Communal outcry against sub-prime gear lockouts

[Sinth]

SE,

Remember how you got away from the "hardcore" aspect of having to wait hours and hours to get groups together to complete content in XI? Well, it seems to a large section of the community that you have come full circle by locking out gear acquisition for the top 3 tiers of gear which are/will available. You have a portion of your playerbase who plays once or twice a week, complete their weekly lockouts, and wait for the next week. This portion of players will only increase as time goes on and more players reach end-game.

My question here is: How do you plan to address the increasing frustration with all of these gear lockouts?

We understand from your previous statements regarding myth cap and coil difficulty that your direction would be to ease restrictions as time goes on, but currently you have many players who:
A) Want to enjoy secondary jobs but cannot obtain gear for them due to lockouts.
B) Want to play more FFXIV, but have little motivation, due to aforementioned problems.

We get that top-tier gear drops should be mitigated, but preventing us from obtaining sub-prime gear for alternate jobs is really grinding our gears. Would one of the community managers please address the issue of many players reaching the point where they desire to level other jobs but have to sacrifice progressing their main job in order to do so?

[Hanabira]

i can answer that easily. As time goes on we will have enough content in circulation that gives decent awards in limited amounts so we keep doing different types of content instead of just spamming 1. It sucks now because we are at the early stages of this, but it will be much better in a year. come 2.1 we will have coil, CT and extreme modes as high end content. by say.. 2.4 we will have at least 5 or 6 different things.

[Kallera]

i can answer that easily. As time goes on we will have enough content in circulation that gives decent awards in limited amounts so we keep doing different types of content instead of just spamming 1. It sucks now because we are at the early stages of this, but it will be much better in a year. come 2.1 we will have coil, CT and extreme modes as high end content. by say.. 2.4 we will have at least 5 or 6 different things.

A year can be a very long time, especially when there's no guarantee that's where the game is going....

[Gucci_Charms]

i can answer that easily. As time goes on we will have enough content in circulation that gives decent awards in limited amounts so we keep doing different types of content instead of just spamming 1. It sucks now because we are at the early stages of this, but it will be much better in a year. come 2.1 we will have coil, CT and extreme modes as high end content. by say.. 2.4 we will have at least 5 or 6 different things.

Do people have the patience to wait that long? Based on the comments in this forum, it doesn't look like it lol.

[Shirai]

Do people have the patience to wait that long? Based on the comments in this forum, it doesn't look like it lol.

Keep in mind that the people posting on these forums is the minority, most players are completely oblivious of what's going on here and I know a lot of them are by choice.
Aside from that, we all remember the bad. Never the good.

There's plenty of good things in this game, and I expect 2.1 to bring plenty more good things.
Sure people will disagree, but to the people that can't find anything good in this game I seriously ask; What are you even doing here?

[Roaminggnome]

The only thing we know from the comments in this forum is that those in this forum may not be patient enough but says nothing about the majority of those who avoid the forums and just play the game.

Do people have the patience to wait that long? Based on the comments in this forum, it doesn't look like it lol.

[Piddles]

Do people have the patience to wait that long? Based on the comments in this forum, it doesn't look like it lol.

People don't have patience, they'll "quit" when they run out of things to do and come back when the game patches, increasing the content. People don't understand patience, especially gamers that have entitlement issues.

[Sinth]

i can answer that easily. As time goes on we will have enough content in circulation that gives decent awards in limited amounts so we keep doing different types of content instead of just spamming 1. It sucks now because we are at the early stages of this, but it will be much better in a year. come 2.1 we will have coil, CT and extreme modes as high end content. by say.. 2.4 we will have at least 5 or 6 different things.

That is fine and dandy when the content is there, but it is not. Your 'solution' would not be viable for half a year or more. As you can obviously tell, tension is beginning to mount in regards to this issue, both on the forums, and in open discussion in-game.

[Terius]

I don't know what kind of viable business model is to tell your customers to wait a year lol.

The things people come out with.

[Davionx]

I don't know what kind of viable business model is to tell your customers to wait a year lol.

The things people come out with.

They are not saying that you should wait a year. They are saying that its a years worth of work ahead of them. You don't think the work is done and they are just waiting a year do you? That would be amusing