Letter TO The Producer

[RedLolly]

That's probably closest to the truth

No, it literally is the truth. There is no hyperbole behind the statement that top shareholders speaking up about DT's shortcomings is why the devs suddenly upped some production quality in 7.3's MSQ and why they're starting to change the content cycle going forward. That's capitalism, baby!

And honestly, that's why I'm hopeful for the future.

[Valence]

Being hopeful for the future because of capitalism is certainly not a thing I expected to read today.

[RedLolly]

Being hopeful for the future because of capitalism is certainly not a thing I expected to read today.

Right? What a world.

[Veritas-Ancora]

I think the OP has a great letter TO the Producer.

I agree with everything said by the OP.

I personally would like more references to old-school FF games, and more crossovers. Surprise us like you did with the recent patch. It was fun.

But in terms of inviting my friends to FFXIV? I can't in good conscience. Dawntrail was really bad. The Alliance raids Echoes of Vana'diel are interesting but not enough to hold this expansion over.

- Cloud of Darkness Chaotic had too many wipe mechanics to be fun
- Occult Crescent ended too quickly
- Forked Tower wasn't thought through for casual-extreme players
- Lunar crafting was terribly boring
- The storytelling is absolutely terrible with forgettable characters

I love Final Fantasy XIV, but I feel like this is the worst expansion of all time, even worse than 1.0.

[TheRealDesastr]

The amount of new things added seems to be lower and lower lately, with more and more being added on the shop, which is frustrating. There's not even a way to get things on the shop like there is with WoW tokens, for example, in another game, and shop items are not account bound short of non-holiday mounts. Again - very frustrating. I wish there was an example taken from WoW at least with a monthly trading post. Sure there's a lot of mount 'recolors' in that, but at least it's something.

I dunno. It's just tiresome, I guess.

I will say if the game was more alt-friendly, I'd put more effort into doing things like content. But I really don't need everything on one character and don't have the time/desire to waste gameplay repeating content I've already done on my main.

It would be nice if they took examples from other games like the Trading Post and Collections Journal, at least.

[SyferU]

We are getting new stuff, but people only focus on the things that stay the same, not the things that are changing.
Chaotic, Quantum, phantom jobs, Beastmaster, Dawntrail has and will introduce a lot of new stuff, no matter how much people want to deny it.
Only problem I have is with the time it takes between patches.

[RedLolly]

We are getting new stuff, but people only focus on the things that stay the same, not the things that are changing.
Chaotic, Quantum, phantom jobs, Beastmaster, Dawntrail has and will introduce a lot of new stuff, no matter how much people want to deny it.
Only problem I have is with the time it takes between patches.

You are correct, however, most EW patch to current content (and most of the regular content we consistently see more of) has had the issue of not having enough "staying power." Because the patch cycle is a month-ish longer than before, that flaw is a much sharper problem.


The short answer is there really isn't anything in DT that's a fun and especially lengthy grind. The devs keep fumbling something with every new release in DT and they fully acknowledged it. IMO, a well done Deep Dungeon is exactly the kind of thing we need right now. Key word is well done. So here's hoping.

[Haru304]

Sir.

This is a forum.

Not a post office.

[Stormfur]

People complaining about the sci-fi look don't remember that there were robots in the sky in the original Final Fantasy.

That being said, Dawntrail looked to be the mesoamerican culture tie-in, so I'm over here looking forward to jaguar warrior and eagle warrior armor and seeing nothing of the sort.

Lunar cosmic exploration could've been a reskin of Diadem and we'd have loved it. Instead, it's insanely boring (and I say this as someone who has leveled all crafters and still goes to Diadem for fun. It's relaxing to gather!)

I was so looking forward to playing a Ranger in the Occult Crescent, only to find that their abilities are like "run 10% faster for 5 seconds" while Canoneer gets massive boom power.

We. Need. More. Stuff. To. Buy. With. Wolf. Collars. (Not marks! Collars!)