"Why should I play?" - Your chance to give these boards a positive spin.

With all the negative threads throughout the boards (which is expected with the state of the game) I thought it would be interesting to have at least one thread that was somewhat positive.

If a friend came up to you, asked you why they should play FFXIV, and you absolutely had to give them at least one positive reason or the universe would implode, what would you tell them? Try to go along with this, because this could also be your chance to have the devs find out what you LIKE about the game. Perhaps it is something that will stay through all the changes that are apparently on the horizon.

This thread is not for people to argue about what should/shouldn't be implemented, so please avoid getting into that kind of argument.

For me, I'd explain to my friend that it is one of the only current MMOs that isn't almost a decade old that allows you to progress a SINGLE character with every class, so you don't ever need to reroll an alt. That is the biggest thing this game has going, in my opinion, which is well ahead of many other MMOs right there.

I would not recommend this game. It is not in an enjoyable state yet.

The skin on everything in this game is silky smooth. I would recommend getting that recipe.




also the normal mapping is good

Hmmmm. I wouldn't recommend this game at all and i play almost everyday so i guess /implode!!! This game for me right now is an underdog draft pick with a lot of potential.

The graphics are top-notch. Once they get an enjoyable battle system implemented with flashy battle animations, and a lot more content added this game will be very good!

Meh depends, content wise not much to go on. On the plus side, its free and you can get some of the grinding out of the way as new content is being added in. So the only thing you lose is your time and soul. O.o As a gamer I think that is a fair deal. :O

You only pay 30 dollars, after that you get to play without a monthly fee for the next couple months or even year.

So you get to see the game evolve and improve over time first hand.

Years from now you can tell your grand children how you walked 15 miles to Gridania every day

"well at least its not shadowbane"





no really i just say "for all its faults, party play is pretty fun."

Do you guys even read before posting. If you can't play along just don't post.

I don't play (beats her pc for breaking) But if I sold it to someone (and they had no idea about the game)
My first thing is play this game, it is one of few games heck prob the first mmo to use motion capture in its development. Character movements were done by real people, every action in the game fron a pc/npc was acted out by a person. Much like the movie avatar.

Well. Do you like Final Fantasy? Then play FFXIV.

You're going to get alot of trolls telling you, "game sucks... blahh blahh complain complain..."

Funny thing is. When SE gets the game turned upright and running on all cylinders then the impatient and negative complainers who either didn't play the game or quit too soon will be VERY far behind the people who remained patient and positive.

Your decision: Either devote yourself to a very nice future pay-off OR do the easy thing and give up like a lot of the whiners on these and just about every other FFXIV forum.

I personally love the series. I alos love FFXIV. I have made my decision and I stand by it.

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Originally Posted by AreeyaJaidee

Well. Do you like Final Fantasy? Then play FFXIV.

You're going to get alot of trolls telling you, "game sucks... blahh blahh complain complain..."

Funny thing is. When SE gets the game turned upright and running on all cylinders then the impatient and negative complainers who either didn't play the game or quit too soon will be VERY far behind the people who remained patient and positive.

Your decision: Either devote yourself to a very nice future pay-off OR do the easy thing and give up like a lot of the whiners on these and just about every other FFXIV forum.

I personally love the series. I alos love FFXIV. I have made my decision and I stand by it.

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I have a question, though. What happens if it gets too far and they are unable to turn it around? The game continues to stay F2P and people don't come back, SE loses money and decides to can the whole thing? I wouldn't recommend playing to wait for it to become good... however I notice you said you like the game which is the RIGHT reason to be playing it. I'd never tell someone to play it because one day it might be good.

If you need people to tell you why you should play the game, then you shouldn't be playing the game at all.

They wont shut down Final Fantasy XIV

Reason

It's a number in the final fantasy history you can't have final fantasy 15 without it being a FF14 they can't shut down FFXIV and just make a offline FF14 because that be the dumbest idea. For them to go on with the final fantasy name they have to fix Final fantasy XIV and gain our trust again.

The player base that say FFXIV is lame and it sucks would return and top of that if there still talking about it and still on fansite/this site then they have not 100% quit yet. Stop being a crybaby if you dislike the game give good feedback and shut up we know the game sucks atm just deal with it too they get it fix or go play other game no one making you play ffxiv.

Give FFXIV time.

i will admit, that i dumped FFXIV for the past few months, i was busy w RL, went on vaca to thailand for a week and i got into the Rift beta, so i played w that for a bit and then i came back and restarted my character so i could feel the new game (and it is a vastly different game from launch back in Sept, but it still needs some work) and there was something about FFXIV that i cant describe that made it feel really different from Rift.

Dont get me wrong Rift is a great game (i bought it and play it in Live right now) but FFXIV, as with all FF games i have played, has some quality about them that separates it from other games. And despite FFXIV's failings (which it has) it does still have that same quality buried in there.

That would be what i told somene who asked about the game

plus the graphics r just beautiful...... going from LoL > Rift > FFXIV made my eyes water, opening cutscenes r just amazing

I'd recommend the game, and if they don't like it then that is their problem, but I enjoy it and that is all that matters :)
I love the graphics and the personalized character creation. I played XI, so of course I enjoy the familiarity of XIV. I love the big open spaces of Limsa and Uldah, not necessarily Black Shroud though x.x . I am a big .hack// dork so that is another reason why I love mmos.. lol. I'll defend any type of mmo simply for that reason right there. I know this game has a lot of growing to do, but I am not worried. It has amazing potential and I am sure it will be simply incredible one day! XI was very incomplete at the beginning as well, but no NA's got to see it because it was in Japan for a whole year before we even got it! That fact alone is comforting.

This would depend on my friend.

If they where a Mainstream fan, one who thought wow was the best mmo and the shining example of what a mmo should be I would tell them to stay as far away as possible from FFXIV. I would actully suggest them to try Rift because they would probably really enjoy it.

If they where a FFXI fan I would make these points.

1) The graphics and character animations are unmatched in the mmo world
2) The story is a typical ff storyline
3) You have 1 character and 1 identity. You can do everything at once.
4) The game has a focus on group play (Groups have an advantage over soloing)
5) Although the game is horribly lacking content look at FFXI's past, if they follow in FFXI's footsteps in a year or 2 there will be more content then we will be able to handle.

Atm I cannot see suggesting this to anyone besides a FFXI fan, because chances are they will quit pretty fast in its current condition.

The fact that SE has lost an exorbitant amount of money by cutting the monthly fee for the game until it is of a quality they deem acceptable conveys just how dedicated they are to make this game great. They may have messed up, but I thought they handled it pretty gracefully.

Why it would be enjoyable:

You can do things at your own pace. Don't feel like doing leves this reset? That's fine, you got till next reset to finish them all. No need to worry about daily resets to be on top of maximum income/SP gain possible.

Graphics are stunning. Everything, from weather effects to character shading, is absolutely beautiful.

Storyline is Final Fantasy quality. People say that it sucks? Obviously they haven't played to the higher ranks. Some of the stories are hilarious, while others are bittersweet.

Combat is... different. But then again, hitting keys 1-0 in a set rotation gets old anyways, and it's somewhat of a compromise between XI's style of timing and the frantic pace that you usually get with current MMOs. Granted, it might not be the best, but they're working on it.

I would have to ask what they like first:

Do you like boring ?
Do you enjoy grinding the same monsters for hours on end ?
Do you like to have a cut-scene just for an npc to tell you where to go ?
Do you want to explore an empty world full of copy pasted terrain ?
Do you have fun just smashing the 1 key in every fight ?
But most of all, do you wanna level up to cap level, just to find out there is nothing to do ?

If he says yes to any of those questions, this is HIS GAME!!!

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Originally Posted by Xatsh

1) The graphics and character animations are unmatched in the mmo world

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The only problem with this, is because of such high system requirements, it turns away a lot of potential players. I have a few friends that wanted to play it, either in open beta or retail and tried to get it running on their pc's and couldn't even get past the server lobby because as soon as the game tried to load it would just freeze up. Everything is beautiful, I just wish they could figure out a way to make it more accessible to more people before PS3. There's no real point in having such detail if your pc can't even run the game without you dropping a decent amount of cash into a video card/ram/processor. The rest of your assessment though is pretty spot on.

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Originally Posted by Ostia

I would have to ask what they like first:

Do you like boring ?
Do you enjoy grinding the same monsters for hours on end ?
Do you like to have a cut-scene just for an npc to tell you where to go ?
Do you want to explore an empty world full of copy pasted terrain ?
Do you have fun just smashing the 1 key in every fight ?
But most of all, do you wanna level up to cap level, just to find out there is nothing to do ?

If he says yes to any of those questions, this is HIS GAME!!!

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Um.. what do you expect? It is not real life it is a computer game.... Obviously you have to hit the same key to fight a monster, obviously you have to have a npc tell you where to go otherwize all the people incapable of logging onto a YG would have no idea what to do. Obviously there is a level cap because the game has only been out for 6 months and is still a work in progress....

I'm more or less with the other people here. If you've played FFXI and quit a few years ago but want a reunion with the "good ol' days" then go ahead and play FFXIV. It's basically free at the moment and you can just log on do some stuff and log off without the pressure to advance in any way.

For people who've never played an MMO or not a FF title I'd not recommend the game. The state of the game is "OK" but nowhere from being 100% enjoyable.

I totally freaked out yesterday when I had to run to Mor Dhana (sp?) D: I died here and there but it was a little bit exciting :D There's not much content yet but there's a lot to do actually. People who've stayed are levelling crafts and their desired jobs and once content comes out they're ready to go basically.

I'm not even playing much at the moment. Only 1-2 hours during the week and about 8hours on the weekend I spose. I'm SPing and Ding at a decent rate. It's ok for me. Even if they add new content for LV50 by next week (haha) I'm not going to rush anything. The dedidcation to the game will come but not anytime soon ;P

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Um.. what do you expect? It is not real life it is a computer game.... Obviously you have to hit the same key to fight a monster, obviously you have to have a npc tell you where to go otherwize all the people incapable of logging onto a YG would have no idea what to do. Obviously there is a level cap because the game has only been out for 6 months and is still a work in progress....

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I expect an engaging battle system, not a snore fest, i do not need a scene just for somebody to tell me "Hey go to Y and bring me X" i do expect them implemented in things that meter, like mission quest etc etc. And as for the cap excuse, come on seriously ? Vanilla wow launched with 100 times more content than this game has TODAY, there is no excuse for lack of content at END GAME :) At lower levels sure i can understand, but at END GAME ? Nope!

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Originally Posted by Ostia

I expect an engaging battle system, not a snore fest, i do not need a scene just for somebody to tell me "Hey go to Y and bring me X" i do expect them implemented in things that meter, like mission quest etc etc. And as for the cap excuse, come on seriously ? Vanilla wow launched with 100 times more content than this game has TODAY, there is no excuse for lack of content at END GAME :) At lower levels sure i can understand, but at END GAME ? Nope!

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There is no end game yet, this game has still many more phases it must go through before suitable end game material will emerge. Instead of complaining about it, try to be the best you can be right now so you wont need to work as hard when there is an expansion adding more content, raising level caps, quests, new jobs, etc. etc. If it is too difficult for you then you should probably not be here.

I would say.... The view is very good, but....

Sorry thats all i can think of.

Game is good for a pass time and its hard not to say the negitive about the game as there is alot to fix still.

I personally love the crafting system. It's very diverse, if a bit overwhelming at times, especially compared to other games out there. I'll leave out my negative impressions and just say that despite whatever shortcomings the system has, crafting is a blast.

Also, you can level up your character with crafting alone. I find it awesome that you can be an awesome merchant/trader in this game and still be level capped with everyone else, and that you can actually reach the level cap by doing so.

The quests are very interesting. Not a lot of MMOs out there have quests that are just at, if not a single notch below single player RPG quality. I've only been doing the Gridania one so far, but I'm finding it very fun.

Catgirls.

Monocles.

Macros. <- Seriously. Macros.

I love the Macro system. Obviously, some of this could be negated if they had an auto attack *cough*, but I like being able to script out my commands. When I played FFXI on my PS2, it was a godsend, and even though I'm playing on my computer, it's still very useful. In all honesty, it's not much different from how macros work in other games as well, so I have no idea why people complain (like in WoW, I could make a macro to cast pretty much everything I'd ever need with one button as a Warlock. Of course I had to press that same button more than once because of how they macro system worked, but you can bet your bum I was wishing it was the FFXI system. It's not like this game has PVP anyhow).

The game will become epic.

It's not quite epic yet, but as time goes on and they get the kinks ironed out, and then the console release happens, we'll see an influx of new players to bolster the economy, more content will be out (and a lot of the content in FFXI was pretty awesome).

It's currently free to play (just buy the game). Seriously, if you're on the fence because you don't want a monthly subscription, just hold off on buying something else and buy FFXIV and play it for free. Watch the game change and get better, and then by the time they start asking for money again, you'll be willing to hand it to them. There is no monetary risk from playing the game, so there is no reason not to.

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Originally Posted by Ostia

I would have to ask what they like first:

Do you like boring ?
Do you enjoy grinding the same monsters for hours on end ?
Do you like to have a cut-scene just for an npc to tell you where to go ?
Do you want to explore an empty world full of copy pasted terrain ?
Do you have fun just smashing the 1 key in every fight ?
But most of all, do you wanna level up to cap level, just to find out there is nothing to do ?

If he says yes to any of those questions, this is HIS GAME!!!

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Sounds like you are not very good at playing this game. I never have to hit a single action over and over (not as a thm/mrd/lnc). I have around a dozen actions on my 27 marauder and I use every single one of them, the only one that is not always on cooldown is my siphon mp spell.

If you are not engaging yourself in the story, you should be playing WoW so you can just skip to the end of the quest text to see what you need to do next. The story and cut scenes in this game are 100x better than any other MMO I've played (other than FFXI I suppose).

But yes, the game lacks content which is something that will be fixed in the future.

Your arguments sound like the exact ones every person screamed about the first week of release.

I'm very confused on why a lot of people expect FFXIV to become like other mmos. I would much rather this game struggle right now and hopefully become a game that exceeds even the quality of FFXI. I do not care about how many zones there are in the game with how many quests. It all comes down to the same formula that WoW clones follow. I want a game that cares more about immersion and difficulty through group play, a good combat/class system, and exciting missions to do.