Thread: Concerns about Content Patch 2.1

Originally Posted by ashikenshin

and then people ask why developers listen to casuals instead of hardcores. Casuals keep subbed because they enjoy all types of content. So goodbye content <word that starts with L>, see you next patch

I am a casual player you silly goose. If leveling was something other than teleporting around and spamming 1, 2 on my keybar (not to mention the atrocious lag that goes with it) or if dungeon queue didn't take forever w/o the possibility to do other things while you wait, then I'd quite enjoy leveling up another class.

Problem is it is not, the leveling 1-50 is bland and boring once the main story is over. The 2 endgame dungeons you have to run 50 times to get a full DL set. I did that, and quite frankly I'm burned out on those. Can I ask why you are so content with such shallow 'content'?

Life is too short to waste in a game that you're no longer having fun in. See you next Patch Ashy

Early years of FFXI and WoW...now those were the days...

Originally Posted by Xystic

Because you feel that player housing should come before FC housing does not mean that most people are with you on this issue.

Other community members obviously do not agree with you on that point in this thread. You have members on both sides. Please keep that in mind before bulking the community with you.

Well i certainly agree with him, i have no free company so free company housing doesn't concern me. So far this 2.1 update has only one thing that interests me, and that's the beauty salon. Hardly enough to keep someone subbed. I feel come January the 600,000+ subs will take a bit of a drop since some subbed for 3 months for the rewards, myself included. But i guess we'll just have to wait and see.

But leveling everything to 50 after the first time is excruciating. That is my point. MMO's should be about the journey. It should take longer than 2 weeks - month to CAP your character. It should be a long and rewarding process. Where you do meaningful things along the way, encounter hard obstacles, meet great friends, explore amazing worlds.

FFXIV ARR is just an instanced and zoned themepark...The world "or the content that is actually relevant" is incredibly small.

I think SE did themselves a disservice by pushing everything into 2.1. What they should have done is kept on the media bandwagon with regular updates splitting 2.1 over October to the end of the year. That way there would be continued media coverage on places like IGN and MMORPG.com etc.

Also some content is just too huge to be released with a multitude of other things.

And personally while I like huge patches I dislike the effect it has on the status quo of the community. Suddenly the whole nature of the daily game changes and everything else is suddenly old abandoned content. It would not be so "shocking" if things were added piecemeal.

Originally Posted by Mariwanna

1. The story was not fantastic. It was mediocre and boring and extremely disappointing for a FF game. It didn't even feel like a real FF story.

I enjoyed the story, but I think all of the fetch quests that were included for artificial padding kind of ruined it a bit. Castrum Meridianum and Praetorium felt pretty epic to me, but maybe that's because I did them with friends the first time through. I don't think this story was comparable to most of FFXI's story (especially CoP, but I don't think any MMO will compare to that), but it was lightyears ahead of most MMOs, and I was sad to finish the MSQ scenarios.

Whilst I currently enjoy the game very much the endgame is severly lacking, other games have launched with more and then released their first major patch by now.

Originally Posted by roohan

There is alot other stuff to do besides running endgame dungeons. People just limit themselves with doing only endgame dungeon content.

There is a lot of fun and content to do depending on the type of player you are.. Some players are end-game players, some like to smell the roses, some like achievements. Yea there is all that stuff, but not everyone is going to be happy to just do all of it.. It is pay to play and unfortunately, that means they need to cater to all playerbases, or some stop paying to play.

If some stop paying, the people that enjoy the OTHER content are going to suffer in the long run. No need to throw the other payers aside like they are doing it wrong. It is their money, and I want SE to have it as well!