Bored now...

[Obysuca]

It's like speed running through a single player game and then complaining that it's short.

The problem is, if you play longer than an hour a day, you'll finish everything in a few hours. Just look at roulettes, you can fully finish all of them in maybe ~2 hours, then all 3 ranks of hunts take about 30 minutes, all 4 floors of alex take maybe an hour and a half now. There, you just finished all the relevant content for the day/week in abour 4 hours. XIV just throws stuff at you like its going out of style, not to mention the content is easy, the only thing making it difficult (not counting savage) are bad players who "play their way" and cause wipes.

It's not technically speed running when the game has so many caps, you can finish it all very shortly if you know how to manage your time and not only play for ~1 hour a day. To the people who say they only have time for an hour a day, my reply is that you should learn to manage time better. For over a decade, people who have been playing mmos have had work and family, even social lives, yet still played for a good 5+ hours daily. I really feel the people who only play for an hour or less a day don't know how to manage time and live like its the sims (wake up, work/school, home, sleep).
So if you're living like the sims and can't manage time, then sure, there's "plenty to do", but if you know how to manage time and play for 5+ hours (you know, the average playtime people play on a mmo. Yes, mmo, not a facebook/mobile game you spend an hour a day on.) like a lot of us do, then there's not really much to do in XIV and that's why we're bored.

MMOs used to release enough content to last you through the next update, even further(while playing for 5+ hours a day or more), but XIV gives us content that lasts a week, then we're stuck grinding the same 2 dungeons for 4-5 months, which then are thrown out, resulting in the same amount of content. Updates used to add content, not throw away what was just added, they'd build off of it, so then each update there would technically be more of a variety in things to do and would rarely, if ever, get bored, rather than "2 dungeons until next update. Update comes, those dungeons are useless, here's the exact same thing to replace that so you have no new variety".

[MeiUshu]

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whaoo, what a kind of post is this, you think that because you can do so or SOME can do so, that eveybody should play so much ? Let me break it down for you, I will take my own case.

Work from 7am to 7pm daily. Come home at 8pm, diner, family, household management, help with schoolwork and the like, husband, whatever....fnishing about 10pm

tell me how many hours do you think I can play a day without feeling exhausted by going to bed at 3 or 4am every day because I want to play more then 1h ?


Just because you believe that what you find normal should be the norm, doesnt make it necesseraly so, unless, of course, you do not speak toy our children, husband and dont care of anything else, then coming home and sitting behind a computer, to get your daily drug dose of mmmos, provided you have a family, children and a family life of course or you are extremly rich to have someone that does everything for you.

Most of those that have a family, dont play from home, but from work, that means they can do so. I, for one, cant so I play only from home. Most of those that have a family, will not sacrifice their family life for a game or would not, so, they are not playing everyday but only let say 2 or 3x a week, most of those that have a family, hve a family for a reason and, I would hope, not to ignore it. I know quiete a bunch that used to play daily for hours as a family, well guess what, they ended up divorced, what is the point in being married to someone that you never see, speak or share anything with ? I am not saying all are only playing 1h a day but all arent either playing 24h a day.

This being said, the content isnt made to be rushed through, people have the choice to rush through or take time....it is not a game meant to suit only one category of players but a wide range and when doing that you, wihtout a doubt, will discontent a category or another that find themselves to both extreme, those having 24h/24H to play and those having 1h to play a day.

I would be careful when coming here and saying that people should all play 5h a day or be gone....those that play without rushing are probably, from commercial point of view, a steadier source of income, because THEY have always something to do even with the long breaks between new content release...might want to think to this too.

You sure you have a family, and if you have, I am sure grateful that I am not part of it.

Just me though

Mei

[Obysuca]

whaoo, what a kind of post is this

The kind that everyone is too afraid to say but needs to be said.

I would be careful when coming here and saying that people should all play 5h a day or be gone

You're the one who's saying that, not me. I'm just saying that a good portion of people have the time to set aside for hours a day on a mmo, even while doing things with the family or stuff around the house. It's all about managing time better. A lot of people have the opportunity to do these things, but fail to correctly manage them in a way that they can. You can still please your family/friends while also playing for 5+ hours daily. I'm sorry if you can't multi-task, but a lot of us can. Theres a good portion who work 9pm - 5pm, who come home, make dinner, interact with family and also still get hours of gaming.

From what you said, it sure sounds like your family doesn't want you playing a mmo, or doing anything for yourself. You do realize, you're allowed to have time to yourself right? It doesn't take two parents to help with homework and definitely shouldn't all be put on a single person, when there's another there who can help out. There's such a thing as "No, not right now, I need some time to myself." instead of "Ok, let me drop everything to do your stuff." That's not a healthy/happy family. That's 2-4 people using a single person to do their stuff while they can do whatever they want.

it is not a game meant to suit only one category of players

The problem is, thats exactly what SE is doing. They're catering to people who can't manage time and expect to play a mmo (which the goal of a mmo is to be a huge timesink) like a facebook/mobile game(where you can spend 1 hour and get stuff), which is why a lot of us are bored from the lack of content and variety.

Heavensward is 3.0. 2 expert dungeons just like 2.0; it's safe to say there's plenty more on the way. Be patient. You think they don't already have more planned? As if no foresight went into this and someone just decided "well this is enough and leave it at that"? Please. . .[/I]

The problem is that when they do add more stuff, they throw away the stuff they just made, resulting in the same amount of content we just had, nothing new, not more content. The exact same amount. Going by this logic, why even bother adding new dungeons when they just throw out what was just out. No, 3 months does not make it "old". Old is 1 year+. Old is t1-5. By this logic and the plan they've been doing, they could just keep the same 2 dungeons and make them a little more difficult each update. That's exactly what they're doing right now by throwing out the 2 dungeons they just added and replacing them with 2 more. There's zero variety.