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Unless you live in my mirror, that would be kind of pointless.

Edited, Jan 6th 2016 12:14am by Thayos

I've probably put in less play time than most people who are still around these forums, yet I was still able to muster enough willpower to get into groups and get through some of the more difficult content in the game. I don't know if it makes XIV a bad game per se. It does stand out to me that people who I know to hold a higher opinion of the game than I aren't even willing to invest as much(read: little) time.

People are here asking the developers to spend more of their time developing content that takes up less of their own time. It only leaves the impression that people don't actually want to play XIV. Maybe it's just me, but washing dishes is a small price to pay for eating a delicious, filling meal. The way people talk about the effort required to enjoy content in XIV... you'd think they just toss their dishes away when they're finished eating

I never completed Coil. I'm stuck at T9, and that wasn't because I was "bad", simply because I hated its instadeath mechanics. It took me quite a bit to finish T5 back then, since my limited playtime prevents me to have a FC or a static. Add the fact that the Japanese tactics for Coil are quite different from the "known" ones (mostly for placements, for example Twintania's neurolink placements are completely different) and that when I started most of the people was in the farm phase, and you have the full picture.

FFXIV is too punishing for mistakes in certain battles - and I have to add I managed to pass the other coil levels after a bit of trial and error - if you ***** up, there's no way you can recover. While I was interested in the story of Coil, the effort simply wasn't worth it, especially since winning T5 after dozens of tries was just a relief, not an accomplishment.
Just to make a comparison with XI, in the final RoV battle of FFXI I went in not extremely geared (i119 AF, a few Delve stuff and Priwen), in four with only one member being in high level gear and with 2 support trusts . I was oneshotted at least a couple times since we went in blind and the fight went on forever - but we recovered and won in the end with half of the party dead and the healer with only 6 HP. Something like this is totally impossible with XIV and its checks.
So, since the gear doesn't interest me at all, why do I have to bother in doing it?

Totally, I miss that too.

I was actually JUST reminiscing with Pikko about the good times in our CoP static. We had such an unusual lineup -- nin, rdm, rdm, whm, bst, thf -- and we still found ways to win. We just had to be a lot more creative, because the conventional strategies didn't always work with our party makeup. We had to get really technical and creative with our job abilities, kiting when needed and really making efforts to spread out healing duties. When we needed more DPS, we'd do double chainspells and time benedictions with convert. It was always an awesome feeling when our strategy would finally break through.

Yup, good times.

These fights can't happen now though because of the battle/raid design. That's the result of heavy jump-rope mechanics that minimize class knowledge/job abilities while emphasizing memorizing scripts. That's also why these hardcore raids all but require a static (unless you have a ton of extra time to burn in pickup parties).

It's a shame, too. Even though I'm not a fan of the raid design, I'd still like to realistically be able to do them.

I think there's a lot of potential in the concept of hardcore four-man dungeons. It would be much more feasible to coordinate schedules with just three other people, and through the course of a dungeon I'm sure SE could find more ways to test players' abilities.

This simply further kills the possibility of better designed 8+ man content since as proven by Diadem, give the "easier" option and "what takes the least amount of work" people will take it thus why do 8 man raids when you can get the same or better rewards doing 4 man? And statistically speaking - it's far easier to coordinate schedules of 8+ people if you're on a server with an actual population.



I'm curious about this too because no matter how you slice it, the ONLY people who ever dump 10+ hours a day let alone a week are those trying to gun for bragging rights on "World First."

And yeah, even in unofficial parses on the lodestone and server activity (Usually by the Japanese) people spend more than enough time to do get things done, if they choose to.

I don't agree with this.

Different types of endgame definitely reduces the number of people doing eight-man raids, because people who enjoy other things are more likely to do those things, leaving less time for raid groups. But why is that a bad thing? People should get to participate in the things they enjoy. Hardcore FCs with people who prefer complex raid battles will still do the hardcore raids, and people with more hectic schedules and/or smaller in-game social networks will gravitate toward four-man dungeons.

And if it's really that big of a problem -- if so many people would prefer hardcore four-man dungeons that it kills raiding -- then the problem isn't the dungeons.

As for limited time, it could be one of two things (or both):

1) A person can only play very few hours per week.

2) A person can play several hours per week, but at very unpredictable times. <--- That's me.

For example: This week, I played a lot on Monday night, then last night (technically today) from like midnight to 1 a.m., and now it's 9:45 and I'll probably play until around 11:30 p.m. Tomorrow I don't really have anything planned, so I'll probably play earlier in the evening. Fridays are always iffy for me; in addition to doing things with the wife/friends, I'm also a freelance reporter and often cover Friday night sporting events. Weekends are also difficult to predict until the days actually arrive; I usually have several hours available to play, but between longer workouts, going out to breakfast (which can happen anywhere from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.) and/or nighttime activities, I just never know when I'll be at my keyboard.

I've also been sick for the past nine days, and I haven't been running because of that. If I were well, then I'd be doing a long workout tomorrow after work to make up for being so busy the past two days, so I wouldn't be online tomorrow much, either. As I said before, I take fitness very seriously, and not just because I enjoy running. For me, fitness is something I never let fall by the wayside, just like how I always brush my teeth even when I'm feeling lazy.

This week was not particularly more or less busy than usual; that's how things go. That's what I justifiably say I have "limited playtime" in regards to being in a static.


Edited, Jan 6th 2016 9:57pm by Thayos

Hurray, double post.

Edited, Jan 7th 2016 3:59am by Montsegurnephcreep