I'm a casual player and I love FF14, I've played since its v1.0 CE release. I have a full time job and a wife so I realistically only get 3 maybe max 4 hours on occasion to play at a time. But ATMA-Animus is a hard pill to swallow for a player like me. ATMA made me post in frustration a few times on this forum and now I feel like I wish I could go back to farming ATMA.
I'm someone who loves to pay SE. If the game were $50.00 or more a month I would still pay because I love it, and its what I'd like to spend my little free time doing. To get off work and farm myth/solid and interact with real people, or anything that shows my progress in-game is the perfect recipe for my happiness. Weather its farming mats for crafting or lv-ing an ALT. I also love the idea of upgrading a single weapon on a long -term period of time.
When I started the ATMA grind I thought "Up until this point my game time has meant something, but now I'm randomly doing FATES hoping an ATMA will drop". It took me a lil over 650 FATES to complete, but every time I had a play session I was lving my chocobo so I felt like I was progressing a lil bit in an odd way. I feel now that if an ATMA would drop every 100 fates it would be a better solution for SE. People would play the game longer and SE would make more money. Meanwhile players would feel like their getting closer to their goal of obtaining an ATMA weapon. Also it would be fair and every player would spend the same amount of time on the quest so ATMA weapons would be the same time investment roughly for everyone.
Now I'm on to the books. I've done everything but the FATES on my first book, and now its the fourth day in a row I'm waiting for "The Taste of Fear" in The Coerthas Centeral Highlands FATE to pop. I'm only able to play between 1-4 AM west coast time. SE why do you want me to log in and just wait and not play your game? I only want to play your game and pay you. I just want some feeling of progression but now I log in and just wait. Has anyone else run into this problem?
I refuse to give up on upgrading my ATMA weapon but I just find it odd that this game requires not only my time but also i need be be logged in specific times when a certain FATE pops. I know this is just a rant thread, but does anyone relate to the randomness of how ATMA-Animus works.
Would you rather it be a specific amount of fates to complete "even if abnormally high" just so you know where your time was going?