i rest my case
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Wait a second...you are basing your opinion on another persons opinion? I could understand if the game was not FTP if you did something like that but here we have been for a year now and you are basing your entire argument on the opinions of other people? Ummm ok. So why did you play the game to begin with? Alpha and Beta were both pretty horrendous overall and not much changed at initial release. I can understand waiting out reviews for 6 months to see what people have to say if I have to pay to play but if I buy a game and it's free for a year you better believe I am going to get my monies worth out of it before I make a call on its worth. Your other point about "knowing the content before you pay for it" is all nonsense. Seeing a few snip-its of in game graphics and some fighting scenes here and there tells you nothing about content. It might tell you something about mechanics but nothing about storyline. Reviews in general are almost always biased and opinionated and the narrators only point out what they want you to focus on rather than giving you an overview of the game itself. I usually turn down the sound so I can look at the game and not hear someone else telling me what I should be thinking about a game unless I want to hear the sound effects. If it looks interesting and I like the storyline then I give it a try. If I don't see anything that might interest me then I wait it out and make a call on it later.
Reworking menus, a graphic engine and environmental aspects of the game does not qualify as a relaunch. They are not changing the armory system. They are not changing the roles. They are not changing any progress of characters. They are not relaunching anything. They are just updating and revamping some things to make them run smoother and/or make them more accessible to people who may have trouble with them. They are also reworking them so people can get faster response times from their actions. All of the core mechanics for game play will still be the same. In short, same game just a different skin.
Bringing it to E3 doesn't mean a relaunch either. They are just reminding PS3 players that they are still around and are going to show them what the game will be like when they get there. As one who watches videos and reads/watches reviews you should know that the game is going to be a bit different in V2.0 so players should get a peek at the way things are going to be and not what they were. Again, this is advertising a revamped version of a product...not relaunching.
As far as you being level 13...could care less. I realize that people restart characters on other servers or walked away from the game before and are returning so I read what they have to say first and see if they really know what they are talking about. After reading what you have said I have come to the conclusion that you do not have enough working personal experience with the game to say it is good or bad. You gave it a try and did not like it and are validating your opinion with the opinions of others. I think you made a snap judgement on something you have not fully experienced. If you bought the game and it was free for a year I am not quite sure why you would do this but hey to each their own.
When I first played in Alpha/beta I defended the flaws "oh its alpha/beta, will be fine later" after release though (and yes I bought the Collectors) I was a bit disappointed, I messed with it for a month and dropped it for a good while, but I kept an eye on it because I do love Final Fantasy...... I started messing with it again after 1.8 and even more so in 1.9 but to be honest, other then this one time story and me leveling my crafting and practicing mage classes, I wont get serious till 2.0
Is it still worth my money per month? yes, because it will entertain me with new things to do no matter when I pick it up and play it.
For me, I don't mind to pay.
But what I am worrying about is that, they going to make us to pay 1 year ahead before the 2.0 launch. And then once 2.0 released, we realized that everything is changed, and what we will have done in 2012 will become "Dated characters", "Dated Junks", etc. So everything we doing prior 2.0 is just simple wasted effort.
Then we realized that what we have been paying for, is to fund SE to continue the 2.0 project.
I'm proud of all you loyalists are admitting you are basically helping them fund a project.
You guys forget you are, or we are, part of a big minority in the MMO market. As far as MMOs, or even online games go, we are a very small player base. Too small. And now, SE wants to split us up again?
You do realize, that it's commonplace on the internet that everyone thinks as I do? because we are not blinded by faith? because most people who play online rpgs, or rpgs at all, would not touch FFXIV with a 10 foot pole?
You guys can huddle together and go "you go girl" to each other all you want. SE is not going to make money off of you in the next year. I can't believe you guys can go as far to say that even if ONE person pays for the subs, they make money.
You fail to realize that this is not the year that matters. It is when 2.0 launches. As of right now, FFXIV is really, really below market standards for an online only game. They took 100 steps backwards when they developed and released this game. Now, when 2.0 launches, by that time they promise it will be to market standards.
the problem I am seeing here is, I don't think anyone who are buying MMORPGs in 2012 holiday season are going to give a fuck. You don't realize how bad a bad launch for an MMORPG can be. It can be the absolute death of it from the get-go. Now, the new dev team are working extremely hard to get this game back on track, I realize that. But, another year of basically "bad" game, -and- you have to pay for it? NO ONE NEW IS GOING TO BUY THE GAME, at best in 2012, the few of us who bought this game on launch day may come back after 2.0
Normally I don't respond to this kind of crap, but you really are helping no one by posting this. You loyalists really are making the community look like utter garbage to those who look to us from the outside. If someone wanted to actually look into this game, check the forums, and read all of your hateful bullshit, they may not buy this game. You guys really don't care that you get new players at all, do you? You just want to huddle together and shun everyone else who has any doubt. You guys really are starting to disgust me as a FFXIV player.
Wow I have not been spouting hate. Things like "Get out you waste of space" is spewing hate. What I have "spewing" is my opinion about FFXIV and how they should not be charging us quite yet, and then my reasoning. You are a fucking moron, there, now I'm spewing hate.
And no, the game will not do just fine without players like me. Keep pushing players who have an open mind away from the game, and the game may shut down due to lack of player base.
Lol wow, I'm not a troll and I'm not posting the definition of troll AGAIN. I do believe SE deserves to fail based on the game they released. I dont think they just deserve to fail just for the fuck of it. Also, Im not here to convince people not to play the game, I'm here to convince people not to pay for this game's subscription yet.
December I wouldn't even bother trying to talk sense in the loyalist around here it will fall on deaf ears. Noone outside of rabid fanboys think it's a good idea to charge for this sooo long before 2.0 regardless of what an lol800 person forum poll which is biased due to where it is posted.
You guys can think yayyyy the majority here say they will be staying and paying but it shows like 500 something people. If having the place more of a ghost town than this game already is for another year is your thing which sadly some of your attitudes show it is, more power to you.
The upcoming changes next year look like they can be the answer we are all looking for but anything but the blindest fanbois would justify paying a full price monthly fee for this trash even the devs say is trash. December and any sane person is better to stay away anyways because you don't want to be playing the game with these freaks and people who don't speak english and kick you out of groups because you're not japanese.
the statistics weren't my point. i know it can swing either way and THAT was my point. i'm fearful that more then just the trolls will leave and that could be problematic. All we can do is wait till it happens to see, but outside influences dont help any. You'd be a fool to think that at least some would not want to pay for an unfinished game during a collapsed world economic period. I personally think its a bad time to start charging on many levels, but like i said ill probably sub myself cause i am enjoying the game personally. Its the others I'm worried about. And New players won't be picking up this game till its done i feel, and this is an even bigger problem for this next year.
I don't think anyone would have a problem paying monthly for this if the quality was there. Based on the time-line it doesn't even look like a bulk of the server issues will be fixed until they transfer the data onto the new client/server which means that alone isn't worth a monthly fee in my opinion.
Some people like the game in its current state, I can't fault people, maybe they met some cool people who enjoy the game but my personal opinion is not worth the sub yet. If you told me 2.0 was 2-3 months out obviously I would be more inclined to stick around and shell out some cash. My personal opinion is I rather wait especially with all these cool games like Diablo 3 coming early 2012, I rather spend the money else-where for the time being until the game is worth it(to me).
Backed into a corner? Dude, you need a reality check. This is really simple people. If you don't want to pay, fine don't. Nobody cares. Just go away. Slamming the forums with boohoo posts and deliberately trying to be a dbag because the game "deserves to fail" is immature and asinine. Backed into a corner? Yeah right. You all need to be taken over someone's knee to beat the brat out of you.
Will people stop saying this game is in beta, alpha, blah, blah, fucking blah. If this game was in beta, then we would be playing for the sole purpose of testing and would not get to keep the progress we make, yet we get to keep all the progress we make, so it is a poor comparison.
At best you could say we are getting charged to play a bad game, but that's almost completely subjective, and many of us would beg to differ, because we are currently enjoying the game, which is the most important metric to consider.
Regardless, this is a product, that SE has put a ridiculous amount of time and money into, and they have every right to charge monthly for it while they are continuing its upkeep and expansion-- just like every other MMO company. If you are offended by that, then it is on you and your own perception of the situation.
I haven't been on the forums for several days because I'm currently building a custom water cooled system, so my computer has been out of commission. After reading about the changes myself earlier today, I expected to see a bunch of threads with people excited about the new design direction (which seems amazing to me), but instead I see a bunch of people bitching about every little aspect, as usual. Sometimes I'm not sure why I even log on here.
I can only imagine how frustrating it must be for a dev to read over these forums, because no matter what they do, or how hard they work on this game, it seems people still bitch about every little aspect as if its the end of the world-- with little to no appreciation or thoughtful criticism. It's probably a vocal minority type of situation, but nonetheless, I'm sure it gets rather annoying.
For clarification: I'm all for constructive criticism with some sound reason behind it, but it seems more and more the complaints around here fall into the irrational whining category instead.
LOL.. hella made me laugh.
I now declare this thread the official MAD BRO thread.
what do you prefer to give you 1 year content for version 1 and pay for the expasion version 2 do you think its better that ?
they giving you the chance if you dont like to play the prequel to leave and play something else and come back again at version 2 and DOWNLOAD FREE your GAME!!!
stop asking about your game that you have bought ....THEY GONNA GIVE YOU AT 2012-2013 FREE !!!
they just want to make the version 1 Prequel Because they are making a NEW final fantasy for all the fans that bought the game 1 year ago AND THEY GOING TO GIVE US THE VERSION 2 FREE !!!! !!! OH MY GOD !! stop crying !!!
I would say his initial 60-80$ investment was help. As was his willingness to continue playing when the game flopped. If you don't think they kept the servers up for the past year to get free testers from the community your smoking some good shit. And any post he has ever made that paints the game in a negative or posative light is the very definition of feedback. You amaze me, you basically call the guy a freeloader for playing and not paying. What the hell do you think it is YOU have been doing? ANd looking at your job numbers there I would say you have been doing WAY more freeloading than December ever did. Like a fat kid and cake.
I'll more then likely P2P whenever they impliment it however...I feel this game still needs a ton of work. The UI is extremely cluttered. I organized mine so its tolerable..but jeez, so much clutter everywhere. o.O The battle still needs a ton of work too imho. There is no "attack" button, you have to keep pressing it or attempt to use some ability to get it to attack. My BF was playing Gladiator yesterday and got so frustrated he said he is done with it for a long time. >.<;
There is still lots of lag that needs to be fixed in menus and such. Blah blah I am sure everyone has read this 5000 times. But yeah...I'll pay I don't care...I have the spare money. Just feel it needs a ton of work :(
It sounds like you're the one crying with all your poorly placed spaces, caps-lock, and exclamation points. I'm just expressing my concerns over the fact that they treated this as a beta, and then they will be holding another beta in the future.
Secondly, would it kill you to use a period? If you're going to constructively hold a conversation with someone at least present me with something that a middle school student could articulate.
Lastly, you're correct. They are making the version 2.0 XIV from the ideas and discussions that thousands of disgruntled users posted on the forums. What you're incorrect about, is that it is a new game. Please don't treat it like a new IP, or a new game. It isn't even an expansion. It is the game, that should have been in my 90 dollar collectors edition box, from the very beginning.
That is why charging now is not the right action to take. It further alienates the people who already dislike the game (that this entire 2.0 fix is trying to get back), and it continues the growing loss of interest and trust of the Final Fantasy brand.
As I've stated before, if they offered a 50% reduction in subscription costs until the end of the 2.0 beta, or start the subscription fees after the server fixes/UI were implemented; sure I'd be happy to help show my support for the game. Unfortunately they are just being greedy at this point.
And yes, I'd probably be more satisfied if they kept the game open for free, and then made 2.0 as an expansion pack. First of all, the expansion pack would only be 40 dollars: a reasonable sum. Secondly, they can't get away with that because it would cause more outrage than this debacle has already done. So they're opting for the choice that will get them more money and less hate, because really: who is going to buy an expansion pack that fixes a severely broken and flawed game?
Hey guys I got the collector's edition of this game, and then the game sucked so I stopped playing for 2 months. Then I came back and played then stopped playing for another month, then a few weeks here and there. But now the game doesn't suck so I'm going to pay.
・Late November to Early Decemeber, 2011 - Patch 1.20 (and subsequent hotfixes)
⇒Class adjustments (abilities & weaponskills) / Malevolent Moogle (Primal) battle
⇒Achievement system (300+ planned) / Market adjustments / PC search
⇒The continuation of Disciple of the Hand recipe adjustments (HQ items / Repair adjustments
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That's what will be added plus more in addition to what we have now when they start to charge because I know all the people complaining about paying didn't fully read the additions until 2.0.
Φιλέ μου
Δεν έχω κανένα πρόβλημα να χρησιμοποιήσω σωστά την γλώσσα μου εν μέσω της γραφής ,ώστε η συζήτηση να είναι ποιο εποικοδομητική. Δυστυχώς τυγχάνει τα αγγλικά μου να μην είναι η μητρική μου γλώσσα , και αυτό καθιστά δύσκολο να μπορώ να επικοινωνήσω ολοκληρωμένα με κάποιον διαφορετικής εθνικότητας από έμενα. Εφόσον ζητάς μια συζήτηση με ανώτερη σχολική μόρφωση βολέψου με την καλύτερη που έχω στα ελληνικά .
Για καλή σου τύχη υπάρχει το Google μεταφραστής .
Δεν κλαίω αγαπητέ μου φιλέ ,ούτε προσπαθώ να υποστηρίξω τα συμφέροντα μιας εταιρείας .Σαν καταναλωτής λοιπόν εκφράζω την δική μου άποψη πάνω στα παράπονα σας . Αν το πρόβλημα σας είναι λοιπόν ότι η εταιρία ζητά χρήματα για ένα κάκιστο παιχνίδι , με κάθε δικαίωμα σας αφήνει την επιλογή να παίξετε το παιχνίδι ( που σας οφείλει) στο μέλλον . Δεν μιλάμε για κάποιο expansion μιλάμε για ένα ολόκληρο παιχνίδι ακριβός όπως το ζητούσαμε όλοι μας . Ποιο ακριβώς είναι το πρόβλημα σου ? Οτι θες να παίξεις το παιχνίδι που η ιδία εταιρία δηλώνει ότι σε ένα χρόνο τις είναι αδύνατον να διορθώσει τα προβλήματα του , και αναγκάζετε να στύση νέους Servers , νέους χάρτες , νέο User Interface , και αλλά πολλά ?
Εφόσον το παιχνίδι δεν είναι έτοιμο γιατί στεναχωριέσαι που σε χρεώνει ? Αφού δεν σου άρεσε και δεν έχει και κάτι άλλο να προσφέρει γιατί δυσανασχετείς που δεν θα μπορείς να παίξεις πια ? . Το παιχνίδι που φτιάχνετε ολοκληρωμένο για εσένα δεν βρίσκετε ακόμα εδω , όταν θα είναι έτοιμο θα σας φωνάξουμε να το παραλάβετε δωρεάν .
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And now translated...Quote:
Φιλέ μου
Δεν έχω κανένα πρόβλημα να χρησιμοποιήσω σωστά την γλώσσα μου εν μέσω της γραφής ,ώστε η συζήτηση να είναι ποιο εποικοδομητική. Δυστυχώς τυγχάνει τα αγγλικά μου να μην είναι η μητρική μου γλώσσα , και αυτό καθιστά δύσκολο να μπορώ να επικοινωνήσω ολοκληρωμένα με κάποιον διαφορετικής εθνικότητας από έμενα. Εφόσον ζητάς μια συζήτηση με ανώτερη σχολική μόρφωση βολέψου με την καλύτερη που έχω στα ελληνικά .
Για καλή σου τύχη υπάρχει το Google μεταφραστής .
Δεν κλαίω αγαπητέ μου φιλέ ,ούτε προσπαθώ να υποστηρίξω τα συμφέροντα μιας εταιρείας .Σαν καταναλωτής λοιπόν εκφράζω την δική μου άποψη πάνω στα παράπονα σας . Αν το πρόβλημα σας είναι λοιπόν ότι η εταιρία ζητά χρήματα για ένα κάκιστο παιχνίδι , με κάθε δικαίωμα σας αφήνει την επιλογή να παίξετε το παιχνίδι ( που σας οφείλει) στο μέλλον . Δεν μιλάμε για κάποιο expansion μιλάμε για ένα ολόκληρο παιχνίδι ακριβός όπως το ζητούσαμε όλοι μας . Ποιο ακριβώς είναι το πρόβλημα σου ? Οτι θες να παίξεις το παιχνίδι που η ιδία εταιρία δηλώνει ότι σε ένα χρόνο τις είναι αδύνατον να διορθώσει τα προβλήματα του , και αναγκάζετε να στύση νέους Servers , νέους χάρτες , νέο User Interface , και αλλά πολλά ?
Εφόσον το παιχνίδι δεν είναι έτοιμο γιατί στεναχώριεστε που σε χρεώνει ? Αφού δεν σου άρεσε και δεν έχει και κάτι άλλο να προσφέρει ώστε να σε χρεώνει κάθε μηνά . Το παιχνίδι που φτιάχνετε ολοκληρωμένο για εσένα δεν βρίσκετε ακόμα εδω , όταν θα είναι έτοιμο θα σας φωνάξουμε να το παραλάβετε δωρεάν .
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Dude
I have no problem to use it properly to my tongue in the midst of writing, that the debate is what constructive. Unfortunately enjoy my English is not my native language, and this makes it difficult to do comprehensive contact with someone of a different ethnicity than me. If you ask for a debate with higher schooling volepsou the best I have in Greek.
For good luck is the Google translator.
Do not cry my dear friend, or trying to support the interests of a company. As consumers we would like to express my opinion on the complaints you. If your problem is therefore that the company asking for money for an appalling game, with all rights leaves you the option to play the game (you must) in the future. Not talking about some expansion talking about an entire game expensive as we all asked. What exactly is your problem; Whatever you want to play the game the same company states that in a year is impossible to fix problems and make them erect new Servers, new maps, new User Interface, and more;
If the game is not ready because they worry that a charge; Since you do not like and does not have anything to offer in order to charge each month. The game builds integrated for you do not find even here, when we are ready we will shout it delivered free.
good evening
by estimating Narmito
Get a load of Captain Freeloader here.
December has made 63 posts, all that have to do with the game. I would say thats all feedback but you clearly have no understanding of the word. ANd I only roach my way out of the cracks asshole when I smell bullshit, and brother, you reek of it. And since when did posting on this jackass convetion determine your right to play the game? Do you begin to see why random people jump in to call you a jackass? You make it so easy you see.....
next think you know, SE will release FFXIII Vs and charge $59.99. it will be complete garbage after what, being announced in 2006? Then, they will say "hey guys, a DLC revamping will happen in one year, but you'll have to pay another $59.99 for the DLC".
It's pretty much the same thing happening here.
In denial much?
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well never cares about your story but always care about your money so thats why create the version 2 ...the version 1 game is for those who like it as it is ...the version 2 is for those that dont feel happy with the version 1 . both type of players are gonna take the game (version 2) free. The only deference is that the players who feel happy with the game at the current state must pay for this enjoy .
so why players that are not happy with the game they want to play .
start to play something else and wait for your version .
all the good things coming with version 2. The version 1 its gonna be almost the same . why do you want to play it so much :( and ''crying'' about the fees :(