Thread: Are you upset about new features/changes in patch 2.1?

Well, yes, but no more than many of these other posts are overly reactionary and poorly thought-out.

See, here's the thing.

It's okay to feel like a change to the game isn't for the better, or needs to be tweaked somewhat for it to really be as enjoyable as the devs seem to feel it should be.

But so much of what's here isn't constructive. This game is new, it's not going anywhere anytime soon, this is the first content patch of many, and there's a general feeling here that it's the very end of the world.

Better to be passionate and upset about something than simply to not care, because that would mean the game hasn't felt compelling enough to care about. However, people should stop raging and threatening to quit. No one responds well to that and you'll give yourself an ulcer. And it makes this forum look terrible.


Edit: Apparently I've burned all my posts for the day. Replies to the below. v v v v v

Originally Posted by TrystWildkey

There are actually quite a few well thought out and well stated posts regarding the changes that many are upset about.

Are there? The majority of posts contain some kind of implicit or explicit threat to quit because of change A, B, etc.

One sorta-reasonable thing seems to be that one about slicing off a zero for company housing, 'cause that guy wrote it up well and constructively.

But then there's a lot of this kind of thing.

Originally Posted by Nuinn

*hands Mahri a note with ~whatever~ on it*

<3


The difference is ultimately this: Are you (the poster) really, truly upset about something? Or do you just not like it? How is this affecting you emotionally? Just like the silly cartoon says, it's okay to not like something. It's what you do with that feeling that matters. Raging and threatening to quit about it rarely helps.

Can't discuss much more anyway, thanks to posting limits, but I kinda love this game, and so do many people here, I suspect. The venom gets contagious (and I suppose this isn't the most constructive thread either :P ), but everyone really should bear that in mind.

I'm frustrated, discouraged and sad.

This isn't game breaking, yet, and I haven't threatened to leave, but it is very discouraging and makes me want to play less. When I look at the amount of gil I've been able to save up, and look at what I could realistically craft and/or sell, when compared to the price of housing, it's less than a drop in the ocean. I just hit 50 on my main class tonight, a few minutes ago. It took me from phase 4 to now to get to 50. (If you look at my lodestone, mnk was from 1.0 and I haven't played it in 2.0). My husband and I met in FFXI and have wanted shared housing since then. We made our own FC with the intention of having shared housing.

Prices on the cheapest server would not be that far out of our reach for a small house. But we're on the server with the MOST expensive prices. Even the smallest house at the steepest discount is 20 million. So, it's another part of the game that I won't see for 6 or more months when things are changed.

There's just so much content that I'm gated out of, previously due to skill level/time investment needed, and now gated by gil. It's making it harder for me to find reasons to log in and do anything.