Patch Notes are up!

[Ashkendor]

I think there has to be a real look, on the part of Square-Enix, as to what level of play they are willing to accept with respect to their playerbase as they enter 3.0 content.

It's clear we have a borderline-incompetent playerbase, if you take it as a whole. It's just time that SE has to take a real look at it and wonder if the $ and quantity so far outweigh the quality that the players who are good are going to have very little to really do.

This is a vertical progression themepark MMO. If you're going to stick around here, you're going to need to accept that most of the content is going to be tuned for a very casual style of player. Very little hardcore content will go into the game because that doesn't appeal to the majority of the players. The more hardcore players will have no problem absolutely facerolling the vast majority of what the game has to offer. Anything even remotely challenging will eventually be nerfed so that a bigger portion of the playerbase can be shuffled through the queue to their next month's subscription and eventually to the game's next expansion. Ultimately, SE is concerned about their bottom line and a casual player's money is just as green as a hardcore player's money.

No clue on other servers, but there were a crap ton of people willing to to SoF again on Cactuar. The problem was that when people realised how horrible some DF groups are with players not communicating, it isn't far fetched to see why players abandon the trial,

Yeah. When I land on it in trial roulette, I always give it a try if I have time and if the group isn't already falling apart when I get there. If it's got 4 DPS and one lone tank staring at each other when I queue in, screw that. SoF is the reason I stopped ticking the "In Progress" box for trial roulette, actually. But seriously, if I give it a try or two and people clearly aren't listening then I'm not gonna stick around. I have better things to do with my time. :|