Embarrassment when others see me playing Final Fantasy XIV

[Kaedan]

Umm... shouldn't you feel embarrassed to be playing MMOs at all?

I mean, if repetitive actions involving pushing buttons and seeing the same thing over and over again is what you're embarrassed about, then that pretty much defines an MMO.

Damn me for feeding....

[Neptune]

I think it is the worst ever. Three people I wanted to recruit the game were at my house the other night for a little get together. I showed them the game, they all watched me do 1 local leve and no joke ALL THREE said they would never play this game. Its really kinda sad.

Lol ouch. That makes 3 outcasts in this thread. Lol.

[Lahru_Hukurou]

Your post made me laugh, though there is a point somewhere in there. Yeah, I really want synthing to be more enjoyable. I also want the retarded random synth failing to go away. I want to craft in this game, actually take it to higher levels. Which is something that I haven't really done in any of the other mmos that I have played. I don't want to do tons of long boring synths. But, I don't want to be able to do every synth with just a click of one button and then you wait. They can find a good balance of being unique, not taking too long, not being too easy, and being fun.

I don't get on my crafting jobs for long before my hands are aching to grab a spear and go skewer some monsters. It shouldn't be like that.

Really? It bothers you that much that people judge you for playing a game? It honestly doesn't matter that you're playing FFXIV, you're going to have people judging you for playing video games. You could be playing a sports game, Medal of Honor, or whatever and still have people criticize you for spending your time on a game. You might as well stop doing anything the majority of the human population will judge you on. lol wow.

[Shiyo]

I think it is the worst ever. Three people I wanted to recruit to play the game were at my house the other night for a little get together. I showed them the game, they all watched me do 1 local leve and no joke ALL THREE said they would never play this game. Its really kinda sad.

How is it the worst? WOW: Click 1 button, craft x9000, level to the craft cap in like 3 hours. Rift? Same thing. Aion? Takes longer, but you go afk and come back every 5 mins. FF11? Pretty fun, can't level to the cap in 3 hours, not much user interaction. Takes a long time to level to the cap. FF14? Tons of user interaction, LOOONG grind, have to pay lots of attention on hard synths, have to spam 1 button on easy synths.

The system is good, it's just flawed. You should always have to pay attention and the mini-game should be more fun/challenging/change or something idk. They can make it better easily!

I'm not sure it's the "worst ever" when most other MMOs crafting systems are extremely shallow, boring, and take 3 hours to power level to the cap + you're afk the entire time doing it :/

[Evangela]

there's a million people in the world who playing WoW and become fat, stink, 4 eyes, acne

so I'm not ashame playing XIV while I'm still in good shape and have normal lifestyle in real life

[Renshi]

Welcome back dude! Bycicle day was awesome, wasn't it?

If people see me playing Pokèmon they could say in their mind "And you're wasting your freetime in THAT!?" But still, it's motherf*cking Pokèmon! I oughta play that!
Same goes for Final Fantasy XIV. People around me says "Are you going to spend your freetime in that time sink!?" But still, it's motherf*cking Final Fantasy XIV! I oughta play that!

Don't be judged by other people. Do what you think is cool and funny. If you think something is awesome to do and some people tell you to not doing it because this and that, Just do it! You know that'll be fun, and if that'll not be, you'll have gained the experience and never do that again.

I can tell ya, this Crafting and Gathering system really give me the feeling of accomplishment. Think about if it would be like you told: No minigames, just the sake of crafting and gathering. It would be "yay, silver ore. yay, soiled femur" or "yay I crafted a spiked bardiche. yay, I've done a vintage haubergon." Instead with how's implemented now it's like "Man! I've got Silver Ore! A Soiled Femur! DANG!" or "After so many fails I've finally done this R50 Bardiche. Man, I'm So F*cking HARDCORE! You're gonna dress that Haubergon! I've put all my effort and spirit to do that!"
Difference: makes things more funny, awesome and accomplishing.
If you want to drop that system, then you're gonna need at least 1000 thumbs up from every community. I don't think they'll approve the removal of this =)

Don't say that things sucks just because someone is judging the game you're playing! They don't know a F*CK of it!

On a side note, it's just stupid to be embarrassed because of a game, IMO.

[TonyMontana]

How is it the worst? WOW: Click 1 button, craft x9000, level to the craft cap in like 3 hours. Rift? Same thing. Aion? Takes longer, but you go afk and come back every 5 mins. FF11? Pretty fun, can't level to the cap in 3 hours, not much user interaction. FF14? Tons of user interaction, LOOONG grind, have to pay lots of attention on hard synths, have to spam 1 button on easy synths.

The system is good, it's just flawed. You should always have to pay attention and the mini-game should be more fun/challenging/change or something idk. They can make it better easily!

I'm ont sure it's the "worst ever" when most other MMOs crafting systems are extremely shallow, boring, and take 3 hours to power level to the cap + you're afk the entire time doing it :/

I say its the worst because within 5-10 minutes of watching me do 5-7 crafts 3 people who are MMO players decided they would never play this game. I would say thats pretty terrible.

[Shiyo]

Would they rather watch you get up from your chair and go AFK while your char auto-crafts in other mmos? lol Not sure how that's any better...

I do agree it's extremely boring ._. So is gathering, SO IS THE BATTLE SYSTEM THOUGH <______<

[Verecund]

Despite a few added steps and the addition of having to use simple, repetitive logic to determine the ideal action out of a small number of possible actions, it is still pretty boring. Why add more stuff to an inherently boring system if it's still boring in the end? They really should've explored more ideas with this one IMO

[Neptune]

People watch netflix while crafting. I posted about it under Gathering. Serious reality check is needed for crafting.