Would you be upset if the game went offline?

[NoMX]

I'd be glad if they took the game down for any amount of time over a month. If the game was down for a month I'd never return again, thus could escape the giant waste of time... And fill it with a better game to waste my time on.

Sure, I'm as patient as the rest of you. I've stuck around since beta hoping the game would get better, and.... Very little HAS improved. You can go off on a rant saying that's not true, and they've done so much to improve it already, but... In all honesty what have they done to make it anything more than sub-par to every other MMO out there so far?

They've changed the wards slightly, which are still hugely problematic and VERY limited. They've added some NM's which are, all except for buffalo, just versions of mobs that are slightly bigger than the normal members of that family. They even all use the exact same attacks. They have fixed some of the awful lag, and tweaked crafting UI. Oh, and they've spent about 50% of their time working on the targeting system, ultimately to go back and make the default targeting system the same as before all these tweaks were done.

And what's to come? Auto attack which appears to actually be slower than FF11 (keep in mind, in ff11 you could choose to use one handed weapons, or lower delay versions of your primary 2-handed weapon type to increase your attack speed at the cost of damage before you had access to haste gear). With ff14's attack speed, a gladiator swings at the same speed a lancer does. 1 hander vs 2 hander, attacking at same rate? What other game does that? The reason they dont? Because it's pretty stupid. Then there are these "raids" as they call them... 2 of them... It'll probably take a week to get every single drop out of them, then there will be zero reason to go back and do them again. That's assuming SE doesn't do what they've always done and put a 1-3 day cooldown on the entry timer.

So yea, i vote shut the game down for now... Then I'd have a good enough reason to convince myself not to play it anymore.