Longevity <can I have it?>

[Rokien]

Soo guess they didn't get my message on longevity.

Why can we just fight garuda without doing a long quest line first? Come on square you are disappointing me.

[Denmo]

satiate the masses. give them what they want until the real game is finished.


satiate the masses.

[Rokien]

satiate the masses. give them what they want until the real game is finished.


satiate the masses.

Would you wanna spend the first week doing quests to fight garuda or do the first week and the next few months fighting garuda?

[Timotheus]

Or do you want to Grind everything so we're playing fking Grinal Grindisy XXXXXXXIV

You actually mean LXXIV? =P

[Ricky]

I think there's only so much they can do before the complete engine overhaul

[Lux_Rayna]

Soo guess they didn't get my message on longevity.

Why can we just fight garuda without doing a long quest line first? Come on square you are disappointing me.

Because making a fight's prerequisites shorter, and easier to spam, surely makes it last longer. For god sakes man! Think lol.

[WinnipegJet]

So, Dust 514 is a good example for this, a new mmo game that is free to play that has around 7 years worth of game time. What is ffxiv going to do? Right now it takes 0 time to level up each class/job. The only thing that takes time right now is drops. Repeating raid over and over and over again isn't a good way to keep that longevity. So, I'm just wondering what are you going to do Yoshi to keep players engaged for 7+ years?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxeg6...layer_embedded

So let me get this straight: basically what the guy described in the video is 7 years worth of grinding to get a character maxed out.

Sounds awesome.................................................

[Denmo]

Would you wanna spend the first week doing quests to fight garuda or do the first week and the next few months fighting garuda?

Hmm, I'd rather get to 50 first before I answer that question...!

I dunno. I've been playing the game at my own pace to keep myself from getting jaded by the current lame mechanics (mostly inventory management). So I reallllly don't see the problem with longevity.

My point with my earlier response is, currently, your argument is for naught, because currently, the game is just the appetizer before the main course.

It's the kiddy rides before the roller coaster.

It's the Yellow Chocobo before the Golden Chocobo.

It's the first/second/third date before the marriage. Honeymoon's a whole other story.


So really, asking for longevity right now is pointless.

[Viritess]

Rokien if your gonna post about other MMOs you should really know more about what your writing. Dust is hardly an MMO. Its a compliment to Eve-Online as other have mentioned. The ground troops to compliment the Internet spaceships.

Now if they made a FF14 fleet command in which space chocobos piloted space ifrits into pvp battles to control asteroids surrounding the moon then you'd have a thread.

Coming in 2.8! All hail Krrrrak, Space Bo of the Chocopire!

[Rokien]

Rokien if your gonna post about other MMOs you should really know more about what your writing. Dust is hardly an MMO. Its a compliment to Eve-Online as other have mentioned. The ground troops to compliment the Internet spaceships.

Now if they made a FF14 fleet command in which space chocobos piloted space ifrits into pvp battles to control asteroids surrounding the moon then you'd have a thread.

Coming in 2.8! All hail Krrrrak, Space Bo of the Chocopire!

I know what dust is and I've played eve....

I'm not saying 7 years of grinding, I just wanna know what they will do to keep players in the game without having to add new content every 2 months.