Lockouts: The game

[Shiki_Lockhart]

You know that was US players of 1.0 that demanded them to change the loot system right? We had several player polls and they changed or tweaked from what Us voted for. Everyone didn't like to farm endless every single day same dungeons for drop rates of 1-2% getting to a point of staying sometimes 1-4 weeks without seeing a single DL drop or worse trying to get the speed run chest for body was also other pain, it would take long or super lucky to get them. In my case took me over 400 runs and after 3-4 months to get my corselet for mnk and complete the set so yeah...

So what they decided to do? Make some 100% chance to get a item between 1-2 weeks and being locked for next week.

I could say some more stuff about pros and cons of this but no time to do it now. You got the idea.

[Gevvy]

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If they made it harder, people would complain that it's too hard.
If they made it longer, people would complain it takes too much effort.
If they made it unlocked, people would get everything and complain there's nothing to do.

When people saying they should just add more content, they have... The last patch was literally a week ago. And it's hardly the developers fault when players spend unreasonable amounts of time playing and unlock everything instantly.
Not to say Square aren't flawless either. There are many glaring faults with the game that need to be fixed. Some irritating, some unacceptable. I won't defend them either just yet.

But a good reason they're locking this stuff is to limit these players. People can complain all they want, but they have content to aim for now... Content they're not going to complete within three days of non-stop farming, 75 cups of coffee and a urine bottle.
If they're unhappy, they're not forced to stay.

[Sylve]

If they made it harder, people would complain that it's too hard.
If they made it longer, people would complain it takes too much effort.
If they made it unlocked, people would get everything and complain there's nothing to do.

They already had to nerf Twintania for the majority to kill it. I believe there was one legit kill of Twintania before the nerf, and that was pretty close to when the nerf happened. Make it too hard, and the average player can never do it.

Id love a long difficult dungeon crawl. Unfortunately, people cry, piss and moan about a 25 minute Sastasha run .....

Can lead a horse to water, but can't make it drink. once my raids are locked, i just go do other stuff. For some though, that 'other stuff' doesn't exist, JUST COILS ONLY COILS ALWAYS COILS.

[Lumiin]

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MMOs are made to be time sinks, this is the only mmo (And I've played a lot) where people are like "Omg guys stop playing so much!" The reason people are running out of stuff to do and/are bored is because, let's face it. It's way too easy! I've played games were content only comes out once or twice a year and they never run out of things to do. Because it's hard and it takes time to get whatever. A look out + RNG is simply because the game is to easy. If they actually made the instances hard, all they would need is RNG.

The game is too hard.

I really lol'd no joke. Where is the game hard at? You mean when you can get to max lvl in 3 days? Yeah that's really hard.
Or maybe when you just instantly spawn in front of the boss, no trash to burn down, no mini bosses. Just que up and "Oh, there's ifrit and his easy pattern to learn"!
Nothing and I mean nothing in this game is CLOSE to being considered hard. Go to Aion where a patch came out in July and not even half the population is good enough to beat a few of the dungeons so they are just NOW nerfing it.
Get real. People are saying this is a WoW clone, it's really a Hello Kitty Online clone.

[Reoin05]

Get real. People are saying this is a WoW clone, it's really a Hello Kitty Online clone.[/QUOTE]

Completely agree, I wish it was more like FFXI, people who say this game is hard, or has a lot of detail. All I can say is L O L. this game is a joke right now, crafting is a great example of even the equipment system. Everyone gets everything is the go to right now. 100% HQ? heck why not. You all want relics and easy to obtain gear? ok here you go. They tried to copy WoW with the system, instead of making it difficult like FFXI, then they listed to the squeaky wheels and made everything too easy and dumbed down, NOW WHAT? people are bored.

[Felis]

People were up in arms about the stamina system in 1.0 keeping you from leveling pressing skills too fast

fixed it a bit for you

[Razzle]

yeah sorry... updates every 3 months - totally fast

Basically what you guys are saying is that players should be punished for playing the game. If a player plays 24/7 SE shouldn't go and say "l0lz itz ur problem", they should make content last that much.

[Mega_Man_U]

yeah sorry... updates every 3 months - totally fast

Basically what you guys are saying is that players should be punished for playing the game. If a player plays 24/7 SE shouldn't go and say "l0lz itz ur problem", they should make content last that much.

What game, at three months from launch, had enough content to keep a player engaged for three months playing 24/7?

[Razzle]

What game, at three months from launch, had enough content to keep a player engaged for three months playing 24/7?

um. This game isnt 3 month old can we stop using that excuse? it launched a few years ago. And well, if they don't have enough content to support their players maybe they shouldn't have launched it or made it free until they do. It's a game we're supposed to play it, not wait for cooldowns.

[File2ish]

um. This game isnt 3 month old can we stop using that excuse? it launched a few years ago. And well, if they don't have enough content to support their players maybe they shouldn't have launched it or made it free until they do. It's a game we're supposed to play it, not wait for cooldowns.

Surely you jest? It is a new game.
Yes, the name of FFXIV is not new, 1.0 released in what, 2010? FFXIV: A Realm Reborn is, however, a new game despite what you might think. Literally no content from 1.0-1.23 (aside from references to the prior events of 2.0) exists within ARR. The majority of the systems in the game have changed, the entirety of the maps have been rebuilt (minus the towns which held their setups I think), it has a completely new storyline tied to the events of 1.0, etc.

How does that not make it a new game?