Thread: Please help me understand why i should continue to play a repeat of 2.0?

Hello fellow adventurers!
Some might share these thoughts so please help me understand if I'm wrong in my way of thinking.

why should I continue a repeat of 2.0?
The new gears you get from LAW is pretty much how we grinded the tomes in 2.0 for DL gears.

New gears presented and the weekly restrictions in my view only shows that its a repeat of everything else we have experienced before IMO?

Barely anyone doing fates in the new areas since everyone seems to be spamming northern thanalan for the xp.
Was I wrong for rushing and doing that too since the new areas didnt offer any enjoyment in fategrinding?

You can't go levling all your jobs to 60 just because I need something to do. I should be able to enjoy and improve my job and gaming experience without this weekly cap and feel the need to level more jobs just because i need to do.

These are my thoughts.
Kind Regards
Skizzle

You seem to complain weekly and yet you're still here.

The story.

Shiny loot and story, as well as fun times with friends is why I play.

To be frank, the most likely scenario in which I quit would probably be if most of the people I play with quit and move on to other things.

Are you expecting a different game?

Many feel like this is just a huge repeat of everything. Are we having too high expectations maybe? Alot of us who paid for the double subscriptions kinda feel let down at times. I'm fully aware that we shouldnt be comparing games but since the FFXI community where the consumers who kept this game alive with the double subscriptions shouldnt they also feel like they can enjoy the game? Chains of Promathia wasnt this easy and getting a job to 60 didnt take 3 days (pre abyssea).
I know alexander just got released but its gonna be done and dealt with in 1-2 weeks then we will repeat the same dungeons over and over again and add a weekly cap to the gear dungeon.
On top of that the enjoyment of earning levels and gears has completed been deleted. Just look at how unrewarding the relic quest has become. If your weapon wont be able to be upgraded from ilvl135 and continue the progress a huge portion of the community will react to this i know it.

"QQ, I grinded old FATEs to get to 60 ASAP and now I have nothing else to do but grind equip!"
So OP, what did you expect?
This is a game with almost pure vertical progression, there is a gear treadmill, and everything is heavily story-based.
Did you expect any of that to suddenly change?
Most people play a game because they like how the game is played, if the dev changes the way the game is played, they are likely going to lose a lot of players. That would make no sense. If you don't like how the game is played, and are waiting for it to change, just leave.

I always thought this is how MMORPGs work.. but maybe i was wrong all the time.

Sometimes i feel like, the majority of people who complain about stuff like this, never played an MMORPG before..

While I don't mind the old stuff and ways being carried over, I have to say I'm quite disappointed that there wasn't any new type of content added at all. I guess collectibles was the closest thing to some new type of busy work. I don't mind grinding or gear treadmills, but it would have been refreshing to have some new way around of doing it that we didn't have in 2.0 already.

Its a continuation of the story in the same world. We didn't blast off the plant to a new one. Of course its going to be similar we are still in the same place, with mostly the same people, just bigger. I'm having a great time with it, but I don't bum rush the content. I take my time with it and enjoy the sights along the way. If you do constant grinding of the same thing over and over, of course you're going to get burnt out. No where does it say we must be max ilvl a week or two after release. Playing the game 24/7 will wear anyone out. But people do it, then complain. I still have a ton of stuff to do, all my crafters/gatherers are still sitting at 50. I guess it comes down to what you enjoy. If you're not enjoying yourself any more then the choice is obvious. If you want to continue on with the game, change up what you do, and maybe it will help.