The Lessons Not Learned.

[Reap00]

Patch day has arrived. It was an update that I didn’t expect to be quite content heavy, but even so the situation regarding what just released today has to be addressed. The game right now is light on content and for all the hype about Criterion/Variant Dungeons, they released with ill-fitting, extremely limited rewards that will soon leave players without a reason to return to the content for who knows how long. Not like we haven’t run into situations before just last expansion when a lack of rewards for content like CLL made it irrelevant within a span of 2 weeks. A pink mouse, a generic throne, and yet another modern glamset. I truly wonder what about the feedback of people being fed up with these clothes and wanting more fantasy all-class gear is too hard to address. If it even makes it through to the proper channels, but rather than face criticism it seems they’d rather pander to the less-mature subset of players that congregate on Twitter – from whom they can expect nothing but unconditional positivity.

For a blessing, the Manderville Weapons aren’t the dreaded joke weapons from the Weapon Design Contest but all it takes to get one is 1500 poetics? Seriously? Did they forget how much of a mistake it was when they did poetics for Shadowbringers relics as well? Forget “accessibility” – anyone who wants an easy weapon to get can buy one off the marketboard. They could’ve at least spiced things up by...oh wait, the Relic Zones were scrapped entirely this expansion instead of releasing in the .25 patch like back in Stormblood. Any fates with interesting mechanics won’t be seen until 7.X, if even that, with the only other options being overworld fates with basic aoes or Alliance Raids that haven’t aged well in terms of balancing. I cannot imagine what appeal these weapons would have for us veteran players who likely already own a good number of relics, let alone those of us unwilling to suffer through the torment of the Hildibrand quests – with even more of that sort of writing apparently being present in the Omicron beast tribe storyline. Seems like even the Pixies had a darker plot to their quests, and they involved a literal candyland.

We’ve been here before – it seriously feels like the Covid content drought all over again but instead of finishing off with something like Bozja all we got was one of many entirely forgettable modern glamsets and another relic step that made the same mistakes as 5.25’s. Anyone could see the mistakes that were made in the past when it came to all this stuff and instead of improving, they just doubled down and repeated them all over again. How on earth is this ok?

Yes we have been here before. You complain about literally every content this game releases. Go play something else for gods sake. Your crying is getting annoying.

[Stormpeaks]

Yes we have been here before. You complain about literally every content this game releases. Go play something else for gods sake. Your crying is getting annoying.

Or you could just, I know, it's CRAZY, you can just not read his posts

[Reap00]

Or you could just, I know, it's CRAZY, you can just not read his posts

I am sure the other complainers will give you upvotes for that. Enjoy it. I know you kids love your upvotes for some strange reason.

[Stormpeaks]

I am sure the other complainers will give you upvotes for that. Enjoy it. I know you kids love your upvotes for some strange reason.

Ok sunshine, you can continue crying about him in every thread he makes, as if you are forced to do so, you just cant stay away from his threads, you HAVE to come in them and cry about them. It's a must for you, a mature person would just ignore the threads, but you have to go in them and cry about them.

[SentioftheHoukai]

Yes we have been here before. You complain about literally every content this game releases. Go play something else for gods sake. Your crying is getting annoying.

That's not very Scion of the Seventh Dawn of you. "We've been here before" The Endsinger tried to kill everybody ever, and the Scions forgave her. What sin has Aveyond committed? ;3

You people would make terrible heroes, what with your inability to not witch-burn those who disagree with you. Poor Ancients, flayed, violated and tortured by fake Scion imposters who snap their rotting, rabid jaws at anything that moves and has not the audacity to shine Mothercrystal Blue....