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

Welcome to (most) MMOs. Surprise, surprise, Heavensward is more of FFXIV. Were you expecting Final Fantasy XV? That's a different game.

If you don't like it, you're free to leave. There's the door; don't let it hit you on the way out.

Your complaint boils down to "There's not enough to do" when you aren't even doing a large part of everything there is available to you.

It's not a shortcoming of the game if you aren't interested in doing everything it offers, and it doesn't mean there's a lack of content either.

CoP itself took months to be completed through several patch updates. It wasn't all released in one chunk. Heavensward had a story from start to finish with the launch of the expansion. The only reason Zilart even had something similar was because the North American launch was months after the JP release. Dynamis, Limbus, etc were also added, but again through several patches.

http://www.zam.com/wiki/Update_History_%28FFXI%29

Originally Posted by Monty

CoP itself took months to be completed through several patch updates. It wasn't all released in one chunk. Heavensward had a story from start to finish with the launch of the expansion. The only reason Zilart even had something similar was because the North American launch was months after the JP release. Dynamis, Limbus, etc were also added, but again through several patches.

http://www.zam.com/wiki/Update_History_%28FFXI%29

Yeah a few months but not 2yrs like Luvbunny is suggesting and HW story hasn't finished it just the beginning of the story as there was a cliffhanger at the end (not being specific as some may not have completed it yet)

In any thread, I've always loved the "If you don't like it, just leave/quit" Including the cliche "Don't let the door hit you on the way out"

Yes, very meaningful.


With that said, this is how expansions in MMOs are, in regards to "gear", Yes you will grind for new and better gear AGAIN. However, I do agree with some folks that the Expansion could have been...better, improved upon 2.0, or more engaging.

I'm a french player and it is quite funny to see that in the french forums, no one is complaining about Heavensward, the 2.0 feel of it and so on. I was even thinking I was the only one who felt that way.

Well, as far as I'm concerned, I finally decided to quit FFXIV. I paid for Heavensward with the idea in mind that it would the "patch" of the last chance, I had expectations and hope for the future, I thought that the expansion would be the perfect time to add some real new things and update others. And where did we end ? In a situation where some parts of the game are even worst than before and the rest is just the same. Nothing really changed. It's really as if I was playing 2.0 once again but with a flying mount.

Even if I liked pretty much the main story, when I reached the post-main story content and saw that my game time would be token farm again and again, playing like a robot just to get new stuff, I made my decision. Like someone said earlier, maybe I will be back in a future patch and play for a month, and so on...

Meanwhile, I gave a chance to Elder Scrolls Online and did not regret it, this game is quite impressive in some ways and, in my opinion, there are a lot of things far better than in FFXIV. I started to think that if FFXIV was not "Final Fantasy" it would have failed in such an awful way... it's just good because of the Final Fantasy vibes in it and the Final Fantasy fan service. Except that, the game is not that great. So I understand players who want to stop. Sure you can come back in a few months, you can play another games or another MMOs and see that grass is greener on the other side

Originally Posted by Tinibou

I'm a french player and it is quite funny to see that in the french forums, no one is complaining about Heavensward, the 2.0 feel of it and so on. I was even thinking I was the only one who felt that way.

Well, as far as I'm concerned, I finally decided to quit FFXIV. I paid for Heavensward with the idea in mind that it would the "patch" of the last chance, I had expectations and hope for the future, I thought that the expansion would be the perfect time to add some real new things and update others. And where did we end ? In a situation where some parts of the game are even worst than before and the rest is just the same. Nothing really changed. It's really as if I was playing 2.0 once again but with a flying mount.

Even if I liked pretty much the main story, when I reached the post-main story content and saw that my game time would be token farm again and again, playing like a robot just to get new stuff, I made my decision. Like someone said earlier, maybe I will be back in a future patch and play for a month, and so on...

Meanwhile, I gave a chance to Elder Scrolls Online and did not regret it, this game is quite impressive in some ways and, in my opinion, there are a lot of things far better than in FFXIV. I started to think that if FFXIV was not "Final Fantasy" it would have failed in such an awful way... it's just good because of the Final Fantasy vibes in it and the Final Fantasy fan service. Except that, the game is not that great. So I understand players who want to stop. Sure you can come back in a few months, you can play another games or another MMOs and see that grass is greener on the other side

How long have you been playing Elder Scrolls Online becuase after a month of that game you will be crawling back to this game. If Final Fantasy XIV was not Final Fantasy it will still be doing well. Sort of like how the piece of crap Final Fantasy XIV 1.0 bombed eventhough it played up to the Final Fantasy fan service. Reality check Final Fantasy XIV suceeded because they made a high quality MMO and the developers are in it for the long haul while other MMO's like ESO becuase of developer greed and wantting to make a quick dollar are in it to milk consumers.