87th PLL showcases a need for change in announcing content

[Aruji-sama]

These are coming from the man who boasted on how he can do 2 hour long presentations with 99% stuff that everyone already knows. Contents stretched so thin that you can make pie crusts. 15 mins on chat bubbles? No problemo in my book!

Huge /s incase anyone didn't get it.

[Valence]

Maybe you should be more mad about the lack of options to gear up alts, because the way you talk about it it sounds like you didn't even have fun putting in the effort for your split runs? Are you still playing for fun?

[churchren]

Maybe you should be more mad about the lack of options to gear up alts, because the way you talk about it it sounds like you didn't even have fun putting in the effort for your split runs? Are you still playing for fun?

You mean do I enjoy having to run splits? absolutely not, I shouldn't have to game the gearing system with alt characters to acquire gear for alt jobs at a faster pace in 2025. Regardless, the argument isn't about whether splits is necessary or fun, it's literally that SE needs to give players better lead time for the major content cycles. There's no way that even a semi-competent dev team would not have known whether they could deliver a piece of content 4 months out from their projected release. SE needs to own up the fact that they suck at communicating and I am not alone in the sentiment that 2 months before is no longer acceptable for a "are we getting a specific piece of content or not" in 2025.

[Valence]

No, that's exactly what I am saying. Your problem isn't with heads up, your problem is with the gearing system and the existence of split runs to begin with. I don't disagree that their communication has much left to be desired though, but this alt issue sounds like a gearing system issue, and overall a lack of flexibility from the design.

[TomsYoungerBro]

No, that's exactly what I am saying. Your problem isn't with heads up, your problem is with the gearing system and the existence of split runs to begin with. I don't disagree that their communication has much left to be desired though, but this alt issue sounds like a gearing system issue, and overall a lack of flexibility from the design.

No regard to the time and energy spent running splits because of the awful gearing system
No regard for the time spent to organizing gear & loot for people and alt jobs
No regard for the energy and effort required to put out recruitment postings, sifting through applications, interviews & trials
No regard for the dart-board game we play with trying to predict our paid-time off requests
No regard for the preparations I have to make IRL for the release

I come back to the forums and some things never change. Lets read the OP before we start telling them exactly what they mean lmao.

[Valence]

I come back to the forums and some things never change. Lets read the OP before we start telling them exactly what they mean lmao.

Maybe actually take the time to read more than just the OP before throwing rocks? Some things never change indeed.

you literally just stopped reading my post didn't you? I'm mad because they didn't give us a notice until the PLL that there would be no 7.31 ultimate, thereby causing me and my group to waste our time with split clears and ulti prep. I don't care about the lack of a 7.31 ultimate itself, i just wanted to know before we had spent all the time prepping for one that we had ample reason to believe they would deliver one otherwise

[churchren]

No, that's exactly what I am saying. Your problem isn't with heads up, your problem is with the gearing system and the existence of split runs to begin with. I don't disagree that their communication has much left to be desired though, but this alt issue sounds like a gearing system issue, and overall a lack of flexibility from the design.

yes if they fixed the gearing system, splits would not be necessary, but I personally don't see them being able to fix gearing easily. Whereas simply telling us things sooner is actually very simple. In addition, telling us sooner also allows people to properly plan PTO for HC raiding. Being able to plan 4 months at least in advance would be so much more welcome than waiting 2months to 2 weeks before a patch to have a solid release date or even a ballpark

[Valence]

yes if they fixed the gearing system, splits would not be necessary, but I personally don't see them being able to fix gearing easily. Whereas simply telling us things sooner is actually very simple. In addition, telling us sooner also allows people to properly plan PTO for HC raiding. Being able to plan 4 months at least in advance would be so much more welcome than waiting 2months to 2 weeks before a patch to have a solid release date or even a ballpark

Fair enough!

[fulminating]

Was DSR slated for 5.3 or 5.5 before the pandemic pushed it back? I remember a nebulous “later in the 5.x series”, but not a direct statement of “we wanted this out for 5.3, sorry for the delay”. They might have decided uwu was too close to ucob and this was the first time they were able to adjust since.

[BigCheez]

Was DSR slated for 5.3 or 5.5 before the pandemic pushed it back? I remember a nebulous “later in the 5.x series”, but not a direct statement of “we wanted this out for 5.3, sorry for the delay”. They might have decided uwu was too close to ucob and this was the first time they were able to adjust since.

That would be odd given that TOP released in 6.3.