Bored...

[darkstarpoet1]

WTF man you're all over the map, you don't even know what you're conversation was about any more. Just stop please.

sorry let me slow it down to be able to be understood. i'll even type it slowly.

we asked for content. they gave us one line quests to run kill x mob. we already had them so it was not "new Content" it was renaming content already in place and moving it to multiple locations. this makes you question quality of upcoming content.

they said nvm we are not going to do content we are going to fix the battle system. they in turn go and nerf high end mobs which makes people question what quality this upcoming fixes are. if they actually improved gameplay the mobs would not need to be dropped farther since they were already too easy.

they have made multiple statements, but with the type of "something to make them hush stuff" of such bad quality leaves major questions of what type of quality the upcoming stuff is. with so many unanswered questions the hope that some or even all of the upcoming stuff will be good is dimming because of stuff released up until now.

[Verecund]

What were they thinking when they released the game this early....

[Gramul]

What were they thinking when they released the game this early....

....money?

[Corrderio]

i guess tanaka was doing an awesome job considering in right at 2 years he got that plus much much more done. in a quater of time tanaka had to actually build the world lore and everything else yoshi made....bigger mobs.....buigger animations.... low level nm's

And reworking the entire system

[Len]

What were they thinking when they released the game this early....

Sadly, this question will probably be left unanswered by anyone that knows for certain.

My guess: a development team at odds with each other + Square Enix imposed deadlines = Final Fantasy XIV.

[gifthorse]

Anyone else feeling bored with FFXIV?

I started playing back in december and even after a couple of patches, today the game feels no different then back in december.

Granted there was quite a few changes made and tweaks from the patches but nothing major or anything that imo makes any real difference for gameplay.

I was always so excited for producer's letter and updates from SE but now lately they all sucked. The last letter was ok but other then the screenshots for the new camps, there was nothing in the letter that we didn't know besides the fact that patch 1.18 will be coming in about a month and a half from now.

That is a long time to wait for a patch and so far i only saw Yoshi-p keep his promise of patches twice a month only once. There was always delays and reasons to push back even before and after the earthquake.

Patches are slow, small and bring little to no significant changes to the game. Communication is lacking, Producer's letters take longer to come and barely give 20% the amount of info the first letters gave. SE is playing the silence game, the dev never commented on the NA forums and Yoshi-p even stated that we should stop translating his posts as there is misunderstanding after so in a word no love or communication for any player besides the Japanese ones.

I have 0 motivation to level up. Behest get boring quick, Levequests are horrible(i used to play WOW and never liked daily quests and levequests are pretty much the same but with longer cooldown and poorly designed quests) Grinding? No thanks! If i wanted to grind my way to R50 i would playing a grindfest asian mmo.

So today i'm giving up on this game. I may take a 2nd look sometime after the first expension is launched but even then i'm sure it will only bring the changes we are all expecting to come now. I feel like SE is holding on on the real changes and major tweaks for the expension. Keeping us around with small patches and false hopes until they have the expension ready then they will have a reason to make us spend some more cash on an expension just to get the stuff we should have gotten with the initial purchase of the game.

Yoshi's fault.

[Ciden]

Now that the OP mentions it, Yoshi really shouldn't be toying us with info on their grand ideas for such an extended amount of time then chide us for being curious as to why the communication is so lopsided when we visit the JP forums to find out any crumb of info that could be out there.

There is a certain time frame that hype should be generated and hype isn't what I thought this deal was about. They should be ingratiating themselves for anyone who has the mental fortitude to play such a game that to me really makes no friggin' sense and has more restrictions than a straight-jacket. I think this game really killed the game lover in me. I can't bring myself to play anything lately. I think it was when I got a load of that taskboard I nearly shit. There's a long way to go. I will stop diluting myself.

[Bled]

I logged in about a week ago sat for about 10min trying to decide what i wanted to do; eventually chose leveling crafting. Then a friend of mine busted through my apartment door and said "volley ball now!" I told him that id be out in a few i was playing FFXIV, he sated "why?"

I haven't logged on since and I'm now 6 games deep in a volleyball tournament and haven't looked back other than to check the forums while I'm at work occasionally.

[Franzisca]

I got 4 classes to R50 now, obtained all F/NM items, even multiple times. I am playing every day since CE release and my LS is very active, we have fun at times and all but still... My only employment now is trying to upgrade my Silver Tricone +2 to a +3.....See how bored I am ?

They are way too slow with the patches and the game is still lacking so many basic features, not to mention content, it's ridiculous. Yoshi-P is begging for patience in all his letters and I just don't see the game evolving, at this rate it will be done in 2020. (No offense I really like him otherwise).

OP is right and so is Belgianrofl. If they don't hurry up and make a miracle happen they can pull the plug soon ><

[Shai]

I think a lot of it is the lack of information and communication.

I know it's 10x better than Tanaka-style, but it's still terrible. This isn't how you sell a product to your unsatisfied customers.

When Yoshida took over he started strong; he was exactly what we all wanted - something to feel hopeful about. He claimed to be responsive and open these forums and write us letters and let us peek into the development room. Literally all he's done though is give us vague comments or pictures or sketches. There's no exposition at all.

"Here's a picture of a Dragoon Armor. Don't worry. There's no DRG in the game, but we designed some armor. MYSTERIOUS OF US, HUH?"

Honestly when you botch as big as FFXIV has botched, you should be reassuring your public every week. "This is where we are this week. This is where we will be next week. In six weeks, this should be implemented. This is how we hope it will work."

I mean they have a "new battle system" and all we know is "auto-attack" (which btw hit the world like a shock; divided arguments everywhere about the benefit or detriment of auto-attack - which is probably the kind of stuff that keeps them from telling us anything) and it's going to begin to implement in 6 weeks. He said the battle designer would speak to us soon about it (not soon enough, methinks).

The Company fiasco is just that. They shouldn't be playing with us like we're loving this game, loving being teased and tormented to know WHATS NEXT!? That's what you do to rabid fans who want more more more. We're skeptical observers who want SOMETHING AT ALL. We don't deserve to be teased or left in the dark, or left to our own thoughts/devices/speculations and allowed to run rampant all over the internet like Belgian Rofl. We should be right there with the team every step of the way to know exactly what we're investing our time (and presumably money) in.