How raids have hurt this game.

[Pulseczar]

where have i ever posted about being unhappy with the game?

It's the general tone of your posts — they come off really negative. I'm glad you are enjoying the game! Best of luck on solo'ing.

[Sephr]

Yawn, the people constantly telling the team how to do their jobs are starting to grate on me. With no experience in the area and no idea what has and hasn't been completed, as well as the boundaries they face I don't know where the idea comes from that they could do a better job.

They've been working on content for the past few months pretty tirelessly, that much is obvious. Things are now finally starting to be implemented because the ground work that they *kept talking about* has finally been laid out. I don't understand why people are comparing the first 6 months of this year to the last 6 months, they're going to be totally different in terms of implementation.

[Raikki]

If anything, I've seen raids actually encouraging people to level more than before as people want to increase their performance in the instance with more sub-class abilities (or trying out new roles). People in my LS have also reported very decent SP rates at middlish ranks solo and duo.

[Azurymber]

I think its amazing you think the art team responsible for superficial UI teams has any input or ability to change other aspects of the game, can you not imagine a 100 man team split into small teams with jobs of their own to accomplish, and to meet the needs of the players, they cant just move artists into coding.

so whilst you see "oh a ui change for the action bar, they are wasting time" what do you think that 20 minute fix by someone on the art team detracted from really?

it was probably a lot more than 20 minutes, and the point is if you have something thats broken you don't pretty it up. You FIX IT, then make it look nice. Otherwise you get one of 2 things. Either future UI coders are limited by the artwork, or you have to do new artwork.

[SuzakuCMX]

Another QQ thread from you.

Not surprised.

[Azurymber]

Another QQ thread from you.

Not surprised.

rather than just call it a Q Q thread why don't you point out the problems with my arguments. I listed many of them.

[Felis]

for one i want to start by saying raids are amazing, really fun, and a great addition to the game.... however...

Raids seem to have killed off almost all partying and behests. With solo now a complete joke, this has made rank 25-43ish nearly impossible on -SOME- servers. Just to be clear i have stood at some camps for 5 hours+ and not seen a SINGLE person do a behest (tranquil, em moss, humblehearth, mun tuy, most of the limsa areas, drybone)

This has nothing to do with the raids.
It's because:

• You have now a 1 hour cooldown for behest
• Traditional grind partys gives you now better sp

[Mimmo]

You're correct in almost everything you say, but seriously, they're working on it. That's all there is to it, take a break and maybe play other games in the meanwhile. The game is still a work in progress, everyone knows that and everyone that is left are just beta testers.

[Felis]

it was probably a lot more than 20 minutes, and the point is if you have something thats broken you don't pretty it up. You FIX IT, then make it look nice. Otherwise you get one of 2 things. Either future UI coders are limited by the artwork, or you have to do new artwork.

They are fixing the action bar UI, not only make it nicer. It's not their fault that you're playing with mouse and keyboard and not with controller to see the issue of the current action bar.

[Azurymber]

You're correct in almost everything you say, but seriously, they're working on it. That's all there is to it, take a break and maybe play other games in the meanwhile. The game is still a work in progress, everyone knows that and everyone that is left are just beta testers.

Thats the thing, they keep working on it and "fixing" one thing and then breaking other things in the process. and every patch everyone says "oh dont worry, this patch was just the groundwork for a new vision". Would make a lot more sense just to implement one big new vision and then tweak things from there. Because im betting once they take out phys levels and release jobs it will mess up parts of the game again.