Thread: Feeling Underwhelmed with 3.4

Originally Posted by MomomiMomi

I think the biggest problem is not the amount of content that they give us, but the type of content. They give us a ton of one-and-done content. It's a lot of content that simply doesn't last. They even put weekly restrictions onto it to make things worse, so we do something once in a week and that's it, we're done. See you next week!

It's just worse that a lot of it is the same content we got 1-2 patches ago, just with a fresh coat of paint.

The amount of content is fine. It's the type of content that's really the problem.

They have no. People consume content nowadays at a rate far exceeding what can reasonably be developed. Even Legion will likely begin to lose its luster within a month or so, and WoW doesn't exactly have a good history outside expansions. Restrictions exist because people would inevitably grind out everything in a couple days through binge play. Very few games can provide a constant flow of content.

You also have to consider what you may consider dull or uninteresting, others are excited for. Wondrous Tails comes to mind. Despite it essentially having us go back to old content, a lot are looking forward to it. The fact Alexander looks to be tuned more towards midcore level raiding, this may open the door for people to finally explore the endgame.

Originally Posted by DamianFatale

I feel like people will complain no matter what.

^This

I personally proper excited about 3.4+ looking forward to more content and stuff. Looking forward to see Diadem changes new dungeons new raid crafting wondrous stuff new gear etc etc

I'm really looking forward it

I feel all right.
Indulging myself too much in the cut-scenes, I started the game this Apr and not until last month did I reach 60. Then I found there's still much content to explore.
...What about 3.4? I just wish the new cut-scenes not too short. Forgive this lazy guy.

The squadrons and the dungeons don't seem to give much to hope for, personally. The first has amazing potential at least, but so long as the low-difficulty cookie-cutter dungeon formula continues, I doubt the new dungeons will provide much excitement even the first time through. Looking forward to Alexander and Sophia though, for what that's worth. Forward and backward and forward and back.... Hype and disillusion.

FFXI also necessitated grouping for a great deal of its content, which sounds good in theory, but can become incredibly frustrating when people aren't willing to do the content you want to. A good comparison is trying to find parties for Sephirot or Thordan EX. Chances are those are rare. Now imagine if everything was like that.

So you will run all the content once and once only?
Kill Creator once and never repeat? Run new dungeons once and never go in again?
Kill Sophia once and then unsub?

I guess people have different tastes.

I have a question about the 2 end game dungeons we get and there difficulty.

Why the constant requests for them to be harder? Lets face it, we grind them out for tomes for months, whatever difficulty they make them they're going to be mastered and boring long before they're obsolete. The only appreciable long term difference I can see is that players late to the patch cycle will get raged at more often for not knowing 'a fight thats been out for ages'.

I have two entire days booked off from work (next Tuesday and Wednesday). My work laughed at my reason for WHY I was booking the time off, but I'm very excited. You could even go as far as to say I'm completely the opposite of underwhelmed. Sorry that you're not feeling the same OP

I feel you. It's always the same and you already know what will happen in future patches... no surprises.
3.5 will just add another&last 24man raid, make upgrade items available from 260(script) to 270 via hunts except weapon and add 2 new dungeons+1primal, always the same^^

For me 3.4 is the last "good" patch since main reason to play this game are encounters / raids(savage), i dont really care about everything else because there's either absolutely no challenge(diadem/potd/aquopolis/dungeons/primals/24man-raids/alex etc.) or it's just boring and not my thing (RP, crafting/gathering, gold saucer, pvp, etc)
I like all those dungeons primals and stuff but honestly it's just a themepark-adventure that doesnt require you to focus or some knowledge of your class, extreme primals require a minimum of concentration but only the current one since you're usually massive overgeared for old ones, so they're as "extreme" as a "expert" dungeon.


Dont get me wrong it's still a great game. Once 3.4 savage is done it's time for a break till next addon.

I'm getting pretty tired of the tome replacements. I'd prefer a merit system if I am max level. Being able to customize a skill set would be.. nice. That is really driving me away from this content, I've done this routine for a couple years now, I dealt with it.. somehow, but this time it feels like it's just annoying.