what did u imagine what ff14 would be when u bought the game?

what did u imagine what ff14 would be when u bought the game?
what do u think it will become?
what do u want?

i personally thought it would be just like final fantasy 11 but i heard it would be more casual so i thought it would have alot more things like those fights they had in the past in ff11 (i forgot the name its where beastmen rushed ur camp) i thought they would keep the partying set up and everything but just give people a way to level steadily solo but faster as a part and even encourage partying but not punish soloers.
yet thats gone once i bought the game
i dont have any idea what its going to become though i just hope they dont 100% cater to the casuals

Not in alpha phase.

FFXI but with better graphics.

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Originally Posted by Ilean

Not in alpha phase.

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Thats how i felt also. Now were in Beta phase.

I imagined a game that was better in everyway imaginable than what it is today. I know thats vague, but it's the best way I can put it without breaking the character limit number for these forums.

I imagined a game that expanded on its predecessors merits, not threw them out the door and pretended they never existed. At the very least I imagined a world waiting to be explored...even that they somehow screwed up, and this pisses me off the most since there is no way its going to change much.

Done. /10char

A Final Fantasy MMO.

I had no idea this game was even really being developed until I came back from vacation and decided to look up new FF projects and noticed this was in Open Beta. I've been a fan of FF for nearly 20 years, started playing around the age of 8. The series always held a special place in my heart. So naturally I'm always interested in their new installments.

I remember speak of "Rapture" a long time ago but never bothered to follow up on it. So yea, at the very least, a Final Fantasy MMO is what I was expecting. Needless to say, I was not amused.

Larger. More varied.
Actual goals to, you know, attain.
Other than that it was pretty much what I was expecting and a little more. The crafting and gathering classes impressed me initially, but now I realize they concentrated on them perhaps too much, making what is usually an in game side hobby into half the games content.

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Originally Posted by Frebaut

Thats how i felt also. Now were in Beta phase.

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We don't even have the final, or close to the final battle system yet. That's like pre-alpha or alpha.

i imagined it would be exactly what open beta was except that they would quickly fix UI.
then i figured within 2 months there would be quests and mission extention
within 6 months ishgard would be open with bcnm type instances
and within 6 months chocobos and airships would be in effect

and within a year there would be 5-10 new zones, 2-4 new jobs, a new mission line, many new quests, and all released with ps3 release

More like FF XI

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Originally Posted by MeowyWowie

A Final Fantasy MMO.

I had no idea this game was even really being developed until I came back from vacation and decided to look up new FF projects and noticed this was in Open Beta. I've been a fan of FF for nearly 20 years, started playing around the age of 8. The series always held a special place in my heart. So naturally I'm always interested in their new installments.

I remember speak of "Rapture" a long time ago but never bothered to follow up on it. So yea, at the very least, a Final Fantasy MMO is what I was expecting. Needless to say, I was not amused.

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I'd say you were amused long enough to get 3 Rank 50 jobs. Joking aside, I think a lot of people including myself were expecting FFXI-2. Although looking through the patch notes and reading through the planned updates I think that the game is finally heading in that direction, for better or for worse.

Lol, I suppose you got me there, Hubert. I am a contradiction, just like Starburst!.

But honestly though, I am not one to cap as many classes as I can. I prefer to try my best at the select few classes I choose. The problem is that's pretty much all FFXIV offers at the moment.

I don't hate the game, it's enjoyable enough to play it (sometimes.) But the main thing that keeps me here is hope. If I knew for a fact that the game we have right now is the same game it will be in 3 years from now I wouldn't waste my time. Judging from the info we're getting from SE though, this does not appear to be the case. So I'm still here, hoping for the best, but I definitely won't miss the game if it fails to deliver.

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I'd say you were amused long enough to get 3 Rank 50 jobs. Joking aside, I think a lot of people including myself were expecting FFXI-2. Although looking through the patch notes and reading through the planned updates I think that the game is finally heading in that direction, for better or for worse.

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Definately for better. XI has much love and sequels are not uncommon for SE anymore. More of a good thing with better graphics was what I was hoping for.

I was in alpha/beta.... at the end of beta I said to myself, this is not ready.... and I was right ;p

we are now in public beta ^.^ Retail release will be the PS3 version

Everything Tanaka said but never got to do it due to CEO/stockholder asking the team to release it in 2010.

I thought it would give a feeling close to XI when it came to party related content, maybe not forced like XI, but similar, great comunity and awesome quests and missions like all previous FF's.

expectations : Similar to XI, but better.

results : Far from XI, but worst.


Hironobu Sakaguchi (Can i have it!?)

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Originally Posted by BoltNixter

expectations : Similar to XI, but better.

results : Far from XI, but worst.


Hironobu Sakaguchi (Can i have it!?)

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He to busy making Last story which look like it going to become a Last story II, Last story III and so on and maybe even a MMO lol

I knew it was going to be a cluster**** but I figured they'd fix it within a few months.

XI with new tweaks to the formula (instead of throwing everything overboard and pretend it never existed).

to all of you expecting it to be like xi didn't follow the game any if at all during production. the game was completely advertised as not being like xi. that was actually the reason i got the game was because it was not going to be like xi.

better....

This thread is important because I think a lot of people came to FFXIV with a clash of expectations. I don't know about you but I went to www.finalfantasyxiv.com and then expected what was advertised.

Some people expected FFXI and some expected WoW.

Personally, I was expecting more of a sandbox game than the one given and the one proposed for the future. The player-run economy and player-run companies were features I was really looking forward to. The player-run economy failed to live up to expectations but is still a far cry better than any other game I've played. The player-run companies may still be in operation but I fear that the concept will be poisoned because of the recent shift in design philosophy when Yoshi took over.

You can't really have two competing philosophies in one game and please everyone.

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Originally Posted by darkstarpoet1

to all of you expecting it to be like xi didn't follow the game any if at all during production. the game was completely advertised as not being like xi. that was actually the reason i got the game was because it was not going to be like xi.

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Riiiiight. The game was advertised as being more solo friendly, not once did they mention it not being like XI...in fact they said they made the character models the same so that people migrating from XI would find it more appealing...if they weren't targeting XI and ex-XI players why make the character models the same to begin with? its definitely not out of laziness because the models were built from the ground up from concept to mo-cap to 3D. If they didn't want it to be like XI and they were targeting XI players anyway than they're just stupid and the game speaks for itself.

Anyway, "like XI" doesn't mean take everything from XI...but FFXIV took nothing from XI and everything it did to stand out sucked the big one.

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He to busy making Last story which look like it going to become a Last story II, Last story III and so on and maybe even a MMO lol

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lol yeah. "Final" "Fantasy"-> "Last" "Story"

Pretty much what it was. When I read up on the current state of the game when open beta ended and the CE edition was 8 days away from being up I knew it was going to be a disaster, but since I saved 20 or 30 dollars bundling this with my OS disc I decided to give it a go.

While I did like some of the concepts the game did do (Not making this like a clone of XI) I didn't have high expectations.

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Originally Posted by Vesperia

This thread is important because I think a lot of people came to FFXIV with a clash of expectations. I don't know about you but I went to www.finalfantasyxiv.com and then expected what was advertised.

Some people expected FFXI and some expected WoW.

Personally, I was expecting more of a sandbox game than the one given and the one proposed for the future. The player-run economy and player-run companies were features I was really looking forward to. The player-run economy failed to live up to expectations but is still a far cry better than any other game I've played. The player-run companies may still be in operation but I fear that the concept will be poisoned because of the recent shift in design philosophy when Yoshi took over.

You can't really have two competing philosophies in one game and please everyone.

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Per the XIV official site, I expected PUG to come with STEAL. (Which still hasn't been updated)

Ffs.

the game included steal.....not the way u wanted =/

I Imagined it to be a very cool Game. This Game has a lot of Potential, but not even a little has been put to use.

Graphics are astonishing, Weather are cool, but NPC needs to be renamed into Talking Statue. [NPC] stands for Non-Player Character, right? I don't think they even Define Characters anymore >.>

I haven't played FFXI nor WoW, you could say the only MMO Experience I've had is Aion but even so, I still think It's a lot more interesting than XIV is now. Another thing I hate, and has been mentioned a lot of times are the Zones, It's so boring, and dull. It's so Big yet it feels like I'm just running around in circles with different names. The cities did not meet my expectation, especially Gridania. When I look at the Artwork and Trailer, it looked so lively, there's Lights all around with Buildings. Other than that are the Systems everyone has been mentioning.

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Originally Posted by Warlyx

the game included steal.....not the way u wanted =/

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I see what you did there.

basically, I expected a cheesecake. I received an empty box with a beautiful picture of a cheesecake, and a coupon inside- redeemable in one year for a free raspberry cheesecake

I expected it to be functional. I expected to have fun with my LS that I dragged over to play with me. We had 40 members at one point, now it's back down to the original 8 again while we just wait for the battle changes to come back. I had a feeling of "Oh, they had some great features in XI, I bet you they'll have them in this game as well!" Turned out to be nilch.

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Originally Posted by Anima

lol yeah. "Final" "Fantasy"-> "Last" "Story"

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It look 100% like Final Fantasy lol even the name Final=Last Fantasy=Story just like you said. I think if Last story become a great hit SE going to have a hard time. Not if they buy of the company and make Last story there game again which they should have done to start with Last story and final fantasy would have been two great sellers for SE but w.e lol

Even though I know it's a serious game in development, I can't help but feel like The Last Story is the original FF creator's way of rebooting Final Fantasy as a whole since he left SE a few years ago. I mean..that name is SO similar xD

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Even though I know it's a serious game in development, I can't help but feel like The Last Story is the original FF creator's way of rebooting Final Fantasy as a whole since he left SE a few years ago. I mean..that name is SO similar xD

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If the creator of FF has decided to do something new, with the state of SE's latest projects, I could abandon SE and FF for the new series. Sakaguchi made the games we love the FF series for... and I'm more his fan than Squares.

From the debut trailer of Last Story that I saw, it seems a lot like an action-based FF title. Sucks it's for Wii. I'm hopeful it will release on at least PS3 as well. And yeah, ever since Sakaguchi left, the FF titles (other than 11, for me.) were less than exciting for me. I liked FFXIII a bit, but not enough to praise it. And I never got into FFXII.

The first though was : fun

but turn out to be not fun....a let down for me who have first exp with FF online serie

I did it the right way, friend gave me a buddy pass on the 22nd of sept, logged in not paying 1 penny for this game. I knew the game was in trouble back in beta which is why i'm greatful my buddy gave me his pass, lol.

I honestly expected a game where it learned from XI's mistakes and improved upon concepts that worked in XI while keeping it a unique experience.