of course, and maybe the DB load from an MMO can't). It's not the excuse of a legitimate company.

Originally Posted by Alhanelem

The release date is currently "this year," as per the dev blog.

inb4 December 31st hahaha

Neverwinter has a more satisfying end game imo. Seriously end game is severely lacking even for a new one.

Originally Posted by Babydoll

inb4 December 31st hahaha

Knowing SE, they will most likely delay 2.1 for "winter" 2014.

And if they do.. oh man.. they are going to lose a ton of subscribers.

Originally Posted by Taemek

They used to release enough content to last over a year once upon a time.

"Once upon a time" people used to play on PCs that only had HDDs with 10-20 gigs and playing games on DOS. Also games only took anywhere between 500mb-1gb. I remember when Diablo 2 came out and thinking 1.5 gb of a game was crazy talk.

When MMOs first came out the gaming abilities of the general populous were limited.

Fast forward to today and most of the MMO players have been playing for a decade or more these players have gotten better at this genre. Because of that content is being consumed much faster now than it was in what some might say was the "Golden Era" of MMOs back in the early 2000s.

It is true that most MMOs are going towards the feared "Casualization" but its because people don't have time to sit and play for hours and people are better at playing them and thus go through content much faster now than a decade ago.

Originally Posted by rowdey1

dont have what it takes to play an MMO ? what kind of vet would be bored? lol this ignorant comment just makes me laugh ... what kind of vet mmo player would be bored? ill tell you the kind of vet that likes to play an MMO and progress their character for more then 1.5 hours a WEEK .... and before you spout off that crap about plenty of content let me say that LEVELING ALTS IS NOT END GAME CONTENT

Funny but true. I'm not a veteran MMO player (I guess? played FFXI for 8yrs) and I'm bored of the game login few times a week to do coils/cap myth.

TBH what SE should have done was made leveling like FFXI pre abyssea days like 10kexp/hr if you had good party. I don't care if Yoshi said he want the game to start at 50or not shouldn't had made it such a easy grind to 50 and we wouldn't be having most of these threads. Yoshi wanted the true game to start at 50 (or w/e he said) then they should have put some real End Game content in. Maybe in 6-12 months this game will be better but until then its going down slowly.