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

**Lewtskie** · 07-09-2015 10:35 AM

Well we saw radical shift in mechanics with Coils, and consider them easy or hard they did start flinging everything at us including the kitchen sink. Outside Coils the Primals were fairly structured, simple in design and varied difficulty in execution. But it really did start a shift with Coils. And perhaps that's where the next shift will happen. I'm not sure if it'll be entirely seen in Alex Savage, could be something further down the line.

That aside, I guess I just see everything differently. What you see as handouts I just see as something to do in-between the madness. The tomes gear is just another fashion of leveling my character while I get completely used to my kit in a variety of situations. I see it as just further preparation for what's to come.

**Solaria_Luna** · 07-09-2015 10:44 AM

Originally Posted by Andevom

I loved XI, but if you think XI didn't have fetch quests, you're deluded.

"Bring me lizard eggs." "Bring me bat wings." Bring me 10,000 carp." "Bring me three drops from three different mobs to unlock subjobs." "Bring me three drops from three NMs, and I'll give you this MNK belt." "Bring me a testimony for your job and I'll let you beat me up so you can level to 75".

OMG I think this is the best post in this thread. For some reason I read it and smiled. (I think it was "Bring me a testimony for your job")

**Kata** · 07-09-2015 10:52 AM

I personally love this game and so much so I've purchased multiple copies including Collectors Editions to ensure I can play with my loved ones. Thing is SE expects me to purchase a 7th unnecessary copy because some Agent Melinda is unable to help me and is too incompetent that she rudely dismisses me despite the fact I waited in queue for HOURS!!!!!

**Lego3400** · 07-09-2015 11:43 AM

Originally Posted by SkizzleofRagnarok

This isnt even a FFXI fanboy thing it comes down to. I paid for 2.0 content with different skin pretty much.

If you were expecting the game to change as dramatically as it did between 1.0 and 2.0 I don't know what to tell you. Of course an Expansion Pack is going to give more of the same. It's in the name. It's an expansion that builds upon what we have.

**Akiza** · 07-09-2015 01:22 PM

The problem with the op is he has unrealistic expectation its called an expansion not a reboot not a new Final Fantasy MMO so I wasn't expecting anything new I expected them to build on what is already in the base game. My problem is people always say they want something innovative and new but when developers try new things in an MMO it is recieved poorly and the game ends up being a free to play piece of crap rotting in the mmo graveyard. Since humans are slow to accept change by nature the only way to innovate in an mmo is to slowly build upon something thats already established until it transforms into something entirely different.

**Chek** · 07-09-2015 01:29 PM

Treadmill theme park MMO.

**Synestra** · 07-09-2015 01:52 PM

Originally Posted by Kio

I'm quite disappointed that there wasn't any new type of content added at all.

I hope that airship content has some real depth in it so we have something else besides alex and crafting, also i hope pvp gets some real love in 3.1

**Mhikail** · 07-09-2015 02:06 PM

Originally Posted by WHS

He continues like a great many of us other ffxi fans. We have a passion , love for the final fantasy franchise as a whole from 1 to now. Especially ffxi. We have had a great level of service over the past 10 or so years and was expecting the same zeal and excitement that made ffxi so great to strike twice. This game could and should do more than it is now. We stay cause we hope it will do so. We stay because we love Final Fantasy and this is the next chapter.

Well shoot. People get sick and tired of trying to convince some random dude on here why he should stay.
Why's it always our job? If you don't like the game, then go. When I get sick of this game I don't nag about it, I leave and come back when something fun happens.
It's like convincing people to have McDonalds for days on end but they keep having some sort of complaint.
Scenario Time!
Guy; I had McDonalds...but it keeps having the same thing. Tell me why I should have McDonalds if it keeps on having the same things.
Girl; Well I like McDonald's, it has some good food, but I agree some things are bleh. Why not have Nuggets and a Mcflurry?
Guy; -Proceeds to complain about everything on the menu, then goes to order the same thing and continues to pay for it and eats it while complaining;
Then it just happens again every day...STOP GOING TO MCDON--...I mean, stop playing this game for a while!

Edit: Oop, the cats out the bag now folks! The dude wants FFXI:'Another Chance' MMO.
Game ain't FFXI, because OP already compared this to a over a decade year old game and obviously he wants that.
I'd suggest going back to that then. Oh wait, he doesn't wanna wait 15 years to use another skill!, sit in a dead town and look for a party for half his lifetime.
Well....slim pickin's I'd say. And the kicker to all of this is; people try to convince him but he always has to have the last word and turn his head away. It's annoying lol.

**Kaedan94** · 07-09-2015 02:18 PM

I'm guessing this is your first MMO, OP?

This is standard practice. At least with FFXIV we get a good story to go along with it. I really don't know why you expect the gameplay to suddenly change.

If you don't enjoy how MMOs work, you may want to look at other genres of game. Witcher 3 (and it's predecessors) are very good, although even it has repetitive content. Hell, I don't think there's a game out there that doesn't have repetitive content.

EDIT: Oh, I see he played FFXI. Which makes his complaints even more confusing, since FFXI was just as repetitive if not moreso then FFXIV.

**SkizzleofRagnarok** · 07-09-2015 05:32 PM

FFXI didnt feel like a chore like FFXIV is for me atleast. I couldnt wait to get back home from work to play FFXI and even if i waited 3-4h to get a party sometimes in jeuno it just didnt bother me at all. I didnt like it ofcourse but it didnt bother me.
Like I said I never wanted another FFXI. Didnt expect SE to Hustle me with this new expansion. Everything about content beeing harder was a let down. The excuse here is well don't rush. If I have to compare games even if I rushed I couldnt beat CoP or Zilart in 4 days like I did the new expansion.
If the dev said they are going to try something new how are you gonna trick your own consumers by presenting the exact same thing over again?
Since we are comparing Zilart,CoP and FFXI wasnt the same?
FFXIV and Heavensward is pretty much the same?
Do these 2 dungeons x 5000 times to get law for all your jobs and get a few gears here and there.

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