Thread: 4.1 - The emptiest patch yet.

Originally Posted by Mature

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Let's look at XI through the years:
FFXI:
Base game, story missions for the nations.
Burning Circle Notorious monsters
Notorious monsters (basically hunts with loot drops for epic gear depending on NM)
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Rise of the Zilart:
Sky.
Dynamis.
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Chains of Promathia:
Dynamis.
Sea.
Limbus.
Empty Notorious monsters
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Treasures of Aht Urhgan:
Salvage
Einherjar
Assaults
Zeni Notorious Monsters
Nyzul Isle Investigation
Nyzul Isle Uncharted Area Survey (level 99)
Imperial Seal Notorious Monsters (ISNM)
Salvage II (level 99)
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Wings of the Goddess:
Stronghold Notorious Monsters (SCNM)
Allied Notes Notorious Monsters (ANNM)
Meeble Burrows (Meeble)
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Abyssea:
Most of this was gear based content for better gear
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Seekers of Adoulin:
Skirmish
Delve
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Rhapsodies of Vana'diel:
Omen system
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Now again, I'm not saying I want XI reborn. These are mostly examples of endgame content that could be added. Not THESE specifically. But NEW content that's not re-hashed based on old content. A lot of the content still remained relevant to the game after the ilvl and level went up to 99.

However, the problem is that FFXIV wants to stay the same, and rather than take too many risks or want for more casual content with less to really do, endgame wise, they are continuing to push new players into the game, which is fantastic, however, those new players, just like your current vets, become vets themselves. When they get to the end, the same problem will happen. They get bored, have the same issues we all have, and then end up leaving.

Guess what squeenix does?
Brings in new players!
And guess what happens to them?
They become veterans when they reach the end!
But what do they do?
They leave or log out and come back a patch later to the same content we had similarly a patch or two ago.

NOTHING in FFXIV changes. I stay because of the endgame content I do, however, it's boring only being able to run endgame twice a week. At least with XI, I felt like there was so much endgame to do, and I would log in to play and enjoy endgame more than twice a week. Once we clear or finish the endgame content in here, we log off for another week till tuesday as there's not much to do with lock out content.

I want more variety. Not exactly XI, but a change that we can see as both veterans and casual players.

And getting less content is not helping their expansion. The hype feels like a huge let down so far, and it's only 1 full patch into Stormblood since May.