SE enough of the treadmill, please make the game more interesting!

[Rufalus]

So many interesting things have been announced already for the months ahead. You just need to patiently await implementation.

• Chocobo racing and breeding
• Card game collecting and battling
• Other minigames (basketball / casinos)
• Eternal Bond / marriage
• New PvP rules and maps
• Build airship in collaboration with FC
• New GC ranks implementation
• Completion of relic/zodiak weapons
• Raised level cap with new job skills
• Large new zones and flying mounts
• New playable race and jobs

Plenty of new story content too.

[Nicobo]

FFXI is still running, no one need to miss it, just logon XI and have fun! ^^;

[HeroSamson]

I agree.

I was finishing my weathered armor and now a new set of armor appears, I feel like the game is a couple of quest, few missions and only armor after those other two run out then grind levels.

I wish they would drag the quest on, say take quest, send me to fight a strong monster, maybe 2-5 strong monsters to finish one quest, not talk to this person then that person and done.

[Ryel]

FFXI is still running, no one need to miss it, just logon XI and have fun! ^^;

The thread is still up, you could try actually reading it and making a relevant post! ^^;

[jars]

horizontal progression is duuuuuuuuuumb. no one wants to spend all that time on gear that is a sidegrade. if you are one of the few people that do then FFXI is right there, go play it. FF14 is far more successful than 11 was they have no reason to go back to the model when the one being used in 14 is a proven success.

[BlaiseArath]

horizontal progression is duuuuuuuuuumb. no one wants to spend all that time on gear that is a sidegrade. if you are one of the few people that do then FFXI is right there, go play it. FF14 is far more successful than 11 was they have no reason to go back to the model when the one being used in 14 is a proven success.

Well to be fair, FFXI came out back when MMOs weren't very popular or well known, that didn't happen til around WoW... and once WoW came out, it attracted pretty much everyone, and very few people would break away from WoW. While WoW still exists, you can see the discontent many of its fans have for it (at least vocal minority blah blah), and its popularity has dwindled a bit... plus, a MMOs are high in popularity these days and a lot of people "MMO hop" to the next cool thing. Plus, the absolute failure of 1.0 actually gave the game a lot of publicity, so believe it or no that benefited 2.0's release, as people wanted to see if it had improved. The stars aligned for XIV to become the success it is really.

The problem with is, XI wasn't very new player friendly for the longest time, so when it came to the point MMO popularity was being picked up, new players weren't helped to reach endgame and grew bored quite quickly, stunting the games over all growth. At its peak it did reach 500k subscribers and is still survived by a modest player base as people like to bring up.. pretty good for a game with "Dumb" progression system if you ask me.

FFXIV is by no means bad though, thats not what I'm getting at - nor do I think infinite side-grades is the best model (which is why XI did release newer, best in slot pieces often enough, the idiots will quote the same tired crap of 1-2 body pieces across 20 jobs being "the best" for a while meant the other 15 slots apparently never got upgraded?).

[Sho86]

horizontal progression is duuuuuuuuuumb. no one wants to spend all that time on gear that is a sidegrade.

Sooo.... Spending all that time on gear just for it to get entirely replaced is better?

[coldreactive]

We could have a branching storyline with different dungeons for that story path. (These would be unlockable as "Optional" Dungeons to players who picked another path.) Let's say Rev Toll becomes a city state... Minfillia and the others offer you a permanent stay with them and dealing with certain other primals, or you could continue with other stories concerning the Garlemald Empire, etc. It would be an innovative step in an MMORPG... that's for sure.

[Catsby]

This game's shitty gear treadmill is at complete odds with its accessibility to new players and one of its strongest features, job changing.

In other MMOs it's actually been pretty exciting to see seniors in high level gear. When I dinged 75 RNG back in XI one of my party mates had full relic gear including the rifle and it was totally awesome. I remember thinking some day I'll have that stuff and after enough dynamis I finally did. The level 50 moment in FFXIV was just disappointing. I got out of Aurum Vale, did the Bard artifact quest but was crushed to learn it was literally half as strong as it needed to be in order to be relevant. It's super awkward to ding in this game and have your first meaningful power spike be meaningless.

It sucks even more if you level multiple jobs and you are basically punished with shitty busy work every time the ilevel is raised. The worst part is that the game and community don't actually gain anything from an ilevel increase.

[Fayto]

You hit your head on your way to this thread, son?

Using a personal insult because you can't counter the truth, eh? Choice is an illusion, deal with it. It is a fact of life you should accept.