Is 1.18 the final straw?

[Black_Rose]

i'm not frustrated because i don't care =p
you wouldn't be aswell, if you would stop thinking so hard about it.
take a break, enjoy summer, come back when you feel like a GAME won't frustrate you anymore

[Trocien]

i'm not frustrated because i don't care =p
you wouldn't be aswell, if you would stop thinking so hard about it.
take a break, enjoy summer, come back when you feel like a GAME won't frustrate you anymore

You don't care because you're happy to sit on one knee in uldah mindlessly selecting standard synth for several hours a day.

I supposed I'm just too sophisticated to be into that kinda stuff.

As for being frustrated, I'm not frustrated because i'm not having fun in FFXIV - I don't even play it. I'm frustrated because SE tricked me into spending 80 bucks on the collectors edition of a game that was supposed to be the best MMO of all time, and instead they handed me a bucket of [expletive deleted] with a Final Fantasy sticker on it - and 10 months later, the only major addition to the "game" is a weak market ward (which ought to be scrapped altogether) search engine.

[Rjain]

This game is as good as dead if it is not mindblowingly amazing at 1.18. Most people I know who played, even some of which were white knights defending the game with every one of the dumbest excuses in the book, have quit playing and many of which do not even care to hear its name anymore or any news of what's coming.

There will be the unfortunate bunch that will stick around ranting about how people just have to be patient and saying "it'll get better it'll get better" but those are the same people who have been saying it since closed beta which was earlier last year.

Although there have been some minor and fairly enjoyable improvements since beta, there has been absolutely nothing which has even hinted in the slightest about this game being placed back on the charts. Prepare to sing your elegies for if 1.18 bombs.

[Black_Rose]

oh you didn't just play the "evil developer tricked me with promising words about THEIR game into spending money" card.

[Alkoun]

I really hope 1.18 does what it's supposed to do WELL. I lead a small LS of close RL friends and I'm starting to get embarrassed telling them "log on Thursday at 9, we're gonna do battleleves... again..." I rarely log on when it's not a LS night anymore...
I know 1.18 is not the miracle patch, and there isn't going to be ONE miracle patch... but if 1.18 is heralding the big sweeping changes that'll fix FFXIV and gear it towards a new direction, and it fails to impress the vast majority... I dunno... we'll see.

[Rjain]

I find it funny how games made by 1-5 people such as Minecraft or Amnesia: The Dark Descent or Castle Crashers (with a handful more) generally have far more depth and entertainment value than most of the games lately that "look" like masterpieces by these multimillion dollar companies with over 200 staff members developing them. Kinda says a lot about the state of the commercial game industry.

[zaviermhigo]

too sophisticated? I mean what's sophistication, this whole game has kinda treated us like a scum petty theif prostitutes or something. There's pressing standard, and there's pressing 1, gaming in general isn't very sophisticated, unless you're playing a puzzle game or something that takes brain power truely (even gaming strategy doesn't take real brain power). Most mechanics of games are dull and repetitive. This game just didn't have the lore and shine to back up its repetitive ploys.

[Rydin]

Dear SE... take extra time... take even longer than you originally anticipated and make sure everything is right before you implement it....

[Reinheart]

well either 1.18 being final straw or not, at least I know Tom Cruise plays FFXIV and enjoys it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qPpbVllX7M

whoever made that video gets a subligar from me

Didn't know they had this hitler version too LMAO http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvLppb80xYc

[Kenji]

I consider 1.18 to be when the game actually starts flourishing, from what I've read in the patch notes. If you're someone that considers it the final straw then you're going to be sorely disappointed.

If you don't enjoy the game... Take a break. Come back in a few months time. It's not like you're paying a monthly sub at the minute.