Welcome Back Campaign Fail

[Shosasosa]

Quick!


You seem a little upset that your thread totally backfired on you and went entirely off tangent. But please do continue to make a fool of yourself.

You quoted my lore comment and then commented on something completely unrelated. the thread went off tangent because it seems like people are eating up this filler content thinking its really cool stuff to do when its only shovelware to try to keep people paying. its the same shit weve been getting for the last year. spam same event over and over for little to no reward, and even the rewards are usually shit. theres not a single DL piece i would wear on my BLM. and if you're gathring, which you have listed as your main job(lol) then there have been virtually no changes to those classes since launch.

[Denmo]

Yeah..somehow people confused the fact this is more of a "see what has changed, especially if you've been gone for numerous years" with "people who stopped playing when we started charging, come back and play and pick up where you left off."

I think the latter is OP's problem. Also yes, the main reason to play now is to experience lore that will set the tone for pretty much the future of FFXIV.

NO YOUR WROGN. THE POINT OF PLAYING NOW IS DARKLIGHT GEARRRRR

[Shosasosa]

Yeah..somehow people confused the fact this is more of a "see what has changed, especially if you've been gone for numerous years" with "people who stopped playing when we started charging, come back and play and pick up where you left off."

I think the latter is OP's problem. Also yes, the main reason to play now is to experience lore that will set the tone for pretty much the future of FFXIV.

when i saw once in a lifetime i was expecting something to happen in this 10 day period that would wow us into getting excited enough to stay with the game. i havent stopped playing so nothing they have shown me since launch has wowed me. and nothing in this welcome back period is anything new.

[Denmo]

when i saw once in a lifetime i was expecting something to happen in this 10 day period that would wow us into getting excited enough to stay with the game. i havent stopped playing so nothing they have shown me since launch has wowed me. and nothing in this welcome back period is anything new.

Wait I'm confused.

Are you now returning to the game thanks to the campaign or have you been playing since they started pay-to-play?

If it's the prior, how are you even posting unless you've paid?

If it's the latter, why are you even complaining?

[Norack]

Quick!

this is hilarious lol.

But um.... on topic im guessing they mean the whole 7th umbral era thing, u know all the story and quests and what not that wont be in 2.0, might not be new for ppl playing now but it is for ppl that don't play the game. And the content can be in this game for about 2 years cause i think thats how long the games been out for and still be once in a life time cause when they re launch it you can't do it again.

P.S don't look at my sig. cause i can tell by the OP's post he is all mighty hardcore and I dont wanna get bitched at and told to go die in a puddle of my own vomit for posting here cause i only have 2 50's, anyways enjoy your 6+ hours of FFXIV everyday ^.^

[yukikaze_yanagi]

umbral era events are in sequence:
1)ifrit fight & cutscene
2)gc company quests
3) moogle ?
4)garuda fight & cutscene
5) live events like garlean invasions
6)soon, castrum novos
7)next patch, imperial fight

So chill out. Even if returners don't manage to see all of this in 10 days, they can still see at least half and things like af quests

[Rau]

umbral era events are in sequence:
1)ifrit fight & cutscene
2)gc company quests
3) moogle ?
4)garuda fight & cutscene
5) live events like garlean invasions
6)soon, castrum novos
7)next patch, imperial fight

So chill out. Even if returners don't manage to see all of this in 10 days, they can still see at least half and things like af quests

[Elexia]

when i saw once in a lifetime i was expecting something to happen in this 10 day period that would wow us into getting excited enough to stay with the game. i havent stopped playing so nothing they have shown me since launch has wowed me. and nothing in this welcome back period is anything new.

Err..then yeah I think you're confused, especially since I've seen you around quite a bit prior to this campaign when I hopped onto my brother's character to keep up with some friends there. This campaign wasn't specifically designed for players you perse, especially since it the 'experience etc' was more for the people who haven't kept up with the game doesn't know there's a one time event going on.

[Otaku]

when i saw once in a lifetime i was expecting something to happen in this 10 day period that would wow us into getting excited enough to stay with the game. i havent stopped playing so nothing they have shown me since launch has wowed me. and nothing in this welcome back period is anything new.

This confuses me..... it's a "Welcome Back" campaign not a "Hope You Stay" campaign...... you do understand this is for players that have left and not for you right? Your complaints are so all over the place that I'm confused if you yourself even know wtf you're complaining about anymore?

[viion]

I have to agree that this welcome back was a complete and utter sham, I invited 3 friends back, and all of them have the same opinion "Yep that confirms it, XIV is still as shit as it was when I last played".

Lets go through the struggles

Servers being Locked
Great, so they cant move to my server. They didnt have pre-50s, only 1 did, but he was merged to the Auto Server which I wasnt on, and he couldnt reroll on my server because its locked. So we was all forced to reroll as level 1 on another server.

Crappy low level content
There is just absolute nothing to do, they left doing leves, they come back "What can we do", "We can do leves!" /logout, but it is the only real way to level outside being PL'd, and because we rerolled on a new server, know no one, we cant be PL'd, so back to the old fashion crappy ways. We only have 10 days and we have to churn out this rubbish.

Experience once in a life time Umbral Event
I am sorry, this is the same shit that was here last patch, its not special for these 10 days, nothing good happened, could youtube it and experience it. But what is worse is the fact that this is level 50 content that requires a damn party to even do, unless there are other people there. But because its the same old crap content everyones done it. So lol@Experience it, very few would be able to, under the right strict conditions. So they didnt get to do anything of that. They just looked at them and laughed because they dont attack unless you "sign up" lol. Threatening...

More levelling! to 25 we go!
So what can we do at 25, Toto-Rak, oh joy. Thats fun /cry, I had already burned myself on Toto-Rak as its the only decent way to get Seals, so I was not looking forward to this. Same for one of my other friends who had a pre50 in that he just did it lots of times when it was released. We didnt last long there.

What next? What can SE suggest?
One of their welcome back messages go "Come experience the Inn"............ LOL "step in" "woo experienced!" are you kidding me?... Maybe we can go to that level 15 dungeon or w/e, *30 mins later* ok this is Cassi v2, after living there during beta, its not fun.

Missions!
Lets do those, oh wait they all solo (low level ones). "Welcome back friends, now go play on ur own in an mmo".

Damn now I need gear!
Uldah Ward full, cant make any moneys.

Back to leves!
/logout

10 days, not impressive, complete sham, rocked the confidence of my friends for 2.0 and they couldnt make it past the 5th day, why? Diablo 3, a well polished and new exciting game, something XIV is not right now.

Yoshi relies on us (because he has mentioned it about 3 times) to tell our friends to come back, but when we do all we get is some dried up bread rather than a gorgeous cake, I know personally the game isnt where it is supposed to be, but I would have at least thought there might be something during the Umbral that ANYONE at ANY LEVEL could experience, but I was wrong. I also think these 10 days would have severed better later on, like during the 2.0 beta or something.

This is just the result of me and my friends having a crappy experience, but then reading comments on community websites, its a shared experience.

The only good thing they can sum up, is that they're happy the lag from release is gone, and that the game is slowly going in the right direction, but there isn't enough for them to see any changes. Especially when everything content related is pretty much end-game now.