What the future holds

[Moiren]

Game is looking bright in the future with the content that is being said but I have to see it first honestly to make a final determination. So I would say I am on the optimistic side but not at the OMG this game is going to the best mmo eva point.

All the future content sounds good, but we have to see how in-dept it is. Shallow game is a fail game. I want to know what kind of endgame will come out of XIV. Will it be all small instanced like dungeons like alot of western mmos (complete fail) or will it have complex events like XI where there was multiple tiers and paths which decided the results, events that took more then a day of work to complete (you had to do them in stages, like VNMs, ZNMs, Limbus, Einherjar..etc)?

All the content they said they are adding add could be good it sounds like it to me anyways. But the style of the event can be bad.. I mean the Dark Hold dungeon was good in my opinion (challenging, unique in the game atm, was hard until you figured out the strat) but for many there is literally no reason to reenter the dungeon ever again (Shallow, short lived content). SE needs to add long-lived content with a reason to keep doing it, or the cycle of not enough events will continue to happen. Atm SE is not releasing content fast enough to have short lived events. For some linkshells at 1.19 unless something is added to old content all the content prior to it will be meaningless to them... and that is a major problem which I am hesitant is even being noticed by devs atm.



If they mix up long events with short ones, large group more then 8, small group 3-8, and solo stuff the future is really bright. If they keep this 8 person cap, short term only western style content... well this game is in deep trouble in the future, unless they can crank out like a new dungeon every other week.

100% agree

[Estellios]

@Xatsch: What do you think about events with a shelf life about the same as darkhold, but with many more frequently released? I'm just curious. I felt too many events in 11 outstayed their welcome and only lasted so long because of how crappy the drop rate was (hellooooo Salvage). Nyzul was my absolutely favorite event and Limbus is a close second, it would be a tie if the zone couldn't get reserved.

I would be fine with frequent bite sized content but some longer content that maybe lasts a few months instead of years and had multiple paths/tiers would be cool too.

[User201109011315]

you will miss the one year anniversary.

[User201109011315]

Using one's imagination, hamlet defense will likely be something similar to a behest or beseiged. Moderately large scale events against mobs of enemies. Which is perhaps a driving impetus behind the claiming system changes.

[Onidemon]

Using one's imagination, hamlet defense will likely be something similar to a behest or beseiged. Moderately large scale events against mobs of enemies. Which is perhaps a driving impetus behind the claiming system changes.

I thought it was something taken from FFXI? isn't it?

[Estellios]

Hamlet defense sounded similar to defensive campaign fights in FF11. Enemies attack a location and you intercept and drive them off.

[Gidonoidon_Sur]

Hamlet defense sounded similar to defensive campaign fights in FF11. Enemies attack a location and you intercept and drive them off.

Going to add to this, with a little crazy speculation on top. Perhaps the caravan/hamlet defense will be related to Grand Company quests. If so, maybe, like in FFXI campaign/besieged, the Grand Company heroes/leaders will accompany the caravan or be present at Hamlet and you have to defend from swarms of imperials with, possibly, one of those imperial generals (gun-halberd) showing up.

Would be cool, just sayin/speculating.

[Onidemon]

Going to add to this, with a little crazy speculation on top. Perhaps the caravan/hamlet defense will be related to Grand Company quests. If so, maybe, like in FFXI campaign/besieged, the Grand Company heroes/leaders will accompany the caravan or be present at Hamlet and you have to defend from swarms of imperials with, possibly, one of those imperial generals (gun-halberd) showing up.

Would be cool, just sayin/speculating.

To me it sounds like a siege type of event.... defend a specific location,probably from beatsmen or imperials, that try to attack it,... hopefully with a Boss/NM at the end plz!

[IStolzI]

Yosh you literally never have a postive thing to say.

[Sypherblade]

Going to add to this, with a little crazy speculation on top. Perhaps the caravan/hamlet defense will be related to Grand Company quests. If so, maybe, like in FFXI campaign/besieged, the Grand Company heroes/leaders will accompany the caravan or be present at Hamlet and you have to defend from swarms of imperials with, possibly, one of those imperial generals (gun-halberd) showing up.

Would be cool, just sayin/speculating.

Maybe you escort the reinforcements to said hamlets.... if they get killed by ambushers or imperials along the way then the hamlets are easier to fall to enemy attacks.

be cool if the enemies had their own escorts too, and if the players camp them out and ambush them, then the enemy is weakened as well.