What do you dislike about the FFXIV?

[Dreamer]

I dislike that they seem to be making design decisions based on player polls and the vocal minority that inhabits the forums.

[Shikaree]

Reused races.

[Blitz0309]

Really it would probably be shorter to list what i like about this game. And of the like list it would most be the potential that the game has that probably won't ever be reached.

The world is dead, The combat is boring, the crafting is tedious, the market wards are a cluster, the zones are lame, the lack of danger, the lack of excitement, still a crappy UI, bastardized character development, lack of good spell/attack animations, guild leves that are pretty much the same thing over and over, gear selection sucks and you can wear whatever, changing a weapon suddenly makes you a different person, agro icons, teleporting to places you haven't been before, already having maps, no sort of faster travel (chocobo/airship), no party system and no reason to party, no feeling of ownership of character, no person storage, no delivery system, trade system is slow and 4 things at a time, repairing gear is a pain and tedious and the npc half asses it, pointless side quests, too many camps, small world (despite the zones are huge it feels like there are 3 ffxi zones)... etc... etc..

Really i guess thats why i've gone from hopeful to laughing about this game. With so much wrong, so much sucking... and how little has actually been changed in nearly a year... its almost pointless. I read the forums just to get the giggles anymore. People defending this game, or even loving it as it circles the drain. These forums are actually getting to the point of being counter productive as the only people left love the game. And even if they make improvements those people want... its not going to bring the masses back.

Its sad, i had such high hopes. Watching all of the making of the realm vidoes, i could hardly wait. Finally got into the open beta, and never expected the release to be the same game as the beta. Still can't believe i paid for the collectors edition, guess it goes to show that just because a company has made decent games in the past, that they aren't immune from creating a steaming pile.

[Hellsoul-Sama]

The fact that is isn't more like what could have been FFXI-2...

Additions made could have been made to a FFXI-content system, redesign a few things, keep whatever was working well, and use the beautiful graphics to show off the true potential of FFXI's content since the PS2 was holding back any further graphical advancements.... with that gone, the potential is unlimited


If it aint broke why fix it.... FFXI was successful and awesome, why not build upon it instead of trying to revolutionize a new pseudo-FFXI, and mess it all up with completely new content for everything.

[Mack]

I dislike no progression from zone to zone and lack of any real incentive to explore which includes how lame the maps looks and how huge they are.

[Dubont]

I dislike the community. Seriously, over half of you people should have never started playing MMOs...

[Mack]

I dislike that they seem to be making design decisions based on player polls and the vocal minority that inhabits the forums.

You got to know that when you have a sample of about 500 or 600 people, the results can be projected to everyone as a whole. So when 90% of the forum minority say they want something, most likely the overwhelming majority will agree. Not to say I like where the game is heading because of this but I don't even think they had a plan for the game to begin with and I don't think they're listening to us THAT much tbh.

[Hei]

I dislike the fact that it's missing jobs when the guilds are there. I wanted to be a gun user, musketeer. Not a lot of mmos (good ones) have guns in them, I thought FFXIV would when I first saw the benchmark. One of many disappointments...

[Dubont]

I dislike the fact that it's missing jobs when the guilds are there. I wanted to be a gun user, musketeer. Not a lot of mmos (good ones) have guns in them, I thought FFXIV would when I first saw the benchmark. One of many disappointments...

you'll get your guns. Gunner classes have always been an advanced class/job aside from FFX-2. Also, a good MMO with guns is Atlantica. You can have a gunner and a cannonist.

[viion]

I dislike the development team.