mmorpg's review

[giftforce]

"The final nail in the coffin might be the horrid quest system. You gather up some quests at the local inn, then head out into the wilderness to find one of the hovering “aetheryte” crystals, which you must interact with to officially begin one of your quests."

-She thinks Guildleves are something they are not, Guildleves aren't Quests

"Rumor has it that auto attack, and a serious overhaul of the combat system, is coming in the upcoming patch. I truly hope this proves accurate"

-She thinks confirmed and coming changes are "rumors" that she "hopes" prove accurate.

Everything is definitely true.

True, Guildleves aren't quests. Guildleves wish they were quests. The truth is, they were the only form of content, for the most part, that the game released with. So you can forgive people for thinking of them as quests. In fact, I'm sure SE themselves have called guildleves a questing system at some point. Just because players abuse them as a quick form of levelling doesnt mean they aren't quests.

For all we know the changes coming in patch 1.18 could turn out to be totally non-functional. I'm certainly not holding my breath.

People who aren't die-hard fans aren't going to nitpick her every word like you are anyway. They are just going to glance over the article and take in the general gist of what it's saying. And generally speaking you can't fault the article.

[Abriael]

People who aren't die-hard fans aren't going to nitpick her every word like you are anyway. They are just going to glance over the article and take in the general gist of what it's saying. And generally speaking you can't fault the article.

Lol. Generally speaking there are tens of ways you can fault that article. Extensive use of hyperbole, choice of pictures that indicate that she played a couple hours top, misrepresentation of reality, a lot of positive aspects of the game missed, the functionality of the UI bunched up with the aesthetics of the game and used as an excuse to lower the graphics score (LOL!). This review is a trainwreck, but it's not surprising that some rabid haters defend it.

They'd bend over twice to defend anything that says something negative about this game, no matter what it is.

Indeed. Couldn't agree with this more.
I'm really surprised at all the people posting in this thread who're actually offended enough to nitpick at every part of the review and post about it here.
I'm appalled.

"Nitpicking" would indicate an active effort to find some at least partly hidden small details. The enormous flaws of this article are so blatantly evident that skimming through it once is enough to evidentiate what example of poor journalism it is.

Clearly reviews are made for people that haven't played the game or else they would be pointless, like most of you are seeing it in this thread. If we look at it from a new player point of view that's not a final fantasy fan they would agree with everything the review said. And for those of you that are saying she only played to level 10 can you honestly say you haven't seen everything the game has to offer by then?

LOL: Reviews are made for everyone, especially long after the release of a game. They're for the new player, they are for the veteran, they are for the dood that left the game and is on the fence if to come back or not. Any kind of article is made for everyone that spends his time to read it.

if you play only to level 10 (and it's doubtful that she even got there), there's a ton of things you haven't seen. A large part of the story (including path companions), class questlines, NMs, all the sidequests but the most basic, 90% of the game's abilities (and with them 90% of the combat gameplay) and so forth.

Please, let's be serious.

[Nilheim]

Please, let's be serious.

Sure, let's do that. As the other person mentioned, the content is the same whether you're rank 5 or rank 45. You're still gonna be doing leves to get SP, and it's gonna be the same kind of gameplay, expect you'll be somewhere else. And come on, are you really saying he missed out on the best part of the game because he didn't do the 4 main scenario quests that are so lame I wanted to shoot myself after doing them? Only the last one was cool, and that's because the cutscene was awesome.
Crafting doesn't change one bit whether you're rank 3 or 39. The current sidequests do give us some lore but come on, that's like saying a book is awesome cause it has pages. MMOs are supposed to have those things, period.

Your "conspiracy" theory is what's hilarious. Don't you think if they wanted to be evil reviewers out to get Square Enix (I'm not even gonna try to figure out how you understood that), they would have reviewed the game sooner to tear it apart when it was even worse? If anything, they're the only people who gave the game a chance with this 10 months wait.

I'll say it again, reviewing it 3 days before the major patch was a bad idea, but jesus christ everything he says is true, never mind the fact that he's not aware of everything 1.18 will bring.
Before you label me as a FFXIV hater like you did with the people who didn't agree with your point of view, I suggest you ask yourself why I would spend my time playing a game I hate.

[Krausus]

True, Guildleves aren't quests. Guildleves wish they were quests. The truth is, they were the only form of content, for the most part, that the game released with. So you can forgive people for thinking of them as quests. In fact, I'm sure SE themselves have called guildleves a questing system at some point. Just because players abuse them as a quick form of levelling doesnt mean they aren't quests.

For all we know the changes coming in patch 1.18 could turn out to be totally non-functional. I'm certainly not holding my breath.

People who aren't die-hard fans aren't going to nitpick her every word like you are anyway. They are just going to glance over the article and take in the general gist of what it's saying. And generally speaking you can't fault the article.

Regardless if you want to call them quests or not, every MMO has pretty much the same leveling system, SE just cut out all the running from quest hub to quest hub.