Gold Saucer feedback

This is just general and personal feedback. So please understand that this does not reflect the views of anyone else but myself.

So far Ive run around and tackled various "mini-games". In otherwords, Moogle's Paw, Cuff-a-Cur, etc. I feel that the cost vs reward for these mini games (in relation to the prizes available from vendors) makes them pretty pointless. They're nothing more than a waste of time or something to do while you wait for DF. I feel that the rewards from these mini games should probably be doubled while leaving the cost to play them where its currently at.

Triple Triad is fun, but I find myself very confused by it. The tutorial has not explained anything other than matching a higher number against your opponent. So when I started getting plus's and combos done to me I grew increasingly confused. What is a plus? How do I combo? None of this is explained in the tutorial.

Chocobo racing's tutorial left me quite dissatisfied. The initial tutorial race felt clunky and as if the controls would take several seconds to register I'd pressed them (or depressed them). It left me wishing it had more adaptive controls. I was expecting something more along the lines of"mario-kart" considering the game design, but it fell flat entirely thanks to the clunky controls. Which left me greatly disappointed as I was really looking forward to it.

After getting immensely frustrated by Triple Triad and not understanding what the heck plus meant, I decided to go try one of the GATE's. The timer said it had 3mins remaining so I payed my 50MGP only to see the GATE end seconds later (before I even had a chance to participate, effectively wasting 50MGP. That irritated me even further and prompted me to start this thread.

Now this is only my initial impressions. But I really feel some improvements and adjustments are desperately needed. More tutorials for Triple Triad would be great. Not everyone has played triple triad so it can be very confusing.

Just my thoughts, other players who have played the card game back in FF8 might not think so.

The only thing I've actually had fun with so far was choosing my "lotto" numbers and doing the mini-cactpot draw. (even though I lost 20MGP because I misunderstood the tutorial text)

Everything you ever wanted to know about Triple Triad was in the patch notes. Please scroll down and read them:
http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...2ec4fa99fee568

I thought the GATES were fun and the Chocobo Racing stuff was quite fun. I can agree on the mini games. I hope they add more later as 5 in my opinion is pretty bare bones for what they are. I hope later on for more GATES too.

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Originally Posted by Elusana_Celah

Everything you ever wanted to know about Triple Triad was in the patch notes. Please scroll down and read them:
http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...2ec4fa99fee568

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How many people actually read patch notes though? I love it when people ask in shout about something on patch day, then get mad when I reply that it was in the patch notes.

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Originally Posted by Sithgear75

How many people actually read patch notes though? I love it when people ask in shout about something on patch day, then get mad when I reply that it was in the patch notes.

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I can't be the only one who gets REALLY excited on patch day and mulls through all the notes eagerly reading the details? Sad E'lusana is sad.

To be fair, even if you read the descriptions it doesn't make a whole lot of sense until you put it into practice. Some of those can be rather confusing no matter how much you re-read them.

I wish they would let you ride the ferris wheel. =/

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Originally Posted by Lemuria

To be fair, even if you read the descriptions it doesn't make a whole lot of sense until you put it into practice. Some of those can be rather confusing no matter how much you re-read them.

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I still can't understand the plus rule after reading it and trying it out lol.

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Originally Posted by Elusana_Celah

I still can't understand the plus rule after reading it and trying it out lol.

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http://a-realm-reblog.com/arrtt/how-to-play

This helped me figure it out a bit better today. Has pictures and whatnot to try to show you.

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Originally Posted by Sithgear75

How many people actually read patch notes though? I love it when people ask in shout about something on patch day, then get mad when I reply that it was in the patch notes.

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I did... During the five hour downtime lol

My only real complaint is to the GATE similar to the Easter event from last year. The NPC's you need to avoid are invisible until you're too close to them, thus failing the GATE (their view priority needs to be at the top, like S ranks and NM's in FATE's).

I LOVED IT! I love all of it! Triple Triad, I had no idea what I was doing and got my bum handed to me more than once. Still loved it. Got challenged, expected to lose... Won. Loved it even more.

I do have one complaint, chocobo racing will most assuredly result in the divorce between my husband and I. Bastard will be sleeping in the FC house tonight!