I guess it's time

[FizzleofHyperion]

Nobody wants a FFXI-2. This has been discussed so many times. Some of the people coming with thoese accusations assume by default the FFXI vets playing FFXIV would enjoy waiting 6h for something (not like que times are so much better now).

People want actual elements from FFXI. The devs are not doing anyone a favour by just adding monsters from FFXI and now they think they have done the customers who kept this game alive during 1.0 a favour.

As I've said before any many others. This game has copy pasted WoW in almost everything right now and these are the results. The casuals are getting annoyed and burned out. You know that market most of this forum assume SE is only catering to because everything else is the 10%. Seems like its 90% who want change honestly and the current 10% are beeing spoiled.

Some of things to take into considerations because they went the we want to appeal to the casual market and have the same agespan as WoW but the majority of FFXIV gamers are adults in their 23+.

1. Gears are still unpersonal with the stats etc.

2. You barely belong in Eorzea cause you spend more time in DF than the actual world. The character just feels like some sort of empty shell.

3. It would not hurt to have actual caverns/dungeons on the world map who are silly timed instances
all the time but you can get random people coming along to assist you.

4. Having the whole game on a very easy difficulty except extreme primals and savage does not seem to be OK in anyones book.

5. Weekly cap has destroyed content and has also turned this game into a ridicilous hamsterwheel where gears get outdated so quick that even if people wanted to gear up more than one main job it would still take over 10 weeks per job meaning if you played more than one main job you are screwed because by the time your gears are up to date for all classes you prefer to play they are useless again. Because the new amazing jibba jabba currency is introduced with new amazing copy pasted gears where everyone will just go crit det and accuracy with.

Thoese are just a few of the things that have been discussed in this thread. Every positive idea about horizontal progression seem to be shot down by people who honestly beleive there is nothing wrong with this and everything we are beeing fed is tasty and amazing.

Someone wrote that its like playing Tekken 7 with a Street Fighter gameplay and then you are going to tell all Tekken 7 original customers to go back and play previous Tekken games because they wanted a Tekken Game that person was spot on.

This game is not WoW and I'm getting really tired of people from WoW beeing here trying to enforce and dictate their way of gaming and their silly Toons on the rest of us because they think they know MMORPG due to this game continously reminds them of WoW.

Generation gap or not 4 years ago the players who kept this game alive and where present wanted Horizontal progression why didnt Yoshi and SE listen to these customers?

I would rather play with 1m loyal FF SE customers who want this game to stay alive for years than play with 6m people in this unpersonal current state because people will come and go because they are MMORPG jumpers who are just here because this is currently trending.

My personal opinions:

Just because people pay for a subscription they should not be allowed to everything others worked so hard for because this game has made things get outdated so quick.

Stop shaping the game after the players whining and instead just keep presenting content that will make the players adapt to FFXIV.

I have not done alot of Savage content on my main on Ragnarok but as I said before I'm ok with not getting these ridicilous handouts because we want to keep players happy.

The last 2 patches I've honestly not even cared because I knew i could catch up wth everyone else by devoting half the effort they did and I would get the same thing. Guess what? It actually worked.
How fair is that to everyone else who dedicates their time to this more than others by learning strategies or dungeon dungeons and weekly caps so often by almost giving everything for free to the next person?
Why must they be punished for this? I do say punished because its truly not fair for me to have the same stuff everyone else had to do multiple dungeons to catch up on a ilvl, relic etc
When someone could just craft me it and tada I'm there with everyone else with half the effort (this was just an example there is most likely other scenarios like this, example with increased bird mount drop etc)

Don't make me remind you guys of the HW relic disaster of how you are going to explain to people that had to do certain dungeons that would take 18-20 minutes over 30 times for a possible drop in ARR by then just making that worth 18 crystals that others could get within hours. Instead of making the weapon that people worked so hard on to grow with the character and become a truly personal item it got shut down because the "new chapter" got released wich is more a WoW thing than anything FFXI related (we can be honest here. Atleast all FFXI relics got the chance to grow stronger and was rewarding even until this day)

It would also be nice to actually get the devs and moderators of this forums attention for once and get an actual reply about these matters instead of the only time things are interesting is when someone is asking when product ex is coming as an irl merchandise because they want to be kawaii and brag about their plush doll etc on instagram or FB FFXIV groups to feed some sort of ego desire for attention.

Another food for thought: The reason why Party Finders are so empty in big heavy populated servers is because due to everything else in this game beeing so easy its easy to complete everything so fast and run out of things to do. Its not the players who are leaving etc. Everyone is still here its just nothing to do because the games formula is so predictable. Save the oh level something in order to have something to do (This arguement is so fail its not having something to do its to try and satisfy your boredom because the game fails to keep your main job interesting). Take a break comments? Most people who took breaks never came back it only shows how interesting this game truly is.

Do you guys honestly think Palace of The Dead will have such an amazing lifespan? Chances are it will die out just as diadem did because of how this game is going. Remember that diadem was supposed to be something we would do alot now its a ghost area.