So... why aren't you playing Final Fantasy XIV?

[Alhanelem]

Indeed. It seems November will be that make or break moment, honestly.

Don't start making up release dates now. It could be in a 3-4 months, it could be next year. They haven't said anything.

It just seems to be guild leaves guild leaves guild leaves

Why were you leaving so many guilds? was it because they didn't do enough guildleves?

[Ravenmore]

I don't like being more of a beta tester then I was in FF11. They had 8 years of MMO exp its clearly not thier first BBQ. The way paymeants are set up, wouldn't be so bad if you could buy game cards as a option. The very in your face way they limit how fast you can level. Passive ways to slow you down like high TNL low level missions that might pull you away from leveling all or ok since you would likely over look it. Having slow level as a way to try and trick people into thinking theres more content to the game when there is none is poor planing and dev.

[Birdkiller]

Because upon my first hour of playing it, I saw a taru "Justin Beiber". I immediately logged out and shook my head, and logged back into FFXI.

[Alhanelem]

Because upon my first hour of playing it, I saw a taru "Justin Beiber". I immediately logged out and shook my head, and logged back into FFXI.

Lalafell, not taru. Still, Anytime the name Justin Beiber comes up... head for the hills.

[Arcon]

Lalafell, not taru. Still, Anytime the name Justin Beiber comes up... head for the hills.

Yeah, run back to the safety of FFXI, where there's names like Hobolicker and Ngrfgt, and have been around for years.

[Runespider]

Lalafell, not taru.

I have to say I hated what they did with some of the races, Taru are really cute in FFXI, Lalafell look more like deformed midgets and have an eww factor Mi'quote look pretty but they lost all the character Mithra have when they animated them to move like a hume race. Sad they spent so much time making them looking pretty but lost the character the models they based them on had.

I think they used motion capture in FFXIV and it shows, in a bad way. FFXI movement animations were far far better, they are higher res/higher poly models but ultimately they messed up the basics.

Taru > Lalafell
Mithra > Mi'quote

[Alhanelem]

There is nothing wrong with the animations, and i've never heard of motion capture being a bad thing. Lalafell look fine, and I could agree with mi'quote if I gave two farts about cat girl races. The only real problem here is the Roes dont have tails. In some ways it's good as it makes them more different, but I liked the galka because they were the least human-like, and I'm playing a fantasy game so I don't want to be a human if I can avoid it.

SE seems to be really upset that they screwed it up, and they have invested a lot into trying to bounce back. It has had some good secondary effects on XI as well, including an increase in communication, so I wouldn't fault XIV for too much.

[Runespider]

There is nothing wrong with the animations, and i've never heard of motion capture being a bad thing. Lalafell look fine, and I could agree with mi'quote if I gave two farts about cat girl races. The only real problem here is the Roes dont have tails. In some ways it's good as it makes them more different, but I liked the galka because they were the least human-like, and I'm playing a fantasy game so I don't want to be a human if I can avoid it.

Obviously this is going to dcome down to tastes, I personally hated the way the 2 races I mentioned moved because it seemed out of character to what the originals they were based on did. Mithra are a cat race and move as such in FFXI, Mi'quote are a human race with a weird fluffy tail and pointy ears.

Motion capture is bad if you are making fantasy races and they all move the same and move like human races, they didn't even try to put some acting into it to give off some character to the races. FFXI races look and move like they should, in character FFXIV races don't.

SE seems to be really upset that they screwed it up, and they have invested a lot into trying to bounce back. It has had some good secondary effects on XI as well, including an increase in communication, so I wouldn't fault XIV for too much.

The increased communication is barely better than what we got before, the actual information is minimal. I see no difference in the actual amount of important information from when we got Q&A from fansites and the teasers on playonline.

[Elexia]

The increased communication is barely better than what we got before

You've clearly haven't been playing FFXI long.

Example:

We get an update, 3 months of silence follows, then tidbits resume right before another update is set to go, we never got Q&As etc, nor did we even get ANY type of communication unless it was vanafest, or a random interview on XI.

So unless I've been dealing with a different Square since the 1980s, pretty sure communication is a hell of a lot better than what it used to be, especially since 2001 - 2006 FFXI era.

[Alhanelem]

The increased communication is barely better than what we got before

You must not be paying attention or something, because it's LOADS better.