2.0 in vain?

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Originally Posted by afk4life

They haven't said anything about the UI except making it more responsive. They didnt address the fact that there's a window for items and a window to use items as well as a window to equip items. As for the grinding, it's a remnant of old MMOs to artificially make the game longer. Guildleves (at least when they're available) make leveling a little bit faster but they still don't make them any more fun. It's absolutely unacceptable to copy and paste 2003 MMORPG features into a 2010+ game. They released a 2.0 mission statement. They outline all of their plans for the future of this game on that PDF file and it's not hard to get a realistic idea of what you're going to get. All I'm saying is it doesn't seem to be enough seeing as how Square is looking to release this game again.

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This is what they have said regarding the UI:

"We have chosen to completely rebuild the UI system core in conjunction with the server system updates. The renewed UI will feature completely redesigned windows with improved functionality and expanded customizability.

We also plan to offer:
-Full support for keyboard and mouse users, including multi-window capability and stress-free drag and drop functionality.
-A specialized interface designed for game pad users."

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They outline all of their plans for the future of this game on that PDF file and it's not hard to get a realistic idea of what you're going to get.

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Indeed. Most apparent bit of info those PDF's provide is that 2.0 will be a completely different beast compared to 1.xx. Your expectations are not realistic- they are way below what the dev team is actually doing.

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Originally Posted by afk4life

A whole slew of recent MMOs (Rift, Aion etc.) as well as some old MMOs (WoW) have shown that an RPG doesn't have to be about grinding the same mob for hours on end. I was okay with this in FFXI but that was then. There's no reason why leveling in FFXIV should feel so sterile and uninvolved. The game became far more mundane than it already was when I ran out of guildleves that I actually wondered how people could play this without botting. Yeah, grinding is a part of games to some degree but the difference between old RPGs and new RPGs is that new RPGs actually try to disguise the fact that you're grinding. Square seems to be rather shameless about it.

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are you joking? it take longer to get 50 in any of the games you said then in FFXIV -.- you can get 50 within 3-4days or 2week or less of casual gameplay i got 40-50 just doing leves and it took me 2days and the reason took me 2 days because i was to lazy to keep doing it for more then 2hours lol.

So you don't know anything about FFXIV when it so easy to get max level and even in wow you use up hours doing raids in hope for a drop and most of the time it goes to someone else and you pretty much have to wait for your guild to do it again.

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Originally Posted by Zenaku

are you joking? it take longer to get 50 in any of the games you said then in FFXIV -.- you can get 50 within 3-4days or 2week or less of casual gameplay i got 40-50 just doing leves and it took me 2days and the reason took me 2 days because i was to lazy to keep doing it for more then 2hours lol.

So you don't know anything about FFXIV when it so easy to get max level and even in wow you use up hours doing raids in hope for a drop and most of the time it goes to someone else and you pretty much have to wait for your guild to do it again.

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So just because it takes less time to hit the cap in FFXIV it's okay for it boring? Then why not just bypass the mundane nonsense altogether?

If this isn't a troll I've lost all faith in humanity.

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Originally Posted by Masamune1004

If this isn't a troll I've lost all faith in humanity.

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This game bombed miserably and was universally panned and I'm the troll. I didn't realize people were still burying their heads in the sand.

Edit: anyway I was hoping a dev would read this because these were the reasons why FFXIV got such a low score. I expected an FF MMO with more involvement, not a sterile lifeless game turned into FFXI.

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Originally Posted by afk4life

So just because it takes less time to hit the cap in FFXIV it's okay for it boring? Then why not just bypass the mundane nonsense altogether?

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Why not just start the game with all jobs capped and relic weapons with sprinkles on top?!

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Originally Posted by afk4life

So just because it takes less time to hit the cap in FFXIV it's okay for it boring? Then why not just bypass the mundane nonsense altogether?

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and you think doing shit load of quest and dungeon over and over like wow and other wow-clone is fun? plz get out of here if you don't like ffxiv then go play wow and wow-clone then don't come here to complain when you not even 50 yet.

the game is not even release yet 2.0 is 5months away and then we still have to wait even longer for them to repair and add everything that is needed in this game so too then go play something else if you don't like ffxiv it's very simple cancel your account and leave if you dislike it so much stop trolling the forums.

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Originally Posted by afk4life

This game bombed miserably and was universally panned and I'm the troll. I didn't realize people were still burying their heads in the sand.

Edit: anyway I was hoping a dev would read this because these were the reasons why FFXIV got such a low score. I expected an FF MMO with more involvement, not a sterile lifeless game turned into FFXI.

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Sounds like you're just stuck in the past, they're fixing the game, just because you don't wan't to find out everything they're gonna fix doesn't mean they won't fix it.