Thread: The Current Status of FFXIV Patch 3.1 and How to Address it Moving Forward

Originally Posted by FizzleofHyperion

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You see, you keep saying things like it needs to be more like FFXI, but you haven't actually said why it's better or benefits the casual, midcore, and hardcore community. You haven't explained why a nearly 15 year old system that never truly balanced itself out in a fair state would work in a game/community like this. You keep going on whats best for you but don't actually contribute why it is a good idea as a whole. Please explain to me the philosophy on why your ideas are in fact better and will grow subs instead of losing them.

You keep giving unrealistic ideas that require revamping the game again, a game despite it's current issues, is still doing very well. You seem to think revamping a system that actually works well for the three different styles of play will fix it. No, the game is misguided right now, not broken. There is a gigantic difference. Offering ideas that help make what is in place better is what developers will listen to first and I believe we should fix what is there before trying to throw new stuff in.

Again, explain to me why it is better and more people will be for it. I need to know how the new player will fit into this scheme, not how you or I would fit into it. You need to understand the perspectives of the new player and the end game player if you want to make a successful game. How will someone new catch up to people who have done two+ years worth of horizontal content? I will definitely say, FFXI was not held together by newer players, even in it's prime.

The only thing I can actually agree with is that the content needs to be more challenging and not as hand holding. The game has to work on a learning/difficulty curve to ease people in the game, that is what is unbalanced currently. Like Alexander(Normal) is too easy and Savage to many is too hard. There isn't much between to get you ready for Savage's difficulty, which is why something like a Final Coil level of raid needs to be in between. This is something that needs to be fixed, not just throw everything in the trash and go back to the drawing board.

Verlhart: Clearly whats so called best for me is something many who have been in this thread agree on. I'm paying for a product so ofcourse I would like to see it in a way. Aren't you paying for a product you wish to see something you can enjoy that you feel people that share your views do?
You just don't want the current state to change because you either enjoy this game beeing in this hamsterwheel effect or you are arguing just to argue.
How many times have I not stated to take what was good with FFXI and put it in this game? (Merit systems, gears with better stats, farming items to pop bosses on the world map etc) How does any of this in your mind turn out into something that requires the whole game to be revamped? In my opinion Yoshi P's biggest mistake was to turn gears unpersonal with the stats you know this aswell cause they where present in 1.0 and up until the change with a real reborn. Plus who says that new gears cant keep the ilvl system but give more than just these ridicilous numbers that makes them so boring? All for it to be simplistic? This simplistic number hunt is way more boring than stats with effects.

I am realistic because everything I just told you in previous posts are a possibility without them ruining anything with revamping the game. Its about releasing content that isnt a damn repeat of everything we have been doing for the last 3 years. That is not beeing creative thats just beeing lazy. Content is rushed, short and too easy. Its rather something new and refreshing.

What people are playing in this game now is pretty much the state of many current MMORPGs. Its just following whats out there instead of coming with something unique.
The game is loosing subs as we speak. 5 million games sold does not mean 5m active subs so who are you are you trying to fool with that? More and more people are leaving everyday and many left for a "break" but never came back.
I understand that the game should always give you the feeling that you can catch up or else they would love subs but never to the point where it will effect the heart of the game though.
Its about finding balance. FFXIV uses influences and ideas from almost every MMORPG out there but FFXI until we got diadem wich is a complete mess and some silly names from FFXI. That is not fair to the people who have been here since 1.0.

Multiple people have said in this thread they signed up for this for the challenge and expected something that wouldnt be similiar like other MMORPGs why do you keep ignoring this? Are you gonna give me the corny reply now saying thats how MMORPGS are today?
So if all MMORPGS today had a blue and pink cow at the beginning of the starting cutscene to give you a tutorial does SE need to have a blue and pink cow aswell?
Shape the player present them with content instead of adapting to content for temporary profit and "fun". Cause right now Fun isnt coming first. Boredom is.
Boredom with weekly caps and way too easy content and too little content thats burning ALL players not just elite but casuals too.
Casuals who barely feel they just caught up with an Esoteric set are finding out its useless by february 23rd because new tomes are out. Tell me how that is balanced or fair? I would love to hear how that is fair to a person who just caught up or how its fair to a person who enjoys this game and has it as a hobby knowing he couldnt get what he wanted for his main jobs because he paid for something thats limiting him from doing what he wants.

Horizontal progression doesnt always have to mean gears either. Me personally yes I would love to see gears beeing acheived harder but Horizontal progression can just be storyline content thats longer and harder making us do more than chasing the glamour and spending most of our times waiting in a city or at FC house for a duty finder to pop because thats the only content to do together as endgame.

People have signed up because they feel that the FF name as a brand is games that offer a challenge. Right now Alex savage is the only challenge except when nerf comes and higher ilvl then that shows only how the current complaints where just lulz.

Current state of the game is It doesn't matter what you have acheived or grinded I will always be able to catch up and do that like you did but with half the effort/time/gil invested the only difference I wont be "first". <-- You are telling me this is balanced?
That is not balanced Velhart. Its catering to one side only rewarding slackers and punishing and unrewarding the people who invest and dedicated time to this game that have it as a hobby.

Who wants only two new expert dungeons every update?

Who wants to feel like there is nothing to do when capped weekly?

Who wants to feel that the time they devoted to obtain gil for gears and items making them useless so fast that they have to repeat the process again?
That makes the player unmotivated you know that right? I can already tell on players on our server you are in it aswell.
Not everyone is as fortunate to obtain gil in huge amounts and as fast as others so how would you explain to someone for example who saved up entire january to be able to buy crafter gears knowing they are not the best gears by february 23rd? Thats balanced to you? Thats fair right? I'm pretty sure that person has a happy smile on his/her face knowing the countless hours spent are useless all for the sake for your idea of how awesome the current state of this game is because its only misguided? What are you gonna tell people like that? Encourage them to buy gil wich is against the rules and risk of getting them banned because they feel its not worth bothering?

I've already given you my 8 reasons in the last page I don't need to repeat myself. All 8 reasons can and will work if they just gave it a try because players are demanding it. I also think more players would come if you offer them stuff that other MMORPGs don't have. the community in this game is priceless and thats pretty much it. Everything else is just repeating what we have been doing for 3 years now on repeat aside from diadem LOL. These 8 reasons are not realistic they are possible they can fix alot of requests from the players. Gives the player more stuff to do and feel they are part of Eorzea and their server. I guess for you thats not enough might aswell just log in and be in a FC room and wait for a DF que cause thats awesome?

If even the casuals are complaining about the current state especially from reading in this thread it only shows how most of the stuff you have said is whats slowly tearing this game apart. So it feels like people who share your mindset are part of the problem not the solution.

Feel free to continue to argue and complain just for the sake of it.

Originally Posted by FizzleofHyperion

Verlhart: Clearly whats so called best for me is something many who have been in this thread agree on. You just don't want the current state to change because you either enjoy this game beeing in this hamsterwheel effect or you are arguing just to argue.

You didn't answer my question. Please answer it. Also, you are basing it off people are mostly end game players. Try again.

Originally Posted by FizzleofHyperion

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You are doing it again. You are saying it can work, but not actually explaining why. Your rambling boils down to "It will work because I say it will work. People will like it because I say they will like it."

Again, explain to me why it can work. How it brings people in, how it works on a new player, casual, midcore, and hardcore level. So far, you have done none of it. Please explain in detail. So far you have been incapable of doing so. Only thing you have said is "It worked in FFXI, obviously it will work here."

What is sad is you believe gear itself is the end game goal. It should be accomplishing the more difficult content in the game. Gear should be a means to get it done. Gear collecting should be secondary.

What is also funny is you think that I think the game is perfect. If you actually read my previous comments, I have been doing nothing but complaining up till I decided to have fun with you. Game isn't perfect. My argument is the foundation is fine, just misguided.

Originally Posted by Velhart

So far you have been incapable of doing so. Only thing you have said is "It worked in FFXI, obviously it will work here."

And despite having an unreasonable love of FFXI (I'm still subscribed even though I play it maybe once a month), even I know that what "worked" in FFXI wouldn't be as successful as FFXIV is. The latest Lodestone census has the game at about 700k active players, as I recall, and while it would take some digging to uncover the precise numbers, I'm almost certain that FFXI at its peak never had more than 500k.

And the 700k we have now is roughly comparable to the 700k we had in April which was smack dab in the middle of the game's longest content drought to date which strongly suggests that it was the content drought following the release of HW that brought the numbers to that point, not some misguided notion that gear doesn't last long enough. It's quite likely that once regular (and actually good, unlike Diadem x.x) content starts coming down the pipeline, subscription levels will rise again, potentially doubling FFXI's user base.

First of all forgive me since I'm a but buzzed Velhart but here is my reasons to why I think certain things that work:

The idea of having to force pop big bosses on the world map through items obtain through gathering dungeons and crafts will help the following:

New players will always have people doing old dungeons since it will give replay value to old dungeons to drop the unique item needed (its only tradable if possible so you can only trade it to somone that crafts withon your FC and i think that might be possible)
If a person is new that you wind up with in Duty Finder that can also increase the drop rate wich also motivate a veteran to jump in on DF for the sake of their FC/Event LS to do this.

So that covers up a huge chunk of people doing dungeons constantly to obtains items needed to pop the world bosses. This doesn't mean the chances are gonna be a easier drops because doing it unsynced with friends. That is why a new bonus becomes important and can play a key role but a drop is possible through a unsynced aswell. Ofcourse this has to be balanced so it doesnt turn out to be shit like the people who did Zodiacs who got slapped in the face so hard with the 100% drop rate because some things are "outdated".

This gives replay value and birth to old areas and content making sure new players can get help and support from veterans from your own server and DF wich gives you an urge to search for new players for the "drop rate increase" and also taking the chance through to DF. Not just old dungeons but even the storyline like having Gaius dropping stuff needed to pop bosses etc making final endgame dungeons more replay value than just getting 100 more poetics extra for a silly relic item.

This ofcourse has to be balanced and not get nerfed after 3 months because Yoshi P feels the urge to do so making content unrewarding. Its been 3 years of this and somewhere along the way I agree with you on the misguided path that needs to be rethinked.

About the gears its to make stuff personal as current gears are extremly personal. Someone had the final call to switch back gears from 1.0 to this WoW Envoirment stats with colorful crap gears and now its a regret and a mistake since its just an item hunt. I know deep inside you agree with this regardless of how negative you are. This has nothing to do with new players its just an overral thing to make you feel unique with your class/job and items.

Make sure that certain DF can only be joined with certain jobs to increase drop rates in items aswell helping new players for these world maps.

Making use of whats presented is making sure iitems for these world bosses are obtained through Diadem aswell through gatherers dps etc giving value to the new areas and content more than i210 gears and a silly hawk. It will make people do it more often and acheive things.

Again I stand firm with making content rewarding and not this hell we are in atm. I know im a bit harsh but players have put up with this repeat for 3 years now. Surely new ideas need to pop. FFXI has many amazing content. Introduce a new area turn it like FFXI beseiged have a bunch of dragons attacking that requires tons of players from the server gather together for a common cause making the server in general personal by beeing with others from the server. Spice it up a bit by allowing flying mounts aswell where you can fire stuff in the new area etc.

Removing currency cap from start will benefit new players by having more active players at all times doing stuff trying to gear up more jobs than having players who feel they capped not wanting to do anything. You and Me know this very well that players who capped weekly feel no urge to continue playing so why limit them instead remove the cap and have people continue to play so content is available at all times for people who just started to reach endgame.

All of this again shall not be of the price to benefit newcomers and casuals only like the route of the current state of this game. It constantly shows rewarding to casuals and slackers that they can always catch up with someone who invests more time than you. Ofcourse I don't want new players or casuals to quit but there has to be some sort of balance like I've stated before.

One thing we discussed today in the FC was how retared gears atm that I cant borrow gears to a friend and then have him trade it back due to this strange spiritbond system thats part of this game. This has nothing to do with RMTs cause guess what RMTs are stills selling crafted gears through their websites anywways.

Now you have to answer the stuff I asked you about before in previous posts that you ignored from my previous post:

"Current state of the game is It doesn't matter what you have acheived or grinded I will always be able to catch up and do that like you did but with half the effort/time/gil invested the only difference I wont be "first". <-- You are telling me this is balanced?
That is not balanced Velhart. Its catering to one side only rewarding slackers and punishing and unrewarding the people who invest and dedicated time to this game that have it as a hobby.

Who wants only two new expert dungeons every update?

Who wants to feel like there is nothing to do when capped weekly?

Who wants to feel that the time they devoted to obtain gil for gears and items making them useless so fast that they have to repeat the process again?
That makes the player unmotivated you know that right? I can already tell on players on our server you are in it aswell.
Not everyone is as fortunate to obtain gil in huge amounts and as fast as others so how would you explain to someone for example who saved up entire january to be able to buy crafter gears knowing they are not the best gears by february 23rd? Thats balanced to you? Thats fair right? I'm pretty sure that person has a happy smile on his/her face knowing the countless hours spent are useless all for the sake for your idea of how awesome the current state of this game is because its only misguided? What are you gonna tell people like that? Encourage them to buy gil wich is against the rules and risk of getting them banned because they feel its not worth bothering?"

You couldnt answer these so feel free to shed your thoughhts on the stuff above.

Don't take this personal but I know you already new the answers from before and they can actually work but you are just arguing because you feel you already did what you did in FFXI and you don't want to see it here again.

Wish you would type in a better format. Ohh well lets have fun.

Originally Posted by FizzleofHyperion

The idea of having to force pop big bosses on the world map through items obtain through gathering dungeons and crafts will help the following:

New players will always have people doing old dungeons since it will give replay value to old dungeons to drop the unique item needed (its only tradable if possible so you can only trade it to somone that crafts withon your FC and i think that might be possible)
If a person is new that you wind up with in Duty Finder that can also increase the drop rate wich also motivate a veteran to jump in on DF for the sake of their FC/Event LS to do this.

So that covers up a huge chunk of people doing dungeons constantly to obtains items needed to pop the world bosses. This doesn't mean the chances are gonna be a easier drops because doing it unsynced with friends. That is why a new bonus becomes important and can play a key role but a drop is possible through a unsynced aswell. Ofcourse this has to be balanced so it doesnt turn out to be shit like the people who did Zodiacs who got slapped in the face so hard with the 100% drop rate because some things are "outdated".

This gives replay value and birth to old areas and content making sure new players can get help and support from veterans from your own server and DF wich gives you an urge to search for new players for the "drop rate increase" and also taking the chance through to DF. Not just old dungeons but even the storyline like having Gaius dropping stuff needed to pop bosses etc making final endgame dungeons more replay value than just getting 100 more poetics extra for a silly relic item.

First, we have treasure maps that already serve the purpose of open world fights. Open world raid level bosses do not work unless you make set areas for them. If not, then given the circumstances they can be exploited wherever you pop them. Which in that case, you might as well make it an instanced fight. Instanced also helps it so you don't have to worry about others coming in. Open world fights in a game set up like this doesn't work out well at all.

Second, so people complained about going to old content in this current relic quest, but how you explained it, you want to go full force on it? I can tell you, even in FFXI we got real sick of Sea/Sky, the only reason we showed up there was because the items were still valuable. The once fun content only became a chore, especially when competing with the same groups for items every day. Old content should only be revisited but so much. Sure give us a reason to go back if you want, but don't make us feel that we have to go back. We need to move forward, not backward. Its also a lazy excuse to pad content more on the developer's end. FFXI really was about padding content as much as possible, with reason however due to PS2 limitations. You couldn't just add new content in the game like you can with FFXIV.

This ofcourse has to be balanced and not get nerfed after 3 months because Yoshi P feels the urge to do so making content unrewarding. Its been 3 years of this and somewhere along the way I agree with you on the misguided path that needs to be rethinked.

Its 6-8 months. Like I said, gear chasing should be only a means to get the content done. It is sad that your mindset is that you want to focus on the gear grinding over the quality of the content. I like new fights being given to us in the amount they give us in one year. It keeps things refreshing and not you drooling over your keyboard doing the same content for years+.

About the gears its to make stuff personal as current gears are extremly personal. Someone had the final call to switch back gears from 1.0 to this WoW Envoirment stats with colorful crap gears and now its a regret and a mistake since its just an item hunt. I know deep inside you agree with this regardless of how negative you are. This has nothing to do with new players its just an overral thing to make you feel unique with your class/job and items.

I like this more actually. I played FFXI and WoW at the same time back then and always thought WoW's gear progression system was much better put together. Its easier to scale, easier to understand, easier to balance. Honestly, who really cares at the end of the day if you have "unique" stats on your gear? It doesn't magically offer choice. People will BiS no matter what has whatever on what. This was even a thing in FFXI. You know, a game so unbalanced in gear that 2-3 expansions in and there still isn't a better TP gaining piece of armor for Samurai than a lv.59 Haubergeon+1.

Again, I rather have a boring system that works than a unique one that can be broken by the slightest misstep.

Make sure that certain DF can only be joined with certain jobs to increase drop rates in items aswell helping new players for these world maps.

Sorry you can't come, we need a BLM, not a SMN.

Making use of whats presented is making sure iitems for these world bosses are obtained through Diadem aswell through gatherers dps etc giving value to the new areas and content more than i210 gears and a silly hawk. It will make people do it more often and acheive things.

Really this should all be within Diadem. Should focus on making ideas to have Diadem be better, not link it outside of it's domain.

Again I stand firm with making content rewarding and not this hell we are in atm. I know im a bit harsh but players have put up with this repeat for 3 years now. Surely new ideas need to pop. FFXI has many amazing content. Introduce a new area turn it like FFXI beseiged have a bunch of dragons attacking that requires tons of players from the server gather together for a common cause making the server in general personal by beeing with others from the server. Spice it up a bit by allowing flying mounts aswell where you can fire stuff in the new area etc.

You idea is called FATE's. Ask for more interesting FATE's. Also last I recall, this game is very rewarding, especially when accomplishing more difficult tasks. Rewarding isn't grinding something forever and then receiving item. A gordian weapon to me is 50x more rewarding than a anima relic could ever hope to be.

Removing currency cap from start will benefit new players by having more active players at all times doing stuff trying to gear up more jobs than having players who feel they capped not wanting to do anything. You and Me know this very well that players who capped weekly feel no urge to continue playing so why limit them instead remove the cap and have people continue to play so content is available at all times for people who just started to reach endgame.

So your answer is, leave it uncapped, let people burn themselves out much, much faster, then not get on the game till who knows how much later according to your perfect world? Limiting at least brings people back next week and doesn't throw all the gear at you at the start. Its unbalanced and only rewarding people who more time than others. There should be a difference of someone who dedicates themselves more to the game than others, but you are going extreme on the hardcore side. This is not a solution. You are trading a problem with a bigger problem.

All of this again shall not be of the price to benefit newcomers and casuals only like the route of the current state of this game. It constantly shows rewarding to casuals and slackers that they can always catch up with someone who invests more time than you. Ofcourse I don't want new players or casuals to quit but there has to be some sort of balance like I've stated before.

This only punishes and overwhelms new players and casuals. I am not sure how you look at it as fair.

One thing we discussed today in the FC was how retared gears atm that I cant borrow gears to a friend and then have him trade it back due to this strange spiritbond system thats part of this game. This has nothing to do with RMTs cause guess what RMTs are stills selling crafted gears through their websites anywways.

Ohh you can't meet your DPS checks and have done nothing to earn gear to overcome it? No worries, just borrow my gear and you can do it. - -;

Even FFXI had restrictions on certain gear. This is a really bad idea. It was only fine in FFXI, because there was barely anything that required a strict DPS check. Understanding your job with reasonable gear always got you where you needed to go.

Now you have to answer the stuff I asked you about before in previous posts that you ignored from my previous post:

"Current state of the game is It doesn't matter what you have acheived or grinded I will always be able to catch up and do that like you did but with half the effort/time/gil invested the only difference I wont be "first". <-- You are telling me this is balanced?
That is not balanced Velhart. Its catering to one side only rewarding slackers and punishing and unrewarding the people who invest and dedicated time to this game that have it as a hobby.

Again, you care only about gear grinding. No matter how much gear you obtain, it will not help you beat difficult content like AS3/4. It helps you meet your checks, but it isn't what completely determines if you win or not. Horizontal patch like 3.1 just gives the tools easier to people to accomplish this. If you are not using the gear to help you beat Savage, then you are collecting just for collection sake.

This is what separates people. Who cares when and how gear is obtained, as long as the content it's used for is still hard, which it is. Even with best gear in 2.4/2.5, Bahamut was still challenging to beat. Gear helped, and that is what it is meant for. A means to an end.

Your statement would be valid if they dumbed down the mechanics of the harder bosses in 3.1. Then we would have a problem.

Who wants only two new expert dungeons every update?

Not me. I want three again, and cut the Lords of Verminion crap out, SE.

Who wants to feel like there is nothing to do when capped weekly?

There is plenty in this game to do. You just don't want to do it. There is a major difference. Maybe ask SE to make the current content more interesting, not stretch it out like FFXI, making it worse. Maybe ask for more challenging content like a Final Coil level Alexander, or maybe more trial fights. Or make dungeons and relic quests that are not bang your head on the keyboard easy.

Most people loved Thordan EX. Why not request to get more of those? Best fight they have made in a long time.

Who wants to feel that the time they devoted to obtain gil for gears and items making them useless so fast that they have to repeat the process again?

Its only useless if you don't make use of the items you made. If you make them and never step into trial fights or Savage content, then yea its a waste of time. Again, gear is a means to get the current content done.

That makes the player unmotivated you know that right? I can already tell on players on our server you are in it aswell.

Motivation is given, its up to you if you believe its worth it or not. Video games are designed to make it to the end and beat it. Challenge is motivation. Gaining victory over something you feel you normally could not is motivation. Your motivation seems to be "I wanna look shiny!"

Not everyone is as fortunate to obtain gil in huge amounts and as fast as others so how would you explain to someone for example who saved up entire january to be able to buy crafter gears knowing they are not the best gears by february 23rd?

They have better means to obtain the next set over than if they didn't do it at all.

Thats balanced to you? Thats fair right?

Yep, sounds fine and fair to me.

I'm pretty sure that person has a happy smile on his/her face knowing the countless hours spent are useless all for the sake for your idea of how awesome the current state of this game is because its only misguided? What are you gonna tell people like that? Encourage them to buy gil wich is against the rules and risk of getting them banned because they feel its not worth bothering?"

This is a game that is always involving, and even crafters need to be challenged again. Giving them a gear set and not getting anything new to work with till the next expansion sounds boring to me. Even crafters/gatherers need an end game goal.

You couldnt answer these so feel free to shed your thoughhts on the stuff above.

There you go.

Don't take this personal but I know you already new the answers from before and they can actually work but you are just arguing because you feel you already did what you did in FFXI and you don't want to see it here again.

No I am pretty sure I stand by what I said. Despite how much I post in this particular thread, I don't have to energy to respond to each of your borderline walls of text which in a format that is a tad hard on the eyes.

Even if I say something controversial, or an idea I give isn't great, my mind set is always how to make an MMO that is fair on a casual, midcore, and hardcore level. To make it accessible, while challenging at the same time. To not have SE look down on us like we are dumb and can't handle a challenge. Your mind set to me at least is archaic, misguided, and heavily influenced by foggy rose-tinted glasses that just barely worked in a game that was released in 2002-2003 and to this day has not been able to successfully balance itself out.

I enjoyed and loved FFXI from 2003-2010, but I am not blind as to see that it had more issues than good things about it. I also won't dismiss anything good that came from it either. I can already think of a few in my head. You on the other hand only want things that were awful and outdated about it to come back. We already got the races, monsters, similar job system.

FFXIV despite it's current issues, still brings in what I liked about FFXI and WoW and put it into one. Sorry if you think I am one-sided, but I side with good game design, not archaic ones.

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Velhart:

The thing is you already know there is more too it than the treasure maps we have now. The reasure maps we have now only benefits you for minions crafting items and a silly relic item. There is no real challenge to this maps aside from just spamming buttons and hoping for a good. Since you get more crafting items than minons or the relic drop that pretty much sums up that the farming benefits mostly a crafter.

You asked how it could benefit new players thats why I said return to old content. Only thing is the older this game gets the lesser newer players will turn to this. Especially the "hypetrain minded ones" you already know wich customer group I'm talking about. Thoese who mmo jump to the newest thing constantly with 0 dedication and wanting to play an MMORPG like it should be played.

The reason why I keep turning back to gears is because how the game is build up now. Silly acheivements and burning you out into have the latest ilvl gear to do the current content. You seem to find great joy in this but this is whats going to burn you out.

The removal of tomes cap is to not limit a person. The amount of so called veterans that would burn their life away gearing up everything with the new currency is very small anyways but it will keep players going at it. Lets say you only had time to play every two weeks or three weeks but when you do its 3-4 times a row. If thats possible you should be given the chance to not feel limited and grind what you want to grind and gear up. Should you only have time to play every two or three weeks with the current way with weekly cap the feeling of when you finally get something will be feeling like its useless because new gears are just around the corner making current progress shit.

The beseiged idea what not be like fates because you feel its already here. Its presenting something else that should give more than XP/Minions/GC seals. I can't come up with something right now but it should be some sort of battlefield. Something thats just a part of a new area on the world map that shouldnt be a DF or instance where friends can feel like 3 people can do it together among the many people that are there. Not feeling that i must be playing with 8 people total if I didnt have too. Its not like we can enter VA CT WoD with 3 as an example atm.

That is why it should just be presented to us on the world map as something different.

Back to the items where you said its only useless if you can't put it to use. How can you even start to recoup the gil and time you invested when new items and gears are just around the corner.

When you are playing a game with the feeling that whats the point of currently doing something since you already know its gonna get nerfed thats bad honestly it teaches you the slacking will get you rewarded as long as you continue to pay for your sub.

People in this thread discussed this part before and clearly you missed it. When you say there is plenty of stuff to do in this game there isn't. Someone shouldn't feel they need to level other jobs aside from their main as having something to do. That is not fun thats a chore. The same goes for levling crafts or gathering.

Since this game is a constant item hunt if you don't do endgame raids at this moment wich is alex savage and thordian ex there isnt much to do because there isnt anything to do. I'm in a FC where people have level 60 everything most of the players do yet they feel there is nothing to do that motivates them to continue. This is also a mix of people who are balanced between casuals midcore and hardcore players.

Ofcourse for the moment the new players in the FC find joy in everything cause the world is new to them. The people in the FC that hit max level and beat ARR and HW feel like there really isnt anything to do after your weekly voidark / dailys etc.
Again this isn't just the state of the FC I'm in but how the feeling travels fast of players are getting burned out because of limitations, lack of content. Learning AS or Thordian Ex shouldnt be an excuse as having something to do neither is crafting or gathering stuff because having a to do list.

As much as you feel that people share your opinions so do I and that shows there is clearly no balance or we wouldn't be here arguing.

These are some big walls of text.

Thing is SE is touting the new sephirot battle and the dungeons as new, but in a sense, they are not. This was predictable, with very little to expect other than repeating it tons of times.

From what I hear some are making the argument of making the content harder, to force players in being skilled all the time, this might backfire like it did in steps and savage, because the way content is set now is very, mercenary. Yoshida' idea of players going "That wasn't so bad" misses the follow up where players clear the content, but the experience is such that they loathe the process of playing through it.