Filler Fantasy XIV: The Paperboy Reborn!

[Nektulos-Tuor]

You would love Age of Wushu and Arche Age

$rch$ge was a great game until the developers stopped caring on it and made it pay to win, and didn't balance any of the classes out and didn't fix the bugs like clipping through boats with melee attacks and made ranged classes much better in almost every way.

Final Fantasy has much better classes/gameplay/balance/interesting mechanics for skills.

I admit I actually enjoyed Archeage, however at the very end when they made everything based off how much you swipe your credit card and how lucky you are (10% chance to get necklace you want or it fails, downgrades back down to 4..)

Ah, never played Age of Wushu. However, I don't like not being able to be a Knight or a dude in full armor.

Another problem with Archeage, was its aoes were extremely limited and a lot of skills had their abuse removed, unlike final fantasy where I can hit infinite targets with my aoes.

You know something is wrong with your game when people are selling a sword for 2000$ and its stats (damage) are 4 times better then the average players.

The mechanics of the game itself though and the ideas it had were spot on. The held back and dull gameplay, lack of balance, bugs however killed it.

[RyuRoots]

I don't want to do that, I just want to kill heroes like you. I want to be the reason your doing fetch-quests and I want to watch you do them and laugh at your suffering as I burn your villages and take your woman.

Unfortunately, there are not games like that anymore. MMOs these days are all about being heroes and epics, not about causing other players suffering. There arn't many things like that anymore, unless you count SWTOR - which story completely separates you from anyone else.


I can't help it. I have an evil personality.

So in otherwords, you think like an edgy 12-year-old. That certainly clarifies much.

[Welsper59]

Final Fantasy has much better classes/gameplay/balance/interesting mechanics for skills.

It's also not the sort of game that is developed with folks of your interest as the target audience. While you might like certain aspects about it, the core development process for FFXIV does not tailor to you. You will forever be in the "wrong" for this topic (not literally wrong, but just won't have much credibility or room to argue for). By all means you can suggest changing something, as it might spark some alternate QoL change in the future (possibly irrelevant to your suggestion/complaint), but don't expect people of authority on the matter to take it seriously.

Another thing though, I really wish you people would stop looking for pointless things to complain about when it comes to your own purchases and use "new players" as your sad defense for something. If you have a complaint, then say it. Don't reach out for some sort of shield that doesn't even exist. Why are you looking out for some hypothetical newbie player that will start playing months from now? How do you know exactly what it is they're hoping for with this game? What makes you assume they're extremely stupid people? In that they purchase this game and suddenly rage at the fact that they want to immediately ignore everything about the game, as though they'll instantly be bored with content they've never experienced or know about before they even try it. What makes you assume that they even care that much about Heavensward if they're completely new to the game/genre?

[Lexia]

I don't like the fact that new players must do the main storyline up to 2.55 to access the new content. I actually like that they have to see the story... however...

Can you please take the 150 quests and just make them 15? 90% of the quests and the main storyline are basicly fetch quests, or stuff that a Hero of Light would never do. Are we not suppost to be heroes? Well we are about as heroic as the Moogle Mailbox.

Please reduce the quests and cull them completely. That way new players can enjoy the story and not have to sit through mindless hours upon hours of repetitive and silly quests like...

http://ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/wi...New_Companions

^ one of a great great many many examples...

The only quests in the main story-line should be ones that promote and move the story forward.

Do you know the difference between a stand alone and a expansion?

[silentwindfr]

FF14 is a theme park mmorpg, they are filled with quest! most of them will be dulls and boring that normal. but with FF14 we get a lot of story from it. if you prefere game like archage (sandbox mmorpg) normal that the format of FF14 is displeasing you.

[Felis]

Can you please take the 150 quests and just make them 15?

People will start to complain about quest holes and that they have to grind for level ups between the quests.
Also the MSQ in XIV have not only the role to tell a story, but also to show the player the world.

As an example Little Ala Migho
During 1.0 the game told us next to nothing about this place. We knew that the people there are fugutives from Ala Migho and that was it.
In ARR the game tell us about this place, the people who live there, their hopes and their pain.

[kyuven]

Actually he does have a point for one thing...some quests could easily be merged into a single long quest rather than a dozen short quests. Same steps, same rewards (combined), just fewer quests.
But then that would make the achievements harder, so...meh.

[nuyu11]

People will start to complain about quest holes and that they have to grind for level ups between the quests.
Also the MSQ in XIV have not only the role to tell a story, but also to show the player the world.

As an example Little Ala Migho
During 1.0 the game told us next to nothing about this place. We knew that the people there are fugutives from Ala Migho and that was it.
In ARR the game tell us about this place, the people who live there, their hopes and their pain.

Yeah Ala Migho.. at first I'm wondering who the hell they are... Love this game lore.

[Kosmos992k]

While we're at it, New players should get a full set of fcob gear and instant lv 50 in 5 jobs of their choice, on log in.

Whoa, whoa, whoa! All those goodies for *new* players? In that case, loyal players with 2 years of subscription should be gifted aZodiak relic for each job the have arelic for, and start the new jobs at lvl 50. It's not fair to give new players such gifts without also doing right by their loyal customers.

[Veqluna]

Maybe he just want something like Quest -- kill black robe guy with the mask (don't even know who he is but it's hero thing to do )----> kill ifirt ( I don't know someone just want it dead )---> suddenly kill titan ( oh how am I end up in this cave with lava everywhere ) ---> riding Air ship with white hair guy and some weird teenager ( wait where are we going and where did this airship come from ) ---> kill garuda ( oh wow this is awesome wait.. who is that mask guys with the giant machince ) ............................................ > Step of faith ( DRAGON!!!!! WOW my epic story of hero ) ----> Cutscene 2.55 ( oh hey who is she that suddenly sleeping on the ground )........( Hey who dare capture me Im hero) ..... ( Who are these people with blue clothes ) ...... I'm not hero anymore