Seriously give the game time?

[Gramul]

5 months is not a short period of time in the MMO Industry...... Just look at WOW, released cata later than FFXIV, just released a content patch.

WoW doesn't have to recreate a game from the ground up.
WoW didn't have to deal with an earthquake.
WoW's graphical detail isn't as complex or taxing as XIV's.
WoW is specifically for the PC while XIV has to keep the PS3 in mind.
WoW has had 5-6 months from cata release and where probably planning the content release for a long time, Yoshi has had 3-4 months to completley re-structure the game.
WoW has a lot more room for freedom of development due to it's high popularity.
WoW bleh blee bloo blah blah.

[Xatsh]

Things coming up in FFXIV in the next few updates

1) More Side Quest
2) More Guild Task
3) More Nms
4) Companys
5) Whole new battle system

That there looks like a content update me, so we are on month 4 now of FFXIV (people say it came out in sept all they want but it is a new team taking the game in a new direction). As other said Cata is in month 6, ffxiv under Yoshi-P is in month 4 and from the looks of the steam we are picking up on companys and the lore stuff they are adding the big updates should not be far off.

Thing they confirmed they are working on but have no time line yet:

1) New Zones
2) Instances
3) Dungeons
4) Quest
5) Armory System Changes
6) Class Changes

All in all if you cannot wait, then quit. Atm the last thing square needs to do is rush out garbage... enough mmos out there that do it already.

[Elexia]

WoW doesn't have to recreate a game from the ground up.
WoW didn't have to deal with an earthquake.
WoW's graphical detail isn't as complex or taxing as XIV's.
WoW is specifically for the PC while XIV has to keep the PS3 in mind.
WoW has had 5-6 months from cata release and where probably planning the content release for a long time, Yoshi has had 3-4 months to completley re-structure the game.
WoW has a lot more room for freedom of development due to it's high popularity.
WoW bleh blee bloo blah blah.

Ostia is just trolling on every forum they post on, I mean not troll..since even trolls know the difference between a 2004 established MMORPG and a 2010 rushed MMO in the process of redesigning.

[kanjitai]

I want them to not rush the PS3 release. If they need a year or two to get things in order then by all means. I hope the higher ups learned from the rushed PC release and wait til it's ready.

[Gramul]

In that case I'll just put him on the ignore list.

[BruceyBruceyBangBang]

All of you miss my point :x its inevitable though. You guys are blind to the reality of things :X. Yoshi p taking a whole month to add something as simple as UI changes and you think the game can be fixed at this rate? :P well then good luck ^^.

Again, the problem with people like you is that you don't understand development. It takes time.. a lot of time. The way MMOs combat this is while they've launched a game their plans for development and implementing future content is being worked on. So, let's say a new MMO launches, and 5-6 months after that you get an instanced dungeon. That was already being worked on since the game went active.

FFXIV does not have this luxury. Instead of having content and systems being worked on since it's very pitiful launch, it started a lot later when the new team was put together, mostly.

If you understand even the basics of development you would actually be impressed at the rate they are going. Clearly, your extreme opinion is born out of ignorance, but that is fine. One less loud mouthed minority rage quitting who hasn't the slightest clue on how well they are doing under the circumstances.

[zaviermhigo]

Yeah I just can't understand how people don't see, them talking about adding companies and a new battle system in 1.18 and 1.19 is fast for a natural disaster which effected their area and gave them rolling black outs (self imposed but still this is real!), and even before that they dealt with a complete team overhaul where even if you weren't let go from the team you still were given a new job with a new task and you on top of that they had to sort out what the previous team was doing before they can even begin to change anything. If you can't see their speed in having to deal with this, you should see you can't compare this to an mmo that has a stable work environment with a stable team of developers.

[Kilta_Firelotus]

not to mention summer in japan is nasty. so id expect small shut downs so the workers can have ac on ocassion. A news thing said japan should be back to normal by novembe or december. Least if stuff goes well. Oh and wow cata was announced basicaly welk wrath was 6 mths or something. so they was working on it for a while.

[Nikki]

Speak for yourself, I like the lore.

Content takes time to create, something you clearly know nothing about. If you don't like the game then go find a game you actually do like, that's honestly more constructive than your entire post.

Worst advice you can give at the moment. A lot of players have already left; what makes you think you are being constructive at all? i am sure SE disagrees with you and they would want more players to play the game and not less. Typical fanboy reactions.

[Corrderio]

Worst advice you can give at the moment. A lot of players have already left; what makes you think you are being constructive at all? i am sure SE disagrees with you and they would want more players to play the game and not less. Typical fanboy reactions.

Then what do you expect the whiners to do? Stay here and keep flooding the forums with useless posts with stuff they have no knowledge and/or control over?