Anyone Sad about the games Decline

[Velhart]

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I am just hoping EQnext can deliver on that. It is a ballzy claim to say you are making the next innovation in MMO's. All you accomplish there is raising people's hopes and expectations higher than they already were. Everquest 2 was suppose to be the next big thing also. For GW2, it was okay, I max leveled a character, but what to do afterwards felt out of focus. I understand it's intent was to let you go out and find for yourself, but I never had that "carrot on a stick" feeling like I do with other MMO titles, making it boring and simply stop playing.

FFXIV may not 100% deliver something new, but like other genres, it delivers well within it's own domain and that is what Final Fantasy in general has always been known for. Use Dragon Quest as a base and inspiration to make our own RPG, which looks like it turned out well for Square.

[Eekiki]

FFXIV may not 100% deliver something new, but like other genres, it delivers well within it's own domain and that is what Final Fantasy in general has always been known for. Use Dragon Quest as a base and inspiration to make our own RPG, which looks like it turned out well for Square.

EXACTLY. It doesn't matter if this game breaks new ground in the MMO genre. All it needs to be is a Final Fantasy game. That, in my eyes, is why 1.0 was as poorly received as it was (and why I look at FFXV with a degree of trepidation). It was trying to hard to be different. By 1.23 the game at last truly felt like a Final Fantasy game, and so does ARR.

I call bullshit on this, since we are on the same server. Off-peak, it's rare for me to ever end up in a queue. During peak, I'm usually in before 1 minute pass.

Same here. Although I almost always end up in a queue, it rarely if ever lasts more than 30 seconds. Also, Gil, keep in mind that the way the queue message is worded is slightly misleading. You get that queue when there are many people from ALL worlds trying to log on at the same time as you (and I think the Duty Finder has something to do with it, too). If the world itself was full, you'd get the famous 1017 error and get kicked back to the title screen.