FFXIV Bitter Sweet

[Soukyuu]

I'm more inclined to think we're the vocal minority, after all we're the ones discussing these things, and not the ones who keep silent. On topic of WoW, I think I remember Yoshida mention exactly what you did, that another WoW isn't happening. They still wanted to take things that made WoW good though, and bring it to FFXIV.

After the disaster the 1.0 version initially was, they simply couldn't afford to experiment, thus they went with the "proven" concept. I don't think that they are unaware that it was both proven to work for WoW, and proven to fail if you just make a WoW clone. And I don't feel like ARR is a WoW clone. Similar, yeah, a clone, I don't think so.

[MistressAthena]

I'm more inclined to think we're the vocal minority, after all we're the ones discussing these things, and not the ones who keep silent. On topic of WoW, I think I remember Yoshida mention exactly what you did, that another WoW isn't happening. They still wanted to take things that made WoW good though, and bring it to FFXIV.

After the disaster the 1.0 version initially was, they simply couldn't afford to experiment, thus they went with the "proven" concept. I don't think that they are unaware that it was both proven to work for WoW, and proven to fail if you just make a WoW clone. And I don't feel like ARR is a WoW clone. Similar, yeah, a clone, I don't think so.

I'm not saying its a clone exactly, but its bringing nothing to the table literally. Right now its just a boring grind of absolutely nothing worthwhile but a new pair of equipment that doesn't even do anything worthwhile for you besides open up yet another 100 hours of grinding in a new dungeon. They have to figure out something to get away from this. A new story won't cut it if its non stop more dungeons. They have to figure out a way to make crafting worhwhile.

This game is gonna be a massive mess, 1 I'm sure SE is already feeling. How do you make Crafting worthwhile, like really worthwhile when all the equipment people need or want comes from dungeons, and dungeon drops? Even now the crafting as a whole is worthless except for the 2 star items, mostly however it collects dust if not Materia melding (that of which is completely pointless in and of itself).

I'm both excited, and scared to see what they bring on the new expansion they are working on. New Area's, new mobs, new dungeons and new story simply won't cut it. Since half of that is obsolete before they even make it. Monsters are pointless, or nearly pointless... When do you ever need to kill them other htan to craft? you can run past them no problem, and they pose no issue. So new mobs are ultimately pointless, New Area's, again.. filled with pointless stuff. New dungeons.. yay more grinding for hundreds of hours! Only good thing will be the new story and once that novelty wears off its.. bleh...

So I'm really wondering, what could they possibly add to make FFXIV worthwhile, and have depth. hmmm.... I know I'm being overly blunt, and possibly throwing a bit out of proportion (but not much). The whole point is.. they really gotta give something new to the player base.