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Not true. Its both to force as many as possible to get on every single day, as daily numbers are used to generate revenue from shareholders etc, as well as extend life of content.

Daily logins to MMOs are what they try for. They dont care how long you login for, just that you do it daily.

It’s ok to take a break from the game and not run Odyssey for a couple days ya know. If you don’t log in for half a week the content will still be there waiting for you. Nobody is forcing you to rush through this except yourself.

I’ve been chipping away at it for the past month and a half and I’ve cleared all my t1s and t2s on veng 15, beaten two of the t3s on veng 15, and ranked one of my pieces to 10. And I did most of it through pickup shouts with a little added coordination from some linkshell members here and there. It’s just a matter of persistence.

And this is based on the SOP of how many subscription based MMO's currently running? Particularly those that have been operating for close to 2 decades.

Sorry, but I don't find your argument supportable given the relatively unusual case that is FFXI.

This is a legacy product run on a shoestring. They likely spend more running an instance in FFXIV than they do on this game!

Daily logins are important when you have a huge userbase, because it gives advance warning of when interest is flagging and income is likely to dip. Its just not that applicable to a game like this in its twilight years, where producing *any* new content of substance is a major undertaking due to scant resources.

In a situation like that any piece of content needs to be budgeted in terms of life-span, hence the staggered roll-outs of every addition over the past few years.

When I first started at Paradox, the direct line between community and developers was a major plus for me, because I liked the idea of talking to the community without having to run every post past three different marketing departments first. However, this kind of direct community access comes at a heavy cost for us. As many of you have noticed, we have gotten a little sparse in these forums in the last few months, or even years. The reason for this is that often we do face a debate culture that is not enjoyable to take part in, where it is taken as a given that the devs are either lazy or incompetent and where everything we do is viewed through that lens. Not only is it incredibly demoralizing to spend months of your life creating something, only to see the people you made it for tear it to shreds, it is also a debate that gives no one anything. We aren’t paid to wade through pages of abuse to find a few nuggets of useful feedback, and so that feedback is not acted on.

We’re not looking for fawning adoration (although we will certainly accept it) or a forum in which our decisions can’t be discussed with a critical eye. We want to have your feedback, but there is no point to it if it can’t be delivered with a minimum of respect for each other. If you want to have a forum where developers are willing to go and answer your questions, then it is also your responsibility to build a place where we feel welcome, and where we can disagree in a productive and professional manner. It costs you nothing to assume that we were acting in good faith. None of us wake up in the morning and go to work in order to do a bad job.

Saw this on another forum from a developer, I think it's worth posting since it's pretty universal.

The problem is we are wired to fixate on negatives over positives, so if the content they give us is mostly good but a few bad things then there is going to be a mass of aggresion and anger over those few bad things.

Ultimately they love this game or they would not still be working on it, they work at a large company that can easily put them to work on other modern projects (or just retire). That they keep wanting to work on it, is why we get updates. There isn't some army of developers who want to come work on this game as a career choice.

You may not agree with the content they give us in its entirety but it's created with the best of intentions and even if you don't like stuff like content aimed at getting you to login daily, it's there for a reason and without it you (or enough others) will stop logging in. Ultimately, you don't want that because otherwise you wouldn't still be playing an 18 year old game anyway. You're looking for reasons to keep playing.

They have a limited budget, they have limited resources. If you can't understand how that impacts development, maybe you should spend a few minutes contemplating it.

Sad times but the day will come... #BLUPDATE.

Hopefully we can at least get a Raubahn trust, I've been dying for that for ages lol.

This isn't really a tracker thing.

I think they broke unity drops today? I'm getting entire stacks of unity mats, that's never happened before.
6 of my drops were (12) it's never been more than 1 2 or 3

I don't get the mentioned changes to Level Correction, to they mean the lower enmity cap on the pre-adoulin zones monsters, where they are all level 99 but with super boosted stats, making it quite hard for tanks to hold hate, because of the greatly reduced enmity caps?

together with adding high level monsters to some areas

inb4 the big reward talked about this update from VR is a lockstyle of Naja's mace

They are already fixing the Reprisal Gift thing that they forgot about last month.

I don't get the mentioned changes to Level Correction, to they mean the lower enmity cap on the pre-adoulin zones monsters, where they are all level 99 but with super boosted stats, making it quite hard for tanks to hold hate, because of the greatly reduced enmity caps?

but way easier to get there cause dmg enmity is nuts on lvl 99 mobs.