Current game is unsustainable as it stands.. NEEDS ADDRESSING NOW!

[Volas]

Look, let me preface this by saying I really do love this game, and I say the following because I care. Nothing more, nothing less.

That being said..

This is now officially ridiculous. I left this game a month after launch because of the ridiculous amount of flaws and glaring problems the game was having.. for the record, this is pretty much standard with MMORPG's. I came back less then a month ago...


HOWEVER.. the one MAJOR reason I left was a distinct lack of CONTENT... and a year later.. this HASN'T changed at ALL!??! Are you KIDDING me at this point???

And no, Im not talking about endgame crap.. get out of here with that nonsense. Every MMO company learned a looooong time ago, cater to casuals or watch your game die. But even if that's not the case here..

Im talking about PRE-50 content.. over a YEAR into release, and NOTHING? Not ONE new quest chain?

Now in any OTHER mmo.. this wouldnt really bother me, because those MMO's support a MULTI-CHARACTER account format.

FFXIV does not do this.. they basically make it so in order to be the best, you need to level multiple classes to 50... but they give you enough CONTENT to level ONE.. ONE class to 50.. after that, you get a giant middle finger.

For the rapidly dwindling tank population (more on that in a minute.) this isnt really an issue.. (although it is really..) because they can instantly que for any dungeon they want 24/7, 365. Same for healers. Even though dungeon grindings gets INCREDIBLY monotonous, repetitive and boring as hell... they can at least DO it for reliable and steady XP gains to maximum levels.

Then you go to DPS.. and immediately want to beat your face into a wall to make the pain stop. You go from instant ques to 45 minute ques, only to get a craptastic group that bails.. pop.. back to another 45 minute wait! And even if you DO get a solid group.. congrats.. you got ONE dungeon run.. the tank in your group just did 5 straight, the healer did 8, and you've done ONE. If your PRIMARY class selection RIGHT from the start is not a DPS class.. you are completely 100% doomed to levequest grinding.. as FATES are now a total joke, completely empty, and go untouched.

Which brings me to those lovely "levequest" ... they suck. Horribly. No, it's not an exaggeration, no, it's not an overreaction. They are crap. 100% pure, grade A, government approved, top of the line.. crap.

Now at this point, someone is already saying "well how is that UNSUSTAINABLE.. you can still DO them?"

It's unsustainable because you get THREE per day. THREE. So I get to decide each day, "hmm.. which of the SEVEN classes I got left to level do i want to do THREE repeatable craptastic quests that will take me 10 total minutes before I go sit in a que for 45 minutes while grinding mobs for hours on end?"

Oh wait.. I need venture coins.. which are gotten thru leve's as well.. damn.. gotta take this leve.. which isnt that great.. but I get ONE venture coin! woot!

The STUPIDEST part is, this is a ridiculously easy fix.. make each quest repeatable PER class instead of PER character. Or ADD some fuggin CONTENT to make it worth people's time to actually PLAY this game past 1 character class.

Now Im reading they are adding NEW classes in 3.0.. but no word as to new pre-50 CONTENT in 3.0.. so what.. they're going to add MORE classes.. but no content.. so back to grinding more useless mobs endlessly to level those too? No thank you.

TL;DR = Get some friggen pre-50 CONTENT or watch your game be dead in another year.

[JustPlainLucas]

So basically, you want more pointless quest chains so you don't have to do pointless leves.

[Baneus]

I never have an issue hoarding Leves. I've got 70 right now, that's enough to get my PLD to 50 and one of my crafting classes. Then I'll go through the process of upgrading all the gear on my Paladin and once that's done I'll have enough Leves to get my Monk to 50 and another crafting class. Time management is easy when you don't want everything NOW!

[Ragecake]

Im talking about PRE-50 content..

Oh...

I guess? lol just FATE grind or do leves. It's no big deal really.

[abzoluut]

Lmao, this guy. xD

[kidvideo]

Ahh, where would we be without the rant of the day? Looking over your character profile, you still have a lot to do. You still haven't completed the simple exploration achievements.

[JustPlainLucas]

I never have an issue hoarding Leves. I've got 70 right now, that's enough to get my PLD to 50 and one of my crafting classes. Then I'll go through the process of upgrading all the gear on my Paladin and once that's done I'll have enough Leves to get my Monk to 50 and another crafting class. Time management is easy when you don't want everything NOW!

Yeah, I was doing other stuff for a while, and the leves actually capped to 100 on me. Now, I struggled to whittle them down. I'm at 40, and that still feels like I'll never get them done.

[Dyvid]

Im talking about PRE-50 content.. over a YEAR into release, and NOTHING? Not ONE new quest chain?

And I've stop reading. If it ecks you so much roll another character like you would in every other MMO out there. You can do 6 leve in a 24 hour periods, FATE, Hunt Log, Dungeons, Guildhest, Daily Roulette, Beast Tribe Quest @ 42, and Challenge Log. More than enough to level from 1-50.

[ZReport]

Hell of a complainer this guy.

[gamesmart]

So you want to do the same quests over and over, but not the same leves over and over? Also, as mentioned above, you get 6 leve allowances per day, not 3. You get 3 every 12 hours.

Also, your view on leveling is horribly, horribly skewed, not to mention you lumping all DPS, both melee and ranged, into one clump. Melee DPS have significantly faster queues than ranged DPS, and even on a ranged DPS if you're waiting 45 minutes for a dungeon you're doing it wrong.

Levequests aren't the only way to get venture coins - in fact, they're probably one of the slowest. Hunts, treasure maps, GC seals, beastman dailies - all of them net you ventures.

Besides, there is already enough incentive to play more than one class - for example, getting Swiftcast for ALL casting classes/jobs, or getting Provoke as a Warrior, both of which are by this point effectively mandatory in endgame.

In short, it is an overreaction.