Lol, I just said that to my wife! She’s just finished Heavensward, and it took a lot of “seriously it gets better! But also I played through the first hour of the new expansion and fought one mob. Of three low-level trash creatures. So… but it’s good! Really!”
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_____@lemm.ee 1 week ago
oh no it’s … : FFXIV
and I say that and an enjoyer
TheDoozer@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Rekonok@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Blackmist@feddit.uk 1 week ago
I think it’s closer to 60 hours.
ARR is such a godawful slog, and I wouldn’t pay a penny for the game until you’re through it. Heavensward was where I started to get invested. Stormblood is forgettable, but Shadowbringers turned it up again.
The real issue is there’s so much filler. It was designed to be played over years (all the end of expansion questlines were trickled in every few months), and when you play them all in a row it can get overwhelming.
prole@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
They should make like a “Director’s Cut” or something, offline version of the game, that removes all of the grindy mmo bullshit and lets people who play single player RPGs enjoy the plot…
Rekonok@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
It is an issue with most MMO for me
I try re launching BlackDesert/Warframe/GuildWars2/PathOfExile sometimes and quit in a few days
I have no idea how the devs can fix that adding stuff is what keep the playerbase
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 1 week ago
Stardew valley is it you ?
“It gets better after year one !!!”
(Spoiler: it does)
taladar@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Speaking of Stardew Valley, game dev tells you you can do anything, adds energy system that makes you pass out if you aren’t home and in bed by 5PM, immediately adds quest that tells you to talk to literally every NPC in the whole game on day 1.
_____@lemm.ee 1 week ago
they really need to trim the fat again for ARR
and hopefully moving forward they need to think of an alternative to dumping a 40hr story as a prerequisite to playing the freshest content.
don’t get me wrong im not against the ff story but at some point it will literally be “play 700 hrs of solo questing to play with your friends who just recommended you FFXIV”
which leads me to my next point. your friends must find playing with you enjoyable enough. which means that the early game stuff needs a rework as well pressing 2 buttons is just not very fun
rtxn@lemmy.world 1 week ago
You’ll interact with three objects to progress the unvoiced cinematics and you’ll like it, or you’ll get the trolley again!