It's a week after 2.1

**Starlord** · 12-27-2013 12:47 AM

Originally Posted by Tupsi

The way it goes is, even if you play at a slow pace you'll definitely be through with the content long before the next update unless you've yet to touch certain ones - much like you stated you haven't touched coil yet.

Slow pace? I'm playing at normal speed that's my personal opinion on how fast I am going. 2.1 will last people till 2.2, it's players like hardcores ( meaning have more time to play) that have no content to fiddle with by the time next patch comes. Majority will have plenty to do before 2.2 lands ( and even some that haven't completed everything it has to offer).

**Loony_BoB** · 12-27-2013 12:48 AM

I've not even touched Coil, let alone the dungeons released in 2.1 or the Good King or, well, pretty much any of it. It's weird... the less I try to rush through things, the more I have to do.

Usain Bolt doesn't go around complaining that he's doing the same old races every time he goes to a tournament. When you have no further left to go, you can only aim to better yourself and those around you and intend to be the best you can be.

EDIT: Perhaps you could even join a new F.C. and try to teach people brand new to the game how to better themselves in a nice, kind, gentle way and nurture them into wonderful players? Hopefully you can lift your own spirits at the same time as helping them, by enjoyin an MMO for it's number one feature: The ability to play with all kinds of people.

**Tupsi** · 12-27-2013 12:57 AM

Originally Posted by Loony_BoB

I've not even touched Coil, let alone the dungeons released in 2.1 or the Good King or, well, pretty much any of it. It's weird... the less I try to rush through things, the more I have to do.

Exactly - Coil, for example, has been out since launch and if people chose not to touch it, that was their choice, however you can't necessarily say people "rushed" after almost 5 months just because they went through the storyline (doesn't take that long unless queues kicks your butt), got a relic for at least their main (this is also only a couple hours of work unless you get stuck on Titan) or go back and farm stuff for vanity later basically.

It's hard to really consider something "rushing" if you choose to do content available to you when you can, because Labyrinth of the Ancients? Yeah, people cleared it as soon as they got access and once SE made FATES spawn quicker, more and more people cleared through it - The content added in 2.1 isn't so expansive and complex that it constantly changes each time you go in (basically additional routes continue to open up) unless you take the players you're with into consideration. Once you beat Moogle, LoTA, Pharos Sirius, HM Haukke/Copperbell, Ultima and Extreme Primals, you've cleared those contents.

What the misconception seems to be, is that you're going back to it to farm the gear they added but LotA and Extreme Primals has a weekly lockout on gear acquisition, which as we know is basically gating to keep people from completely farming it.

**Loony_BoB** · 12-27-2013 01:00 AM

Coil is not what I consider the rush (it has indeed been out for some time) - the rush is finishing everything released in the new game and then wondering why there is nothing left to do. It is the rush to find new content, rather than realising that sometimes if you stop and smell the flowers, you realise what a wonderful world you are in.

If the world and the people are not enough, perhaps you need more than one MMO to keep you entertained. I mean, every game has a finite number of features. When I finish all the features of a very long game, I am just as "done" as I am in a short game. I do not complain unless the experience was a bad one. I consider the FFXIV experience a very good one.

I don't know of any MMO where they are expected to feed you with as much as we were fed in 2.1 every week.

**Tupsi** · 12-27-2013 01:16 AM

Originally Posted by Loony_BoB

Coil is not what I consider the rush (it has indeed been out for some time) - the rush is finishing everything released in the new game and then wondering why there is nothing left to do. It is the rush to find new content, rather than realising that sometimes if you stop and smell the flowers, you realise what a wonderful world you are in.

This I can understand as I take my time in MMOs - However, it's been almost 5 months and we finally got our first actual update which was more of a catch up patch. Prior to 2.1, do you really consider it rushing (after almost 5 months)if people did everything from vanilla? Leveling isn't really content as that's pretty much all you had left to do if you did the other content. It's an honest question, do you honestly believe no one would be done with launch content after a couple of months? I mean, I was out of action for awhile at launch an caught up no problem (re: cleared vanilla content) in only a couple of weeks.

That's why I said if you choose to go at a slower pace of course everything will last you, but even on newer worlds (which I have an alt), I see quite a lot of people running post game content (coil), tons of party finders for coil/labyrinth, lots in Myth gear (which you initially could only start obtaining after beating the main storyline and working on a relic) so I don't know anyone expected to be fed "2.1" every week, which is an insane hyperbole, but I guess it's just how the MMO community is now in terms of being split on 'opinions'.

As for not considering coil as 'rushing', it's the perfect example because you can't touch coil until you've cleared the main game storyline and obtain a relic weapon, which means after a couple of months, is it that hard to believe people would be to the point of clearing content..?

**Sinth** · 12-27-2013 01:22 AM

Get a job? I hear its pretty much impossible to run out of content IRL.

**Psun** · 12-27-2013 01:25 AM

It wouldn't matter if there were 100 raids and i-level 200 gear, someone would have done it all and still complain I bet.

**Loony_BoB** · 12-27-2013 01:26 AM

Originally Posted by Tupsi

I don't know anyone expected to be fed "2.1" every week, which is an insane hyperbole

I mentioned that because of the thread title and OP.

**Black_Rose** · 12-27-2013 01:43 AM

well, 2.1 made most my friends realise that this game is going the wrong direction and made them quit, that's for sure.we've been around since 1.0 alpha, we've seen hell, and the so praised relaunch made them quit.well something sure is going wrong, because even i, and i really don't give up fast, slowly get bored with the game and the direction it's taking.
there is no interesting or lasting content at all.
and i'm not willing to give this game any more time, it had 3 years+ to collect on content and all that, but it relaunched with a hand full of boring dungeons and lockouts.

**Orophin** · 12-27-2013 01:59 AM

I felt pretty overwhelmed the first week since there was a lot to do, but now it's come under more control for me. During the weekdays I have less time to play so I prioritize my daily quests, roulettes and treasure maps. After that I tend to do whatever I can, whether it's Ultima farming, CT spam or working on the EX Primals.

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