I love Heavensward

The story, the setting, the larger lands, everything. It kinda has that Lord of the Rings vibe. I hope Yoshi P and his team get some kind of award because Heavensward is fantastic. :D

Great stuff for those of us who can actually access the game.

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Originally Posted by Imoye

Great stuff for those of us who can actually access the game.

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You can access the game, you just have to play it. Where people come across that they should be able to skip an entire disks's worth of content because they like Disk 2 better only rings as entitlement for me.

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You can access the game, you just have to play it. Where people come across that they should be able to skip an entire disks's worth of content because they like Disk 2 better only rings as entitlement for me.

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I was referring to people not receiving their HW copy in time (which is entirely SE's fault) and are locked out of their characters and SE hasn't even made an official response. If that is how they treat their customers they don't deserve any fat credz.

it's amazing, i like it better than the entire first half of the game before going to Ishgard.

Same. I'm really enjoying the new zones and open world mobs now.

Yes I agree with you this is horrible, that people who paid all of that money can't play the game. I didn't buy the physical copy because that's too much money imo for a game but they need to do something for you guys.

Anyways yea I really love this game. My favourite part is the new instances. They really make me feel apart of the story now.

Is there a mass of people that did not get the Physical Collector's in time? I did not know that was an issue...I have heard of one or two here and there in the forums but had no idea it was this bad. I got mine on the 23rd...think I did the faster shipping though. What I don't get is if you are suppose to have the game by the 23rd the faster shipping should not do anything. I feel so bad for those of you that got jacked on that...they should be able to give you some kind of code until you get yours finally.

For those complaining about gating content, its a blessing for those who put the time in because no more gil sellers.

Justified imo.

I LOVE it SO MUCH! I'm having a blast. Super happy about pretty much everything. Only thing that gets me down a bit is reading threads (here and other forums) complaining about how MCH, DRK and AST are weak. :c

I know this happened to at least one person in my fc that lives in Canada. It got turned around because of customs I think

The people who have 100% fully justified reasons to gripe: Pre-ordered their copies and they got caught in customs and they got unfairly locked out. I really feel for you guys, that was totally cruel to not expand the early access codes to cover until your real codes arrived. One week was not long enough at all.

People griping over level gating, story gating, etc: The way HW is written, you frankly can't appreciate it until you've gone through all of ARR first. Stuff happens in HW that requires the 2.5 quests as they are written to have occurred. It's not so much an expansion as it is a sequel. ARR was designed in such a way that you didn't have to play 1.0 to pick it up - HW was not.

With that said, 3.0 is an emotional roller coaster and even though people spoiled me I didn't want to believe the spoilers until they happened because it was so sad. I'm at 59 now and I can't wait to see what the last few dungeons all have in store.

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With that said, 3.0 is an emotional roller coaster and even though people spoiled me I didn't want to believe the spoilers until they happened because it was so sad. I'm at 59 now and I can't wait to see what the last few dungeons all have in store.

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I legit cried at the end of the story.

Really it gets sad :( I'm only 54 I don't want go on an emotional roller coaster

I agree, there were many times were I teared up :(

It was an amazing journey. They did say it will be darker and with more shades of gray and it did live up to in in my opinion. Whereas 2.0 was a fairly typical hero story with feel good victories, 3.0 was different. Hard to explain, but the victories were just that: victories. Didn't necessarily feel happy about some of them and a feeling of disillusionment and resentment stuck with me throughout.

The story has defiantly improved. I don't know how they manage to fit so much content in such little time with the patches going on left and right.

I've heard of people who ordered the physical copy of the game and have issues once it reaches the borders between the US & Canada. Sadly, that's something that's out of SE's hands and is in the hands of the shipping company and (possibly) customs.

I haven't been able to play for the past week so far. Been getting chronic headaches that are not "migraine level" but cutting on my time to play FF XIV. But, otherwise, I have enjoyed the expansion so far.

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I agree, there were many times were I teared up :(

It was an amazing journey. They did say it will be darker and with more shades of gray and it did live up to in in my opinion. Whereas 2.0 was a fairly typical hero story with feel good victories, 3.0 was different. Hard to explain, but the victories were just that: victories. Didn't necessarily feel happy about some of them and a feeling of disillusionment and resentment stuck with me throughout.

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I hated 2.x storyline. Tried to get into it so many times and always ended up annoyed and bored, esc'ing through cutscenes. Honestly was expecting to hate 3.0 story... but damn it was good. At the end, while reflecting on everything that happened in the 3.0 story, everything I felt during it hit me all at once and I lost it(cried). Now I can't wait for more. I think the devs really stepped up their game when it comes to the story.

Agreed OP! I'm not very far into it yet, but I'm loving this new voiceover introduction for new areas and the mix of solo-duties with the traditional dungeons I know are coming. The new map designs are interesting too. Ishgard is just plain gorgeous.

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I agree, there were many times were I teared up :(

It was an amazing journey. They did say it will be darker and with more shades of gray and it did live up to in in my opinion. Whereas 2.0 was a fairly typical hero story with feel good victories, 3.0 was different. Hard to explain, but the victories were just that: victories. Didn't necessarily feel happy about some of them and a feeling of disillusionment and resentment stuck with me throughout.

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Which will make revenge all the more sweet >=)

I don't know what has happened over st SE but I haven't had an experience like

I agree. Heavensward is by far the best expansion to ever grace an MMO. It's a masterpiece. I bet it gets slammed by critics and other sources. One source I saw gave it an 8/10, which was the same ARR got, yet it's much improved on so many levels. One source even gave a 5/10. Heavensward deserves far better scores and praise than that. I got emotional after finishing the story because it was just that well done. I had to take a moment to reflect on just the sheer amount of effort and detail that went into the expansion. It boggles the mind. I literally felt like I wanted to write a personal letter to Yoshi and team thanking them for the experience and giving praise. The voicing they added for almost everything, including bosses, really made things feel more epic. The better designed zones, which included so many details that just put other MMO zones to shame. Even the basic pre-60 gear was better designed. The music was incredible. The story writing, and even 'some' of the side quests, were all well written and much improved from ARR. Flying was done the right way to increase exploration, while also preventing people from skipping threats and exploration just to fly over everything from the start.

You guys are making me want to get to the end so badly but I don't get much gaming time like I use t. :(

:confused: how in Seven Hells can the END of the STORY be reached before even a week has passed since release???? The end of the story to date maybe, but the END period...riggghhht

I don't doubt lots of you mad rushing maniacs have got the the end of current story, but no way could the absolute END be here yet.

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:confused: how in Seven Hells can the END of the STORY be reached before even a week has passed since release???? The end of the story to date maybe, but the END period...riggghhht

I don't doubt lots of you mad rushing maniacs have got the the end of current story, but no way could the absolute END be here yet.

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Yes, everyone who posted that they got to the end mean the end of the current story. :)

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:confused: how in Seven Hells can the END of the STORY be reached before even a week has passed since release???? The end of the story to date maybe, but the END period...riggghhht

I don't doubt lots of you mad rushing maniacs have got the the end of current story, but no way could the absolute END be here yet.

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I'm pretty sure most of us know the story continues just the same as it did in the 2.X series. By 'finishing' or 'end' it means the 2.0 part. As for rushing, people that rushed it got to level 60 and finished story by the end of day 2 of early access, as for myself I did not rush and finished last night. I actually read ALL of the dialogue from every side quest and story quest, and did not skip anything. I even did the daily hunts and some sightseeing log.

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I agree. Heavensward is by far the best expansion to ever grace an MMO. It's a masterpiece. I bet it gets slammed by critics and other sources. One source I saw gave it an 8/10, which was the same ARR got, yet it's much improved on so many levels. One source even gave a 5/10.

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Well, the credibility of most sites these days is more or less non-existant. Same people giving WoD top scores when it's actually a beyond terrible expansion, but truly good games get bad scores.

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Well, the credibility of most sites these days is more or less non-existant. Same people giving WoD top scores when it's actually a beyond terrible expansion, but truly good games get bad scores.

Paid and sponsored.

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this is 100% true

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Well, the credibility of most sites these days is more or less non-existant. Same people giving WoD top scores when it's actually a beyond terrible expansion, but truly good games get bad scores.

Paid and sponsored.

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Some guy joined my FC and said he had to rate and write up a report about heavensward. He also said in order to do that he'd have to rush through all the content as fast as possible because the report was due in a week. He had just resubbed and was ilv115 or something and was struggling to get through basic quests. He quit the FC wthout saying a word after two days. Made me second guess reading those sort of things...

I honestly thought I wasn't going to make it. Life events were a bit much not allowing me to play much but I bit the bullet and finished off 2.0, finally. Figured I don't really buy games that much and my sub isn't up till November (just in time for Fallout 4). So why not just get it and keep pressing on. I'm glad I did, been having fun since. My only sadness comes looking at my Relic, only at the Light phase but it looks as if there will be no need to finish it off. At 52 the weapons available will surpass it, oh well. Have to just wait till the next Relic.

There are some things I really dislike. Some things I hate.
But they made my favourite job summoner so cool with the new spells and soon i can start getting the beautiful AF gear. That alone made the game so so awesome. I also love the new dungeons so far. (Except the library, the gear in there doesnt fit my character at all)

Oh oh and my alt is now a beautiful Au Ra machinist and im loving that too