Removal of Surnames

[Kidkaze]

While the game did get a 49% metascore for the fundamental systems, I kinda doubt that the surname function wasnt one of its problems......

[Smashington]

It's funny how you're defending the systems in a game that won Worst Game of 2010 and has a 49/100 meta score. The small minority of people who gobble up whatever SE puts on their plate do not have valid opinions on what makes a system good or not.

I had my opinion validated by an approved notary.

So, don't even pretend like my opinion isn't valid. I have the documentation at home, filed under "D" for document.

[Coombah]

/thumbsup for surnames

Yep I agree

[BelgianRofl]

Notaries don't validate opinions. They observe signatures...

[Abriael]

Abriael, the fundamental systems of this game earned it a 49% meta score. SE wouldn't have fired Tanaka for implementing those crappy systems into it's game if everyone was like you - a person who gobbles up whatever slop SE dumps on his plate.

Interesting. You aren't very informed, are you? The fundamental systems of the game (for instance the armory system) are the most praised feature by basically every critic whose reviews led to that (honestly silly) metascore. Funny how you flaunt something but then you don't even agree with what brought it up.
Oh, Tanaka hasn't been fired. He's still part of the team. No one, to our knowledge, has been fired due to FXIV. Again, you might want to get a bit more informed before posting.

You should be thanking people like me who are offended that SE would even release such a heap after making us anxiously wait 5 long years.

Interesting. The game has been announced little more than 1 year before release. So no. You didn't wait 5 years. Also, being "offended" by a game is laughable. What the game needs is constructiveness. Pouting because SE "offended" you is absolutely laughable, even if not surprising, looking at your attitude.

[BelgianRofl]

The game has been announced little more than 1 year before release. So no. You didn't wait 5 years. Also, being "offended" by a game is laughable. What the game needs is constructiveness. Pouting because SE "offended" you is absolutely laughable, even if not surprising, looking at your attitude.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgtZvn5c4e4

[Vicious]

My thoughts on this is to have them be optional. leave the 2nd line blank if you only want one name

[Abriael]

I'm pretty sure that game scores and awards mean a lot, since they can and do have a direct impact on sales numbers. And honestly, the game really hasn't changed all that much since launch. Sure, the lag is pretty much gone, and most of the problems with the UI have been ironed out, but it's still pretty much the same game. Even after all the updates, I'd say that on a scale of 1 to 10, FFXIV only deserves maybe 1 or 2 more points today than it received from critics at launch.

LOL. You're playing that bland, generic piece of crap called rift a tad too much, since you don't seem to know the current state of the game at all. FFXIV has shown, in the first 5 months, the highest rate of improvement of the MMORPG history.
Review scores mean nothing, as they're written by goons that didn't even play the game for more than a few hours (and a MMORPG cannot be judged in that small of a timeframe), as demonstrated by their under-rank-10 characters on the lodestone, that makes everyone that knows even a little bit about journalistic integrity roll on the floor laughing.

The difference is that one of the options can be distracting from the fantasy setting of the game, while the other cannot. Therefore, it is illogical to say that they are equivalent.

So now you're backpedaling? Where has the "options are always good!" gone?

Uh... no. People won't have any problem remembering different names, even if some people have surnames and some don't. It will not make anything more difficult in the slightest, I assure you.

You can deny basic psychology as much as you want. And assure people that you're right as much as you want. AFter all on forums i see people denying even basic physics, so i'm not that surprised

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgtZvn5c4e4

That isn't even related to FFXIV, in fact the engine is completely different. So "anxiously" wait a game over a completely unrelated tech demo of an unnamed game?
Doesn't work like that. They announced FFXIV at E3 2009, and that's exactly how much we have to wait. If you wanted to be "anxious" over something entirely unrelated, that's your choice, not SE's fault.

[DeadRiser]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgtZvn5c4e4

WHO GIVES A FLYING F*** ABOUT WHAT THEY RATED IT? YOU'RE PLAYING THE GAME STILL AREN'T YOU?

... By the by, I wish Limsa looked like that, that looks pretty wicked cool!

[Rhianu]

Oh, Tanaka hasn't been fired. He's still part of the team. No one, to our knowledge, has been fired due to FXIV. Again, you might want to get a bit more informed before posting.

Depends on how you define the word "fired."

If you mean completely losing his employment at SE, then no, Tanaka hasn't been fired. However, if we mean simply being removed from his current position and job within SE, then sure, use of the term "fired" wouldn't be entirely inaccurate.