Matsui: "Don't Throw Away Your R/M/E Weapons Yet"

They didn't.

http://wiki.bluegartr.com/bg/Lacryma_Sickle

That guy is selling the HQ for 350M. The NQ requires a single delve boss drop. It's a crafting drop too, not even one of the R/EX items.

I don't have a problem doing the work to upgrade a 99 R/M/E further. My problem is the ease in which someone can obtain a weapon vastly superior to what a 99 owner has done already.

Add a trial/quest to improve 99 R/M/E's when Delve/AHable weapons are harder to get. Not before.

Again, my argument isn't that R/M/E should die, it's that people are over-reacting 2 days after a version update, and are demanding DMG+ increases *NOW*. Short-term, poorly thought out arguments are what got SE into this problem in the first place, as a playerbase we should express to them *THAT* is what we are mad at, not that we want it fixed *NOW*.

Hey look guys, I crafted an easy to make gaxe!

http://www.ffxiah.com/player/Bismarck/Macross

check my bazaar listing buy it now!

This entire shitstorm wouldn't even be here if SE had made 99 R/M/E's equal to or better then Delve weapons on the day of the update. Or had they not gone bonkers with those weapons in the first place.

Matsui's comments have made it worse since then, not better.

And another troll added to the infamous blist.

Honestly, they could've put currently unobtainable updated R/M/Es in the dats and this wouldn't have happened. For that matter, Matsui could have just said R/M/E updates were in the works and after seeing the new weapons, everyone would look forward to it instead of rage about it.

Have I made this list yet? :D

But seriously, there are many more things I would like fixed before I concern myself that my relic trials were a waste of time.

1. Skirmish pops should be easier to get. This allows others to be less gimp.
2. More missions
3. More ranks in coalitions
4. Fix ratio on colonization reives to improve overall bayld rate.
5. Adjust rates at which bivoaks get destroyed
6. Job adjustments (RDM/SMN/GEO/RUN I'm looking at you)
7. Artifact armor (GEO/RUN)
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50. R/M/E adjustments.

You actually attempt a discussion rather then just try to piss everyone off, so no your not on that list.

Assuaging subscribers feelings should be #1 on that list otherwise the game dies. This is an old game, most of it's players are long term committed people who've built up their character. Telling them that none of that matters anymore is just begging to have them start over on another MMO. The reason long term players tend to stick with poorly managed or old MMO's is that they've built up a character and / or social connections. Removing the built up character is just asking for people to join another game. If their expected to put in all the work they've already done, why bother doing it in FFXI with it's myriad of problems and incompetent development team.

6. Job adjustments (RDM/SMN/GEO/RUN I'm looking at you)

Delve is SMN's job adjustment

Y not let us merge our rem with other trial weapons I that would be cool to merge I think plus a damage boost

Naw, not according to the JP forums. It looks like they're considering:
1) A 45 minute time limit for Delve monsters.
2) A 20 minute time limit (instead of Rage).
3) Not changing anything.

If they choose to add a time limit, Summoner will be pretty useless. Delve monsters will (for the most part) be meleeburns.

Except, I'm the older generation and this makes you sound like a *** idiot. I will gladly elucidate for you.

I understand that relics are easy now or some people had an easier time making them but here goes:

I spent 2 hours farming dynamis (poorly) everyday getting ~200 currency. That's 153 hours of my time spent farming up apoc (JUST FOR 75).
Then the trials. I think it's a conservative estimate to say another 40-50 hours for the trials to 99.
I understand the concept of the value of time/money is hard to grasp in mommy's basement when the best thing you have to do with an hour is beat off, but my time is actually pretty valueable. Ask a college student what an hour costs them. If one of my customers wants to buy an hour of my time they're paying $50/hour. In 203 hours I'm fairly certain I could begin to learn another language, or re-build an engine (or in theory go buy some mountain dew, play 3 rounds of COD and talk some ***on an online forum).

Either way 200+ hours is a huge chunk of time to invest into ANYTHING (let alone a *** game they charge me for). If you took my working value/hour and applied it to this it would cost you $ 10,150 to have me farm you an Apocalypse on the clock. That's a bit extruded obviously but time IS valuable. When I've only got an average of 700,800 hours on this planet (and only half of those are "good") I kind of expect a return on my investment.

Now you're telling me that someone can get something that shits all over my investment with (assuming luck) less than a days worth of work? Yeah *** that. This isn't WOW. This isn't another MMO. The concept of "everything will be obsolete eventually" was never understood here. If I ever thought this ***would be EASILY replaced I wouldn't have spent the time on it... simple as that.

I also am NOT required to play this game. I do pay for it (in case you weren't aware). I don't use my parents credit card to pay for this account. Being that it is a commodity, or product, it is their job to please me.... in essence I am entitled to demand what I want from this game because they charge me to play it. They stop fulfilling their side of the bargain and guess what:

Everyone with their HURPEDY DURPEDY, CHANGE R GUD MAN. I THINK WE SHUD GET 10 MIN WORK WEAPON BECUZ WOW DOZ IT is *** ignorant. If I wanted that I would have played a different MMO. I vote with my dollar. That's my entitlement. If you change my *** Coke, and I don't like it; I go buy pepsi (or just drink water, etc).

It's not their "whim" to make this game. It is their JOB to make content that pleases people and draws them business. A large portion of the playerbase saying "*** it, im out" is NOT good for continuing to work. If you think new people are going to run out and buy FFXI after 13 years because of 300 D weapons, you're beyond help.

tl;dr keep the majority happy and stop trying to reinvent the wheel. You're not going to attract new players after a decede being like WOW because if they wanted that they'd go play WOW instead long ago.

I don't get that post really
They're all like "we set the difficulty of IV and V considering that you would have gotten the equipment from I-III"

Are they high
No offense SE but a few accessories and a few points of STR/DEX/ACC/Attack aren't really making a gigantic difference when we're rolling with COR and BRD anyway

I don't get that post really
They're all like "we set the difficulty of IV and V considering that you would have gotten the equipment from I-III"

Are they high
No offense SE but a few accessories and a few points of STR/DEX/ACC/Attack aren't really making a gigantic difference when we're rolling with COR and BRD anyway

Personally, I worry for this game's future as a whole by the trending these past two updates with releasing weapons comparable or beyond base damage of relics, and then completely blowing them out of the water, to the gear that can be somewhat comparable to -1 Hexed gear sets. In turn, if people stop doing Legion, where are the materials for other crafters going to come from to even get to 110 now? The new synths are 110+ which is disappointing, in the way that there still isn't a lot to bridge 105-110 synths.

Not to mention, I think R/M/E have become an integral part of the game and many players, even casuals, making gil by farming currency. If the weapons are rendered obsolete, who's going to bother with any old content at all? Trying to base an entire game off of one expansion is a very poor design for an MMO. I believed they were on the right path before with continuing to keep things relevant, but now I'm just waiting for how they are going to address this before I make my final decision with this game.

Best post.... ever.