Predictions for OC/FT Live Letter

[Mawlzy]

And here it is, the guy finally unmasks and asks what he truly wants. Which is making sure that only the inept have content and those who want to not bother trying be the only people catered to. What a clown.

Go play single player games and kindly find a bridge to stay under. Even 'people like you' are begging for content to be better and you want to kill that completely.

Given the LL noted explicitly that we didn't get a normal version of FT because SQEX didn't have the resources, I think many players will be irritated if a chaotic is released before 8.0.

Incidentally, has the reputation of CAR been rehabilitated? On release, it was the raiders complaining bitterly about its design.

[Enjuden]

Given the LL noted explicitly that we didn't get a normal version of FT because SQEX didn't have the resources, I think many players will be irritated if a chaotic is released before 8.0.

Incidentally, has the reputation of CAR been rehabilitated? On release, it was the raiders complaining bitterly about its design.

Not sure what reputation it is that you're talking about. The raid in general is well received by raiders, it's just that it was released too late for what should be horizontal gear progression. It's not that the content is bad, it was just dead on arrival outside of the hair and mounts. Difficulty was negligible, most that do raid regularly clear the thing within about 4-6 hours of prog.

There really is no excuse for a 5 month content drought when every other mmo on the planet releases content for everybody all at once where we get half of it per cycle. Battle content good, reward badly timed is the TL;DR

[xbahax92]

Nice, we're not even at the end of LL and the first ad is running already.

At this point, it's time to change my sub to the cheap version as well as discontinuing my additional retainers.

[AvoSturmfaust]

Nice, we're not even at the end of LL and the first ad is running already.

At this point, it's time to change my sub to the cheap version as well as discontinuing my additional retainers.

Its normal, they always show ads or anything during the break, and right now part 1 is done

[Sekundessounet]

Reminder that the idea of "cost" isn't especially about money, it's mostly about time.

[Aniise]

Reminder that the idea of "cost" isn't especially about money, it's mostly about time.

Yes, maybe. But even if this is true, the same question remains.
Why would you put your limited resources in content, the majority of the player base will never set a foot in?

It's still just as weird. It still doesn't make sense, no matter which resource they fall short on. Be it money, time or employees.

[Sekundessounet]

Yes, maybe. But even if this is true, the same question remains.
Why would you put your limited resources in content, the majority of the player base will never set a foot in?

It's still just as weird. It still doesn't make sense, no matter which resource they fall short on. Be it money, time or employees.

Same reason we have Ultimate : Hard content creates publicity and community effervescence, be it because of organizing stuff or just following along. When Bozja came out at first, people complained about the lack of hard content à la Baldesion. And that Castrum was a snoozefest.
So it feels reasonable for them to have the whole zone and CE for casual enjoyment, and Forked Tower for more hardcore people.
The best solution is a normal and savage mode of course, but choosing between the two, I suppose it made more sense to give player a hardcore part for the island exploration.

[Infindox]

Hmm... I'm happy that there's *some* preformed party thing available for FT, but by the time it's implemented, it'll be considered "old content" and just end up being a Discord sort of affair again.

I really hate that these LLs are left to unofficial translations. The account I follow will say one thing, another translation says another. I don't expect them to translate everything, but this section was important enough I think to do so.

[LaylaTsarra]

Castrum was fun they basically forked out the casual crowd and catered to the Savage one and that isn't very smart in my opinion. No excuse for it my view.

Castrum, DR and Dalraidia were all fun and engaging for everyone. The DRS was placed where it should have been at the end of the relic cycle as was BA.

[Saraide]

We're getting bogged down in an argument about what that "cost" means but I think we are just arguing semantics here. Wether it's dev time or money, they are lacking the resources to deliver what people are expecting and are cutting corners on basically everything instead. IIRC FF14 is pretty important to SE overall so this lack of support just feels really odd. The problem in cases like this is generally upper management, even inexperienced workers can be directed to do great things but the top needs to know exactly what they're doing and right now this doesnt really feel like it's the case.