Lack of content on patch release

[Sotaris]

4.1 was more lackluster imo. Also every patch is lackluster for us who already got everything leveled to cap.

[number473]

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Those saying to play something else during the downtime really don't get the point at all. Personally, I have been in the position where I am spending much more time on other games since I finished with Eureka, which is months ago. The little bit of questing and half-hour of daily content really gives me almost nothing to do, and I am tired of being on a break!!!

Eureka and Deep Dungeon are the things that I have been looking forward to because they are the things that I can spend a lot of time on. Having to wait longer for these things, the specific things I am looking forward to, is extremely disappointing.

I'm not going to say that the new content is bad. The main story was enjoyable as always and the new dungeon is great. The dungeons are always good, even though the fact that they are so similar at this point makes them boring (I'll save that rant for another day). It's just that there's nothing for me to spend my time on.

[Sotaris]

I'm not going to say that the new content is bad. The main story was enjoyable as always and the new dungeon is great. The dungeons are always good, even though the fact that they are so similar at this point makes them boring (I'll save that rant for another day). It's just that there's nothing for me to spend my time on.

I didn't mean to come off like i was complaining. Problem for us who play more than 1 hour per day the content feel fresh and fun for a week or two then it just repeat mode doing expert daily and namazu for 10 min.

[Cirgellon]

There will never be a time where MMOs can put out enough content to make people who complaij about it happy. Gaming studios take years to create those single player games that you run through in 8-100 hours. You are givijg this dev team months between updates. The only way to give lasting content is to create grinds of doing the same thing over and over, which is why MMOs do exactly that.

[Vaer]

Wish they would have released one of the two (Heaven or Eureka) with Ultimate next week. I know they probably have weapons comparable to the new EX weapon which is one of the reasons they are delaying it as to not kill the new EX primal so quickly since they have a history of doing this. (Waiting a month to drop other content/relic with same ilvl weapons as EX primal or better)

They could have changed it up and added another set of accessories or something instead of a weapon and just add the weapon later. Accessory choices are really lacking. That way, we could either have Heaven for players who want to level alt jobs through there and 4 man content or Eureka for players who don't do Ultimate.

[Eloah]

Anyone elae feel like this is mimicing American Idol, "stay tuned for the most shocking/exciting/surprising elimination yet". If all eliminations are (insert appropriate adjective here) are any of them? If all patches are "lackluster" are any of them?

[Deceptus]

Ultimately I do find 4.3 was a disappointment mainly due to the fact they had been showing so much content in all the build up and trailers only for a majority of the content (heaven, Eureka 2.0, new ultimate) to be pushed back to 4.35 or later.

[CorbinDallas]

I'll repeat what I said earlier about the greatest patch in history, 3.1.

Guess what it contained, content wise? Thordan extreme, Void Ark, Vanu Vanu, 2 dungeons, like 4 MSQs, Verminion, and Diadem 1.0. 2 of those were dead on arrival, and beast tribes are apparently not content. So all we really had to keep us going until 3.15 (Anima Weapons) was literally just Thordan, and he was hard, not many people could even get to his first mini phase after the ultimate.

The icing on the cake? The raiding scene was an absolute joke, Gordias was tearing statics apart and causing people to jump servers constantly. A3S walled people so hard they just gave up. It was a mixture of the content being way overtuned and gear gated, as well as people still adapting to the new complex rotations and strict timers they introduced with Heavensward. We needed a breath of fresh air with 3.1, we needed them to throw us a bone and give us something to do other than bash our heads against Living Liquid/Manipulator. They gave us 3.1. Not only that, but 3.1 itself was hugely delayed and didn't come out until the November since the staff took a holiday after the release of Heavensward, making the wait even worse.

So don't even try and claim that 4.3 is anywhere near the most lacklustre patch to date, because you would be factually wrong.

[Remedi]

until 3.15 (Palace of the Dead/Aquapolis/Anima Weapons)

Just a nitpick but palace and aquapolis were 3.35, 3.15 only had anima weapons .

Though I would say that 2.0 release content was worse in the term of lasting effect and quantity, though one could say that the overall difficulty of progressing was hiding it well, not to mention the willingness of ppl of excusing that, but imho ppl should realize that the reason we'll get less than say 2.1 is that because the game was barren at the start many standard qualities for a MMO had to be added during 2.x series.

[CorbinDallas]

Just a nitpick but palace and aquapolis were 3.35, 3.15 only had anima weapons.

My bad, Heavensward was all a blur to me. I guess that makes 3.1 even worse than I initially remembered. I'll edit my post to correct that, thank you!