Final Fantasy XIV should be different form the rest of the MMOs coming out.

[Sessurea]

well considering a lot of the upcoming mmos are action orientated, and ff is basically wow with chocobos and good graphics, I think it is fair to say ff is different from upcoming mmos....

only thing keeping ff above water for me is the frequent updates and fun- factor that se strive for...

[HakuroDK]

I can play this game extraordinarily comfortably with a controller. The only MMO I have ever played that came even remotely close to the kind of controller comfort FFXIV offers is DCUO, and I'll be honest, as much as I like that game, their controller system isn't really styled terribly well, at least since I played it last, which was about a year ago, before I started playing FFXIV.

That alone is pretty innovative by allowing for a comfortable alternative to Keyboard/Mouse-exclusive gameplay.

And true, there are many MMOs out there that have similar elements to FFXIV, but none of those similar elements are necessarily bad.

I went to play SWTOR as my secondary MMO when I started running out of FFXIV content to do. Not that the content is bad, it's just a teensy bit repetitive because I have way, way, way too much time on my hands and sometimes I need to change things up. I find SWTOR to be enjoyable for the story, but the gameplay... I have a lot of difficulties with it, like holy crap. Maybe I just got spoiled by games like FFXIV and Skyrim, but I just don't feel comfortable playing any MMO without a controller anymore.

Then again, I probably have different criteria for what constitutes a good game than the OP does, so we'll just agree to disagree.

[AldoVonAlexandros]

there should be some card mini game, go into mor dhona's bar, challenge players, ejoy, i mean, how many of us did hours and hours on other FF games just playing the mini games? I was so entretained with triple triad FFVIII, we need more mini games, no rewards, just for fun

[HakuroDK]

there should be some card mini game, go into mor dhona's bar, challenge players, ejoy, i mean, how many of us did hours and hours on other FF games just playing the mini games? I was so entretained with triple triad FFVIII, we need more mini games, no rewards, just for fun

Golden Saucer is coming, dear friend.

[EllemEnopee]

Since the MMORPG market is extremely saturated Final Fantasy XIV A Realm Reborn has to have either better quality or be different and fill a niche.//snip//

Have you played any of the MMOs out there? In the past decade, I've played a dozen or so. A few still exist; one launched after FFXIV. Most are long dead and most likely forgotten (Vanguard fans out there? How about Tabula Rasa? Dark and Light?). Believe me, this game is different. From the nuts and bolts to the management, this game is different. That's why I'm more than happy to pay my subscription to SE monthly.

I'm not trying to be a fanboi. I had never played anything in the Final Fantasy spectrum before this game, and I actually started playing as a freelance assignment from a company elsewhere in the MMO game space. I had become jaded from playing a game for eight years and, at the end, wondering what happened to the game I started playing so long ago. I've been jaded from buying into new titles with so much promise but, come launch, they get destroyed as the publisher fires the development team and turns it into a cash cow they can ride for six months then bury.

All I can say is that as soon as I finally got the gestalt of this game, as soon as it sank in, I lost my jaded MMO smirk and found I really enjoy playing this game. I can see elements of some of the best MMOs of the last ten years and I see them improved upon or taken in a different, better direction. And I see things that none of the games I've played had ever thought of, and I see how much the rest of the industry can learn.

It's certainly not perfect, but I'm convinced of the sincerity of the production and development teams at SE in trying to figure out what the next step towards perfection might be. Not in the weekly notices on which accounts got banned, but in the break-neck pace at which new features are being added. I honestly have never seen a game continue to develop and introduce new elements at the pace this happens in FFXIV. Maybe you need to travel away to see how different things really are here. But take my word for it and save yourself some time and some money. This is a good place to be.

[Seif]

They should bring back NMs from 1.0

[subteraneanbird]

Akiza, you should try something different as well and stop posting.

[Spyrit]

I'd love for add-on support for 14 (Would REALLY love a Recount), but I was more or less referring to how I can't find a HUD/UI add-on for WoW that's not totally cluttered or screws with keybindings (not IceHUD, think something like SpartanUI if you know what I'm talking about)

What WoW doesn't have is cross platform support, and that's the reason why there is no addons, can't be used on PS3 or Ps4.

[Beetle]

They should bring back NMs from 1.0

Didnt mind it much since respawn timers were low.

[NintenPyjak64]

What WoW doesn't have is cross platform support, and that's the reason why there is no addons, can't be used on PS3 or Ps4.

Addon support for 14 has been on the backburner for ages. But the devs have been totally silent on it lately, but it was a very hot topic back when the game was young. I imagine this has to do with people exploiting second coil