Just wait, it will get better!

[Yagrush]

I knew people liked to hate this game, but I didn't know people were willing to throwaway their credibility if they want to imply ARR hasn't improved upon 1.0 vanilla. Opinions are subjective yes, but there is a fine line between having your own opinion and being ignorant.. and being a troll.

[Entropic]

From my / a raiders point of view:

1) Better Servers ( increased playability)

Connection etc. still sucks

2) Has a lot more content than 1.23 (1.0)

really? glad i didnt play 1.0 then

3) Redesigned maps

unimportant

4) Classes lore is awesome

unimportant

5) Chocobo fighting by yourside!

useless

6) 5 times the dungeons that 1.0 had and more

yet only 2 lvl 50 dungeons. bad bad bad

[Entropic]

Soon in 2.1

7) PvP

if the colluseum is like in beta, it sucks hell. give us battlegrounds!

8) Housing

super unimportant

9) New Dungeon and 2 Hard mode of old dungeons ( with new map layout)

1 new dungeon and 2 revamped ones. so we're gonna have 5 dungeon to fill our
myth cap, yet only one will prevail. the fastest one will be run till cap and then back
to doing nothing but logging in for coil raid. *Yawn*

10) Crystal Tower

good for casuals. totally unintresting for raiders by then most of the coil raiders
are fully lvl 90 geared from drops and myth.
useful to upgrade twinks eventually

there is just nothing to keep you going. at least for me there isnt.
i do my raids, wipe my ass on Twintania and go offline till the next raid evening.

[Starlord]

Entropic, It basically sounds like this game is not made for you at all. just sayin' if you think nothing in this game nor what I mentioned is " Unimportant.

Also, not everyone has the mentality of doing nothing but endgame. The game is really fun personally, I feel Guildhests need to be slightly more rewarding, but I just finished 2 lvl 30 GH's. and they were fun .

In the end it boils down to the individual person. Are you having fun or not?

[Tupsi]

I knew people liked to hate this game, but I didn't know people were willing to throwaway their credibility if they want to imply ARR hasn't improved upon 1.0 vanilla. Opinions are subjective yes, but there is a fine line between having your own opinion and being ignorant.. and being a troll.

Note on the above post: Trolling = "I disagree with what you wrote." No one here trolled - If anything the statement of people are "ignorant" because they don't share your same opinion or agree that ARR is absolute perfection (basically how it comes across when someone says ARR is vastly superior) is more so than people saying "no."

Let's be honest, ARR is well designed compared to the 2010 XIV released in September 2010, aka version 1.0, but vastly superior to version 1.23? It's more like it's a lot more streamlined by being designed with every system found in modern MMORPGs, so superior may not be the right word for it, it's more like it's a heck of a lot more playable. The whole "it'll get better" is pretty much what people were saying all through 1.0's beta phase and..almost every other MMO that came out the past 5 years.

Let's wait and see, ignorance is bliss but the reality of the situation is if ARR is a superior product, everyone would be playing it and have no legitimate complaints (lack of content is one of them, even Yoshi admits it) not just 1.5 million supposed active accounts.

[Yagrush]

That's the thing, a game could descend upon the heavens, be objectively considered as the best game of all time, and there would still be people complaining, it's just how people are, and I agree that they can feel that way, but their opinion definitely loses value.

Your criteria for ARR being a "superior product" is unreasonable and doesn't even apply to your statement, there's definitely more people playing ARR than 1.23, so with that you have an objective fact that ARR is better, but you don't have to agree with it. << That's a fairer example of gauging whether or not ARR is a superior product.

[Naturaligh]

On this topic, as someone who played 1.0 on release, I enjoyed ARR a whole lot more than 1.0 and when you try to say no one would have a legit complaint if the game was good? Really... I have not read any complaints about my first 50 was a horrible experience etc. that at least is an improvement. Now I personally can wait for some tweaks to a game I am enjoying. The core that stays in the game will be the good patient players we want around anyway.

[Raven19x]

The game is great. The frequent lag spikes I'm still experiencing are game breaking though.

[Roaminggnome]

What I don't understand the expectations of those who complain about lack of content. Ok if your issue is you don't think class a is powerful enough that is something they can tweak, something doesn't give you enough gil or experience they can tweak it but if your complaint is not enough dungeons or quests well they can't just tweak it and they have already given you a time table so if its not good enough guess its too bad for you because no amount of complaining is going to create content they already are working on.

[LoLo]

I don't understand people sometimes. If dissatisfied since 2010, why the heck to you still subject yourself to something as unenjoyable to prompt you to make a thread with such a topic. I mean. . . . I'm into a little masochism myself, don't get me wrong but, this sounds like a whooole different kind of a scenario (and we shall not get into that here).

you spoke no lie but someone will come in and call you a white knight. lol