Current State of End-Game Contents - A Blog Post from A Japanese Player

[Iriadysa]

..she says as she is confused by players asking for a varied style of content to satisfy a varied style of gameplay.

It's not a hard concept.

Calling players who like varied style of challenges "human stupidity" doesn't make anyone "leet" or "uber"... it just makes them look like un-socialized teenagers.

But the game has varied styles.

You keep repeating this absurd argument where apparently every fight in the game has a version of Landslide. This is not true, and here's a list for you of lv50 content with no auto wipe mechanics:

Admapor Keep (unless your party sucks so much they can't even deal with one guy down during Wall...), Haukke HM, Pharos, Admapor City, Halatil HM, Brayflox HM, the whole atma quest line, Coil T1, T2, T3, T4, Labyrinth of the Ancients, all crafting content, all leveling content, all pvp content, Gilgamesh, Thornmarch HM, all beat tribe quests, all gathering content, all leves... the list probably goes on.

Challenges that include an auto wipe, yet they aren't exactly a big deal because it simply shows a full party inability to finish it (and not a single person's inability):

Garuda HM, Garuda Ex, Ifrit HM, Ifrit Ex, Leviathan HM, Ultima HM.


So the actual thing people are bitching about in this behemoth of a whine thread is:

Coil T5, T6, T7, T8, T9, Titan HM and Titan Ex, Leviathan Ex.

It's not about lack of content that adapts to your wants, no. You know what this really is about? Not getting top gear with the easy content. Thing is, none of you want to actually accept that because everyone knows how petty that is.

[ApolloGenX]

It's not about lack of content that adapts to your wants, no. You know what this really is about? Not getting top gear with the easy content. Thing is, none of you want to actually accept that because everyone knows how petty that is.

Well, that is several encounters in a linear gated line.

It's not about gear. I know gear is all some players care about, but not all players. You can farm tokens for gear and I don't bother anymore, because the gear is pointless.

At some point, you might stop projecting your mindset onto others and realize that casual players are doing those coils and CT... and Thorn. But beyond that, there is still more than half the endgame gated behind those mechanics. That's fine. If they want Coil 2 and rehashed primals for "hardcore" - no problem! But give people more to do than just a couple of rooms in coil, and CT for farming for alt classes.

Sure there is the small group stuff that everyone can do - but those are the same rehashed instances from leveling. (cept for a couple of new ones - which is great... but we have been farming the same instances now for 3 sets of gear!)

[Bizniztyme]

Sure there is the small group stuff that everyone can do - but those are the same rehashed instances from leveling. (cept for a couple of new ones - which is great... but we have been farming the same instances now for 3 sets of gear!)

They are adding all kinds of stuff for all kinds of play types. I believe they just need time. Just look at this latest patch. Supposed to be a small patch but they added quite a bit of new stuff for people to do. It's not always about battle content and getting loot.

[ApolloGenX]

They are adding all kinds of stuff for all kinds of play types. I believe they just need time. Just look at this latest patch. Supposed to be a small patch but they added quite a bit of new stuff for people to do. It's not always about battle content and getting loot.

They definitely need time, no doubt.

I am just here asking them to take a wide view and design varied content. I don't think anyone is asking for "everything to be X or Y".

The content they have been putting out, though is following the exact same pattern... so at this point my concern is that future content will be more of the same... but hopefully they will get creative.

[Bizniztyme]

They definitely need time, no doubt.

I am just here asking them to take a wide view and design varied content. I don't think anyone is asking for "everything to be X or Y".

The content they have been putting out, though is following the exact same pattern... so at this point my concern is that future content will be more of the same... but hopefully they will get creative.

Let's hope so.