Seriously give the game time?

[gifthorse]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UEc5...layer_embedded

This game has multiple mounts. You can build your houses anywhere. You can build castles. You can seige castles. There are hundreds of quests. You can swim, climb, jump, and even swing with ropes. Magic animations don't look like crap. There are instanced dungeons. You can build your own ships. You can sail your own ships. There are no zone lines. You can sail to new areas. You can ride pillion on other people's mounts. There is mounted combat.

And it's still in beta...

It's pretty typical that MMOs today have a similar amount of features during beta. FFXIV released in an alpha state, and it will never be able to compete with upcoming MMOs at the rate it's releasing content. SE needs to invest way more manpower if it wants to stand a chance.

[Seirra_Lanzce]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UEc5...layer_embedded

This game has multiple mounts. You can build your houses anywhere. You can build castles. You can seige castles. There are hundreds of quests. You can swim, climb, jump, and even swing with ropes. Magic animations don't look like crap. There are instanced dungeons. You can build your own ships. You can sail your own ships. There are no zone lines. You can sail to new areas. You can ride pillion on other people's mounts. There is mounted combat.

And it's still in beta...

It's pretty typical that MMOs today have a similar amount of features during beta. FFXIV released in an alpha state, and it will never be able to compete with upcoming MMOs at the rate it's releasing content. SE needs to invest way more manpower if it wants to stand a chance.

I Have to agree with this.

[Gramul]

That's why I encourage SE to do something different with this game.

[gifthorse]

They need to make bold design choices and they need to put a lot more funding behind them, otherwise they will fail. Maybe it won't happen overnight, but it there will be a gradual decline as TERA, GW2, and ArcheAge hit the shelf, all of which offer more than FFXIV has so far delivered (and also promised).

SE makes it look like they're moving mountains just to implement an Instanced Dungeon or a new NM that isn't just a reskin of an old monster. Other upcoming MMOs have multiple dungeons, multiple zones, and multiple boss monsters purely because they recognise what is expected from customers and also what is required to make it against competitors. If FFXIV wasn't veiled in so much Final Fantasy nostalgia and graphical prowess, nobody would play it. And nobody will continue to play it if that's all it offers.

An instanced dungeon every ten months and a new NM just as often is so not guying to fly.

Greencactuar has a point.

[Echo]

18 pages of people feeding a troll? Come on guys, report it and move on.

[Mega]

18 pages of people feeding a troll? Come on guys, report it and move on.

Then stop bumping it by posting. And go change your settings to display 40 posts per page.
18 pages? So inefficient..

[Greencactaur]

I think you guys are failing to understand. I'm not a troll all I'm saying is If SE doesn't employ more people updates are going to come way to slowly for the game to be fixed. If they're having trouble adding mounts with the time they've been given then how do you expect them to release future content and small stuff like mounts player housing etc. When games like Wow releases mounts almost every patch and new achivements etc. Not only wow, but much like gifthorse said look at all that and its in beta. Look at rift which had a solid release and had 2million subscribers a week after its release and at this time it has like 2.5million. I realize you guys don't want wow and thats FINE no one is saying this game is going to be like Wow I'm just saying take the good stuff from other mmo's and implement them. I realize development takes time, but development shouldn't take 7 months for a few ui changes.

[Gramul]

I think you guys are failing to understand. I'm not a troll all I'm saying is If SE doesn't employ more people updates are going to come way to slowly for the game to be fixed. If they're having trouble adding mounts with the time they've been given then how do you expect them to release future content and small stuff like mounts player housing etc. When games like Wow releases mounts almost every patch and new achivements etc. Not only wow, but much like gifthorse said look at all that and its in beta. Look at rift which had a solid release and had 2million subscribers a week after its release and at this time it has like 2.5million. I realize you guys don't want wow and thats FINE no one is saying this game is going to be like Wow I'm just saying take the good stuff from other mmo's and implement them. I realize development takes time, but development shouldn't take 7 months for a few ui changes.

Thank you for making an honest and mature post. But you shouldn't worry about the mounts, because they aren't high priority for Square, because they aren't high priority for the players. When Square fixes the old content, they can start developing the new content, and when they do, it will be easier to add new features and options into that content. For example, ever sense sidequest have been implemented, we've been getting them every update.

[Reika]

Then stop bumping it by posting. And go change your settings to display 40 posts per page.
18 pages? So inefficient..

OMG you can do that?!

[DurtiMonkeyToe]

I think you guys are failing to understand. I'm not a troll all I'm saying is If SE doesn't employ more people updates are going to come way to slowly for the game to be fixed. If they're having trouble adding mounts with the time they've been given then how do you expect them to release future content and small stuff like mounts player housing etc. When games like Wow releases mounts almost every patch and new achivements etc. Not only wow, but much like gifthorse said look at all that and its in beta. Look at rift which had a solid release and had 2million subscribers a week after its release and at this time it has like 2.5million. I realize you guys don't want wow and thats FINE no one is saying this game is going to be like Wow I'm just saying take the good stuff from other mmo's and implement them. I realize development takes time, but development shouldn't take 7 months for a few ui changes.

It's you who is failing to understand. I understand that the community is frustrated with the state of the thing, but it's not as simple as just, "Wah! Put mounts in! We demand it." You are overlooking some FUNDAMENTAL and UNQUESTIONABLE facts in your assumptions and that is why you are being perceived as a troll.

1. IT HASN'T BEEN 7 MONTHS

This is a favored statistic amongst trolls. "Wha?! You've had 5 years of development and 7 months since launch!" This is BS. Everyone knows or SHOULD know that the CURRENT dev team has only been on since Jan 1. Does that excuse the state of the game? No. But there are other issues at play here as well.

2. NOTHING HAS BEEN DONE

Also another favored saying amongst trolls. "The stuff they have done isn't enough!" We've had way more than just 'UI Fixes' since Jan. Period. And hiring more people won't help when the dev team is focusing on other priorities.

3. IT IS EASY TO IMPLEMENT

You have no possible way of knowing that. Yes they may have part of these transportation systems in place but we have no idea what the current state is of the entire system. The current Dev team has BIGGER priorities. Not only have they accomplished what they have in 3 months (Subtracting one for the disaster), they are also REDESIGNING IT. They are changing the BATTLE SYSTEM, THE CRAFTING SYSTEM, THE COMPANIES SYSTEM, MAPS, AND THE JOB SYSTEM. That is almost 100% of the game that is being redesigned by the new dev team and your biggest complaint is that you don't have chocobos?

This is why people have labeled you a troll. We have heard the same thing a hundred times before. They aren't going to cave and put in Chocobos and Airships when their main focus is fixing the game from the ground up.