FF XIV still considered a joke

Too busy playing crappy XIV to read

if less people had the same opinion as those reviews did we wouldn't be playing on ghost servers, we wouldn't be getting a server merge, and they wouldn't be working on 2.0.

truth told the majority of the market has the same opinion of the game and i can't blame them. yes, the game has gotten better in many aspects in the last 18 months, but it still has a long way to go before people start saying this game is great.

Majority of the gaming market agrees shiny graphics = good and 8-16bit graphics = old and played out. However we have games like Minecraft, Braid, Bastion, Castle Crashers etc that are doing better than some shiny commercial games lol. It's not that everyone shares the "same opinion" it's that unlike the 80s and 90s people are more like mindless sheep and will rather agree with someone else's opinion than have their own.

This is what stagnated gaming in recent years because of people's inability to separate personal opinion from paid criticism as they say. FFXIV 2.0 would have happened regardless because even Tanaka himself said the game wasn't ready for release, but SE wanted to pad that report. It's really not hard to see how in this day people are a lot more likely to listen to someone else's review than form their own opinion.

I could never take this kind of review or recap seriously. If you do something like this you review a game in depth. You cant say something is the best just because of music or because it started all. Though its retarded that people who know nothing about the game still give it bad publicity. I mean really... they didn't even play ffxi? are they even allowed to make a final fantasy review without even playing all of them?

FFXIV is still a really bad mmo, but the developers are showing they can put good things in the game. I saw someone last week say that FFXIV has just as much content in it as other mmo's, and I was like mm.. what? There are a lot of people out there desperate for more attention to FFXIV, desperate for more players to play it, and think Betty White should be advertising for the game right now. All of that would lead to FFXIV suicide. The game is getting better, but it's not ready for attention, so just enjoy the game if you do and let it gain prominence this June. Then if it's good during the 2.0 beta, people are going to change their opinions, and we'll have a good game. If it isn't good enough, then it will probably remain niche or fade into nothingness.

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Originally Posted by darkstarpoet1

if less people had the same opinion as those reviews did we wouldn't be playing on ghost servers, we wouldn't be getting a server merge, and they wouldn't be working on 2.0.

truth told the majority of the market has the same opinion of the game and i can't blame them. yes, the game has gotten better in many aspects in the last 18 months, but it still has a long way to go before people start saying this game is great.

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I could give rats ass about Those reviewers. They are all paid by. Gamespot coff coff used to be trustworthy when they were called videogames.com

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Originally Posted by Noir

I could give rats ass about Those reviewers. They are all paid by. Gamespot coff coff used to be trustworthy when they were called videogames.com

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yes, i am sure they are crying that you feel that way.

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Originally Posted by darkstarpoet1

yes, i am sure they are crying that you feel that way.

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Like I care.

This years E3 will shut people up.

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Originally Posted by Galliano

This years E3 will shut people up.

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it could. the problem with this game on release wasn't the hype that surrounded it. the problem was how it released. as long as se doesn't make the same mistakes on second release they should shut people up outside of the game. they just need to take their time and make sure they get the vast majority of bugs fixed and plenty of content in game when it relaunches instead of having a game with a bunch of partial pieces like it did originally.

2.0 needs to be a flawless relaunch or there will be another storm coming from the outside media. i'm still here in hopes that they can pull that off.