Thread: 4.1 - The emptiest patch yet.

Originally Posted by Mug

For me, I'll always take quality over quantity, so if the new duties ooze of developer creativity and are engaging and fun and not just the same old formula, I won't complain. Return to Ivalice has so much potential, so I hope they try to step out of the box and are not afraid to experiment with it. I saw a swimming scene in the trailer, which gives me a small glimmer of hope.

Swimming is not innovative or exciting 'content'. I'd say it's probably the largest waste of development for any game I've seen in a while. It has no function. Except to 'look pretty'...but with yet another loading zone. By the second or third run I guarantee everyone will hit the 'Ugh, here's the slow Swimming part of the dungeon'

Originally Posted by Pence

Swimming is not innovative or exciting 'content'. I'd say it's probably the largest waste of development for any game I've seen in a while. It has no function. Except to 'look pretty'...but with yet another loading zone. By the second or third run I guarantee everyone will hit the 'Ugh, here's the slow Swimming part of the dungeon'

If swimming is considered compelling new exciting and innovative content that players in this community feel are better than actual content, then this games community is actually more an issue than I thought it was.

Originally Posted by Elkanah

If swimming is considered compelling new exciting and innovative content that players in this community feel are better than actual content, then this games community is actually more an issue than I thought it was.

It's more the Dev team adding it thinking it was actually adding something to the game that we wanted and would be excited about. But feels disgustingly forced, boring and like a chore.

Originally Posted by Pence

Swimming is not innovative or exciting 'content'. I'd say it's probably the largest waste of development for any game I've seen in a while. It has no function. Except to 'look pretty'...but with yet another loading zone. By the second or third run I guarantee everyone will hit the 'Ugh, here's the slow Swimming part of the dungeon'

No, I agree. Swimming without any sort of purpose other than to get from A to B is definitely not exciting content, but it gives me hope that they might have done something different with the raid. I'm most likely reading too much in to it, but I'm struggling to get excited for the patch, so I'm trying to hold on to any kind of hope that they've shaken things up a little =/

If you don't like to just play the game, no ammount of content will help you anyway.

Someone in this thread said: "mh, patchday will be log in, buy a house, do story, run new dungeon +24, do shinryu with static and done

1 day of content \o/"

Soooo.. 3 dungeons, 2x 24 man, 3 ex trials and 50 MSQ will last you 3 days then.

Doesn't sound that reasonable to invest three times the money in a patch just to keep the quickly bored people 1-2 days longer out of the forums.