6.2 Patch Notes

**Banriikku** · 08-21-2022 05:10 PM

Originally Posted by Kazhar

What's YOUR source that the positions they take are held by only a minuscule minority of the playerbase? I want official numbers approved by polling experts now.
Because this is what this is all about, claiming that you have the moral high ground by being objective, but in the same breath you make completely baseless claims with only the same kind of anecdotal evidence the other side uses. (and having no idea how much of an hypocrite this makes you)
Why does all discussion here have to devolve into this? Just endless petty wars over whichever sides gets the more votes instead of trying to argue if the idea itself has any merits?

Good point. Then i have question: What is Island Sanctuary and what purpose/feature is entailed? Its not housing, its not an quest filled area, its not gardening in the sense of build or create something of value. So what is it ? Its disconnected from the rest of the game for what purpose ? This smells like SE does something the players wanted but in all the wrong directions or not ?

**GeminiReed** · 08-23-2022 11:24 AM

Originally Posted by Banriikku

Good point. Then i have question: What is Island Sanctuary and what purpose/feature is entailed? Its not housing, its not an quest filled area, its not gardening in the sense of build or create something of value. So what is it ? Its disconnected from the rest of the game for what purpose ? This smells like SE does something the players wanted but in all the wrong directions or not ?

It could be just like every other self contained instance like Eureka and Bozja. Released to the wild for an expansion then maybe an adjustment or two to accommodate the post-expansion population but no real expansion of the content. Both Eureka and Bozja have marketable drops. Bozja can be used to level alt jobs.

From what we know about IS it's more akin to the Gold Saucer but without other participants. You can have spectators but if somebody wants to do IS activities they need to go to their own instance. Unless the devs have committed to adding new activities regularly I don't see the long term IS participation rate being sustainable enough to justify the expense of its development. I would be happy to be proven wrong.

I have a hard time wrapping my head around them going to so much effort for what seems like a disposable feature. It is my fervent hope that IS is just a test run to see how the instancing tech it performs under load. It would go a long way to explain to me the limited feature set (less moving parts to observe), the idle timeout (less active instances), and their odd decision to gate this by EW completion (limited number of active participants). Once they're happy with how it can handle the traffic they can reduce the limitations and maybe introduce more housing like capabilities.

**Hurlstone** · 08-23-2022 12:18 PM

Originally Posted by Banriikku

Good point. Then i have question: What is Island Sanctuary and what purpose/feature is entailed? Its not housing, its not an quest filled area, its not gardening in the sense of build or create something of value. So what is it ? Its disconnected from the rest of the game for what purpose ? This smells like SE does something the players wanted but in all the wrong directions or not ?

Possible, but all we have seen so far are a few vids and reviews. It could be somthing new. We cannot judge it until its playable. Personally speaking I think it looks fun. Nice new gameplay loop to enjoy and spend time on, though am dissapointed it will not have much of a story it seems. Sound like we will get minion/mount/glam rewards too. It may not be the housing/gardening oppitunity some of us hoped, but then they never said it would be. Plus this is somthing they can hopefully add to as the patchs go on, perhaps even add fetures players want like what I just said and teleportation ect.

Originally Posted by Restonance

"Oh we don't want you using any mods" as they add in a feature that a UI mod has had for god knows how long.

I disagree that mods should be seen as the evil SE makes them out to be sometimes, but is it not a good thing to add features that people wanted into the base UI? Especially for us console users who do not even have access to mods in the first place.

**Restonance** · 08-23-2022 12:30 PM

Originally Posted by Hurlstone

I disagree that mods should be seen as the evil SE makes them out to be sometimes, but is it not a good thing to add features that people wanted into the base UI? Especially for us console users who do not even have access to mods in the first place.

Oh I agree 100%. Don't get me wrong. I just think it's interesting that they choose to ban people for using mods but decide to put in features of a mod. Kinda hypocritical if you ask me.

**Hurlstone** · 08-23-2022 12:39 PM

Originally Posted by Restonance

Oh I agree 100%. Don't get me wrong. I just think it's interesting that they choose to ban people for using mods but decide to put in features of a mod. Kinda hypocritical if you ask me.

Ahh I see! Sorry for the misunderstanding. I cannot speak much about it as I do not use mods, but I agree there. The whole mod debate in FFXIV is an interesting one, and it seems pretty unique for an MMO.

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