November? really?

[Kyomagi]

Yikes, this thread took a turn haha. anyway, im fine with the devs taking a vacation being the reason for the delay. There are plenty of games for the ps4/vita/3ds that will keep me busy til then.

then 3.1 keep me busy until persona 5


damn delays

[Fevelle]

Are people really complaining about more horizontal gear? And more content for casuals so we can have the same iLV as the "oh mighty and great" savage raiders? My God...

[Hyrist]

Are people really complaining about more horizontal gear? And more content for casuals so we can have the same iLV as the "oh mighty and great" savage raiders? My God...

My understanding is the prevalent complaint is that it's taking too long ,and that there isn't enough 'hype' generated about the patch. *shurg*

[F_Maximillian]

I find alot of these replies truly funny yet reassuring at the same time. I'll try to tackle some of the things I've seen in here one at a time starting with the complaints that 2.0 launched with vastly more content than 3.0 did. Yes, this is completely true and there's very good reasons for it. The development team had years to develop the 2.0 launch, had content from 1.0 to draw on, and made damn sure to put as much of their best foot forward as possible because 2.0 was the last chance for FFXIV to succeed. 3.0 was developed over the time while these same developers also rolled out content patches from 2.0 to 2.5, giving them far much more work to do in a much shorter time span. And for an expansion that will continually update unlike many games with expansions that make you wait over a year for what winds up being less content than what is generally rolled out by consistent patching.

Which brings me to the other thing, patch cycle. I've waited far longer between patches for much less content. Sure, those games weren't trying to be top titles but the point still stands in the industry I don't know of any MMORPG that rolls content out as quickly as FFXIV does. Yes, content does indeed exist in the game beyond simply ignoring everything but getting "BiS" gear and then sitting in town complaining how bored you are while at the same time flexing your ego at all the plebeians who are obviously worthless compared to you. For those of us who find interest in doing more than that in this game there's plenty of content to get through. I've played games where maybe 20% of the content interested me too, once I did what I wanted I took a break instead of complaining that the developers couldn't keep up with my habit like so many do here. After all, I would hope that rational beings would realize developers could probably never keep up with developing content at the rate their consumers can blow through it.

However, there's always the crowd that seems to have missed the memo but that same crowd is usually the unpleasant types to begin with. After reading a lot of these posts I've spotted quite a few of people who I identify as such. If you aren't happy with what the game currently brings to the table then you no longer need to keep playing. Last time I checked we didn't get shackled to our chairs when we logged in after all. For those of us here, that would be a great benefit in the quality of people we run into. We'd have less people ranting and raving when something goes wrong in a dungeon or a raid and less complaints about how the game is dying and it isn't fun and all other variations of doomsday that people like to come out with. I'd much rather have to wait a bit longer to find people for running content than have a wide pool of people I couldn't be paid enough to spend an hour locked in an instance with after all.

The developers are human too and they've been putting ridiculous hours into developing this content, that need I remind a lot of people, is on more than one platform so extra coding must be involved there as well. I have no problems waiting a bit longer because the developers took a well deserved break so they can rest and continue to bring us more content to the game. Businesses, just like statics (that fail because people decide every free minute of their group member's time belongs to the static) require their workers to be well rested and functional in order to succeed. I've noticed people mentioning that people in their statics are quitting when most of these statics haven't even fully cleared savage and I'd suspect it's due to the same mindsets belonging to people who decided the developers don't deserve a break.

[Alisa180]

I'm probably one of the few who is actually *glad* we aren't getting the new content until November.

Back in World of Warcraft, I literally couldn't keep up. During Cata, I hit level cap only in time for the very last raid tier. I never reached raiding in Mists at all, and quit upon realizing I wasn't. Which sucked, since what raid healing I did get to do was some of the most fun I ever had. (To be fair, part of this has to do with the fact I played a Holy Priest. Thank god for Cleric Stance and allowing healers, CNJ/WHM in my case, to actually get through quests. Tanking chocobo saved my ass on more then a few occasions too.)

When I started playing FFXIV, it was less then two months before HW released. I didn't make endgame before the release, needless to say. Which sucks, 'cause now I'm going to have to go out of my way to find an FC or party to do Coil. And it was a while before I reached Ishgard and got cracking on HW content. Now, don't get me wrong here, I loved every second of it, the story and characters are fantastic. I'm on the verge of reaching the necessary gear level for Alex NM. I expect to reach that point next week. Hearing Alex won't be obsolete for a while longer comes as a surprising relief, since it means unless I suddenly stop playing for a while, I'll be reaching endgame content while it's still relevant. Likely, Patch 3.1 will be releasing just as I get as sick of Alex, Neverreap, and FC as everyone else.

So, I actually think the vacation for the developers and the patch delay was well-timed. A lot of new players have been drawn in by the hype surrounding HW, and you have to remember that there's a *long* way to go before endgame. It wouldn't surprise me if many of them, like myself, are only just reaching endgame and/or have only reached it relatively recently. The delay gives us all the chance to do endgame while it's still relevant, rather then being left behind on the treadmill. And considering how patches usually come in 3 month intervals, a normal schedule would have left me, and other HW newcomers, in the dust all too soon. If veterans leave because they're bored, that's fine. Us newcomers will simply fill in the gaps, and we'll hopefully see you again when 3.1 releases.

[Alexander_Dragonfang]

Personally i wouldn`t mind a 5 month wait of content if we get more polished, well thought and consistent content.

Many of the feature problems of this game i think, comes from hurrying up, 3 months seem to be short considering that every mayor feature outside raiding content has been in the need to be late hotfixed several times and some have been literal failures (hunts come to mind immediatly) ... i understand many stay for the speed of content for raiding, but the game isn`t about only raiding, id rather have a higher quality, consistent and properly planed content, than the usual bloops of bad content we get.

[Dererk]

Personally i wouldn`t mind a 5 month wait of content if we get more polished, well thought and consistent content.

Truthfully I'd be fin with the wait I really would. But what I'm not fine with is that they just made the same kind of dungeons and raids. This is the problem with them making stuff so simple and straight forward to make it so people who only have say 1-2 hours a day to play.

2.0 saved ffxiv. 3.0 they should have taken a risk to add something different to the base expansion. But they didn't that's what people are mad at.

Everything's the same. I'm happy the Devs wer able to take a break but why would you do the same dungeon raid type as 2.0. I mean it's good that you made a story mode for a raid I know people love story's. But in my opinion its one of the worse waste of resources. I would have much rather not have savage if the normal raid was much longer and more rewarding.

[AskaRay]

Maybe I'm just patient.
Maybe I'm used to this because literally every major release in my favourite video game series is pretty much always delayed by a year (back in 2014 when Nintendo said they planned on an early 2015 release for Zelda U I just laughed and marked off Holiday '16).
Either way an -extra month- isn't going to kill me. Oh no...what will I do.

And yes I still believe it is a personal problem if you are now bored in this game. There is plenty to do, and just because you ignore/don't want to do part of the content is your problem. Personally, I hate crafting. I don't think it's fun, but that doesn't suddenly make it content. It's still something to do and just because it's not an option for me doesn't mean it isn't there.

[DragonSlayer45]

The dev team are human like the rest of us in here and need breaks and vacations. They aren't robots. If you are unhappy and have nothing to do in game, unsubscribe from the game until November. It's as simple as that.

Besides, this actually gives me time to complete a rather long backlog of other games I have.