Your thoughts on the direction of this game?

[Warlyx]

Your thoughts on the direction of this game?

downhill :P

[Velhart]

If I wanted to play WoW I'd go play WoW which at this pace, im about to cancel my sub and go back to WoW when their new expansion comes out

Have fun. I have plenty to complain about in ARR, but the structure and ideals it was built upon is not one of them. They used a system I like and familiar with while giving me a Final Fantasy world I enjoy. But hey...opinions! I guess a mistake on my end for remotely mentioning WoW.

[Fendred]

It's got close to no competition in the console market as pretty much the only "traditional" MMO on there aside from XI and DQX, pretty sure that's where the majority of users come from at least in the eastern markets, DQX is currently stuck in Japan so that's also less competition over here. It's got far more competition in the PC market and by PC standards its sales and user numbers are within what you'd expect from a WoW clone, still much lower than WoW and even that is still losing subs, it won't ever surpass it either. Another reason it's doing "well" is because most of the other major WoW clones have gone F2P, those WoW clones didn't last much longer than 3 years at best as P2P, but we'll see.

What ticks me off about the entire situation is that if they just fixed the original combat system into a playable state, we wouldn't be in this mess. The holy trinity is a kiss of death for end game because it is simply impossible to create any depth of strategy out of it. At end game, when the story has been expended, that is absolutely vital to the game's survival. Developers over the last decade have thrown everything including the kitchen sink at the trinity, and all Yoshida is currently doing is following in their footsteps. He's so adamant on trying to keep the trinity because he wants something that is proven to work, but the fact is... it never worked. Developers only used it late into the first decade because, in the west, investors had a terribly negative influence on the direction of MMORPG games. The core audience was literally ripping their hair out every time a publisher pushed a game that was like this years flavor of monopoly (hey, want to try out Star Wars Monopoly?! Its the same game you love, but Star Wars! Just ignore the hundred other flavors of monopoly and buy ours instead!).

[Silverawz]

This game has an huge potential but the dev are really really bad.
First thing, the playstation limitation : gcd, lag (the entire game is slowed)no open world, challenge except raid : 0.
The crafting are really cool, best i have seen in a mmo but the rest omg...
Materia but no slot on gear ? LOL? dev wake up? you make a good option and no use on it ? elemental resistance?
We don't play final fanatasy game but more world of warcraft and even not the original but the version for "worst than bad" player, should i say...
The graphic dev team is fantastic but the other, oh god, how they screw up this game to the grave.

I agree with time sink that so many people talked about.

I may be trash but it my feeling.

[Amiantos]

Outside of Hunts needing some work and the grind that is the Novus weapons I'm rather enjoying the game and have been since launch. The Novus is a timesink I won't bother with as it just seems too much of a headache to bother with. This games held my attention the 2nd longest of any MMO so far with FFXI being the one to hold it the longest and that was a real time sink. Anything not sitting on my ass in a dungeon corridor for 14 out of a 16 or 18 hour window is fine by me...fuck you LoO. Sucks that you guys don't enjoy it and hopefully for those that have left they might check it out again one day or find a game they really like.

[Ragecake]

The community is very entitled...

Try looking into a mirror and then say that again.

I believe the game is heading in a good direction. I think the worst thing that has happened ingame is adding Sands of Time/Oils of Time as rewards for hunts.

[Barimu]

Have fun. I have plenty to complain about in ARR, but the structure and ideals it was built upon is not one of them. They used a system I like and familiar with while giving me a Final Fantasy world I enjoy. But hey...opinions! I guess a mistake on my end for remotely mentioning WoW.

The structure is built upon WoW, why play a clone when you can play the original? I don't want to go play WoW I honestly do not, however, if all this game is going to do is mimic WoW, I'd much rather spend my monthly sub on the original copy than the wanna-be.

Edit: The only reason I and many others on these forums bad mouth 14, is because we want to see the game become better and last long not because we just wanna bad mouth it.

[Felis]

First thing, the playstation limitation : gcd, lag (the entire game is slowed)no open world, challenge except raid : 0.

I fixed it a bit and I don't think you know what lag mean.

GCD - to give controller players the same time as keyboard players (not limited to console)
no open world - the moment you left a city you are in the open world
(no) challenge except raid- casual limitation

[Alipoprocks]

I fixed it a bit and I don't think you know what lag mean.

Using a controller does not affect game play in any way shape or form. I have some friends that play on playstation and it takes them twice as long to load into any zone.

[Felis]

Using a controller does not affect game play in any way shape or form. I have some friends that play on playstation and it takes them twice as long to load into any zone.

Tell them their HDD are to slow. It is much better with a SSD in the PS3

Thanks, I will. I had no idea you could put an SSD in the playstation.

http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/commen...installed_ssd/