Thread: Any idea what is in patch 2.57?

Primal Mounts music are Primals music

Shiva mount = Oblivion
Garuda Mount = Fallen Angel

etc.etc.

Am I the only one here who read Yoshi's interview with Time? Part of that interview included him explaining that SE and he consciously made the decision to create a game that would attract and hold people who had n.e.v.e.r. played an mmorpg before. It's working, it seems. Some of those people will eventually be just as good as anybody here, if not better, at playing FFXIV; and along with those who remain ever so casual, the player base will have been expanded along with SE's income. That's a good business decision. Good on 'em.

So, they nerfed SoF. Big deal not, imo. In a month it will be outdated content for most here.

Its already outdated for a lot of people. I think very few people run it more than once unless it pops up on the Roulette and if that's the case there are already pretty faceroll encounters there now due to gear. Certainly the people after challenge aren't likely to have run it more than once anyway.

Originally Posted by Nalien

Correct, they need the game to appeal to everyone. Want to know a secret though? Constantly nerfing everything into the ground to appeal to casuals doesn't appeal to everyone. In fact it puts quite a few players off.

That's not to say casuals should be kicked to the curb, there should have been a difficulty curve in place that encouraged players to get progressively better at the game (in fact there kinda was). Instead SE settled on just having really easy content until Coil and opting to nerf everything into the ground, meaning "bad" players can just stay bad and get carried through everything. Why improve when SE will nerf it for you?

Hopefully the Alexander raid will do something about that... rather than the current situation which just pushed new players out of the "hardcore" content and just creates more vitriol in the community.

Man! Why aren't you running a longstanding gaming company with that logic, right now?