Quote Originally Posted by Rutelor View Post
Instead of the Pavlovian pleasure-trigger of just hitting another rank, I find the fighting is more tactical now, and quite more rewarding... If it moves slowly, so does chess. And--to me, mind you--it's more satisfying to play now. Definitely more so than the addict-prone series of activities that represented "ranking up" before. Let me hope it moves even more in that direction. Other than that, I'm sure the current status of the SP ratio and other such things are far from being final. It's been plainly stated through interviews and letters: The battle system is not done yet.

Having said this, allow me to vent a bit, out of exasperation:

There are some people that play this game as though it were a race (to nowhere, BTW,) and I fail to understand what the purpose of their rush is. What exactly will you accomplish when you cap all your jobs, while the game really is not near having any sort of endgame yet? You're just reflexively carrying the compulsion from your behavior in other games to this one. Adrenaline addiction is fine, but man! You do get adrenaline running easily!

FFXIV is currently an open Beta Test, not a commercial product ready to be enjoyed in most of its aspects. SE has plainly acknowledged this. Furthermore, we're all beta-testers, and we really should only be hanging around because (some of us for bizarre reasons) we like being a part of this process. It definitely shouldn't be because the game is in any sort of way finished, or we expect it to be so now.

Help out with your constructive criticism, and once and for all cut it out with the entitlement attitude. If this game had failed--and it could very well have done so, if it weren't because of us, the optimists--you, the destructive complainers who would've caused it to fail, would've all lost the few dollars you paid for the license to play it. End of story.

If you don't like what's going on, please assume it did fail, and leave. Let us, the constructive bunch, do what we're really enjoying here, which is helping the game get somewhere. If by relaunch time the game fails, you can laugh at what you will call our folly. Even despite our assertion that we are having fun right now. If it doesn't fail, rest assured we will be too busy having even more fun then, for even thinking of laughing at you.

This is not a rant against people that criticize the game. However, people that criticize can do so destructively, while some others take good care to do it constructively. If you don't know in which group you are, you are most likely in the first one. And yes, this rant is addressed at you. (For starters, stop using the word "suck," and learn a few more verbs and a few adjectives as well. It's your mother tongue, for crying out loud--and not mine by the way-- but you wouldn't know it from the care you fail to bestow it.)

You, the smug, destructive non-achievers that constitute the chorus of game-addicts that most complain, and are perpetually indignant because you don't have your fix NOW: You behave as if you never committed a mistake in your lives. The arrogance of your criticism reaches pathetic dimensions in front of the sad reality that, if you were in charge of developing this, and I say this without pause, the game would have failed already. Most worthwhile projects became worthwhile only because the people behind them found an enlightened way of detonating the learning potential within mistakes, but more importantly, because they had the daring to take action and make those mistakes. Also, because they had the patience and perseverance to fix them.

If such mistakes are committed moving forward in the development of this game, they are only condemnable if they lead to no improvement. The only way to move FFXIV at this juncture is by the good old scientific method, the trusty system of trial and ERROR.

I'm sticking with the game, because I think, and I could be deluded (but so could you,) that SE has better intentions and, so far, better procedures in dire straits than many companies would have had in similar circumstances. Something in their attitude has earned them my respect (and it certainly wasn't their savoir-faire with PC game development.) If you don't see this, maybe you shouldn't be here, more for your own good than for anything else.

The game is not ready, and it's not going to be for a while. So, stay, vigilant and critical, yes! But help pick up the pieces, or just get the fuck out of the way.

Rutelor.
For the hundredth time, the point I'm making is Yoshi lied. End of story. if you are pleased with the direction the game has taken why are you minding those of us with negative experiences.