The disapointment that is Alexander

[Velhart]

I love this statement. It's absolutely true. People have a hard time accepting it's a WoW clone. I'm a die hard Final Fantasy fan and even I can admit that. I truly believe if Blizzard decided to re-release World of Warcraft with current gen graphics, it would reign MMO king again. A LOT, TOO MANY inspirations were taken from WoW.

They *just* did that.

And subs dropped like a rock. The content was crap.

Did well for Everquest 2! >_>

I apologize OP, seems we got a bit off topic. This is suppose to be criticism towards Alexander.

[HReincarnate]

I will admit that the raid's theme itself seems underwhelming in comparison to Binding Coils of Bahamut. No matter how large the threat actually is, goblins have never in the FF series been taken seriously and still hard to now. I will wait and see how it all plays out before properly criticizing it. I do have a feeling something bigger than the goblins is going to appear and then the threat being more real.

In fairness to Alexander: Gordias, BCoB had a bunch of uninteresting bosses also. First floor was a giant snake, the 2nd a giant ADS, 4th floor was just a gauntlet, and 5th floor was Twintania. Only real interesting boss fights in the entirety of the last raid were Darnus, Phoenix, and Bahamut, mostly because they were all major plot points. I will wait and see how Alexander delivers on this. I do think in the future raids though they need to throw the hard punches right from the start to keep people motivated and interested.

As for gear. SE is getting real lazy here. You would think for top notch raiding gear, you would make each set look unique. Aiming, Scouting, and Striking all look the same with very minor differences. Its understandable for lower gear, but this is unique, very hard to get gear, it should be treated as such.

Thank you for your contribution to the thread
I do believe that Alexander will get a better story in the next installment but I'm of the opinion that after ScoB and Fcob they needed to come out guns blazing with Alexander.
And interesting point with the gear - I didn't even think about that.

[SkizzleofRagnarok]

I'm not defending Tanaka but his vision was to create something that was not like the rest. Like FFXI was it didnt remind you of WoW or any new MMORPGs that came after WoW wich was good. Again since people by default always randomly like to provoke this out of most of us discussing just because. No one wants to wait 6h for group but we do want to feel like we earned our gears and lvl and stuff wont be useless after 6 months. I think most FFXI gamers lost their minds when they saw how easy it was to level in this game and how everything was handouts and nerfs. I just realized whats the point of me doing Alexander now? What satisfaction will it give me? I can do it when im i200 and the silly title is as valuable as yours I just didnt happen to be "first" LOL <-- See what i mean with this handout gaming mentality? It teaches you to slack and do stuff later because its just as rewarding and i get to do it with nerfs Fair huh?

[Instrumentality]

FFXI was an EQ clone that somehow managed to be worse.

Lmao at anyone thinking it was original and fresh, though.

[Vincent_Mateus]

I had more fun 2 manning T1 last night with my DRG and Paladin friend last night then I ever did with Alexander, period. The area was not incredibly large, but it -felt- expansive. The atmosphere was enjoyable, and it reminded me why I loved the coils to begin with. For Velharts point, he's right. All the gear is lazily designed, and not just from Alex. Ravana PLD sword is just a cheap Ruskin of the dread sword. The Alex savage gear should be easily distinguishable, and not just dyeable. I'd like incentive as a raider, because not only am I bored in the raids, I don't care about the future developments of Alexander's story, which isn't anything like what I experienced with coil. Give me a reward that's worth -something- to someone. I'd almost be happy with a compelling story at this point, but if they do the normal/savage raids in the future I hope they change the bosses and make them unique. Should have just named it Alexander HM, cause it's borderline the exact same thing

[Velhart]

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The thing I wonder is if the story is even meant to be serious. I don't know how to treat it yet.

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Fun fact: FFXI came out in 2002. WoW came out in 2004. FFXI drew heavy inspiration from Everquest and developers are open about that. Also by your logic, we should not be playing video games at all.

[Blood-Aki]

I love this statement. It's absolutely true. People have a hard time accepting it's a WoW clone. I'm a die hard Final Fantasy fan and even I can admit that. I truly believe if Blizzard decided to re-release World of Warcraft with current gen graphics, it would reign MMO king again. A LOT, TOO MANY inspirations were taken from WoW.

Actually, people have a hard time realizeing it's not a clone, and just call anything that pretty has mounts and HPs bars a "wow clone" this terrible assumption has been thrown around since relase, and no matter how times you say it in your head, it won't make it true, inspiration does not mean "we copied the game" this is a big mistake all the nay sayers keep using and it just keeps making them look foolish. You are most certainly not a die hard fan if you can't even see this.

[DukeBurden]

Actually, people have a hard time realizeing it's not a clone, and just call anything that pretty has mounts and HPs bars a "wow clone" this terrible assumption has been thrown around since relase, and no matter how times you say it in your head, it won't make it true, inspiration does not mean "we copied the game" this is a big mistake all the nay sayers keep using and it just keeps making them look foolish. You are most certainly not a die hard fan if you can't even see this.

It's.... basically a WoW clone.

[Blood-Aki]

It's.... basically a WoW clone.

It's not, but we can do this all day,

If it was a wow clone, pretty much every MMO after wow was created is also a clone, and anything new will also be, in addition to being an FFXIV clone, you see the pattern?

You may just be used to WOW if you played it for so many years, and everything you play after will seem like a clone, it happens to a lot of gamers.

[Mercutial]

It teaches you to slack and do stuff later because its just as rewarding and i get to do it with nerfs Fair huh?

But it's NOT as rewarding at that point. Unless you mean gear... which I gotta say is a far distant second to downing content for truly hardcore raiders.