Thread: 4.2 date?

Originally Posted by Rosentretter

As other people mention, it's perfect time to lvl up other classes, play another game or just hang out with friends, or farm mounts, or take screenshots :P

I really dislike this argument. Leveling alt jobs or characters isn't content unless you're a completionist. If someone has no interest in ever playing casters, why would leveling casters be considered content for them? By that token, you may as well say "have you gotten all thirteen Anima relics? No? Stop complaining! You still have content!"

People want something that appeals to them. No one should expect to be entertained all the time, especially if they average 8-10 hours a day. Right now your chooses of semi-relevant content is Ultimate, Rival Wings and Rabanastre. If you're not a hardcore raider (7% of the playerbase) or interested in PvP... you have one piece of new content for the entire patch. That simply isn't good enough.

Originally Posted by ArcaviusGreyashe

Yeah, my point was, though, "no game development team could provide that much content every three months that isn't brainless farming". I agree that my way of phrasing it was too agressive, but the point is still valid... you just can't create that much content that will appeal to everybody... that's how MMOs work... You shouldn't be annoyed that FFXIV doesn't have content for you anymore, you should be grateful that you played it for probably more than a thousand hours.

That doesn't mean that you should throw away the game, but then again, it takes more time to create content than for people to make it, unless it's brainless farming, and I think it's something we should consider...

Like Ayer said, FFXIV lacks repeatable content. Eureka being delayed made it so unless you consistently raid, there just isn't much to do. I can appreciate it simply wasn't ready, but why not release an initial step even if it's grind oriented? I mean, once the Kojin stuff are maxed out, what exactly do they do except be yet another leveling source? Why not tie the initial relic step to them, squadrons, dungeons and various other content? That's where I feel they dropped the ball.

On a smaller scale, they could unlock Savage or weekly tomes, thus allowing people to practice alt jobs they do fancy without loot restrictions.

Originally Posted by ArcaviusGreyashe

Yeah, my point was, though, "no game development team could provide that much content every three months that isn't brainless farming". I agree that my way of phrasing it was too agressive, but the point is still valid... you just can't create that much content that will appeal to everybody... that's how MMOs work... You shouldn't be annoyed that FFXIV doesn't have content for you anymore, you should be grateful that you played it for probably more than a thousand hours.

That doesn't mean that you should throw away the game, but then again, it takes more time to create content than for people to make it, unless it's brainless farming, and I think it's something we should consider...

The developers really dropped the ball with not releasing anything related to Relics in 4.15. The first step of the Anima weapons in HW started in 3.1, so there was at least something for players that don't raid or who aren't doing Ultimate or who don't constantly craft/gather to do. But, by delaying Eureka, and by proxy the Relics for this expansion, the developers screwed up royally. Because there's just nothing to do. I'm sorry, I don't think I should be grateful that I was able to do most of what I've done within a couple days if you were to look at my entire play time for this patch, and then be left with nothing to do.

Like Bourne suggested, they could at least unlock the loot restrictions on Savage so that people could gear up alt jobs or join in on weekly clears without screwing up the coffers because everyone wants 2 chests. And there are a lot of raiders that enjoy joining in on various groups throughout the week just to help out or to have something to do--I had a lot of fun in 3.55 doing Creator Savage and gearing up all my 60s and just running the content in general. But, we can't with the loot restrictions still in place when people want 2 chests. And they probably won't be lifted until 4.2 when the new tier drops.

Originally Posted by Hannia

are there any other good mmo out there other than wow worth playing if I'm waiting 1-2 months just to have something to do I think id rather throw my money for those 1-2 months at another company till then :\

Guild wars 2 will always be a decent side MMO and you don't need to pay a subscription.

Dungeon Fighter Online for that old school arcade style combat if you don't mind the stamina bar (last a average of 2 to 3 hour playtime but a decent 4 hours if your character is level 70+ content) but the game provided plenty of events for free stamina and stamina decrease slows down a lot at high level content.