How would you feel about end-game gear only being useful for 3 months?

[Xatsh]

If SE is planning on negating content that fast they better pump it out quicker then every 3 months is my only fear.

If SE cannot keep up with the extreme hardcore or have content that is not negated every 3 months you will have the wow effect where a large portion of thier playerbase no longer logs on until the next patch. (and hardcore having to wait for more content is not the norm it is bad development)

If they are making alot of gear obsolete every 3 months it is going to end up coming back to haunt them, This is easily the worst part of western mmos..... makes it much less meaningful. Unless to truly get the best of the best gear you have to do the old content first.

Square needs to get a min of 40hrs of endgame into this game at 1 time before even thinking of negating things. And that is 40hrs of endgame that has valid gear (not negated content) atm square has about 4hrs worth of content (1 dungeon and world nms, factions have been negated already....) Without at least that much the endgame simply will not be big enough to keep everyone playing between updates.

Was one of the best features of XI... there was so much endgame it would take the average person over month to do 1 attempt at everything, and they kept piling more and more on it until abysea negated the whole game that is. That should be something this game strives for as well. New content every 3 months is a great thing.... but you need to keep old content relevant, especially until there is enough endgame to satisfy everyone.

[naaros]

Honestly, I feel like we're giving SE too much credit. I seriously doubt they would release a lot of new/better end game gear every 3 months. :P Maybe a couple new pieces every 2-3 months, but nothing like a complete new gear set (aka WoW).

I just don't want what happened in FFXI to happen in FFXIV. We should NOT be trying to get the same gear for like 4-5 years, lol. XD

[syntaxlies]

ohhhhhhh I long for the day to change the green of my solid scale mail ><

dungeons would have been so much better if they dropped dif color gear with slightly tweaked stats, maybe adjust the drop rate of the colors a little dif from each other.

I wish my scale mail was shiny black.

[Chardrizard]

Why not...dare I say it...content that I can do for the sake of, I dunno, story??

Nobody is gonna do a content with no reward, perfect example is Hydra in FFXI, the novelty wears after killing it the first time, why create content that only lasts that short? waste of devs time.

[Meecrob]

if they can manage to keep adding new end game gear every 3 months, i'm all for it. anyone that cares to get it right when it comes out is gonna want something new and better by then anyways.

[Meleena]

I feel that we should wait and see how Yoshis words are going to be implemented into the game and THEN decide.
Speculating right now isnt gonna solve anything.

[Punainen]

Nobody is gonna do a content with no reward, perfect example is Hydra in FFXI, the novelty wears after killing it the first time, why create content that only lasts that short? waste of devs time.

Then why would anyone do story quests, or quests at all? "You only do them once, derp". Of COURSE you only do them once. Make them only DO-ABLE once! Why does ALL content have to be 'rinse and repeat'??

[Alexis_Arteme]

Then why would anyone do story quests, or quests at all? "You only do them once, derp". Of COURSE you only do them once. Make them only DO-ABLE once! Why does ALL content have to be 'rinse and repeat'??

I'd say because it takes about three months to make an hour's worth of content. You have to get the most out of everything you spend precious time to create. Designing a game, especially an MMO, isn't just waving a magic wand.

[Chardrizard]

Then why would anyone do story quests, or quests at all? "You only do them once, derp". Of COURSE you only do them once. Make them only DO-ABLE once! Why does ALL content have to be 'rinse and repeat'??

Nobody do sidequests for a reason, few exceptions, but majority doesnt cares. (which is why they have rewards now and few SPs, nobody was doing them)

in XI people only does main story because they offer endgame rewards, Sky Access, Sea Access, CoP Rings, ToAU rings, Einherjar Access, and so on. God knows nobody would even go through CoP because of how annoying it is if it didn't have sea access as a reward.

It's always about a reward, people needs incentives to do stuff. Yes, doesnt have to be gears, it can be access to certain areas, unlocking certain fights, and so on.

[syntaxlies]

Nobody do sidequests for a reason, few exceptions, but majority doesnt cares. (which is why they have rewards now and few SPs, nobody was doing them)

in XI people only does main story because they offer endgame rewards, Sky Access, Sea Access, CoP Rings, ToAU rings, Einherjar Access, and so on. God knows nobody would even go through CoP because of how annoying it is if it didn't have sea access as a reward.

It's always about a reward, people needs incentives to do stuff. Yes, doesnt have to be gears, it can be access to certain areas, unlocking certain fights, and so on.

i do them for achievements, some have decent sp and if you don't pay attention it will add up. I got like 20k the other day but it took like 4 hours.