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

[Behemothx]

I still have my XIV account active but the two things that annoy me the most:

1- No communication / Search.

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!

[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.

[Atomic_Skull]

. However most of the music is simply gorgeous. The missions theme song "Answers" with Susan Calloway is ridiculous.

Ugh that song made my ears bleed.

If your going to use vocals in video game music do it like Nier did and use a made-up language.

[Elexia]

Ugh that song made my ears bleed.

If your going to use vocals in video game music do it like Nier did and use a made-up language.

Opinion noted.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AD7Zr_tj7Q

This isn't a made up language.

[Atomic_Skull]

Opinion noted.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AD7Zr_tj7Q

This isn't a made up language.

Still not as good as Kainé escape" and "Blu-bird" on the NieR OST though.

[Duelle]

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!

Kanno Yoko or Itou Kenji composing FFXIV music {Can I have it?}

I still don't get how they got Kanno Yoko to do the music for Ragnarok Online II but no one at SE thought of getting her to do any of the FF games and let Uematsu take a well-earned vacation. Itou is also great at campturing epicness in musical form, specially for combat music.

*ahem* anyway, I still have XIV installed on my PC. The game still needs a lot of changes and the game world a lot more substance. I'd like to see the game get some proper direction in terms of setting before going there full force. Well, that and a fully-functional-out-of-the-box Red Mage with rapier in hand.

[Rambus]

one of FFXI problems made it's way to FFXIV and made it worse:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...l-Redundancies.

I do not understand how you can sit there and say "we learn from our past mistakes and will have seamless zoning.." when that is not the case. Frankly I feel lied too, i feel it was made in a vacuum of information.

how can you have no search function?
how can you have lag so bad i get 2000 tp when i hit the button at 1000 tp?
how can you make a game a worse grind fest then the older game?
Why does text still vanish after some commands?

I think ul'dah's music is very fitting, The boat city is strange to me.

music is prob the best part of the game lol, along with the class system ideas.
the mage jobs are strange though, it would be FFXI equivalent of having 2 SCH with slightly different spells, and using the other spell set to complete them.

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.

same =/ i think that is more of a wow thing.

Runespider has a point, fictional chrs like taru and mithra would not move like humans lol.
taru>lalafail
mithra> minqute w/e
YES!

[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.

[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.