Is this the future for the rest of ARR's upcoming expansions and updates?

[RexValentino]

need to edit to be able to quote >.> (silly character limitation ... the 1.0 forums were better too btw >.>)

Dungeon grinding for gear grind Is the vision for Yoshi and his team for the forseeable future? The sad thing is previous version of XIV ended up being pretty good game comparable to where ARR stands at this moment. Even the update notes are not very encouraging.

As a previous player of 1.0 I'm not happy with the direction Yoshi and his team are taking this game, I feel like I'm playing a cross between WoW and GW2, not a great fan of both of those games either.

Is this the game you guys wanted? is Yoshi going in the right direction for those that played the previous version?

Personally I'd like Hamlet back and chocobo escorting to name a couple, I'd also like to see more open world content instead of this entering instances to do everything.

I haven't bothered to log into the game for last 4-5 weeks, I'm done with dungeon grinds tbh.

Similar feelings are going through my entire free company and seems to be the topic echo'd at the moment ... This game definitely feels like an entirely different game, and one that sort of seems to encourage you to log out a lot. I really miss 1.23, the gameplay, world, story. I wish they had only fixed the sever problems(still present ><) and the market wards and UI lag ... everything else was better.

**disclaimer ... my opinion and the opinion of almost all my friends that played 1.0 and chose to still play now.

[Killance]

If you have no valid input then stfu and read and reply to another post that your brain can cope with.

That makes your thread invalid now.

[Naraku_Diabolos]

I feel the same as you op, this game needs more open world content. More end game open world content to be exact...

That's because you got all your classes/jobs to Lv50 in 1.0, silly! You only had ARN with SMN/SCH to play with

I haven't gotten bored with the game yet. I'm going to try and get one of each item crafted in my crafting log, and harvesting items off one by one in my gathering log, too. I'm also going to try with the fish as well. That's my long term goal!

[Dyvid]

Dungeon grinding for gear grind Is the vision for Yoshi and his team for the forseeable future? The sad thing is previous version of XIV ended up being pretty good game comparable to where ARR stands at this moment. Even the update notes are not very encouraging.

As a previous player of 1.0 I'm not happy with the direction Yoshi and his team are taking this game, I feel like I'm playing a cross between WoW and GW2, not a great fan of both of those games either.

Is this the game you guys wanted? is Yoshi going in the right direction for those that played the previous version?

Personally I'd like Hamlet back and chocobo escorting to name a couple, I'd also like to see more open world content instead of this entering instances to do everything.

I haven't bothered to log into the game for last 4-5 weeks, I'm done with dungeon grinds tbh.

[Taerra]

I feel the same as you op, this game needs more open world content. More end game open world content to be exact...

YUCK ! ... I shudder at the thought of repeating nidhog,fafnir, adamantoise and others ...

NMs ... fine ... HNM ... no effin' way. Other open world content outside of HNM, i'm always in for new things.

[Tupsi]

*sighs and shakes head* Another 2.0 sux thread as for the OP: *waves bye bye*

/closethread

You know, people with this attitude are why when a lot of people leave MMOs they're left scratching their butts wondering where everyone went. ARR definitely is missing something, it's more streamlined but they really need to branch out rather than stay at the comfort zone. As much as people love to say this - they didn't "try something different with 1.0 and failed", they never even finished 1.0.

1.23 was absolutely amazing and ARR would have literally been the perfect MMO if they enhanced that version while taking aspects of XI that worked, since it's pretty sad how much XI progresses on a monthly basis with a tiny team compared to ARR, especially since ARR is purposefully "streamlined" for faster updates.

YUCK ! ... I shudder at the thought of repeating nidhog,fafnir, adamantoise and others ...

NMs ... fine ... HNM ... no effin' way. Other open world content outside of HNM, i'm always in for new things.

Those are called FATEs in ARR. Open world content =/= only HNMs, and XI had more open world content and activities than ground kings, you could play XI and never touch ground kings ever in your career especially once Einherjar came out.

[Gucci_Charms]

Of course they're gonna release future expansions and updates for ARR like most MMORPGs - assuming the game's population remains stable for the next 2 years :P

[Rochetm]

1.0 failed and 2.0 seems to be doing just fine. I think some people are confused.

[Roris]

1.23 was a good base for the future, if anything it's what the original game should have been at release before it was rushed to compete with Cataclysm, also people keep forgetting ARR is version 2.0 for a reason and not really a new game at all despite the new engine and story content.

[Killance]

1.0 failed and 2.0 seems to be doing just fine. I think some people are confused.

This. So much this. Played through all of FF14 1.0-1.23, was just terrible beyond belief.