I started playing again after the disastrous beta experience. The game has improved its true. I would say that not as greatly as I expected seeing how its close to 1 year from release and thats quite a lot of time. Im not a FFXIV hater but I have mixed feelings with this game. I love some parts of it but some other parts just make me want to smash it.

Sadly I think that the parts I hate seem to be unfiaxable, they are in the very core of the game. The game is focused to be played in ps3 and pad and Im a pc lover and mouse+keyboard fanatic. So I find the slowness of the interface, the count in seconds delay of actions, the lethargic character conversation, the sluggish menu navigation insufferable. It has been slightly improved but still cant stand it is like going back to 1994 and the firsts O.S. slowness.

I play a couple of hours a day and it takes more than 30 minutes to talk to the guild vendors, the leve providers, the quest speeches, journal navigation, retainer interaction. So Im wasting 25%-33% of my time just with the interaction between machines and menu navigation and this is something that I cant understand.

I will keep playing casually to see if the new aditions make up for that great flaw I find in this game I really hope they make a great game and add some more user friendly functions to let the casual player as myself to enjoy to their most their playing time doing enjoyable things.