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.

[IgnisFatuus]

I always see this stuff about Bethesda games but never experience their "unplayable" state, maybe I'm just incredibly lucky? As for the rest, anyone "invested" into the gaming medium knows how much shit sells, as long as it's by the right publisher and having the large name of Star Wars attached will only help that. Battlefield 4 has sold over 7 million copies to date and that's the numbers from over a year ago, that game was a horrendous pile shite on release. There will always be that vocal minority that scream the franchise's death, but they always go on. I'm sure we're all familiar with that. The thing is though, most MMO players don't care enough to post about their dislike with how things are going, and just unsubscribe.

a bit off-topic, but I think playing brand new bethesda releases is a bit like gambling. you may come by with some glitches and small bugs, but there's always some people who get their saves destroyed from major game breaking bugs which are often even part of the main story.

also, how much damage a brand has received usually only shows on its successor. battlefield hardline didnt do so hot as far as i know.



personally, i currently really dont know what to do. I quit raiding because having a fit schedule just didnt go over well with me anymore. my old static also exploded shortly after (they still play, just dont raid anymore). we were pretty "casual", clearing content late, but the people were fun and we made some slow but steady progress till savage.
capping eso and scribs is also getting old _really_ fast after youve been on the cap wheel for 2 years+. the new areas are great, but everything else is exactly like weve come to expect to. i usually subscribe for 6 months at a time, but i really need to think twice again this time. last time that happened with 2.3 which also didnt bring much worthwhile to the table.

[Hyrist]

I just don't understand the reason why if a person says that is getting bored people start writing "stop saying it's boring just don't play until november".
You know, people have... opinions.

There is an old saying.

Opinions are like bumholes. Everyone has one, nobody wants to be told theirs stinks.

If you're bored, stop playing. Complain if you wish but to expect that it accomplishes much more than annoying your peers the way you present it is rather inconsiderate of others, at best. This is why you receive backlash.

This line of complaints are not unique to FFXIV in any respect, and I do have a firm, yet respectful stance that no one source should ever be responsible for all of or the majority of one's entertainment. It taxes the content creators too much and, in my opinion, lowers the quality of the content.

So yes, I mean no offense, but patience is a virtue here. I've been using this time in the meanwhile to catch up on other games in my pile of shame or that I've just had a desire to revisit. I would recommend for you to do the same.

I'm not offended by your opinion, I just disagree, and speculate that there's little to be done about it. Therefore, see you in November.

[Lexia]

Everyone deserves a vacation yes but aren't they usually planned with other things in mind?

[RiceisNice]

Nothing in indications of any of the records state that the zones are not instanced. In fact, IIRC this is last live letter was first mention of any sort of concept that there was other parties sharing the same area with you. And from the indications of such, it sounds like it won't be crowded. Again, this is all speculative. But the details I was referring to was the reward structure of Exploratory Missions, the possiblity of randomized loot that could equate to high-tier 210 gear, where before we had no idea whether or not these drops would even be relative to endgame. That changes things rather dramatically.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post3263938


It's not the first time they've mentioned that you'd be tackling this with other people aside from your party/alliance. The only thing that's new is that the type of rewards they give, but new content giving rewards is a given., whether or not its equal to tomestone gear or upgraded tomestone gear. Void Ark dropping ilvl 200 or 210 wouldn't make much of a meaningful impact because we're still going to do them anyway if the ilvl 200 pieces are better optimized stats than eso, or its ilvl210 and it serves as an alternate way of gearing toward savage. I just don't feel like it's a good use of their time to go through setting up a liveletter just to announce something like that.

Of course there's also the details they brought up on LoV, but hardly anyone is talking about that from what I see.

[Hyrist]

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Your source gives no indication that these parties are or are not of the same alliance. To which, last night, they confirmed both possibilities. Which, honestly, leaves more questions than answers.

We're going to have to just disagree on the rest. Which comes as no surprise based on my observation on your posting trends. You're entitled to your opinion that it felt like nothing new is posted. However I staunchly disagree on the matters of relevance of topics revealed.

They could easily hire more people, so they can take deserved breaks.

That may not be their decision, but of SE's. Regardless, you're welcome to go. They were aware of the possibility when they made the decision.

[Iromi]

Ima take a vacation too, from this game.

They could easily hire more people, so they can take deserved breaks. With all the players they claim to have they could take the money and invest it in more developers. I am not doing this again. Waited for hw delay which was not worth the delay imho due to nothing to do but 2.0 again, I am not waiting again.

[Kaurie]

You know, people have... opinions.

A General Discussion Internet Forum is no place for opinions!

[Martin_Arcainess]

What players should remember is when there is no restriction over the content you can digest, people will always feast upon it as quickly as possible and always be hungry for more. Gamers are gluttons for new content, no matter how you release it or introduce it, a week goes by and they want more.

HW in itself was an expansion they pushed out early, they put a lot into it and the content in itself could of been a patch that was released in October yet they chose to make it part of the expansion itself. So even if it's November that the patch comes out, it's all good since the expansion itself did offer a lot of content to enjoy as well as a complete story that wasn't broken up into 3-5 months that took years to complete (FFXI).

I'm sorry but I do have to point out that HW wasn't pushed out early if anything the release date was pushed forward so they can work on it even more to make sure it was near perfect when it did get release.

[RiceisNice]

Your source gives no indication that these parties are or are not of the same alliance. To which, last night, they confirmed both possibilities. Which, honestly, leaves more questions than answers.

We're going to have to just disagree on the rest. Which comes as no surprise based on my observation on your posting trends. You're entitled to your opinion that it felt like nothing new is posted. However I staunchly disagree on the matters of relevance of topics revealed.

Going into semantics territory when they say "multiple parties" because an alliance is only ever limited to 3 parties (which honestly can create just as much backlash as the whole housing fiasco back then if they really did instance explorations to one alliance per). But agree to disagree then; the fact that I can get a different inference from what we're already given than you is enough to give different expectations and perspectives.