This game has WAY bigger issues than some server problems.

I think we all should have listened to rokien more throughout 1.0 till now....

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Originally Posted by ErBear

I think we all should have listened to rokien more throughout 1.0 till now....

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Or not. Not really.

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Originally Posted by ErBear

I think we all should have listened to rokien more throughout 1.0 till now....

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If we did, we would be playing ET for the ATARI 2600.

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Originally Posted by Kasathar

If we did, we would be playing ET for the ATARI 2600.

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What's the difference between what he has suggested and the points made in this thread? Roiken has said all of this and more.

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Originally Posted by ErBear

What's the difference between what he has suggested and the points made in this thread? Roiken has said all of this and more.

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Exactly, and this thread makes a lot of points that are completely out of touch with reality, exactly like Rokien.

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Originally Posted by Zezlar

Another thing I would like to add is that i'm terribly disappointed with Square-Enix when it comes to the main scenario. Thus far it's a massive step down from the 7th Umbral Storyline from 1.0 which wasn't amazing either. Once again there is a hindrance which keeps the story from being interesting because there's so much unnecessary fluff to get players to level 50.

It's so easy, so disengaging, so uninteresting that it becomes annoying to even do. This is coming from a person who praises story quests, but thus far from what i've done; A Realm Reborn has the absolute worst story in any Final Fantasy title, including the first two.

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Yeah, I was ok with the generic kill x/fetch x quest design 1-15 because I felt it was a tutorial to teach you how to play. Then I ding 21, start doing story quests again, and I'm /dancing in NPC's, picking up random crap off the ground, and killing random mobs to complete the quest of "kill this amount of an enemy that has nothing to do with the story" with little to no story to be found.

Why? This is incredibly boring, if this was the story in a single player game, the game would be rated 3/10, and the 3 simply would be for the graphics.

Horrible story progression, boring fluff inbetween dungeons which are fun. How about you just tell me to go to the dungeons and not make me collect honey for some guy who has nothing to do with anything?

The dungeons themselves have no story, no plot, nothing interesting either, but at least they're fun for now. "Go here, kill everything inside". Trash - > boss - > loot will eventually get boring too. Where's starting naked and no skills/abilities/mp/hp and needing to find capsules, splitting it properly between classes who need it, and slowly unlocking your party? Where are the objectives? The need to avoid aggro or you lose time(Nyzul), find the mob family you need to kill, don't aggro the NM's because it'll waste time or potentially kill you, the rush to go fast and skip things you don't need to complete the objective where is anything interesting like we had in FFXI dungeons? All I see is "kill trash, kill boss, collect loot". Where is all the cool stuff?

Why is that all dungeons are? Why don't they have interesting innovative mechanics like FFXI or single player games do?

I agree on the ridiculous AoE spam, make the BLM's aoe require a target like everyone else so mobs arent instant dead before they even spawned

Im sure it wont matter when everyone is 50 on thier main jobs and the world becomes a ghost town except for the level 50 zones

The combat on my marauder though is anything but simplistic, the problem is the unbalance of complexity for the combat classes, some classes like Warrior and Monk are overcomplex and full of ability bloat, whill classes like BLM and Bard are extremely easy and in the case of Bard you can macro most of your abilities into one macro and everything is done automatically by just spamming one button

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Originally Posted by Abriael

I suggest you look for a dictionary pronto, because "clone" doesn't mean what you think it means.

You simply don't have a point, exactly as the OP.



That good stuff you smoked, please share it. Thanks.

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To be honest, I expected more from a professional writer.

I agree on item design. Aesthetically speaking they look great but everything is simply +2 more of previous stat. It's super boring and adds nothing to the gameplay.

I agree with a lot of the things OP said. Also I'd like to just add this. In P2 we were told to wait til P3 by the white knights. In P3 when the same issues presented them selves we were told to wait til P4. During P4 when everything was going to crap with the 90k's and the 3102's, the white knights said "OMG be quiet this is still beta wait til release". Now that we are at early RELEASE those same white knights are screaming to wait til 'actual release'. Let me ask you this, my dearest white knights, when all the issues that you all managed to kill, with your thread trolling hate, are still present what will you say then? "ohh wait til the first patch"?

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Originally Posted by Zezlar

To be honest, I expected more from a professional writer.

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There isn't much more to say in the face of the abuse of the worst kind of hyperbole to make a false point.

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Originally Posted by Cichy

I agree on item design. Aesthetically speaking they look great but everything is simply +2 more of previous stat. It's super boring and adds nothing to the gameplay.

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FF games are not based on WOW-like stats where players get asinine stats like 100ks HPs, the combat mechanics in FFs don't rely on mega-stupid numbers. +1, +2 are there to pander to the mix/maxers, which is great, the game doesn't rely no your having HQ gear or GTFO, unlike WOW etc.

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Originally Posted by Shiyo

The dungeons themselves have no story, no plot, nothing interesting either, but at least they're fun for now. "Go here, kill everything inside". Trash - > boss - > loot will eventually get boring too.

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You mean just like all other MMOs?

Dungeons should NOT be the place where stories are told, least of all large-group ones.

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Originally Posted by Zezlar

To be honest, I expected more from a professional writer.

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He's been trolling ever since the 1.0 launch, when he flamed anyone who had anything bad to say about it. Just leave him be.

(For the record, I like the game, I just don't like people who habitually pick fights.)

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Originally Posted by Kraggy

FF games are not based on WOW-like stats where players get asinine stats like 100ks HPs, the combat mechanics in FFs don't rely on mega-stupid numbers. +1, +2 are there to pander to the mix/maxers, which is great, the game doesn't rely no your having HQ gear or GTFO, unlike WOW etc.

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I don't believe that's the point. Adding +1 or +2 to a stat is perfectly fine to keep the numbers low. What is not fine, and quite frankly boring (in my opinion of course) is when that's all the stat an item contains. "Hurray! Armor! This breastplate with 50 def and 7 vit is far superior to the previous breastplate of 49 def and 6 vit". What the thread hints at are enhancements to JAs, to JTs, to combat strategy, not simply "STR good. Add STR".
Hypothetical example: a choice between random linen hat that has 10 MND for cnjr, or Whm AF that has 8 MND, 20 mp, and 'enhances cure potency'. One is boring, the other is not.

I'm having a great time in game with ANC, that was today as I was able to get in game which I doubt will be the case tomorrow. I haven't had this much fun in an MMO for a long time.

I've been having issues with the duty finder and it actually finding anything for about 4 hours straight now...

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Originally Posted by Shiyo

Where's starting naked and no skills/abilities/mp/hp and needing to find capsules, splitting it properly between classes who need it, and slowly unlocking your party? Where are the objectives? The need to avoid aggro or you lose time(Nyzul), find the mob family you need to kill, don't aggro the NM's because it'll waste time or potentially kill you, the rush to go fast and skip things you don't need to complete the objective where is anything interesting like we had in FFXI dungeons? All I see is "kill trash, kill boss, collect loot". Where is all the cool stuff?

Why is that all dungeons are? Why don't they have interesting innovative mechanics like FFXI or single player games do?

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bcause the kretis and pletis who plays this game dont want a "ffxi kopy". but apperently a wow kopy is perfektly fine. oh please.

also the devs are doin evrything in their mite to make this game diffrent from ffxi. apparently they learnt nothing from ffxi.