ADD REPAIR VENDORS TO CRYSTAL TOWER!!!

[Tupsi]

I love how white knights always turn issues where FF14 is the only game that got it wrong into a 'entitlement generation' issue. The gear repair issue is SOLVED in MMORPG. You either have a vendor at the start of the instance, or you allow people to summon a repair vendor. Most games have both. FF14 is the only MMORPG I can think of in the last 5 years that has neither with gear damage. This is a problem in FF14 because it failed to do something every other MMORPG succeeded. It is not the player that's supposed to change his way to make up for amateur dev mistakes.

Then again I guess wanting item links would be entitlement too, and you can just alt-tab to another site.

It's probably because SE overestimated their playerbase and figured people would do the logical thing.

[Astarica]

It's probably because SE overestimated their playerbase and figured people would do the logical thing.

Sure, but that still doesn't change the fact that they're the only MMORPG in the last 5 years that can't figure this out.

I'm guessing originally they want some kind of player interaction so the repair bot would be the guy who has level 50 in every crafting skill and you'd huddle around that guy while he gets out his swiss army knife to repair everyone's gear. Sure that'd be stupidly tedious but I can see that as a twisted way to encourage people to have DoH classes leveled and community binding. Except, of course, that you can't actually repair your or anyone else's gear while inside an instance because you can't change jobs.

[Tupsi]

Sure, but that still doesn't change the fact that they're the only MMORPG in the last 5 years that can't figure this out.

I'm guessing originally they want some kind of player interaction so the repair bot would be the guy who has level 50 in every crafting skill and you'd huddle around that guy while he gets out his swiss army knife to repair everyone's gear. Sure that'd be stupidly tedious but I can see that as a twisted way to encourage people to have DoH classes leveled and community binding. Except, of course, that you can't actually repair your or anyone else's gear while inside an instance because you can't change jobs.

The thing is, you could actually repair yourself and other people's stuff in FFXIV 1.23 even while inside of dungeons, so..yeah the system was there but you really only have people who agreed to a "Complete overhaul of every system" to blame. They had quite a lot of good mechanics going in 1.23 that only needed optimization.