Out of touch? PLL

[Jeeqbit]

let's conveniently ignore the fact the complaints about the lack of field operation have been a hot topic for more than 2 years...

Well yes, I agree, but it seems SE only got this information near the end of the expansion from Zepla's video and frantically added it to the fanfest announcements at the last minute.

The thing is though, if you know this game, you know they plan their content cycle prior to the expansion's release. So all the content in Dawntrail is decided around the time they are doing the 3 fanfests and then it's set in stone after that. So although they only found out about our wish for Field Operations from Zepla's video, they were only looking for this information at that time as well.

I don't know why they do it this way and make it set in stone but it's how they do it. For example, they said they were making 3 variant/criterion dungeons in EW. If the first one flopped, it wouldn't matter, because they had 3 planned and that was set in stone tbh.

[PercibelTheren]

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The game's UI is atrocious and nobody can be blamed for having issues getting information out of it. Same goes for the Lodestone. The early 2000s called, they want their website design back. The Lodestone is a mess. I hate using it even more than the scattered Discords. The different gaming news site articles are worse still. The only outlier is the wiki. The wiki is actually decent.

People have been complaining about the lack of a field operation for literally the entirety of Endwalker. They could have pushed that earlier on the development timeline if they wanted to. Also, we're talking about one of the biggest Japanese gaming studios. They can throw more money, people and development time on things, they just choose not to.

[CNitsah]

Ho, I forgot to point, more ressources allocated to rework old dungeons... I hoped this would end with 6.55, so now they could concentrate on new content, but no.

[BabyYoda]

the content would be not bad if the development schedule is 3.5 months .. but 4.5 is too much..

I am quitting until 7.3 bozja maybe.. playing granblue relink until I see meaningful changes

[caffe_macchiato]

Many people love the patch tradition. They love the classic tradition of having the foray in X.25, which is a full year after expansion launch.

You know what's also tradition? Square Enix making bad decisions and going broke. Companies that suck and get themselves bought out. MMOs going into "maintenance mode" while investors loot the scraps.

You know what's not tradition? An MMO still being relevant after ten years without some drastic changes.

[Daralii]

Many people love the patch tradition. They love the classic tradition of having the foray in X.25, which is a full year after expansion launch.

You know what's also tradition? Square Enix making bad decisions and going broke. Companies that suck and get themselves bought out. MMOs going into "maintenance mode" while investors loot the scraps.

You know what's not tradition? An MMO still being relevant after ten years without some drastic changes.

Bozja was 5.35, so it could be even longer.

[Azurarok]

Ho, I forgot to point, more ressources allocated to rework old dungeons... I hoped this would end with 6.55, so now they could concentrate on new content, but no.

Like it was even needed. The rest of the creative fights and dungeon designs will be gone once they're done with them. As janky as they were I was still a fan of learning how much they experimented with things back in ARR.

Guess it'll be harder for newer players to question the current content designs if there's less remnants of what used to exist.

[Voidmage]

What about deep dungeons then?

Hmm depends I guess.
Normal runs to the normal end I would say casual because those are just normal dungeons.

Upper floors tend towards midcore after a while.

Solo to the end for me is a mix between midcore and hardcore.

Deep dungeons are actually good content to speak towards all players in my eyes.
The problem is that they got really lazy with EO (Allagans again, reused assets, nothing new, bad rewards) instead of upgrading what made them good in the first place.

Like I said those are just my takes on the different groups.
I just don’t see savage as midcore like some others tbh.

[Sotaris]

I let go of my house since I don't actively play but that sounds like a great addition.

No pillars is great too, it was always annoying to decorate around or incorporate into the design.

[Vyrerus]

Kind of feels like they're taking the route of, "Pretend nothing is wrong while we continue to make the game for nobody."