Version Update Announced! (2/23/10)

[Draylo]

You're right Scritch, but my main concern is how updates seem to be giving less and less content. Sure they do give some flashy things every now and thing but most of them meet the same fate where within a month after release only a handful of people still do them.

STOP being so damn negative!! for once!

[Silenka]

Well, most of the good stuff will likely be announced at Vanafest which is right around the corner. At least, I think there will be good stuff. I actually have...what was the word...the thing that SE killed in me years ago... oh yeah, hope for this update.

[Corrderio]

STOP being so damn negative!! for once!

Then tell me one feature SE has done in the past few updates that a majority of the playerbase hasn't quit doing within a month. Am I expecting everything to be a major hit? No. But still, it'd be nice to have something to do that more than a minority of the playerbase has an interest in.

Hopefully the announcement is WoE, that'd be nice to see be added for a zone since I think that's the only thing that kept me going with missions. Trippy zone is trippy.

[Arximiro]

If they made a new set of HNMS with good drops or another system like Sky with some new good drops I guarantee it would be a hit. People may bitch about them, but those are some of the biggest successes of FFXI.

[Corrderio]

If they made a new set of HNMS with good drops or another system like Sky with some new good drops I guarantee it would be a hit. People may bitch about them, but those are some of the biggest successes of FFXI.

This is what I wish they'd add, and probably what WoE will be.

[Draylo]

Then tell me one feature SE has done in the past few updates that a majority of the playerbase hasn't quit doing within a month. Am I expecting everything to be a major hit? No. But still, it'd be nice to have something to do that more than a minority of the playerbase has an interest in.

Hopefully the announcement is WoE, that'd be nice to see be added for a zone since I think that's the only thing that kept me going with missions. Trippy zone is trippy.

I see a lot of people still messing with the Evoliths and synergy. It may be mainly the JP and rare players but it is still content they do, and some good things have come out of it stat wise. A lot of people do the augmented fights in sky and VoS to better their gear, pretty sure a majority of the playerbase still does this.

[Silenka]

I see a lot of people still messing with the Evoliths and synergy. It may be mainly the JP and rare players but it is still content they do, and some good things have come out of it stat wise. A lot of people do the augmented fights in sky and VoS to better their gear, pretty sure a majority of the playerbase still does this.

I think what he means is synergy sucks ass for the time:reward ratio, almost all the synths are completely useless for endgame which is all most of the playerbase is concerned with anymore, aptants and the new gear almost never drop and half of it is worthless, skilling synergy and obtaining evolith are timesinks with no proper endgame reward, and the augment system is so random with 99% of the augments being so hideous that it's barely worth spending the tabs to do since there's no possible way to discern or decide what kind of augment you're going to get. People do it because there's little else to do when the majority of the version updates have been augments, synergy and /bell.

New content != good content.

We can only hope and pray that WotG will wrap up, there will be no new /bell and they actually add a basis to the augment system that consists of more than 'trade item and pray'.

[Valkrish]

I expect there to be shit that nobody cares about unless it has to do with higher combat/magic/special merit point allocation or summoner updates

or loot that is better than zilart land kings =o

[Souljacker]

You're right Scritch, but my main concern is how updates seem to be giving less and less content. Sure they do give some flashy things every now and thing but most of them meet the same fate where within a month after release only a handful of people still do them.

I agree with this - sure they have added some really epic things but then they proceed to nerf the fck out of them to the point where only a handful of people can stand to do them anymore - re: MMM.

I get that this is just the "update teaser" but ffs for YEARS now people have been bitching that they just don't give enough information about ANYTHING - you'd think they would improve their communication skills just a bit.

[Thiefami]

Wow, 2 pages and no message about dying game, etc.

enjoy your dying game

[Spira]

WTG SE, no fucking info as always.

if you've ever been following these updates, the only REAL info that ever comes out from 'version update announced' teasers.. is the rough date of the actual update.

ie. Mid-March.

the rest will follow soon enough.. but this time it'll probably be condensed into VanaFest

[Draylo]

I think what he means is synergy sucks ass for the time:reward ratio, almost all the synths are completely useless for endgame which is all most of the playerbase is concerned with anymore, aptants and the new gear almost never drop and half of it is worthless, skilling synergy and obtaining evolith are timesinks with no proper endgame reward, and the augment system is so random with 99% of the augments being so hideous that it's barely worth spending the tabs to do since there's no possible way to discern or decide what kind of augment you're going to get. People do it because there's little else to do when the majority of the version updates have been augments, synergy and /bell.

New content != good content.

We can only hope and pray that WotG will wrap up, there will be no new /bell and they actually add a basis to the augment system that consists of more than 'trade item and pray'.

You haven't seen all the synergy synths then because there are awesome augmented gear out.

[nitsuj]

You haven't seen all the synergy synths then because there are awesome augmented gear out.

http://static.ffxiah.com/images/ss/m...44D8up7Dl8.png

(not mine)

[Lilkerm]

I think what he means is synergy sucks ass for the time:reward ratio, almost all the synths are completely useless for endgame which is all most of the playerbase is concerned with anymore, aptants and the new gear almost never drop and half of it is worthless, skilling synergy and obtaining evolith are timesinks with no proper endgame reward, and the augment system is so random with 99% of the augments being so hideous that it's barely worth spending the tabs to do since there's no possible way to discern or decide what kind of augment you're going to get. People do it because there's little else to do when the majority of the version updates have been augments, synergy and /bell.

New content != good content.

We can only hope and pray that WotG will wrap up, there will be no new /bell and they actually add a basis to the augment system that consists of more than 'trade item and pray'.

Funny... Most of what you say applies to every event in FFXI, just some of the events have larger mob numbers to validate a lower drop rate. Should bitch about the entire game in general then. Although I play halo for the same reasons I do for FFXI:

1) to shit talk others(without the "pwning of noobs")

2) to just fight shit and enjoy it.

I find it amusing the weeaboo side of this game is the one that is diminishing. THANK GOD!

[Jeryhn]

How can synergy suck when you can make shit like this?

http://www.ffxiah.com/images/ss/full...0f5Tw33452.png

[Miroku_Asura]

Holy crap that is awesome @.@ My inner chef wantzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[Hanyoko]

I suddenly imagine a character carrying around over 100 of them in their inventory. Much better then the old bed analogy.

[Khajit]

Insert woman--> kitchen joke here.

[Corrderio]

How can synergy suck when you can make shit like this?

http://www.ffxiah.com/images/ss/full...0f5Tw33452.png

If I still played I'd kill for that.

[Pikarya]

Still sucks furniture takes up moghouse inventory (should still give a bonus). As if we aren't already scrummaging for space as is.