Thank you Yoshi!

The Square Enix team in charge of A Realm Reborn should really be commended for the outstanding work they are doing with this game! It is a million times better than 1.0. Furthermore the high level of communication and honesty you guys have with your community is something that is becoming so rare in MMOs today. One of the reasons I am actually still playing this game @_@.

Do you have any graphs or pie charts to show where you got the numbers to come up with "a million times better?" I do agree with you about the high level of communication and honesty, as long as you go ahead and ignore all the lies/broken promises, and the interviews where Yoshi has actually said there is so much stuff they refuse to tell us, because "players think they know more than the devs" so they are keeping more things and more of their reasoning quiet.

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Originally Posted by Mcshiggs

Do you have any graphs or pie charts to show where you got the numbers to come up with "a million times better?" I do agree with you about the high level of communication and honesty, as long as you go ahead and ignore all the lies/broken promises, and the interviews where Yoshi has actually said there is so much stuff they refuse to tell us, because "players think they know more than the devs" so they are keeping more things and more of their reasoning quiet.

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Would you go away? Let the man have his thank you thread sheesh.

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Originally Posted by TeaTimeBear

Would you go away? Let the man have his thank you thread sheesh.

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QQ yeah man! We have it better than so many other mmos its easy to complain before you have seen the other side.

I have seen the other side, and this is exactly the same. The game is decent its nothing to write home about. To be honest its exactly like the other side.

In before people trying to be edgy so they can feel a tiny bit better about themselves!
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Damn too late....

Great work Yoshi-bro.

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Originally Posted by Mcshiggs

Inane crap

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Yeah and the sun gives you cancer. You can still enjoy the sunny day though.

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Originally Posted by Mook_Mook

I have seen the other side, and this is exactly the same. The game is decent its nothing to write home about. To be honest its exactly like the other side.

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So you're here and not there because. . .?

Agreed. The whole ffxiv team is doing a great job.

I have to agree.

I've been playing MMO's back since 1998 (EQ1) to present day. Most developers are not honest and up front with their playerbase. If Square says it's coming in 2.2, it's coming in 2.2. Or 2.3... The patches we get here are high-quality and please all styles of play. (See GW2 for crap filler patches)

I will be purchasing the expansion if this trend continues. I will also be telling all of my friends to try it.

EDIT: People really need to realize what Square-Enix has done. No other gaming company EVER has redesigned an entire game. This, alone, should really show you folks that they do listen. They could have just made it free to play with buyable upgrades... But they didn't!

I, too, have been constantly excited about the patches and this game. There is so much to do, and every time a major patch comes out I can't even decide where to begin. And I love the live letters! Thank you for communicating with us!

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Originally Posted by Silvanoshi

They could have just made it free to play with buyable upgrades...

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Yeah, instead they made it a pay to play game with a cash shop with buyable upgrades in it, thanks a ton for that indeed.

On another note, I'm guessing most of you who are agreeing with the OP either never played 1.0-1.23 or played very little of it. Let me break some of it down, firstly the "million times better" some of it is better, some of it is the same, some of it is worse. Next for the, "high level of communication and honesty" it's pretty bad when I need a cryptogram key to solve some of their responses to the players when they "answer" questions that are asked as well as some of the broken promises that they have already gone back on (see the "goobbue mount only for 1.0 players, never to be seen again ever we promise" fiasco).

Not really trying to be an ass, but zero or next to zero research has been done by the OP. Either way I'm glad you are happy with the game, and I hope it gets better and better as time goes on.

Beautiful game, but I would have preferred FFXI HD over Final WoW 14.

im legacy and was online most of 1.0 till now just to hang out with some friends and do slowly some stuff . and i love the game and love how its become and SE is doing great work


And if ...and i mean if People are telling me .. i dont know anything cos i said i like 1.0 how 2.0 turn out

First thing is im NOT force to love the same thing as you
Second thing I'm free to love what i want
third thing I'm free to say SE did a great job and a great game
Fourth thing : You are allowed to say you do not like the game
BUT you cannot say we know nothing because it is YOU who don't know my style of game and what i like.

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Originally Posted by Mikara

... (see the "goobbue mount only for 1.0 players, never to be seen again ever we promise" fiasco)...

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Oh Goobbue mount tears....

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Originally Posted by S03lm

The Square Enix team in charge of A Realm Reborn should really be commended for the outstanding work they are doing with this game! It is a million times better than 1.0. Furthermore the high level of communication and honesty you guys have with your community is something that is becoming so rare in MMOs today. One of the reasons I am actually still playing this game @_@.

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I do thank them for the high level of communication but as much as the LAUNCH of FFXIV 1.0 went and the LAUNCH of this game went honestly the biggest issue was present on both (the massive server issues being the largest by far) and this game still has server issues on instance reset days and lately ALL THE TIME in AV and other popular instances. While ARR is not a bad game to me personally I found the appeal of V1.0 (particularly after 1.18) better so its really a matter of opinion though I respect yours I am going to disagree though i wont try to change your mind. Everyones entitled to their own opinion after all.

Honestly my biggest gripe with SE though is the customer service, no matter how good the game is without decent customer support its going to frustrate players (though this isnt just ARR its all SE online titles).

i did play the 1.0-1.23, sorry but the game have greatly evolve since that time. the V1 had large empty area as map, no real identity into it. simply large landscape with some monster there and there. the Shroud was horrible it was simply corridor copy paste all the way.
the fight was slow, and some classe was simply... well i will talk of the Monk since it was mine. it had capacity for tank, but was a dps... the jobs was never balance.
the few dungeon we had was unbalanced to the point that only some jobs was wanted the other was simply left out.
let's continue about the few dungeon, it was running to a point, sleep all for take a break, move until have enough enemy and blast all with AoE... some fight was impossible with a melee. the drop rate was ridiculous, some people was simply farming the dungeon and have never seen more than 3-5 part of them dl drop.

all the game was about grind, grind, grind and...grind. no fun at all, grind is nothing more than a form of work. here we have the fun, that the most important part! we don't spend month and years for be able to face the challenge... no! here we face the challenge!

we have a world, more living, more beautifull, class more balanced, more content to do, more way to level up a class (than simply farm monster in monster party), more activity to do and it will increase with each patch.

sorry, but if you want a game about grind, FF14 ARR will never be that. Yoshida have said it, what the point to connect to a game for not have fun! the FF11 playerbase that still ask to make FF14 ARR a FF11-2 or FF11 HD, have simply loose of sight that the mmorpg have evolve. it's over the time where people was spending tons of hours for get soo little. here we get a lot with a decent time spend!

then thank you Yoshida and all the people working on FF14, continue like this, bring us more and more. some people are behind you!

Do people really feel the need to poison any and all positive threads on this forum? It's bad enough as it is.

I agree I like this game a lot more than version 1. People stopped playing it for a reason. There may have been good things, but it was a train wreck as a whole. ARR has it's issues, it's lacking features version 1 had. But overall I'd definitely say it's better. And it's captured my attention more than any other MMO on the market right now. Surely I'm not alone.

Thank you for this great game. I've been playing since beta, and my girlfriend would watch me play constantly. Which eventually meant that i had to build another PC, purchase another copy of the game, and pay another monthly subscription.

Money well spent.

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Originally Posted by Silvanoshi

People really need to realize what Square-Enix has done. No other gaming company EVER has redesigned an entire game.!

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Well, Duke Nukem 4ever was pretty close. I think it was cancelled and restarted 3-4 times over the course of 10+ years..
but yes, (I didn't play 1.0) but I'm impressed with the game, it managed to steal me away from a game that has almost 10 years worth of content (not WoW).

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Originally Posted by KitanaiKoneko

Well, Duke Nukem 4ever was pretty close. I think it was cancelled and restarted 3-4 times over the course of 10+ years..
but yes, (I didn't play 1.0) but I'm impressed with the game, it managed to steal me away from a game that has almost 10 years worth of content (not WoW).

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the argument falls apart when you realize there was never a "duke nukem forever 1.0" and the fact the final release was a huge letdown for the huge amount of hype it received.

but that is another argument for another time.

I have very few complaints about this game, I just see them as something to work through or to simply ignore.

I have played online MMO games since 2001 and this game here ticks many many boxes, thanks

Nice to see a simple well meaning appreciation message in the sea of criticisms (that are also necessary) that is this forums. :)

Agreed. Thank you Squenix, Yoshi, and everyone else involved for an enjoyable game!

Now if only they'd rename those Tomes of Soldiery... I kid. I kid. Please don't yell.

I never played FFXI.
FFXIV has a lot to improve.
There's a lot of MMO with better (put here whatever you feel)

but...



Each single time I login and play I thank yoshi-p for this great game.

that's the only important thing.

I don't thank SE for creating the game because they did it solely to make money. They didn't get up one morning and say let's do this so that we can make gamers happy. They looked at how the industry was making huge dollars for minimal input and decided to run with it. Have they done a good job? that depends on who you speak to.

I personally think the graphics are just ok.
Characters are so-so *very limited customisation*.
Can't *mail* communicate unless someone is on your friendlist.
Can't transfer or mail items to other characters on your account.
Can't use the *whisper* function in a dungeon *played a multitude of games where I could and FF is lacking*.
I can play for 10 hours and not speak to another soul, there is nothing social to do.
Fates - a thing of the past because of the lack of new people playing.

Currently I am swapping between a few games while I wait for a new *sandboxie* type of game that is on the horizon. I like playing FFXIV and I will keep coming back to it but it isnt worth getting *gravel rash* or a *brown nose* for.

Sorry to all who think the thread should just be positive but look at it this way now you all have something to scream about and tell me I'm wrong.

Yoshi, we support you!

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Originally Posted by FoxiLady

I don't thank SE for creating the game because they did it solely to make money. They didn't get up one morning and say let's do this so that we can make gamers happy. They looked at how the industry was making huge dollars for minimal input and decided to run with it. though the ultimate goal is to make money, yes, but don't say that to a developer: i doubt such a response would please them

I personally think the graphics are just OK. for an MMO, its much better than most. its not 1.0 level, but ps3 wouldn't be able to handle it effectively (i mean effectively. crystal tools has trouble running on some computers as well.)
Characters are so-so *very limited customization*.this is an MMO, not a single player rpg. if you want to have greater control of your character's appearance, go play a single player rpg
Can't *mail* communicate unless someone is on your friend-list.i prefer it. less spam from RMT, and they don't restrict trading face-to-face.
Can't transfer or mail items to other characters on your account. a disappointment, but i don't see it as a problem. anything i would transfer isn't that hard to acquire.
Can't use the *whisper* function in a dungeon *played a multitude of games where I could and FF is lacking*. agreed. though i do like the lack of a noise heralding someone who wants my money

Fates - a thing of the past because of the lack of new people playing. happens in waves, also depends upon server

Sorry to all who think the thread should just be positive but look at it this way now you all have something to scream about and tell me I'm wrong. you aren't wrong, but like you said, it's all a matter of perspective

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i for one am pleased with the game's direction. i have my gripes, but ehh...no reason to cry over them.

Thanks for all the hard work!

I am happy that you keep on rocking out these awesome patches, although I have been unable to play at all over summer, I can't wait until winter so I can spend some more quality time with the game ^^

(p.s Thanks for the new dance emotes )

Enjoying the game thus far, and am very anticipative for the next major patch update to hit later in the week (which I'll barely be able to get a start on thanks to the ridiculously close deadlines I have on numerous assignments).

Cheers for the experience to date (anyway), SE!

Geez, it's quite sad people really take the time to go out of their way to be a buzz killer.


Oh wait...forgot where I was. Carry on.

Glad to see so many positive notes about ARR. Having been a very active 1.0 player, I was hoping they wouldn't just pull the plug on what could have been a really good game. I put my faith in Yoshi-P, and based on the work done during 1.0 once he took over, looked forward to 2.0. While not perfect (nothing is), Eorzea is now competing in the MMO world the way not many MMOs have been able to to in a very very long time.

This is one Dragoon that is beyond happy to have been a part of the entire transformation. I now proudly lead a Free Company full of great people that I hope to game with for quite some time. Yoshi-P has given us the Final Fantasy playground we wanted, and the future looks ever bright.