My FC is going back to FFXI... FFXIV FAIL

[AjoraOak]

numbers are fine but they lack the diversity of WoW's since there's only acc, crit, skill/spell speed (not sure why it's even a stat) and determination (no one cares much, but it's better than speed stats). All jobs can pick whatever and be just fine as long as they have acc and their main stat/weapon dmg to back them up. Also didn't help that there's no materia slots on any endgame gear, the least they could have done is allowed slots and then prevented you from adding extra materia on.

Basically, they could have added way more options to what you can do to your gear but they left it feeling rather empty... WoW had enchantments/gems/special effects/more stats to pick from. Currently, we just pick anything with the highest main stat and call it a day.

[chumsy]

numbers are fine but they lack the diversity of WoW's since there's only acc, crit, skill/spell speed (not sure why it's even a stat) and determination (no one cares much, but it's better than speed stats). All jobs can pick whatever and be just fine as long as they have acc and their main stat/weapon dmg to back them up.

Its boring, and not creative. Even WOW had more than just numbers. You had trinkets that had a bunch of unique things. Set items bonuses... Sure we 14 has that for GC items, but those are useless, as they only go up to ilvl55 or whatever

[Djeserit]

I understand OP, my FC is going back to ball in a cup.

That's also too easy, you know why?

Because the ball is on a string and attached to the cup.

[Pylfer]

FF11 is all about nostalgia. That's about it. When people go back to it and see that the game is not the same as it was they will lose interest. Obviously this is a generalization but it's more or less true.

Also, wayyyyyyyyyyy tired of people complaining about how this game sucks when it's been officially released for just about 4 months and we've already had 1 major content update and will be getting another one soon... Would you all prefer it if the game changed to "Fight X monster, gain 100 out of 200,000 exp for level 15, gain no Gil and no loot, rinse and repeat, try and make money, buy gear that is outrageously priced, have gated content cause there's no more DF and finding a group is basically 'sit in shout chat screaming "LF tank healer DPS for sastasha" and then praying that someone responds in an hour or two before you have to go to school/work/bed."

Yeah, sounds like a blast.

[Gaddes]

C'mon dawg, FFXI died when they released abyssea.

Luke: Obi-Wan? Why didn't you tell me? You told me SE betrayed and murdered my FFXI.
Obi-Wan: FFXI was seduced by the dark side of the casuals. It ceased to be FFXI and became Abyssea. When that happened, the good MMO that was your FFXI was destroyed. So what I told you was true... from a certain point of view.

[Herase]

Why are people insulting the OP? To what end? Do you think it adds to the dialogue or reflects well on the community?

If you disagree, please share... if you agree please share... but many of the one liners and insults are by people that would like to consider themselves better than the average forum poster in "that other" game (WoW of course)...

Well I would like to invite you to consider just how much better you are before you hit the "post" button on your one liner, insult, or "witty" jpeg image. That kind of posting certainly didn't help 1.0 fare very well.

I'm not surprised tbh. The title doesn't really give the impression, "i want to have mutual decision about the problems this game has" He's stating the game has failed so he is leaving. This will aggravate people straight away before they've even clicked the post. If some go on to then actually read what Op has to say, the first few lines and bullet points don't help. it screams the same thing. "This game has failed, so better listen to what i say", not trying to take sides, but that's the image it gives me. Again, it doesn't give the impression the op wants to talk, debate and discuss, just makes people think the Op wants to argue and bash the game. So they won't bother reading on.

I'm all for feedback and that, but if you want people to react in a positive manner at least try construct a thread which warrants it. What i find weird is the last paragraph is all right, so why wasn't the entire thread written in the same manner?

[BoltNixter]

Thinking of jumping ship aswell. XIV way to easy and repetitive.

[Doo]

The only reason most don't want to leave is because of the friends they have met along the way. It's like that in all mmos once it starts getting boring.

[Rex]

1. gearing up is too easy (phil, myth, etc.)
2. horrible economy
3. leveling up is too easy
4. the job/class system is a joke
5. you only need to play 2 days a week to get everything accomplished.
6. PvP wtf?
7. ...oh wait didnt I say a few? my bad I'll stop now lol[/B]

OP....LOL.....

Let me remind everyone here that people participated in a PLAYER POLL during 1.0. Basically, they asked, and we answered. The game is just how we responded. Blame yourselves, not the company.

Also,

The game is still so very young. XI didn't have much in the beginning. There were only 6 starting jobs in XI. It wasn't until a year after release that they got new jobs. We started ARR with 8.

I've already given the OP too much attention though. Based off his/her storm stirring post, not much thought or research was put into this. A lot of this has been explained, like how Yoshi-P doesn't want the game to be based solely on leveling.

..and then I read:

I would also like to add that I am not saying in this statement that FFXI is hard, but rather there is a lot more to do and the gameplay is overall superior to FFXIV.

You're basically comparing the amount of content from an 11 year old game to a 5 month old game.

Were you around at the start of XI? Do you know how buggy it was? And do you even realize that all the content in that game now was not added all at once?

We all pretty much have a good idea of why FFXIV is failing and might potentially fail within a year or less.

These types of assumptions are my favorite. Can you tell me what the weather will be like on this day next year as well? I want to know if I'll need an umbrella or not.

Another useless thread.

[Zumi]

FFXI is an easier game then FFXIV, the fights are much easier then FFXIV but overall its more grindy to get your gear. The current top tier content is the Arch Angle level 99 fights, which involve getting 20 merit points for 6 people then doing the fight. Your reward is these papers that you need to collect to upgrade your AF1 into ilvl 119.