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

Originally Posted by SkizzleofRagnarok

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.

So you are telling me we didn't repeat the same content over and over and over and over again in FFXI? Completed CoP and farmed Sea and Sky over and over and over and over but limited because there was one for everyone. couldnt farm the same NMs when you wanted, oh no, wasnt designed that way. So you organised schedules with the other end game Linkshells to take it in turns, so most times you couldn't even enter to farm and hope for that rare drop that you had been trying for the last 12 months. Going as a caster, Ooo enjoy that magic aggro potentially wiping the party from the pots floating around.

Trying to level up as a job that wasn't FOTM. GL with BLM, theres leeches over there, leeches? GL with MNK. DRG? just delete. Could go on.

Why do so many laud FFXI as the greatest thing ever while avoiding all the complaints that where in game and moaned about in game? Simple thing is the players made the game good, the game, on it's own, wasn't that good.

Anyways, yeah tis a little disapointing there is so little content overall in heavensward, for one Yoshi said there will be as much content as there was in 2.0. We seem to be missing a few dungeons for a start. Also 3.1, 3.2 etc. With 2.x we had, dungeon wise, 3 new dungeons. Two of those where HM versions of the levelling dungeons plus 1 new one. Due to how the HMs where done, time was saved because of reused assets. Now we only have 5 levelling dungeons, thats only 2.5 content updates worth if they stay the same. Will we only get 2 new dungeons per update now?

As we will be getting dev time spent on creating 2 versions fo the raids, Story mode and the harder savage mode. How much of a diversion of manhours will that entail from other projects? Doubtful that the Savage version will be the same as Savage SCoB, as the savage Alex and future raids are designed to be cleared. Whereas Savage SCoB wasn't, it was the base design, unbalanced. Albeit it was cleared showing the skill and inginuity of those who were able to clear, those who cleared when it was nw moreso.

Getting to the point, I was hoping Heavensward would be where they really start to take FFXIV in it's own direction. Where it would start to diferentiate itself from all the other MMOs. But all we can do is see what happens with the 3.x updates.