Adding Life to the Cities!

[Reinheart]

This is one of the biggest fail in FFXIV for sure... as always its Square-Enix showing off something so great with opening movies, and cut-scenes and in actual game it's nothing like the movies.

I'm sure they were planning to add all this in but just like what they said about all the implementations they wanted to make from users feed back from Alpha, CB, OP they had bugs they had to fix which took too much damn time and it was already on release date so they had to release it. Releasing the game then was the BIGGEST mistake SE made, I dunno why recent gaming companies (specially Japan) all rely on release date and sticking to it, rather than fixing the game. If they think adding patches, updates later on will fix the problem... look what happened with this game LOL almost 1 year after release and still a crap + lost more players than they could of gained from a amazing system/game/mmo. On top of that FF13 didn't help either LOL nice looking game but as a game FF13 failed majorly (my own opinion) two FF series bad in a row is bad move for SE (should also add Front Mission Evolved was FAIL also). Probably reason why they are pushing back on FF13 Versus, finally using some brain after fans got pissed off + stock market dropped on SE.

[Kailok]

The reason they probably stuck to the release date is because of the fact that they bumped back FFXIII so many times and it angered people. But this time they flopped the release and just angered even more people. I can't stress how much this game needs more life. Like a phoenix, let's hope that new life in the world comes from the impending destruction upon the world.

[Kaizlu]

I just stared playing yesterday and I noticed this the first minute I walked around Ul'Dah. There are players, but the NPCS and the city itself feel really dead and empty.

Heck, I would be happy if SE just copy/pasted a lot of NPCs that just walked around for the sake of it, but I know they can make something better. Ul'Dah should feel like Rabanastre from FFXII (in terms of population), so if SE could do it on FFXII they can repeat the same formula. There are a lot of NPCs in Rabanastre that don't even have any dialogue, but even so they add to the sense of immersion and give life to the city.

Oh well, even with that complaint, I'm still having fun with the game. And I need something non-productive to do in Summer so yeah

[Sykora727]

I just stared playing yesterday and I noticed this the first minute I walked around Ul'Dah. There are players, but the NPCS and the city itself feel really dead and empty.

Heck, I would be happy if SE just copy/pasted a lot of NPCs that just walked around for the sake of it, but I know they can make something better. Ul'Dah should feel like Rabanastre from FFXII (in terms of population), so if SE could do it on FFXII they can repeat the same formula. There are a lot of NPCs in Rabanastre that don't even have any dialogue, but even so they add to the sense of immersion and give life to the city.

Oh well, even with that complaint, I'm still having fun with the game. And I need something non-productive to do in Summer so yeah

One thing I mentioned in my thread here: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ged-characters I talked about players getting to play as teens or old people (like an old master of an art). Anything else and including these should be NPCs because if we're defending a city, a way of life and the defenseless, then it'd be a good idea to be able to see them. You don't see kids and their families in the game, you don't see old people or retired soldiers, etc.

The point is, we are the populace of the game. But since the game isn't that busy at the moment, it seems empty in terms of population. However, what is missing are those types of characters mentioned above: general citizens.

[Kailok]

The point is, we are the populace of the game. But since the game isn't that busy at the moment, it seems empty in terms of population. However, what is missing are those types of characters mentioned above: general citizens.

Even if it is busy with players, they need to add enough NPCs to make the cities more alive. I know I keep saying that..but it's true. I want to feel at home in Ul'Dah. I want to feel like I have a nation I need to protect. I want to know there are people in that nation that are worth my character fighting for.

And yeah, with older/younger characters too. Not everyone in the world is a 20-30 year old adventurer!

[Joeking]

Even if it is busy with players, they need to add enough NPCs to make the cities more alive. I know I keep saying that..but it's true. I want to feel at home in Ul'Dah. I want to feel like I have a nation I need to protect. I want to know there are people in that nation that are worth my character fighting for.

And yeah, with older/younger characters too. Not everyone in the world is a 20-30 year old adventurer!

You should join the army they are always recruiting.

[OMEGA_HACK]

You can make your character's look older, with some of the features if I am not mistaken.

[Kailok]

You should join the army they are always recruiting.

lol clever.

[Kailok]

You can make your character's look older, with some of the features if I am not mistaken.

I've heard of that, but with the character customization your character is still a battle-hardened player. Which is good, but in the cities they should have elderly people >.> like..with a slouch and such. And kids that just so happen to be delivery runners.

[Perrin_Aybarra]

I've heard of that, but with the character customization your character is still a battle-hardened player. Which is good, but in the cities they should have elderly people >.> like..with a slouch and such. And kids that just so happen to be delivery runners.

Yeah.. these types of citizens only come out during CS, they hide the rest of the time apparently.