Boring Endgame

[NattyExe]

I kinda have to agree. I really wish there was more to do at endgame. Before Abyssea, people were still doing Sky, Sea, Dynamis, Limbus, Salvage, Assault (including Nyzul) and Einherjar. There was plenty to do.

With this, I feel like content is going to be outdated much quicker.

It took the developers years to accumulate the amount of content FFXI had before Abyssea.

[Rumpelstiltzkin]

It took the developers years to accumulate the amount of content FFXI had before Abyssea.

XIV will never get there regardless of how many years it is up though because it is pure vertical progression. It is a very bad way to spend resources and developers will never be able to keep up. We've seen it in other games like WoW before and the same thing is happening here. It likely won't change though because Yoshi has even stated he is fine with people playing for a couple of weeks after a patch and then unsubbing until the next patch. With expansions being just a large patch like this and just new tome grinding with no new different content/horizontal progression people get bored fast. Pure vertical vs pure horizontal progression both have their perks, I just wish XIV could at least find more of a middle ground.

[Sartori]

XIV will never get there regardless of how many years it is up though because it is pure vertical progression. It is a very bad way to spend resources and developers will never be able to keep up. We've seen it in other games like WoW before and the same thing is happening here. It likely won't change though because Yoshi has even stated he is fine with people playing for a couple of weeks after a patch and then unsubbing until the next patch. With expansions being just a large patch like this and just new tome grinding with no new different content/horizontal progression people get bored fast. Pure vertical vs pure horizontal progression both have their perks, I just wish XIV could at least find more of a middle ground.

Never happen, they dug themselves a hole with this regearing nonsense every few weeks....

[erish]

I don't see anyone ridding a horse.

Maybe *riding*, but not ridding. What's he ridding himself of?

No, the problem is that folks that are bored are content locusts.

Ive been here nearly everyday throught 2.0 and into this expansion and even im disapointed im playing 2.0 again. Its alright but lets not kid ourselves its not anything but 2.0 but with a dodgy dx11.

[Anty]

Sounds like a Themepark MMO to me...OH WOOPS! WE ARE in a Themepark MMO....

it always baffles me how many people just embrace the dullness of the content repetition in ARR. Themepark does by no means mean, short, simple and copy pasted content from 2.0, does it?
Hunts basicly didnt change, fates did not change, the whole system with roulette didnn't change. - which is very bad since having so few dungeons again in roulette for tomes is a huge turn off.
But its all 2.0 over again. The Alexander raid was fun but it's extremely short. 2-3 different endgame options like alexander would be more like it endgame wise, tome grind isn't. Stats also didn't change at all (just higher numbers).

[Anty]

Ive been here nearly everyday throught 2.0 and into this expansion and even im disapointed im playing 2.0 again. Its alright but lets not kid ourselves its not anything but 2.0 but with a dodgy dx11.

i've been talkign with FC/LS mates about it and many feel the same way.

[Anty]

XIV will never get there regardless of how many years it is up though because it is pure vertical progression. It is a very bad way to spend resources and developers will never be able to keep up......

lol yeah at least that is justice. if we have to grind on the never ending tradmill of gearprogression, the devs will also never have a real happy playerbase cause they are programming on content that is outdated the very day it gets live.

[Anty]

Never happen, they dug themselves a hole with this regearing nonsense every few weeks....

i still think that can change, there are so many posts about this problem, there were during 2.0 and we have them now.It really is sad because i think they really destroy their content with it. I mean... why bother with so many things, you work for somethign and before you even finished with it, its a new ilvl...

[Anty]

I was expecting tons of system revisions and overhauls in 3.0, but NOPE
Have more FATEs, have Hunts, have a weekly lockout here and there, also here are some boring forgettable hallways "Dungeons" for you to grind your weekly esoterics for likely more loreless gear that will be outdated if not at release within 3-6 months after :3

I surmise that "experimentation" is one of the last thing on SE's minds after the disaster 1.0 was, so we'll continue to get this hybrid Final Fantasy WoW like until you're sick of it.

It's a shame because the dev team seem to have a lot of passion, but I feel like resources and priorities are misplaced.

i agree 100% with you, ok i knew that there will be familiar mechanics here and there but the EXACT copy of 2.0 boring ilvl progression alongside the typical raid-primal-casualraid mechanic is a major turn off.Now they have a huge world but they filled it with unimportant things. They have to stop makeing a game that only looks nice in Promotion videos, we actualyl need content that is fun longer then 1-2 playthroughs.

especially the lvl 60 dungeons (above all neverreap) are so horribly boring.

And instead giving us nice questing and story for the Jobspecific gear, we get the currency system. So that makes 3.0 worse then 2.0 for me.
2.0 started really good, then with each lazy patch it got more into that treadmill and content wasnt even real content, it was just tome grind after tome grind.

Did SE lose all its creativitiy?

[Ortamus]

Me playing FFXIV at the moment.

Woohoo, Rank 6 FC, I can now buy land and build a house.....oh I can't, there's none available.

It's okay I'll sign up for PVP instead....30 minutes later. Eeesh still waiting.

No problem I'll go to the Golden Saucer there's lot of fun things to do there....nope, no one is racing Chocobos because it sucks. The mini games don't add anything interesting and 3 of the gates are just poor.

That's fine I'll just play some games of cards with the ones I have obtained....oh, I can't use them, I have to grind card games to use the cards I have, giving my friends who play the game much more than me a huge advantage.

Back to levelling gathering, seeing how many times I can push the X button in an hour is as much fun as I can have.