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

[Venat]

Im playing FFXIV right now. Currectly Rank37 MRD and 26 PUG and 20 MIN & GOLD. I think besides all the spaming problems, claiming enemys, interface, texted, and lack of content theres really nothing to do in FFXIV right now besides grinding, behest/1hr raids and doing 8 leves every 37hrs.

What the game needs is Chocobos and ways to obtain good equipment which is hard to obatin.
Most of the games Rank50 equipment or any is pretty easy toget from leves and from doing leves and behest you spend alot of anima which is a way to teleport to these Leve locations. Game could also use some solo NMs which give out good gear kinda how Leaping boots was in FFXI. Right now theres 2-3 NMs in FFXIV which you need max level and about 18 players to kill.

Even with those theres a problem with fighting over items since theres no treasure pool in FFXIV. It gives items/equip to party members randomly after defeating a monster.

Right now FFXIV is in a pickle because there fighting to fix FFXIV but at the sametime theres no content beinging made for the game.

I know many diffrent groups work on diffrent things in the game but the content beinging brought out is very small or not worth doinging at best. They added 20-30 quests in the last upate but all rewards iv seen them pump out for rewarding you are all weak items.

[Miiyo]

2 - Terrible, terrible music. I used to love Uematsu, but he needs to take a break or change careers Weird electric/synth music in battles in a fantasy setting is just too weird for me ...don't get me started on Ul'dah's music > EW!

I loveee the music. I do feel some of it is a bit out of place. Basically what you pointed out. The synths are a bit much. However most of the music is simply gorgeous. The missions theme song "Answers" with Susan Calloway is ridiculous.

[Runespider]

What the game needs is Chocobos

XD

Why do peope keep saying this? If they removed chocos from FFXI tomorow I really wouldn't miss them at all, who cares?

Right now FFXIV is in a pickle because there fighting to fix FFXIV but at the sametime theres no content beinging made for the game.

They don't care about the people playing right now, they are using them as beta testers. That's why there is no proper content being made. The push is to make the game good for P3, it's cheaper to get the current 14 playerbase to test it than pay for beta testers.

FFXIV will ultimately be advertised and pushed in Japan, it won't be a success or even really taken seriously anywhere else. FFXIV will ultimately become a JP only game, if that.

[Venat]

It might be a good idea right now b4 May update for FFXI for you to start playing FFXIV because anima takes longtime to recharge back to 100. 4hrs for 1 anima.

Why I say this is right now all you can do really is exp on a class and you wont be doing anything else anyway when you do jump on FFXIV for the first time or contuning. Its still a fun game but gets kinda old after you do samethings over & over again.

The game right now is like Play a week-take a week break-play a week-take a week break repeat and rinse. Thats because of all the recharging and delays you need to wait for to progress. You dont need to wait but be less hassle anyway.

[Venat]

Because the game needs fast travel. Using Anima is like cheating. What FFXV needs is you need ALL the leve locations in the game b4 you can even start chocobo quest to use chocobos.

[Venat]

Chocobos are still used FFXI in terms of fast travel to some locations. Of course you been pampered in using Abyssea teleports.

[Venat]

FFXIV music is kinda werid but I think we been used to hearing FFXI so much so we expect it to be the same. I think because the battles in FFXIV are so fast paced and short you cant even lission to the full song in battle useless you take your time. Some battle songs are like 5-7mins long and battles are like 1min tops.

[Venat]

The Forest outside of Grinndia is far by the worst song in the game. Its more of CS song.

Another thing i dont like is the areas themselfs are so big just for the 1 Area song. I really dont like how they copyed and pasted the game also.

[Hoshi]

CHARACTER!!! NOT TOON! THIS ISN'T DAFFY DUCK AND BUGS BUUNY!!

sorry. I can't stand seeing the word 'toon' in reference to an RPG character.

It's hard for me to think of the avatar I play in an mmorpg as a character. They don't have a personality... you're not playing the story to learn more about them or their relationships with others. It's easier to call it a toon because it is animated. I would agree with you in offline FF series that you usually play a character (although it's a bit hard to say that even for the simplest FF games). Yeah there's a story in FFXI and you are the hero of the story but the story is never about your toon.

[Pofo]

My personal reasons for not playing XIV mainly just revolve around lack of content and a very crappy battle system. The game is going on it's first year in a few months and it doesn't even have chocobos available. The player base is so low you have to solo 90% of your way to 50, the only decent mobs to solo (Coblyns and Doblyns) get old after the first 2 hours (let alone 2 months of grinding them), and one of the recent updates tripled their HP making the only thing that game has to offer even more painful and boring. It has less then 10 NMs, Weapon skills and spells look pathetic (Almost every single MRD Weapon skill looks exactly the same), the lack of auto attack makes it more of a button mashing fest, whilst at the same time trying to activate your JAs usually has a 3-4 second lag, and by the time you use them all they are already starting to wear off. Synthesis is rather annoying, people claim it's one of the game's best features but I think it's more of a hassle and not very interesting. And of course, lack of an AH makes finding particular weapons and armor somewhat frustrating to find, esp since you can't search specifically for +1 / +2 items in the current function. The game needs a lot of work, I keep my account open since it's free atm anyway, but I rarely ever log on, and when I do, it's usually for no more then 10 minutes because I quickly realize why I stopped playing to begin with.

Edit: Oh and how can I forget, their lack of a search function. They rushed this game like microsoft rushed xbox360, and now they are suffering from this pile of crap, the sad part is, we all know our XI monthly fees are just keeping XIV on life support rather then fund more expansions and content. And once they do fix XIV, they are going to toss XI in a gutter.