Thread: The game is more dead than it was pre-3.1

Originally Posted by MilesSaintboroguh

Blame the trolls, spammers, and flame war instigators that caused chaos on the forums during beta (or even before that)

Point in fact. So damn long ago it's not even relevant anymore; I'm willing to bet most of those people are not even around anymore. Yet we are still being punished for it, and the facts that a) Yoshi&co themselves are making posts worth a short novel sometimes because b) it can be done even by us because the whole restriction is bypassed without any difficulty - they make the whole thing even more enraging. Even more pointless and obsolete and arbitrary.

And the worst thing is that this represents quite a lot of issues the game has all too well. Just last night I saw that thread asking for resetting skills on wipe in raids. An issue that is as old as the game itself, completely trivial, yet still not addressed at all as far as I know (as in, not even acknowledged or commented on in any way). The lockouts and the way they're applied; the way that actually effectively being able to use any job is so arbitrarily gated (yes you can be anything but good luck gearing everything up for that endgame content); and let's not even talk about the DF's shortcomings and the limits of our companion - especially don't even mention these two together.......... the list goes on.

So many old issues I'm pretty sure don't help the image of the game, especially for veterans, that aren't being taken care of because there's always "something more important" that the "small dev team" has to work on and churn out. And so many times that "more important" thing ends up being....well, not new at all, not satisfying at all, not interesting at all - cue so many people in this thread posting all the examples.....

Originally Posted by RiceisNice

At this point because of hte mass server transfers, smaller severs dwindling and super servers getting larger, some are in an unrecoverable state of having a very, very weak raiding scene. No amount of updates is going to bring transferred players back to their original realms.

Of course it doesn't help that this expansion in general, as well as the patch, feels really weak coming out of the gate and lasting after-the-fact.

I just wanted to say you made me blow at my monitor screen for a while trying to get the gnat off of it.

Originally Posted by Dyvid

Just a quick snip on 3.0 ilvl gear bloating problem. The gear and ilvl upgrade are coming so fast and so furious we don't even need them.

June 2015 Patch 3.0 with Ilvl maximum 180. (Addon Release)
July 2015 Patch 3.05 with ilvl maximum 210. (Alexander Release)
November 2015 Patch 3.1 with ilvl maximum 210.
December 2015 Patch 3.15 with ilvl maximum 210.
February 2016 Patch 3.2 with ilvl maximum 2xx. (will most likely be Alexanter Part 2)

That will be 7-8 month with the maximum ilvl of 210. In current MMO days, this is actually quite long.

Most content can be cleared with i180 gear yet we have i210 readily available for no reason. The entire point on upgrading gear to get ready for new challenge but we are so far beyond what we need it not even worth the effort. I was doing just fine with my full set of i190 why should I spend the extra time farming up something just so I can run DF dungeons and VA? The current ilvl and current content don't match up.

Patch 3.1 was about choises.
1. The new Dungeons and Diadem are Catch Up Dungeons for new Player and alternative Jobs, as well as more choises to gain ESO.
2. More Options to gain ilvl 210 to beat Alexander Savage.
3. No one force you to get it, if you are happy with 190, keep it until Patch 3.2

New Progress Content of 3.1 was ThordanEX, which needs you to be ilvl190 to get the chance for an ilvl205 Weapon.

Originally Posted by Blood-Aki

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Depends on your definition of successful, if you're talking about with an high active population, then yes there is. FFXIV doesn't have MILLIONS of players like SE wants you to believe. SE only states "accounts" made and never "active subscribers". There's way more p2p, b2p, and f2p mmos out there with an higher active playerbase than here.

RNG is the solution to this false worry of people grinding things out and then leaving.

Originally Posted by MilesSaintboroguh

Blame the trolls, spammers, and flame war instigators that caused chaos on the forums during beta (or even before that)

That was long ago and we still shouldn't be punished for that. Ban the trolls/spammers that's what mods are for right?