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[iambanana]

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you underestimating how important actually the "pink gear" as the end game item is. that "pink gear" will give you CHOICE (a very luxurious feature in this game somehow) how you build the focus of character, because that "pink gear" is not have predetermined like the mighty alexander savage gear/eso, you can build a full crit/SS build, you can add Accuracy for healer (as a healer myself this is very important), etc

yes grinding via RNG suck, the price of choice is expensive in this game, but i still take it than nothing

that "pink gear" is my small hope for a horizontal progress in battle class

[CosmicKirby]

Am I the only one incredibly bemused that Lilith is actually wearing rose-tinted goggles?

Poetic.

[Xatsh]

The devs are simply not releasing enough content to keep the playerbase as a whole occupied.

yes the game is designed with casuals in mind, but call me crazy but saying well 70% of the players are casual so tough luck to the other 30% sounds like a stupid business move.

The vast majority of my guild is taking a break. About 50% I doubt will come back, the other 50% it depends on if 3.1+ actually changes course from. Even patch being a few primals and 1 RAID, and odd patches actually having stuff to do.

Game needs about 10 fold the content at endgame.

I mean come on a game released in the early 2000s released with its first expansion with over 30 instance boss fights, 100+ open world bosses, 5 large scale raids, and a tiered endgame content (Sky)... In the same amount of time that it was released we have 1 endgame raid (Which is not really a raid) and 2 instance boss fights for our endgame.... Just WOW.

People cannot like XI for whatever reason but the endgame design of that game puts XIV to shame.

[Enkidoh]

I am telling you, it does not matter how you articulate your points or how valid or invalid your criticism is.

These forums are full of apologist. This game is miles wide and in inch deep. Just come back in a year or two when the game is falling apart and f2p and bump this thread. Happened with LoTR, it will happen to this game.

Really? Come on, that sort of doomsaying has been around since before launch - that the game was going 'to fail'/will fall apart/go f2P/blahblahblah. Nearly three years later, the game is still around, still sub based, it's first expansion has been launched, it's eclipsed the 5 million subscribed players mark, and still it's 'destined to fail'. The doomsayers and Chicken Littles of this forum have been around since the beginning, but really it's just hot air.

No matter what SE does, it will never be good enough for these people.

[Kaisha]

You are forgetting one thing though Lillith. All of those features you've mentioned there were released over the course of 10 years.

We could just skip over to XI's last expansion "Seekers of Adoulin" which introduced Delve, Vagary, Reign, Incursion, Hard-mode fights, and two variants of Skirmish, alongside casual content like Rearing and Unity. All of which have been expanded upon since release to maintain their relevancy.

Took them a year and a bit to divvy most of that out, but that's still more battle content variety than ARR+Heavensward has seen thus far, and it's not on weekly lock-outs to boot.

[Lilith_Merquise]

Am I the only one incredibly bemused that Lilith is actually wearing rose-tinted goggles?

Poetic.

lol the fact you got people to like this is hysterical, because they are the Machinist Goggles and that portrait is my MCH.... but good try though.

[Lilith_Merquise]

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Thats if they allow Accuracy at all since SE removed accuracy from the healing gear intentionally, and for the most part there is a few sets of stats you want per class. But a combination of Eso and Gordian is BiS enough to where its doubtful you will really need the pink gear other then to overcome the hurdle that is savage. I'll be surprised if they do some horizontal progress especially since they don't make ability specific gear in this game which I find disappointing to create more specialization. But here's to hoping.

[Evangela]

You can take a break too. Losing weekly tome quotas is not that big deal. When you comeback in the next patch the tome caps will be lifted anyway.

[Craiger]

We should wait for 3.1 before making any accurate statements on how many are leaving the game... cause I know that most players are just taking a break until it's out, not leaving it permanently. There might be quite a few leaving permanently too, but not the amounts some seem to think.

FFXIV is gonna start losing a lot of players soon if they don't put out more content though... And it feels like SE won't realize that they need to hire more staff before it's too late. Like, they need to hire a lot of staff, because we're just not getting enough content at the moment.

You can't just compare by how many bosses there are either, because FFXIV have basically nothing other than bosses for the raids... It's just a series of very small instances with a couple of trash mobs (not even that in savage), then a boss.

I like the sound of the Airship Exploration, but we're getting 1 less dungeon for it, and that just tells the story of FFXIV's problem perfectly... Coming into 3.0, FFXIV had (still have) a huge player base compared to what other MMOs have had outside of WoW, and it's a subscription game, meaning they should have the money to hire more staff easily. They even have a cash shop and extra fees for more retainers

[Khemorex]

or u can go gathering or crafting :P