November? really?

[Azper]

That's all fine and good, but to say that the devs shouldn't have like 3-5 days off as a "vacation" after a near 2 year grind with probably 1 day off every week or so - if that - because they want their shiny new content NOW NOW NOW? Is Not Okay in any context. So no, they had a well-deserved vacation, heaven forbid it delays the next patch some.

No one said they didn't deserve a vacation. People expressed boredom with current content offering and disappointment in having to wait until November for the next patch. That's all. I agree with both sides. I'm happy they got a much needed and well-deserved break, but at the same time I'm not giddy with excitement at running Neverreap and Fractal Continuum for another 6-8 weeks.

[myahele]

Now would have been the perfect time to add relics, to be honest

[Greyfrost]

Now would have been the perfect time to add relics, to be honest

The grind (If any) would at least give people something to do while waiting for the hype.

[ViktorMestrovic]

There was more raid content in the first 4 months of rift than the entire existence of FFXIV 2.0 If you're going to compare the content off FFXIV and things to do.. let's just erase some of these things from our lists because they all of these: crafting.. most mmo's if not all being compared to this game have a crafting system, in many ways curb stomping this game in terms of relevance. PVP.. yes they also have pvp and, again, they do it better than this game.

[ViktorMestrovic]

Dungeons... following a raid format of gaming... yes they have these too, in equal or greater abundance. End game raids... WoW rift, wildstar etc... can have more bosses in a single raid encounter than 2 sets of FFXIV patches... but they usually release more than one raid at a time to work on progression.. a single WoW expansion offers roughly 12 bosses to tackle. They release expansions with a similar schedule... but honestly... a single WoW expansion is like HW + 3 content patches. Rift pumped out like 4 or 5 raids in rapid succession to keep up with their community.

[ViktorMestrovic]

SWTOR suffered heavily from bugs with regards to their raid encounters and failed to pump out more content quickly enough and had fewer fanboys crutching the subs. What this game has going for it is controller support and console support. The other games look graphically dated, but contain the same boring dailies and ability to level other classes blah blah.. of every RAID based mmo to exist this game has provided the least amount of content and yes.. this game is a raid based MMO..that's their midgame/endgame model.If you can't see that, you are beyond help. Similarly, if you think FFXIV has more content in its patches etc than other raid based mmo's.. you are also mentally, tragically screwed. FFXIV borrows from other titles and attempts to innovate, but its development team is too small.

[ViktorMestrovic]

Class/job customization is blow for blow the worst in the MMO industry. Their best bet is to throw gear with different stats on it.... to pretend there's an alternative when in reality there's only ever one good set to be using. Talent trees usually have a best tree too, right? That argument is as flawed and garbage as the mind that conjured it. The games that use that system often find the numbers to be similar between "specs" when parsed. The games mentioned aren't worse, they're just dated or don't have servers in the SEA region. Bloated skill bars are just a symptom of there being no talent/skill selection system.

[SasukeUchiha81]

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Wow, after that rant, un-sub and leave, please? You hate this much go play something else. >< Just an idea. You basically bashed everything about the game, so what are you doing here?

[razzgrizz3]

Cannot have the patch this soon guys. Yoshida is far too busy flying around the world promoting this 5 year old game and organizing fanfests.

[LunaHoshino]

A lot of people seem to be conflating "There's nothing *I* want to do" with "There's nothing to do." The two things are not the same at all. Objectively, there are many, many things to do in the game; someone not wanting to do some or all of them is not a flaw with the game itself, but rather their own personal opinion. Which they're entitled to have, but let's not pretend that it's an objective fact, because it isn't. There is a HUGE amount of content available in the game for those who want to take advantage of all of it.