Seriously give the game time?

[whoopeeragon]

60% of the forumers here are over exaggerating xD

I see what you did there....(Y)

Perhaps throwing out the word 'compromise' into this topic will get some kind of response....

[Ruen]

To each their own I suppose

[Greencactaur]

And the thing is its still the same with SE fanboys. They're so blind and can't face reality. They keep saying WoW is a bad game or they don't want this to be a wow clone. Look the thing is and i realize that you will deny it as it is your nature, WoW beats xiv in every possible way. Blizzard doesn't take a month to add a UI change. SE takes a month to add one small UI change like this for example, Mobs will now have red near there name which indicates aggro.

Look guys I want this game to succeed, but with a fanbase like the people in this thread xiv is doomed forever due to the stupidity :P of everyone who disagree's with me. Now I realize you may disagree with me, but once again your just all in denial :P don't worry though it happens to all of us. One day you'll realize that xiv for a 2011 mmo is absolutely dreadful. I mean Rift had a solid launch it started with end game and everything and its amazing. Yet XIV which has been out almost a year can't even release a mount system. If they have trouble releasing something as simple as mounts then wheres the promise they'll be able to actually add content fast enough when the actual end game comes out? Also this is why I think SE should just close xiv and start over. Make a game that looks like Aion and has beautiful terrain. Graphics don't make a game beautiful the terrain and the open world does. WoW looks 1000x better then xiv will anyday.

Anyways Like I was saying if its been 7months and the team still can't add something like mounts how do you expect them to release end game content fast enough for people to enjoy when everyone finishes it? Once again the main problem with the developers making this game was the graphics they had. They pushed it to the limit so now its hard to add new things. They got to scratch it entirely if they want any hope of reviving their name which actually died before 14, but we'll get into that matter another day.

[Ruen]

I'm sure this isn't the first time you've been told this but if WoW is/looks 1000x better go play it. FFXIV has it's issues but I have surprisingly enjoyed myself while playing so far even thought I came in skeptical. So who are you to call anyone else stupid for playing the game.. I doubt people would notice if you just left forever.

[Arcell]

You keep saying it takes them a month to add in 1 small UI change, let's take a look at what we've seen from April:

Roughly 2 dozen sidequests (many company-related).

Adjustments to guild marks rewards.

Party size reduction to 8.

Readjustment of enemy values in regards to this.

Addition of 20 NMs for mid-rank.

Unique items to go with all of them.

Enemy distribution changes.

Addition of aggro and rank icon toggle.

Addition of daily guild tasks.

Various other UI adjustments

Various bug fixes.


Yeah they sure did take months to add a single UI change.

[AdvancedWind]

My best advice to give SE at this point of time would be to completely scratch the game though and have yoshi go play rift hit cap try endgame and do the same with aion and wow. Afterwards take the things from there and notice how 99% of gamers could give a damn about graphics. Make a game that looks like aion, but has a nice fluid combat system. Afterwards do all the things I said above.

Your post was sort of "fine" (as in: HE MAD), till this point where I simply started laughing. Nice job

[Demacia]

Strong SEDF up in this thread. I'd have to browse a radical christian forum to be able to find more crazy talk than I do here. Yes the game does need more time (a lot more time) to become playable, but that's not to say that it's okay for a company like SE to release it in the state that it was and continually show us that they don't really know what they're doing.

[Cendres]

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.

I'm all about the lore too, what's the point of any RPG online or offline if the story is crap? There isn't one, that's one of the major flaw of most MMOs is the lack of a coherent story. There's a story but it does not flow as it does in FF online for most of them.

I love how the new little sidequests actually tie in to the main storyline, like the Gridania lowbie quests where you help out getting ready for the elemental festival dance, and then you actually get to see it happen in the main story. Yay!

[Delsus]

I predict this thread will have 35 replies from people who think they can program or think they know how programming works while disregarding this customer's dissatisfaction which trumps the behind the curtain bs. Everyone has their threshold to tolerate this poo poo game and Greencactuar has finally cracked. Understand that he isn't demanding the impossible but merely asking for a few standard features found in most mmos. Even XI had chocobos at NA launch, ya know?

We're not giving SE time. SE is taking their slow time. Business as usual for them.

You do know FFXI was launched 18 months AFTER the japanese release dont you, I am seeing the FFXI had this at the NA release FFXI had that at NA release, but that was already an 18 month old game which people either forget or never knew.

If you want to compare FFXIV to FFXI it needs to be the Japanese release not the NA release.

I disagree with the OP in most of his rant, the game has made alot of progress in the time it has been out, but SE do need to work faster.

If anyone reads the letters from the producer what you will know is they are basicly rebuilding a game they already spent 5 years to make which takes time.

I do agree however that they could do with going a bit faster, or atleast post an update on where they are in the production of the large scale changes that has been announced in Yoshi-P's letters

[Cendres]

Look guys I want this game to succeed, but with a fanbase like the people in this thread xiv is doomed forever due to the stupidity :P

No you don't want it to succeed you want it to copy and mold itself to something many of us don't want to play. You want Rift? Go play it, PLEASE. You are calling us stupid? For what? Supporting the game we love and actually making helpful suggestions to see the game grow become stable and bring in profit? Are you deluded enough to think your OP is actually of ANY help at all to this cause? Really?

Antagonize the community instead of building it up, go ahead and destroy what you say you care about, YES that will surely help the game!! Please.

You mention Aion. Were you there at launch? Did you see all the players mass leave the game when the servers were unstable as all crap? Were you? Because I was, the game was UNPLAYABLE for me and I quit then and never went back. You mention all these other games like they are models to be upheld, they have their own issues and it's not because some of them have a following of sheep that FFXIV should be the same lukewarm package.

You care about the game seek out existing threads and make actual constructive suggestion instead of this utter diatribe please that will help the game not this utter troll nonsense. It's also pissing me off your type inspires this type of posts from me.. ><

Good day!