My friend the "content locust" :(

[Yurimi]

I couldn't be bothered reading through 14 pages of posts so I am going to keep based on what I have read.


I come from FFXI, a game where content grew with each patch and expansion where sidegrades were the norm and there was always that one item to improve your set... have an Optical Hat for your evasion set thats nice but if you want to really make a good evasion set you need to go camp a Lv. 24 Hairpin for that extra 3 AGI yes a low level item was better than a higher level one even if only slightly.

The ammount of content grew over the years you were not stuck doing the same thing with artifical locks on everything making it impossible to progress your character... hey you did dynamis and its a 3 day lockout thats ok limbus is a 3 day lockout too thats the next night both of those done how about einherjar hey look you now have events 6 nights a week that are on lockouts. The kicker is these events were released YEARS apart but still relevant. and if you werent doing events you could go do small stuff like salvage or nyzul. You could go do big stuff like sky sea HNM's or go camp regular NM's to get that drop you want. the reason there was so much content in XI was because stuff didnt get outdated so (until abyssea and the level cap increases that saw waves of payers leave the game and SoA which made the game pretty much a ladder grind) you always had something to do something to better yourself and over the years what you could do grew it wasnt tossed aside and left to be empty worthless stuff that you will only do once because you HAVE to do it.

Does this game have content... yes.. it has a lot of filler content that I find zero point in doing because I finished gearing my healers and I dont enjoy other classes. I play a game to have fun but I find myself simply logging into MSN: ARR edition because now its simply get that better iLv. item which I can only do 1 day a week. I am used to having a myriad of content placed before me ala FFXI pre abyssea. Sadly all I have here is empty content that leaves me feeling less and less inclined to do anything. I have hope this game could go somewhere but I have zero hope that it will go somewhere if it continues to keep dropping old content so that all you have to do for 3 months is what was just released.

EDIT(1) Its actually gotten to the point I have picked WoW back up again just to use as filler and honestly when you are playing another game just because 1 doesnt offer you enough to last more than 1-2 days a week I find something wrong there.

EDIT(2) I should point out that I work full time and then some and I also have a life outside this game both social and not game related (I tend to go through at least 2 books a week) so this is generally all done in the course of about two 3-5hr play sessions each week outside of just chatting with a couple friends (and anyone on leviathan who frequents gridania has probably seen me almost always sitting in the same spot doing a whole lot of nothing though recently I changed spots)