Please, stop making new content! (c/p from SE forums)Follow

Please, stop making new content!
I know this sounds like a weird request, but really, stop please.

Adding more and more content to the game would be great if the game were ok how it is now, because your just adding things to make it better, building on it. The bad thing is, that is not how things are right now, you need to address the problems the game has right now, new content be damned. Besides that, fulfill old promises, I understand the idea of getting inspiration to do something new and make new content, really, I do. The problem is that if you keep just adding new content and never going back to fix what has been left undone or you do not do as you say its going to end badly. Right now many people are leaving the game for various reasons, many of which you should be immediately concerned about rather than putting it off.

Look at what you are doing right now, your working on Monstrosity, Skirmish, Delve, Reives, Mog Gardens, and many other things, all of which you said are coming in the next two months. But what is missing? Inventory, RME99s, Spells, Traits, and Abilities for various jobs, fixes to jobs which are broken or not used like SMN or RDM, or even the AF for the new jobs, the ones which right now are very unused, GEO having limited use in new content and nothing more. Last but not least there is Cait Sith, which has gotten so bad I now am calling Cait Sigh because its what I do every time I am reminded of it.

Why are you so hell-bent on making something new when the foundation you are building on is so weak and crumbling as we speak? You need to fix up the place, reassert a sense of balance, give people what they want so they will be happy, not rip the game apart and start over. We have been here for years, you have changed the FFXI we knew and loved, you are making it into something different, we never asked for this, we asked for changes to the game, but never anything close to this. By what you are doing in these changes you are making us all feel as though this is not even FFXI anymore, its an entirely different game. Please do not forget, FFXIV is on the way, you are working on another game, not that, we want FFXI to stay FFXI, new things added, some things fixed, but we want FFXI.

Right now we have a lot of problems with the game. Adding something new sounds great, but what are you really doing? You are creating more content which will be stun zerged. You are creating more items which we already cant fit into our inventories. You are creating more content where people will be excluded because of their job preference, or lack of special, new pieces of gear, which are so far above the rest. You are creating a tree that no one is following, an outline for levels which no one cares about, a plan to have us do every bit of content climbing a latter, but Delve has shown us just how badly that fails here. I understand what you are trying to do, but what you are doing is not the same. If you continue to create content like this you will end up finding it was all for naught because by the time you are finished there will not be enough people left to enjoy it anyways.

This game has a great deal of things to do, its a decade old, its hard to make everything work, but we do not need everything to work. We need some specific problems fixed, things of which have been promised for a long time in some cases. Without these things, the game is falling, and unless something is done, it will continue to do so I'm afraid. Even if it was not you exactly, we were told certain things were on the way, Cait Sigh, Inventory, new SPs, and so on, rather than making something new, would it not be better to focus on giving us what was already announced before? I know you have announced these things too, but by waiting your just putting it off once again, the longer you wait the more it seems it will never even come in the first place.

So I ask of you, please, stop adding brand new content, stop trying to cram in more things. Worry about the issues we already have with the game, fix the foundation, fix up the first part of what was built, and put in what was already planed, so when you do build upon it you are building something great! If you continue doing what you are now, I fear you will only end up building something which will fall shortly after, this game does not deserve that fate, it is not the way it should end.





If possible someone please repost this on the other Forums to see how many agree or disagree. Also if you agree please do not forget to click like. I hope by doing so we might influence a change in their actions. As this game is going now I fear the end of FFXI is coming soon due to recent changes in development and the fact so many are leaving or have already left. Thank you.

Why? To make *yet another* expansion that had no good item rewards for ages? Didn't we go through that with WotG and it was terrible?

Did they ever release the BST armor that was to add the Treasure Hunter effect they said they were going to release to compensate for nerfing the TH on the jugpets?

SMN and voidwatch is a prime example. Voidwatch being added did more to give people who play smn a chance to be on their job than say... adjusting elemental perpetuation costs did - and I would be very shocked if adding cait sith/sigh would help the job be more desirable than new content where smn is useful would. The trouble is SE is so PARANOID about pet jobs being more powerful than non pet jobs that they almost inevitably insure that they are total $hit compared to regular jobs

Decide to start crafting again. Crystals are like 5k per stack on my server (that they're now also used as a currency for teleporting doesn't help either), making even the low level synths expensive even if the mats only cost like 5 gil to obtain.

Crystals drop 1-3 stacks at a time from plentiful easy prey mobs in a zone that can be practically teleported to from Jeuno.

They seem further apart than they are because the jungles are a tangled mess. The rate of harvesting/logging is very low, but it's made up for the fact that you can do imprimateur quests for the Pioneers Coalition at the same time, so you're paid back directly in bayld for logging or harvesting.

There's also more of them, they last longer and give better stuff the higher colonization rates are. (and of course with reives down are easier to get to) Too bad there's no reason at all to do colonization because you made it obsolete one month into the expansion.

Buy gear and key items with bayld. Good reason to do colonization.

Spend 3k bayld every time you augment skirmish weapon. Good reason to do colonization.

Make Wildskeepers reives easier, and get the points to enter them. Good reason to do colonization.

All of these were rendered obsolete after 1 month because they added delve.

Stop adding events. Add an event, wait 6 months, then add another one so everyone has time to do it to their hearts content. And for the love of god, make all currencies bayld. Plasm should be bayld, obsidian chips should be bayld. If everything used bayld, you would always be doing colonization, the zones would be travelable, and you wouldn't need 18 people to do anything. Killing all 6 nm's at once getting you 70k bayld+ drops would be the best, but you could solo a couple thousand at a time in reives.

There, I fixed your expansion.

And thus, FFXIV V 1.0 was born!!!!