Why should I renew my subscription?

[Leandras]

I know everyone isn't interested in housing but heres what me and my wife did. We have a personal FC with just the two of us. We plan on getting us a house together that we can work on and have a linkshell for groups needed and not have a FC so we can build a house that's just ours. That will keep us busy for awhile plus all the other additions in 2.1. Anyways just thought I'd put that out there.

What an awesome idea! Congrats on being the first couple in Eorzea to have your very own private home!

[TrystWildkey]

I know everyone isn't interested in housing but heres what me and my wife did. We have a personal FC with just the two of us. We plan on getting us a house together that we can work on and have a linkshell for groups needed and not have a FC so we can build a house that's just ours. That will keep us busy for awhile plus all the other additions in 2.1. Anyways just thought I'd put that out there.

That's what me and my husband are doing! We've wanted shared housing since we got together playing FFXI. I'm glad to hear that someone else is doing this too *happy Lala dance*

Now, in regard to the OP:

I am sorry that you were disappointed. Unfortunately, your assumptions are incorrect. SE did not plan to release lower level content in the first patch. Crystal Tower was originally planned for launch. However, there were problems with the difficulty and balance.

This left them with a hard decision to make.

Do we release CT and then rebalance it later? -> No, because this was already a relaunch of the game, and they didn't want to release content that wasn't absolutely ready. If they had released it, and it wasn't balanced, people would be unhappy and leave the game.

Ok, so then do we hold off on releasing the first 5 turns of Coil? -> No, because that would effectively mean that there was no 'end game' content. If they didn't release Coil, then people would be unhappy that there was no end-game content and leave.

They made the decision to release content that was ready, and informed the player base of what happened. They apologized, explained why CT was not ready, and that they know that it doesn't seem to make sense to have lower level content released later, but felt that this was the better decision. Only a small percentage of the player base would make it through Coil before 2.1, so CT would only be a step backward for a minority of the players. Even still, it would be new content.

Now, another thing that happened is that more people than were expected purchased and/or returned to the game. This led to the server stress issues that happened early on. That led to their teams being redirected towards fixing the server stress and over-population. That led to 2.1 being released a few weeks later than originally planned.

Now, I'm not defending them or white-knighting, I'm trying to explain what happened so that you have a better context for making your decision. They've been clear with us on what was being released and when. When things were pushed back or delayed, they explained why and when as well.

Now, here are some things you can consider with regard to whether or not you should renew:

First and foremost: Do you enjoy playing the game? If not, then, by all means, don't renew. If you do, but don't have any desire to do new content just because it won't improve the one job you want to play, then perhaps you shouldn't renew. Come back around 2.2 or later, or just go away entirely.

Do you want to support this company/development team? They've been remarkably frank with us for being a corporate entity, and I personally respect that.

tl;dr: You've made incorrect assumptions. CT was planned for earlier release, but wasn't ready. They didn't plan to release backwards progression, but they did plan to release content only when it was ready.

(as an aside, I'm usually against those people that just say 'if you don't like it, leave' but it's getting harder and harder to be against saying that when people make incorrect assumptions so they can justify being butt-hurt)

[Matsume]

Typical fanboy response, post no constructive criticism or replies, just a simple smart ass "bye bye "response. You contribute nothing to this forum.

Typical denial response. You focus on discrediting troll responses so as to bolster your own argument but in reality you are just ignoring all of the legitimate responses to your complaint. You contribute nothing to this thread.

[Alhanelem]

Typical fanboy response, post no constructive criticism or replies, just a simple smart ass "bye bye "response. You contribute nothing to this forum.

Well, this thread doesn't really contribute anything to this forum. You're asking for opinions on something that only you can really best decide.

You should decide whether you're subbing or not based on whether you're presently enjoying the game, not because someone else tells you you should or shouldn't.

[Ispen]

Typical fanboy response, post no constructive criticism or replies, just a simple smart ass "bye bye "response. You contribute nothing to this forum.

Neither does this thread so don't let the door hit your ass on the way out.

[Hrist_Valkyrie]

Typical fanboy response, post no constructive criticism or replies, just a simple smart ass "bye bye "response. You contribute nothing to this forum.

Complaining contributes to the forum? The feel of Entitlement is such an ugly thing.

[Maxthunder]

You can cancel it here: https://secure.square-enix.com/accou...est=mogstation

Bye Bye :-*

The more players that leaves, thats another nail in its coffin. Instead of tell players to leave you as well as the Dev team needs to add content for everyone not just be 1 sided. I remind you Yoshi said he wanted a broad audience, well if you lose too many of a certain play type how long do you think this game will last? NO game should let anyone be able to get anything and everything with out working for it. Everything shouldnt be easy mode if you want something than you need to work for it not have it handed to you, like this game currently dose.

[Babydoll]

The more players that leaves, thats another nail in its coffin. Instead of tell players to leave you as well as the Dev team needs to add content for everyone not just be 1 sided. I remind you Yoshi said he wanted a broad audience, well if you lose too many of a certain play type how long do you think this game will last? NO game should let anyone be able to get anything and everything with out working for it. Everything shouldnt be easy mode if you want something than you need to work for it not have it handed to you, like this game currently dose.

Agreed. It is not productive for this game at all to just be rude and tell people "Bye, door is over there" etc. The dev's should start listening to what this community (or what is left of it lol) wants, so far I am seeing tons of threads asking for more end game content, more non instanced end game content and stuff to do with large groups (besides CT, since its goin backwards)


I dunno though...it seems like since beta Yoshida has had a set vision for this game and does not really consider what the community is asking for :/

[Starlord]

I dunno though...it seems like since beta Yoshida has had a set vision for this game and does not really consider what the community is asking for :/

Sometimes, I wonder if the community knows what it wants. Personally, I feel it's all over the place. Some want this others want that.

Also, I know telling people to leave is bad, but it's also just as bad to stay with a game you obviously hate. If you hate it that much you really shouldn't torture yourself by staying.

[Tremara]

I will never understand ppl who are asking why they should play.

Either you have fun playing or not.

No one can answer this question for you.