My suggestion to Square Enix for the future of MMOs.

[Gramul]

one big thing you forgot to add in FFXIV is "fun"

There's that vague and open ended term again.

I think they expected us to make our own "fun" with the new level of customizability and efforts to make the game easier to travel and interact with.
That didn't work. What we got was freedom where we didn't need it and over structured systems where it didn't work. Open ended without any clear direction made people confused and bored.

[SuzakuCMX]

There's that vague and open ended term again.

I think they expected us to make our own "fun" with the new level of customizability and efforts to make the game easier to travel and interact with.
That didn't work. What we got was freedom where we didn't need it and over structured systems where it didn't work. Open ended without any clear direction made people confused and bored.

I don't think it's as open-ended as it is lacking content.

There isn't anything to do but grind and levequests (which are grinding).

If they put in more of the main story quests, like one every 7 ranks or so, the game would be much better for me...but one at 18 or 16 or whatever and then another at 36? Holy crap it's 15-20 levels of pure grinding without any content between it!

[Gramul]

I don't think it's as open-ended as it is lacking content.

Hence the "without any clear direction" part.

[Mack]

Hence the "without any clear direction" part.

What do you mean? Its not up to me to give the game direction nor is it anyone's task but the devs. I think 600K pre-orders and a ~30K playerbase says enough about how the phrase "lack of fun" is anything but vague when it comes to FFXIV.

[Gramul]

It's not up to me to give the game direction nor is it anyone's task but the devs.

Exactly.
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[Mack]

Exactly.
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Well they're a little behind is all.