The state of the Game

[CidHeiral]

but is it reeally content though when its all the same boring repetitious formula ad nauseam?

Yes. "The content is boring" is not the same argument as "there is no content."

[Shinku_Tachi]

Yes. "The content is boring" is not the same argument as "there is no content."

This right here!

From 2.xx to 7.xx I've watched the "content" get less and less over the years with each patch cycle series.
Back when it became apparently obvious that we were paying the same money for exceedingly less and less content, while more and more would foisted onto the cash shop, and people started calling it out. Folks would explain it away, saying, "sure, we're getting less content but it's sooooooo much more higher quality now," or people would just pull the mask off, saying some variance of "stop being so entitled" or "play something else if you're not enjoying 14"

But now... not only are they delivering less, they're making the players wait longer for less.

We did not realize how good we had it in the ARR & HW days man, lol. (It's sad, honestly)

[CidHeiral]

This right here!

From 2.xx to 7.xx I've watched the "content" get less and less over the years with each patch cycle series.

I think you misread my post. I don't agree with that at all.

[Sunhwapark]

I do miss hard variants of dungeons, they were nice and simple.
Though, I'd say I've done the least amount of content in this expansion compared to the others.

[Vrankyl]

Now lets compare how much content we got.
2.2 :New Content
Main Story: Through the Maelstrom (19 quests, later reduced to 14 in patch 5.3)
Side Story: Hildibrand, Agent of Enquiry Chapter 2 (4 quests)
Dungeons: *The Lost City of Amdapor, *Halatali (Hard), *Brayflox's Longstop (Hard)
Trials: *The Whorleater (Hard), *The Whorleater (Extreme), *Thornmarch (Extreme), *Battle on the Big Bridge
Raid Series: *The Second Coil of Bahamut
Beast Tribe Quests and Reputation: Sahagin and Kobolds
Zodiac Weapons third and fourth part added
**Cast Glamour: Allows the player to transform the appearance of his or her gear to match that of other gear, with some restrictions.
Housing: Gardening added
Retainer Ventures added
*Duty Roulette: Expert and *Duty Roulette: Trials added
Challenge Log added
Big Fishing added
The visual appearance of the Goblet residential area has been redesigned.


7,2 New Content
Patch 7.2
Main Story: Seekers of Eternity (8 quests)
Raid Series: *AAC Cruiserweight Tier,
Savage will release one week after normal
Side Story: Additional Cornservant Quest: When Death Comes to Dinner
Dungeon: *The Underkeep
Trials: *Recollection, *Recollection (Extreme)
Faux Hollows: *Hells' Kier (Unreal)
Notice how much shorter the list is? And please understand this comparison is just 2.2 vs 7.2
Everything that came after is not included. So Occult Crescent in 7.25 is not part of this.
Neither is the fact that 2.2 added ps4 support and another relic step during its cycle cause they did not do it at release.
Relics also started right away in 2.0 that's why 2.2 is already 3rd and 4th step ( and later 5th even) Meanwhile Dawntrail relic only starts in 7.25

Right so your list is ignoring a few things. We are also getting a new Alliance Raid, and while other things will be added later they are still technically part of the 7.2 development cycle regardless of how it is being drip fed, which is a different issue altogether. I am personally against the drip feeding and wish SE would stop it. I really don't know why they went with it since the rest of the content, as stated earlier, is developed as part of the 7.2 patch. So 7.2 content would also include: New Deep Dungeon, New Society Quests, New Hildibrand, New Cosmic exploration, the next relic step, speech bubbles, and possible housing changes that they noted would be discussed in the next live letter for 7.2.

[RoyLucaria]

As a matter of fact. Yes i said i was ignoring things. I compared 2.2 Release to 7.2 Release.
Just these Patches as they released.
Anything that came in later " extra patches " like 2.2x and 7.2x were ignoreed.
2.2 also drip fed other stuff.

[MaikoRaines]

I'm not reading any of that.

[FudoMyoo]

I'm not reading any of that.

Not reading too unless there is a TLR summary. LOL!

[Pip_Chick]

Put it in Chat GPT and tell it to read it for you.

[AzhreiVahlok]

I'm still waiting for the fracking extra glam plates we were promised BEFORE Dawntrail dropped! I had to dump some casual sets to make room for 7 lvl 100 body pieces in my armory the other day, so when i come back to the game after knockign out my PS4 backlog i can actually level! How hard is it to shrink the glam plate editor a bit and add another row of ten plates under the first two??? And when can we change the insides of our houses? I don't mean what's there now (like making it look like a different city's inside or blank white walls w/o columns), I mean making the inside of a cottage have a MANSION interior.... or vice versa for some odd reason if you wanted to.