I'm sad. It kind of feels like SE doesn't want my money.

[ennuii]

I know the first incarnation of the game was really bad. But I've loved all of the NA FF games in the past that I have played, and totally burned myself out on WoW.

I was looking forward to playing a new mmo with a bunch of my friends irl and from previous mmos, but there are so many detractors for ffxiv right now. It's almost like the reaction to xiv part 1 was expected to carry over into ARR

It was an embarrassing launch really. How hard is it to take some of the millions that weren't expected to flood in, (and did) to double the size of your server population and clone over some new software? I'm oversimplifying- I know. But something at least huh- it's been almost a month. (I understand they have said it's coming in "early sept." "late sept." and "early oct." but yeah "soon".)

Main story mobs are broken. End game is a joke due to sprites chocobos and pikachu summons being a way higher priority to render than say...the mob that's owning everyone. Aoe's are ridiculous in most instances. It takes an act of god to make characters on the same server as friends. I was hoping to level with a group of friends. Heck my wife and I are on different worlds, and we were in the same room trying to find servers that would allow more than 1 character creation to no avail. At least we'll have housing coming soon!

I don't know. I was really really looking forward to this game, and hoping it would be good. Now I'm not so sure I want to sub more than it takes to finish the story. (which hopefully they fix this mob I'm sitting in front of and unable to get the quest from because he's broken...) I guess once all the disgruntled people leave due to the major flaws then those that're left will be able to play together maybe? It's just sad, you know? Had such high hopes...

[ItsJanHi]

I have 3 months worth of Crysta waiting after my free-days are over, I think I'll cancel my auto-renewal for now

[Balbanes]

It was an embarrassing launch really.

No, 1.0 was embarrassing. ARR's launch wasn't really even atypical for an MMO launch. And the game is in pretty good shape to boot overall.
Also, it's been out a month... give them a chance to catch up to the bugs and glitches, geez.

[nekochen]

I have 3 months worth of Crysta waiting after my free-days are over, I think I'll cancel my auto-renewal for now

Me too, having more than 3 months worth of Crysta but instead, I wish I can cancel my game right NOW... ... .... just so I can use my crysta and get the vet. rewards, I'm not buying over-priced euro time cards xD

[Alhanelem]

Main story mobs are broken. End game is a joke due to sprites chocobos and pikachu summons being a way higher priority to render than say...the mob that's owning everyone.

Um, if you're encountering these issue, you aren't playing edngame. Endgame is not a joke, and these issues do not happen in actual endgame. I haven't met a main story mob that was broken in any way, so you'll have to elaborate. I played through the whole thing with not one issue (other than the login issues of course, which are now gone). Sometimes a glitch with a quest can be fixed by abandoning it and redoing it, so you might try doing that.

Running fates is not endgame. Hardmode primals and coil of bahamut is.

It's just sad, you know?

it's really not sad. This has been a very successful game so far. yes there are some bugs here and there but they're being worked on. Again, you haven't actually played endgame, since you haven't finished the story, which unlocks it.

WoW, FFXI, and any other MMO on the planet were not bug free when they launched. Cut them some slack, or the door is right over there.

(when i clicked on the topic, i thought this thread was going to be about some kind of billing issue, not just another person complaining about fates like they're endgame and hating on SE for a couple bugs)