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

Originally Posted by ZellosWilder

They gave us a lackluster expansion at launch and the solution is just take a break?

I'm getting the gist you don't want to hear this.

Sadly there are no other expansions out at the moment and the devs are not machines. If you've had enough of the treadmill (and trust me, I've been there) find a new fc or a static, or take up something else, or unsub and learn something new. It'll be rewarding, much more so than playing a game you do not like.

We can recommend activities and have them get shot down until the cows come home, but no forum post is going to decide for you yourself if the game is worth playing. That's between you and whatever connections you have in game.

Originally Posted by Kallera

I'm getting the gist you don't want to hear this.

Sadly there are no other expansions out at the moment and the devs are not machines. If you've had enough of the treadmill (and trust me, I've been there) find a new fc or a static, or take up something else, or unsub and learn something new. It'll be rewarding, much more so than playing a game you do not like.

We can recommend activities and have them get shot down until the cows come home, but no forum post is going to decide for you yourself if the game is worth playing. That's between you and whatever connections you have in game.

I think you have misunderstood the gist of what I have been saying.

First off I never said I did not like 14? Getting an expansion which you had more expectations for =/= do not like also I won't be quitting any time soon so ppl need to stop with these comments, as I have plenty to do in the game and I already do other stuff off of 14.

Secondly I am a leader of a FC so most of what you are suggesting isn't something I can do and I'm also enjoying Alexander farming with my members but overall its just lackluster and seems like a rushed expansion and others agree with me with this, the devs aint machines but they could of delayed the expansion because it clearly doesn't have enough content but it was released early because it's a good business decision to get the expansion out during the summer holidays when people have more freetime to play.

Originally Posted by LunaHoshino

There will never be "enough content" for those who insist on rushing through everything right out of the gate. No matter how much the devs give us, they will blaze through it in a week or two and then complain about being bored.

The game isn't a race. You don't win anything for getting through everything as fast as possible. If that's how you want to play, go right ahead, but then don't complain when you run out of things to do.

My FC our casual players so we dont spam or rush anything, players are blind to think there is alot of content from Heavensward but there really isn't that much atm just like when SE released Seekers of Adoulin in FFXI there wasn't enough at launch to keep players happy and it's the exact same thing here.

- lv50-60 + story + sidequests can be done at a decent pace within 1 week of playing

- Gearing yourself ready for Ex and Alex by farming laws from roulette and spamming hunts can be done within 1 week this isn't even rushing.

- Alexander A1-4 can be done within 1 day then farming Alexander if you do it in PF or with your FC can be done in 3-4 days if you don't rush.

- Extreme fights: Bismarck is just for the clear as the gear is only for glamour and Ravana farm you only need to do it 10 times so that everyone has at least 1 wep each both these can be done in a couple of days.

All the content can be done within 3 weeks of playing at a decent pace (especially since they made everything so easy to complete) if you have less time it will take longer if you want to rush it all you could probably do all this within 1 week if you were super hardcore. Optionally you can lv other jobs and crafting to 60 or do triple triad etc but 3 weeks of content isn't a proper expansion I'm sorry you can disagree all you like but there really isn't much there. They will be adding more in patches but at this moment this is what we got and it just doesn't feel like a full expansion it feels lackluster at launch.

Originally Posted by ZellosWilder

All the content can be done within 3 weeks of playing at a decent pace (especially since they made everything so easy to complete) if you have less time it will take longer if you want to rush it all you could probably do all this within 1 week if you were super hardcore. Optionally you can lv other jobs and crafting to 60 or do triple triad etc but 3 weeks of content isn't a proper expansion I'm sorry you can disagree all you like but there really isn't much there. They will be adding more in patches but at this moment this is what we got and it just doesn't feel like a full expansion it feels lackluster at launch.

You said it yourself. They are adding more patches, all of which are a part of the not-yet-complete expansion. MMOs are not like a single player game that you buy and get all the content for immediately and play through in a month or two. If this game did that people would unsub after getting through the content, and that's not the point of an MMO. Usually (as I've seen in WoW at least) the first patch is there to introduce the new land, let you try out new races, give a few new dungeons and raid bosses and most importantly give you a chance to level up all of your characters or in this case classes. Heavensward did all of that and combined with the fact that this game has a patch cycle as short as 3 months, I think there's a sufficient amount of things to do.

Looking at your description of what there is to do, you aim to finish all quests and then proceed to gearing up and killing bosses for the next 2 years. With your pace of content consumption (3 weeks), they would have to release 16 raid bosses, 8 trials and 8 max-level dungeons as well as making leveling and pre-Ex gearing 4 times as slow in order to keep you entertained for 3 months (the usual length of a patch). At the time of patch 3.5 they would have had to release 96 bosses, 48 trials and 48 max level dungeons to satisfy end-game-only players on top of the casual attractions like beast tribe quests, main scenario, seasonal events, new glamour and something like the gold saucer. Do you not see how unrealistic that is? Not to mention how awful it would be to play catch up all the time for players who go through content much slower, because they do other MMO activities (pvp, rp, crafting, gathering, glamour) or have a limited schedule.

You have to understand that if you choose to focus only on end game, there's no way to avoid running out of things to do. At least not without making the game so tedious that it will piss of the majority of players who are more casual. My advice is: don't focus only on end game! This MMO is not tailored for end-game-only playstyle. The armory system encourages to play all classes, so why not level up some alternative jobs when you are done with gearing up. There's also gathering and crafting, both of which have a unique system of rotations, gearing up and cross class skills. All classes also got additions to their own quest lines. Alts and professions are very traditional MMO activities and if you choose to ignore them, part of the blame for running out of things to do is on yourself.

Ok well, im not bored after 3 weeks. Maybe its cause i do do all that optional stuff you think doesn't count for longevity.

On a "day off", yeah, i can go through quite a lot of leveling, but the pace you are claiming i do not relate with(even if there are some in my fc that do level really fast, like my fc leader.)

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