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

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.