Open Beta player looking to return.

As the title says, I played this game in Open Beta. Many things weren't up to scratch for me, building up into one huge let down, and that's me being as reserved as I can. Basically I liked nothing about it, besides the fantastic visuals. It's been some time since then and my thoughts came back to this game.

I'm wondering if any of you fine folks in the community could clue me in on any changes that have happened to this game since then? Has it improved a lot? Will it improve? Also, is it possible to make a character and acquire an outfit that makes me look like a black mage (love vivi from FF9, hehe)?

Thanks in advance for your time to those that respond.

They remaking the game adding auto attack, maybe adding jump remaking the class system taking a few thing away and they thinking of two system

Tree base system One of the following class can become one of the 1-? set of class one of them could be black mage or white mage if you level conjurer. They said it wont be like wow tree system but something new

Or

More like a flyff system you level up conurer to max whatever rank they set and you can unlock the follow job White mage or Black mage by doing a quest line. You can alway go and unlock white mage also so you wont be lock only to black mage.

For me i like the 2# system more it give us more of a feel like ffxi and also give us more storyline and they can add AF looking gear like in FFXI.

Firstly, there is a forum for "new players". If you want to ask questions in the future, try to make threads there instead :D.

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I'm wondering if any of you fine folks in the community could clue me in on any changes that have happened to this game since then? Has it improved a lot? Will it improve?

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Alright, here's the thing. The game was released in September, but after the first major patches the management team changed, and a lot of people from other projects were reassigned to work on the game. In addition to this, the development process was restarted. The whole process took probably a month or so.

So, fast forward to this day the new development team has been working on the game since January-February. Their main objective at this point in time is to rehaul existing game mechanics and get them up-to-standard. As you could guess, developing these kind of rehauls is a time consuming process, and since the new development structure and plans have only been in place for a few months, the rehauls have not been completed nor implemented as of yet.

So to answer your questions- to this day the game has changed but not by much. The biggest changes are probably the change of development pace (from tri-monthly patches to monthly patches), the addition of the forums and the increased speed of progression. Now, "will it improve"? It has been roughly 2-3 months since the development on the rehauls started, so that means few things:

A) The rehauls will be either completed or partially completed very soon, and can be implemented to the game. That means the next few months will definitely be interesting and pretty much determine whether this game has a chance at this point.

B) The game will look like a construction yard until the rehauls are complete and polished, so it'll take them until the end of the year to finish, probably.

If you want to join in now, well, you will be entertained by the substantial patches but the game will most likely still not be good enough by a mile. What you could do is go check the forums from time to time and see what the patch notes say, and what the community reaction is.

As far as the rehauls, the combat system is getting a rehaul, as well as the class system. Auction House is on the way, as well as a Jumping feature and a "Company" feature which no one knows anything about. Implementing those either completely or partially is the plan for the Spring.

Along with the class system rehaul, the producer has released this picture for the upcoming class-specific equipment:

http://static.finalfantasyxiv.com/to...d05abbe05968ef

Nothing has changed, just empty promises for now.

The phase "All show and no go" springs to mind when trying to think of a way to best describe FFXIV in it's current state. It all looks very nice but still needs a lot of work.

My advise? Come back in a few months.

If you honestly didn't like anything that was in the game I wouldn't even try it until the PS3 version is released.

To the OP, if i was you I would wait another 3 months or so and then try coming back, right now the game is much better than it was in beta but still not up to stratch.

I agree with the others. If you had a miserable time with the game during beta, you won't find much here now either that will change your opinion of the game. FFXIV is still very much a work in progress.

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Originally Posted by RoyalJester

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I honestly believe so!

Don't listen to the ignorant trolls and just come back and play in about 2 to 3 months time when we have some mid to end game content. So that when you cap out your class level you will have stuff to do.(I'm not pointing any fingers either just saying that in general)

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Originally Posted by Dargoth_Draconia

Don't listen to the ignorant trolls

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... let the fight begin:

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FIGHT!

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I'm wondering if any of you fine folks in the community could clue me in on any changes that have happened to this game since then? Has it improved a lot?

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Short answer:

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Originally Posted by Sinzfeldt

Nothing has changed

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Long answer:
Leveling is way easier if you know how to group for guildleves and how to keep the good leves around.
Searching the market wards doesn't make you want to kill yourself anymore.
Items don't get damaged so fast if you wear the right gear for your class and rank.

It still doesn't have a monthly fee, can always give it a try yourself and decide.

If you can find one of the previous Letters from the Producer topics on the Lodestone, you can see there's plans down for trying to get in some class specific gear (they have an outline for black mage), but they're trying to figure out first how they want to implement the new class system when it comes to traditional jobs. Otherwise most gear looks similar to one another at this point, but there are robes you can at least equip.

Edit note: Here's the topic http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com...449d1b7c37eb49

You mentioned you were in beta, but did you get the actual game? If you don't have the game, it's out for decently cheap in stores and it's free to play until an undetermined date. But at the same time, I would wait on playing if you're looking for content. My play times mostly consist of just getting on for leves atm for an idea, and I rarely grind outside of that.

I'd at least wait to see what the next content patches better detail, they're supposed to start up some changes to get ready for instanced combat zones and such. Right now we don't know anything else besides "zomg! bigger fireballs!" and the Easter event.

Since you haven't play since open beta here's a list of all the changes i can think of.

-Less ui lag, very noticeable when buying/selling stuff.
- Addition of inventory sorting and increase of the size of the stack for almost every item.
- Addition of a few monsters(like mite and scorpion)
- Increase of the number of monster on the field
- Introduction of a few NMs(some on the field, some in faction leves)
- You can adjust the guildleves difficulty now.(No need to fail it it's too difficult now)
- Changes in the sp system. (Basicaly party vs difficult monster isn't the way to go now, it's linking guildleves or soloing weak monsters of your rank)
- Market wards got a few changes too. Now the wards have names that are suppose to reflect the items you'll find in and more importantly there's a search feature now.
- Addition of crtl+r for quick reply and ctrl+t for tell. However you'll have to type <t> after ctrl+t to send a tell to the character your are targeting.
- Addition of quests(not many and kind of bland for now).

That's all i can think of right now. As you can see, there's not a lot more content than before, however they did fix some annoying parts of the game like the lack of shortcut for reply and the ui lag.

http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com...tegory?catId=4

All the patch notes.

Much more effective to see for yourself than coming to a troll-saturated environment will people going as far as denying the evident fact that the game has changed quite a lot since release.

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Originally Posted by Abriael

http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com...tegory?catId=4

All the patch notes.

Much more effective to see for yourself than coming to a troll-saturated environment will people going as far as denying the evident fact that the game has changed quite a lot since release.

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I sometimes wonder if these same people(if they could) would go back to how FFXIV was before the changes. If not then that means the changes were significant enough.

to the OP: If you are expecting some major content then give it about another 2 months. As Abriael wrote check the patch notes and judge for yourself.

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Originally Posted by RoyalJester

As the title says, I played this game in Open Beta. Many things weren't up to scratch for me, building up into one huge let down, and that's me being as reserved as I can. Basically I liked nothing about it, besides the fantastic visuals. It's been some time since then and my thoughts came back to this game.

I'm wondering if any of you fine folks in the community could clue me in on any changes that have happened to this game since then? Has it improved a lot? Will it improve? Also, is it possible to make a character and acquire an outfit that makes me look like a black mage (love vivi from FF9, hehe)?

Thanks in advance for your time to those that respond.

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Well plain and simple if you did not like Open Beta aside from a few UI changes you probably wont like the game now. Not a lot has changed. There are or should be 2 major updates coming down in April and May which I recommend you keep an eye on. If those patches fail then I cannot see a lot of people staying.

1.17 should be introducing Companies and more Quests/Missions
1.17a Should be the first of the major battle changes
1.18 Will be the last of the battle changes, More Missions/Quests, and the introduction of our first Endgame Dungeon

At least that is what I took out of the producer letters.

As for gear yes you can make your character look similar to Vivi using Velveteen Gear, but in all honesty the game is not that bad. As a Mage a lot of people say it is broken but it does not appear as bad as it seems, I am able to Nuke for over 1700 when using the proper regiments.

A vast majority of the problem is the player base not wanting or knowing how to figure certain things out in game. I am one of the minority tho that actually does enjoy the combat system and other things currently in game.

Since there are still a lot of changes being worked on, I would personally advise waiting. But, as Abriael said, it's best to draw your own conclusions.

Besides the patch notes Abriael provided, I would look at the Producer letters. They deal more with the future of the game.

Letter from the producer I
http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com...98e4034b898102

Letter from the producer II
http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com...15f82184c907bc

Letter from the producer III
http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com...bbc24abc29469f

Letter from the producer IV
http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com...449d1b7c37eb49

Letter from the producer V
http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com...16083b634f7678

Letters VI & VII
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/forums/137

Also, I'd look at this interview.
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/featur...y_xiv_the_.php

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Originally Posted by Aramil

- Changes in the sp system. (Basicaly party vs difficult monster isn't the way to go now, it's linking guildleves or soloing weak monsters of your rank)
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Gona just comment on this because your comment about the current sp is completely wrong. Especially with the cobyln nerf soloing is just brutal post 25 now.

In general partying on Non-Leve mobs will result in about 30-40% more sp/hr then soloing with ease with some camps breaking 20k/hr. (such as the nine-Ives eft camp rank 30-35 with a 6-7 person party), or the Puks in nanawa 20-24 in a group of 6 where you get 200sp a kill and kill a mob every 15-20secs. Both those camps will break 20k/hr easy in a group.

Soloing you will be lucky to break 12k/hr at mid level.

Solo Grinding is the absolute worst way to level.

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Originally Posted by Dargoth_Draconia

Don't listen to the ignorant trolls and just come back and play in about 2 to 3 months time when we have some mid to end game content.

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lol remember when ppl were saying that 6 months ago?

lol @ belgian.

OP, instead of me saying a bunch of random stuff why don't you tell me what you didn't like and what you WOULD like and I'll base what I say off that. Also, yes you can look like a black mage XD

..but your elemental magic looks like a web flash game instead of something cool :(