I am excited to see what happens when subs kick in.

[Kayo]

All of you saying "too many issues" care to explain? Or will it be the typical "LOWER GCD! GILZ! HARD MODE IS HARD!"

Well I wont even mention the horrible launch since despite their horrible handling of it, its all but gone now. But ok ill bite

1) Horrrrible RMT spam. Worse ive seen in a looooong time, or ever.
a) No easy way to block or report them as they come. Although there is a player made workaround with macros for tells.
b) Damn near impossible to fight unless you completely seclude yourself from the most social channels.
c) Takes ages to recover account where other games are much faster.
d) No real measures being taken. Rift had the coin lock thing after a few weeks. SE? Just bans players.

2) Duty Finder is a horrible mess.
a) No way to filter out the aholes or even blacklist them out.
b) Players getting hassled over watching cutscenes, which BTW...
c) Does not pause the timer or prevent players from continuing.
d) Yet again, more crappy restrictive b/s to get to play because there is some stupid limit on how many dungeon instances there are. Even with a full team, you have to wait.

3) End game is pretty shitty.
a) Yes the gil thing is a problem. Just because you make a childish "l33t5p34k" joke about it doesnt mean its not real. Anyone who understands how an MMOs economy functions can see this.
b) Stupid ass token grind... from one single instance which again, isnt equipped to handle the demand (see #2, Duty Finder).

Then theres a bunch of other b/s like broken targeting (Both PS3 and PC), Bards with a Healing LB, UI lag with enemy attacks, imbalance of leveling content (FATEs), hackers running rampant for days after being reported... etc. Honestly no point in continuing, pretty sure their overall performance thus far is reason enough to give the game a break until they patch their holes. Some people who WANT to sub ... cant, so....

[Fuz]

Not subbing. Too many issues.
- Visual lag... endgame completely broken and unplayable
- Outdated RGN system
- tab targeting abysmal

And lots more, but those are the most importants.

[Arcari]

MOST players right now are at or below level 15:
http://www.xivnation.com/news/eorzea...live-letter-1/
Very few are above 15.

So.. non-issue is non-issue.

I think this should be posted in any topic where people are trying to pass off as fact that "the majority of players are at endgame level!!!11!1!" Cold, hard numbers tends to shut people up really quick. Or at least, you would hope.

Anyway, as far as when subscription time kicks in, I expect a bit of a population drop myself. However, if there's one thing that Final Fantasy XI taught me, it's to never underestimate the loyalty of a true FF fan. Heck, how do you think FFXI is still kicking after all of these years? This game is going to be around for a very long time.

[Errors]

I'm not subbing because of the rude and hateful community and how there is so little to do endgame.

Just out of curiosity, what end game content have you experienced? Unless your profile is a different character your forum profile shows that your highest job is a 35 MRD with the majority of you other jobs not even touched. Or for that matter what do you consider end-game content so I can at least understand your thoughts behind your statement.

I personally see it differently, I honestly can't recall any MMO with this amount of end game content on a new (re)launch MMO. It's been out what 3 weeks and some change? We've got, a couple of dungeons, FATEs, Ifrit Hard, Garuda Hard, Titan Hard, relic quest that will face you against Chimera and Hydra, and the cherry on to top it off we have a few turns in the Coil. And that's just combat related end game content. I personally, think that's not a bad little batch for a launch, no?

[Aselus]

i'm looking forward to the exodus for a cleaner more hq community tbh. to all those saying they're leaving o/ baibai :-P

[Rydin]

i'm looking forward to the exodus for a cleaner more hq community tbh. to all those saying they're leaving o/ baibai :-P

Im on your server... I'm a super douche and I'm NOT GOING ANYWHERE.... Hello there!

[setsua26]

[QUOTE=Makeda;1316809]MOST players right now are at or below level 15:

http://www.xivnation.com/news/<br />...live-letter-1/
Very few are above 15.

So.. non-issue is

Glade to see this.

[Lisotte]

I think that FFXIV will succeed as a niche subscription-based MMO. You have a decent number of FF fans not normally attracted by MMOs, the FFXI crowd (FFXI isn't the same game anymore), the console crowd, and the Japanese crowd (who normally don't seem to be that big into MMOs, particularly because they're typically part of the console crowd).
Not to mention... to anyone that played FFXI, you KNOW SE knows how to make time-sinks, which is the whole carrot and stick method behind MMOs. It's always going to be repetitive, but I'd bet that in the next couple of patches it'll have more variety (endgame in FFXI had a ton of different stuff to do).

[fixitman]

I just paid for 90 days on my first SA, and plan on doing the same with my second. The only reason I'm waiting on the second is because I want to stagger the payments, and I haven't decided if I want a 3rd SA for tri-boxing yet. I just unlocked PLD on my main, and I'm leveling all my craft/gather classes to support her. Every 5 levels, I make my own gear before tackling the next class quest. I literally got spanked on her level 30 GLD quest the first try. I spent 5 days crafting to make the best gear she could wear, and proceeded to own that quest last night

For me, there is PLENTY to do... and I suspect that most feel the same way. They are likely too busy enjoying the game to bother replying to threads.

I just happen to be stuck at work, so I figured why not?

[Inosaska]

I'm still asking myself why I subbed because I'm barely playing the game. It could be my disappointment with how they made Summoner because really its not a Summoner at all from Final Fantasy as it just doesn't feel like I'm ever using the Summons for anything and they just feel like a sidekick. I think if they fixed the class I would probably be more interested in playing but sadly right now not much is attracting me to continue to play this game.