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

[SuP3R_Ch1cKeN]

Once again, I hate to do this... But in WoW, you had multiple dungeons to get multiple sets at Level 60, you could also craft items that were better than dungeon loot.

I'm sorry but you do realize that this game is almost a month old.. Where as WoW is almost 9 years old.. It's IMPOSSIBLE to launch a game with comparable end-game content.

[Jinko]

I've subbed for 6 month, but I think SE are in for a rude awakening when 50% of the player base drop when subs start for new players.

They definitely need to sort out their invisible cooldown nonsense and their server latency/position polling.

I don't see this game being much more successful than 1.0 in 3-4 months times.

[Moheeheeko]

I'm sorry but you do realize that this game is almost a month old.. Where as WoW is almost 9 years old.. It's IMPOSSIBLE to launch a game with comparable end-game content.

So much this. If I remember correctly vanilla wow had even less endgame content than this.

And really we COULD have had more if not for SE's insistance on keeping the size of the game (gigabytes wise) to a minimum for the PSN.

[MeisterToxx]

Bought the game a week ago, and ill sub probably forever as ill play this on my ps4 and PC until Archeage or some other intriguing MMO i want to get involved in comes out.

I will say I didn't really follow this game at all, but im enjoying it. Just a lot of Qq on the forums.

[Tupsi]

So much this. If I remember correctly vanilla wow had even less endgame content than this.

And really we COULD have had more if not for SE's insistance on keeping the size of the game (gigabytes wise) to a minimum for the PSN.

People really need to get over it and stop blaming the console market, really..really get over it already. SE wanted to reprovision the game into what pretty much every other MMO is atm on the market - They had 1.0 to work with and had the ability to expand the end-game from there - However, they needed to create a quest based progression which is where most of the development obviously went to (the instancing, quests and FATEs), otherwise notice how some of the lower end dungeons are just old areas turned into an instance? The format on the PS3 is different than that of the PC, so the size would have been appropriate for it regardless because they can handle that client differently.

Did you know? Tera was over 20gb and had almost no content?

[Isadora]

I just hope all these players who say they are going to quit actually do quit, I am so tired of reading these "I quit because game lacks X and doesn't have Y" posts, get out and let me stay and watch the game develop.

[Noroi_Kisaragi]

Not to defend the lack of endgame content, but people trying to say that crafted gear is NOT better than endgame dungeon loot needs to get their facts straight.

Endgame crafted gear, quad/penta melded beats Darklight by a fair margin. And they're on the AH for high price, Hippogryph HQ goes for 300k a piece, and Darksteel for a comparible fraction. The only loot in Final Fantasy 14 that beats crafted gear is Allagan and AF+1, both requiring insane dedication to get.

[Moheeheeko]

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so where is the crystal tower or bahaumuts lair, BOTH dungeons were ready for launch, untill, for some mysterious "memory limitation" they were deemed not ready?

[Milmoko_Gemoko]

So much this. If I remember correctly vanilla wow had even less endgame content than this.

And really we COULD have had more if not for SE's insistance on keeping the size of the game (gigabytes wise) to a minimum for the PSN.

oh please forgive us humble console players and our limited resource (both finanical and processing power) oh exalted pc player...

Seems like most of the content is hosted server side so if we wanna argue the PS3s HDD and its storage is to blame = fail
I mean MGS4 takes 10GB to install, Sleeping Dogs and its DLC almost 10GB as well, FFXIV 7.5GBish, SE could funnel another 15/20GB down the line to our HDDs and we PS3 players can take it - i speak of anyone above the 60GB model, I have 320GB.

It seems FFXIV is an attempt to shake up a stagnated console market and breath some life into it for this Generation (PS3) and show whats capable of been done on the next (PS4, Xboxone), as I understand theres not many console MMOs yet alone cross platform ones so I'm willing to forgive its tempory short comings - saying that im lv23 so I havent got to "end-game" yet and wont comment on that.

On topic:
I'll be subbing until Feb' at least and then take a break for a month or so to play Lighting Returns and the FFX HD Remaster if its out in UK by then, long term I suspect I'll keep playing the game as I trust it will get better.

[Firescorpio]

I've subbed for 6 month, but I think SE are in for a rude awakening when 50% of the player base drop when subs start for new players.

They definitely need to sort out their invisible cooldown nonsense and their server latency/position polling.

I don't see this game being much more successful than 1.0 in 3-4 months times.

That's why your'e neither a business analyst, nor a game dev ¡, nor anyone with any level of reliable qualifications to make this type of assessment.