4.1 - The emptiest patch yet.

[Zhamkyong]

'I dont like it.'

'More of the same.'

Then please, do us a favor.

In fact, do SE a favor, if you will.

Enlighten us, tell us what would you have done. Think of something unique that no one has tried before and succeed on it on the first try that everyone here would applaud you for, and by chance maybe get you into coding, modeling, voicing... maybe get a job into the Dev team. Then guide that team into polishing it in the shortest time that you can while we patiently wait and then launch it to the world in a way that no one will even get one little, tiny problem, even a bug.

Short answer, you cant.

In fact, please point me in the direcction of a MMO where the end game is fresh even after years of development and keeps it's players out of doing the same thing all over again.

Yep, you cant.

[KalinOrthos]

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Can I add an addendum to this?

If you do propose something, please don't frame it as just "THEY SHOULD DO X". Planning anything out takes time and resources, let alone actually coding, integrating, and bug-testing. Just throwing out ideas is something any armchair CEO can do; if these guys really have some sort of ingenious way to solve this "issue", we need details.

[Aramina]

Then please, do us a favor.

In fact, do SE a favor, if you will.

Enlighten us, tell us what woul you have done. Think of something unique that no one has tried before and suceed on it on the first try that everyone here would applaud you for, and by chance maybe get you into coding, modeling, voicing... maybe get a job into the Dev team. Then guide that team into polishing it in the shortest time that you can while we patiently wait and then launch it to the world in a way that no one will even get one little, tiny problem, even a bug.

Short answer, you cant.

In fact, please point me in the direcction of a MMO where the end game is fresh even after years of development and keeps it's players out of doing the same thing all over again.

Yep, you cant.

I have money on the reply being: "It's not my job to think of stuff like that! That's what we pay them for!"

Yep. Calling it.

[Vahlnir]

what?

So...you have an issue with just about everything in the game then? Well, then why not try to offer a suggestion or 2 instead of ending things with #kappa? That would be more constructive and/or helpful.

[Reaperking386]

I am disappointed in the trailer and perhaps the patch, pending on the patch notes. The trailer itself just felt boring. The length of the video is the shortest of all the hype videos.
What bothered me most was the lack of labels of what was what. Other trailers announce what part you are on in the video like "Void Ark" or "New PVP". This had nothing. There is no new armor previews, no new features, and no hairstyles. This is probably the most disappointing trailers I have seen in the FF14 trailer series.

• No labels for the video
• Slow music score (just boring)
• No new features
• No previews of armor, weapons, crafting recipes, and haircuts.
• No beast tribe preview
• No new primal fights (excluding 24 man)
• No PVP features
  

I don't know why they released this poor quality trailer, but it put a bad taste in my mouth for 4.1.

[Vahlnir]

I don't know why they released this poor quality trailer, but it put a bad taste in my mouth for 4.1.

This put me off...at first, then I sorta pieced together what we knew collectively and was fine with everything. They could have done better with the trailer, definitely. Before they could generate a good bit of hype with a single trailer, and the hype just wasn't there with this one. The Live Letter I think generated more hype than the trailer itself.

[Rita1989]

In fact, please point me in the direcction of a MMO where the end game is fresh even after years of development and keeps it's players out of doing the same thing all over again.

Yep, you cant.

FFXI in every expansion had new endgame content while at the same time allowed its older content to remain relevent

SE themselves told us in each odd number patch we would be getting exciting new content but here we are looking at the same stuff as usual but its actually less then what was in 2.0 and even 3.0 series patches.

The concern I have is in 5.0 they are going to cut content even more and people are going to defend them for it.

[Zhamkyong]

FFXI in every expansion had new endgame content while at the same time allowed its older content to remain relevent

SE themselves told us in each odd number patch we would be getting exciting new content but here we are looking at the same stuff as usual but its actually less then what was in 2.0 and even 3.0 series patches.

The concern I have is in 5.0 they are going to cut content even more and people are going to defend them for it.

I will start saying that i played FFXI back in the day.

Secondly, you can't really compare XIV to XI for a simple reason: The playerbase was diferent back then, the same players that enjoyed XI won't invest the time needed to play like it was before because it's too time demanding/consuming. And in the end, today, because i still follow it, i still play it it time to time only because of the story, the end game it's just as repetitive as in every other game. So no, you are not going to win that argument with me.

You cannot add in every odd patch 'exciting new content' because it's juts... It can't be done.

Finally, the patch is not even out yet. I got the feeling that the EX trial of Shinry it's not going to be "More of the same."

[Remedi]

FFXI in every expansion had new endgame content while at the same time allowed its older content to remain relevent

SE themselves told us in each odd number patch we would be getting exciting new content but here we are looking at the same stuff as usual but its actually less then what was in 2.0 and even 3.0 series patches.

The concern I have is in 5.0 they are going to cut content even more and people are going to defend them for it.

FFXI was the past however, they tried to emulate and recreate that feeling once, it failed, hard
for reference watch the FFXIV documentary

[Mug]

FFXI was the past however, they tried to emulate and recreate that feeling once, it failed, hard
for reference watch the FFXIV documentary

The reason 1.0 failed was because they released an unfinished, laggy, mess of game with next to no content. Not because they tried to make FFXI-2.