I love raiding.
I love chatting with my FC mates.
I love crafting, and selling that stuff on the MB.
I love taking care of my estate's garden, and my FC's submarines.
I hate that while I do the first, I can't do any of the latter, because Aether isn't my home. Unfortunately for me, there just isn't sustainable content to run right aside from Savage, and the only way to enjoy Savage is to be away from home. It was the same with FRU for months, I basically haven't spent more than 5% of my time in game on my home DC. I can't chat with my friends, reset retainers, list my crafted items for sale, DO ANYTHING but raid right now.
In order for me to spend more time with the friends I made in this game, I have to close this game and stop playing, and open another game so that I can interact with them in a meaningful way.
If we had cross DC PF, I could be chatting, hanging out in the FC yard, doing retainer, trading, venue-hopping, just generally being around to be present with my friends while I wait for a party. And these days, even with Aether as full as it is, I spend more time in PF waiting for a party than I do raiding the game.
The worst part is that I actually don't mind waiting more than half of my time in game just to play content, as long as I can just wait while I'm hanging out with friends. At this point, I spend my days waiting for PF to fill, as I am right now, and I'm thinking about just pausing Savage raiding because of this friction. But then if I stop, then there's no reason to log in anymore at all, there's no content to wait for.
At least in 7.0's tier because it was so easy and the playerbase was so full, I could just chill on Primal the whole time and raid happily without having to leave to Aether.
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I love chatting with my FC mates.
I love crafting, and selling that stuff on the MB.
I love taking care of my estate's garden, and my FC's submarines.
I hate that while I do the first, I can't do any of the latter, because Aether isn't my home. Unfortunately for me, there just isn't sustainable content to run right aside from Savage, and the only way to enjoy Savage is to be away from home. It was the same with FRU for months, I basically haven't spent more than 5% of my time in game on my home DC. I can't chat with my friends, reset retainers, list my crafted items for sale, DO ANYTHING but raid right now.
In order for me to spend more time with the friends I made in this game, I have to close this game and stop playing, and open another game so that I can interact with them in a meaningful way.
If we had cross DC PF, I could be chatting, hanging out in the FC yard, doing retainer, trading, venue-hopping, just generally being around to be present with my friends while I wait for a party. And these days, even with Aether as full as it is, I spend more time in PF waiting for a party than I do raiding the game.
The worst part is that I actually don't mind waiting more than half of my time in game just to play content, as long as I can just wait while I'm hanging out with friends. At this point, I spend my days waiting for PF to fill, as I am right now, and I'm thinking about just pausing Savage raiding because of this friction. But then if I stop, then there's no reason to log in anymore at all, there's no content to wait for.
At least in 7.0's tier because it was so easy and the playerbase was so full, I could just chill on Primal the whole time and raid happily without having to leave to Aether.
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