What do you say to get your friends to play?

[Melian]

I don't want to get addicted to an mmorpg ever again.

FF14 Selling Point: It's bad enough you /won't/ get addicted again! (Half serious....)

I don't really have anyone I'd recommend it two. I have a few friends who tried and stopped a bit after release. They can follow it well enough on their own though, and they're not coming back until jobs get put in. Sometimes I'm a bit skeptical that this game has a very bright future myself, even once everything is all sorted out. Keeping these jobs as "solo" jobs and then trying to add party only traditional jobs? It just screams out mismatch and feels so forced. Plus it will have been well over a year past launch by then, and people will have newer games to go on to. It would be nice if a ps3 launch made a lot of noise and got people to jump on a two year old game, but I question if that's really a probable thing at all.

I don't get the hate at keyboards on 14 though. Mine works great for me. I have, quite honestly, zero problems with it.

[JackDaniels]

" PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE I GIVES U BJ AND SAMMICH "

" No "

" PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE I GIVE U ALL MY GIL"

" You'd probably have a better chance of getting me to play if you knocked me unconcious and manipulated my limbs like a marionette "

[Coldfire]

"I won't let you out of the basement until you played the game till rank 50! Until then I will have fun with your sister! Mwuhahahaha~"
Most people I know only played the beta for a few days and then never came back. Wouldn't even be able to make them touch it if I used a stun gun...

[Sasagawa]

By the game biatch or ill smack you

shortly follwed by

Play the game or I will break it over your head

Job done

[IStolzI]

I think it would be smart to avoid trying to get friends to play until PS3 release or at least 1.19. For one theres not a whole lot of exciting stuff going on. We who still play are more or less preparing for the exciting stuff to start.

Two would be why have someone start playing now, get used to a certain way, when 1.19 and 1.20 are about to bring major changes to what we know? Everytime somethin is changed it upsets someone, so best wait until after these big changes are done.

[Melian]

Just coming back here. There's a whole lot of "I'd never recommend the game" in this post. But I think I could reasonably recommend it after 1.19 (if I had someone to recomend it to).

The ui lag with retainers and stuff is annoying, but not so bad it'd keep me or a friend away from the game. The lack of transport is stupid, but that'll be fixed in 1.19. The lack of content will remain a problem, but not to a new player coming to the game who has lots of leveling to do before content would become a worry. The not being able to list +3 items that are really expensive is a problem, but that will be fixed a bit with the new crafting / materia stuff in 1.19 I think, and it also won't be a problem to a new player. A lot of issues have either vanished, or wouldn't be a problem to a new player.

If they were entering the game in a vacuum.

It's really the original launch that damaged the game, is all. I'd be fine telling people to play if launch were the 1.19 patch.

And, honestly, my server seems more populated of late (a bit) than it had a few months back. And I suspect 1.19 will bring a bunch of people in too (some of whom will stick around).

[Shikyo]

I wouldnt consider myself a real friend if i trick someone into wasting any money at all on this game, I would tell them that the game is heading in the right direction and maybe in a few years it could be worth playing, but for now play madden and wait for Tera Online.

[RickJames]

Me "Hey man have you tried FFXIV?"

Friend "You mean FFXIII-2?"

Me "No FFXIV the MMO."

Friend "No but Dan played it and said it suuuuuuucked."

Me "Well they have made lots of progress, its getting way better!"

Friend "Dan said it didnt have pvp or an Auction House or even chocobos and airship! Did they put that stuff in?"

Me "Well no not yet but chocobos and airships are coming in September!"

Friend "So no pvp or auction house and transportation is coming soon?

Me "Umm yeah!"

Friend "Isnt that game like a year old and it just now ALMOST has transportation?"

Me "Well they changed leadership of the project and there was an earthquake and the coding was really poor so they are having trouble.....Hey come back!"

Friend(from the other room) "I'm not playing that piece of garbage..."

Me "GDI...."

[Charismatic]

Me "Hey man have you tried FFXIV?"

Friend "You mean FFXIII-2?"

Me "No FFXIV the MMO."

Friend "No but Dan played it and said it suuuuuuucked."

Me "Well they have made lots of progress, its getting way better!"

Friend "Dan said it didnt have pvp or an Auction House or even chocobos and airship! Did they put that stuff in?"

Me "Well no not yet but chocobos and airships are coming in September!"

Friend "So no pvp or auction house and transportation is coming soon?

Me "Umm yeah!"

Friend "Isnt that game like a year old and it just now ALMOST has transportation?"

Me "Well they changed leadership of the project and there was an earthquake and the coding was really poor so they are having trouble.....Hey come back!"

Friend(from the other room) "I'm not playing that piece of garbage..."

Me "GDI...."

Sounds about right, but w/e... it's free so I still mess with it. I have no idea how I'm going to convince MYSELF let alone anyone else to keep playing once they ask for any money from me!

[AsterBarnivere]

I wouldnt consider myself a real friend if i trick someone into wasting any money at all on this game, I would tell them that the game is heading in the right direction and maybe in a few years it could be worth playing, but for now play madden and wait for Tera Online.

Errr I'd stay away from TERA too right now.. Brian Knoxx is messing the game up (Just like what he did to AION) atm and the playerbase is currently raging..