What the future holds

[weeble]

ok, if this game only aloud you to level 1 class, 1 craft and maybe 1 dol like most other mmo's out. would you say u even have a thing to do? in other game would you have happily made 20toons while waiting for content? the content they thrown at us so far is closer to that type of gameplay to boot. if u have lots to do or enjoying doing it u must not be playing more then few hours a week to begin with and cant' possibly see how crappy it is. yeah yeah stuff will be added. i can't wait to see it all myself too. i'ma be excited too, when it's all in our faces to see.

i'm looking forward to the hamlets and ifrit and all that stuff don't get me wrong, and i'ma enjoy playing this game ..i think. but some of you seem way too deluted ..or the mmo worlds are in trouble cause u need to leave the forums lol,(jk,jk?) u might make the devs think they can get away with shotty empty mmo's and still charge us like idiots.

[Chain]

Expecting more than you received is part of the issue this game had at launch, while I do agree its much better than it was at launch, I've learned to hold my enthusiasm until I know what I'm getting.

[TonyMontana]

What I see as the future - A niche game that is played by 100k~ people(once PS3 comes out and the dust settles)
I guess thats a pretty bright future considering where we are now.

[Ferth]

ok, if this game only aloud you to level 1 class, 1 craft and maybe 1 dol like most other mmo's out. would you say u even have a thing to do? in other game would you have happily made 20toons while waiting for content? the content they thrown at us so far is closer to that type of gameplay to boot. if u have lots to do or enjoying doing it u must not be playing more then few hours a week to begin with and cant' possibly see how crappy it is. yeah yeah stuff will be added. i can't wait to see it all myself too. i'ma be excited too, when it's all in our faces to see.

i'm looking forward to the hamlets and ifrit and all that stuff don't get me wrong, and i'ma enjoy playing this game ..i think. but some of you seem way too deluted ..or the mmo worlds are in trouble cause u need to leave the forums lol,(jk,jk?) u might make the devs think they can get away with shotty empty mmo's and still charge us like idiots.

There seems to be a schism between people who accept every announced change not at the value of the announcement but at some hidden value inherent in the word "change" itself and the people who have an idea of what a successful MMO should be... and can look at FFXIV and see what isn't there.

It's a bit silly to me. If someone has even the most minor concern about an announced change or a feature already in the game they get labeled as a whiner and are told to stop QQing, when to me it seems that the more we find to complain about the greater potential the game has for improvement.

There are alot of aspects about 1.19 that fill me with hope... and there are a few that just make me wince. I have tremendous respect for the whole dev team, I think they are doing incredible work... but at the same time that doesn't mean their actions are above questioning. They don't get a free ride... and if I don't think a change is justified or if I have concerns over the ramifications of how they are altering certain things I shouldn't have to combat such a large portion of the community just to express those concerns.

[Sypherblade]

Going to add to this, with a little crazy speculation on top. Perhaps the caravan/hamlet defense will be related to Grand Company quests. If so, maybe, like in FFXI campaign/besieged, the Grand Company heroes/leaders will accompany the caravan or be present at Hamlet and you have to defend from swarms of imperials with, possibly, one of those imperial generals (gun-halberd) showing up.

Would be cool, just sayin/speculating.

Maybe you escort the reinforcements to said hamlets.... if they get killed by ambushers or imperials along the way then the hamlets are easier to fall to enemy attacks.

be cool if the enemies had their own escorts too, and if the players camp them out and ambush them, then the enemy is weakened as well.

[SniperRifle]

I just want to kill big monsters to badass music with my friends.

[Avraym]

It's not very hard to make a mule account, you realize.

And, just so you know, there is no eclipsing a game by doing pale imitations thereof. The more FFXIV tries to imitate WoW and FFXI, the more it slips behind the times.

FFXI was so 2004. And WoW was so never.

How many trolls will it take for you to leave permanently? Aren't you bored/sick of wasting so much money posting on mules? You're what, banned 4 times so far?

[DonMega]

Yeah i look forward to the new content but more so i look forward to when the game handles real smooth and responsive.

[Synthesis]

I would welcome greatly these following things :

>> More battle improvements, I find battle slow and boring. Boring maybe because its not dynamic enough as I imagined it will be. (I enjoyed battle more before update 1,18) - I dont mind autoattack its slow enough with some classes -,- and I dont like standing character

>> Better or Completely different UI, which will make things easier and not like it is now : click, click, click, click, confirm to do one thing. That includes retainer UI (Horrible thing) and buy and sell, trade UI as well. Party search is useless, confusing and hard to manage. Some skins to UI would be very nice, I find blue windows not suitable for this game.

>>Less Lags with UI (This is annoying after year)
And more minor things...

And these were my complains, these things above are killing maybe wonderful game with so many things that may be happening. It kills all potential :-) that is my opinion people dont throw stones at me.

[User201109011315]

There seems to be a schism between people who accept every announced change not at the value of the announcement but at some hidden value inherent in the word "change" itself and the people who have an idea of what a successful MMO should be... and can look at FFXIV and see what isn't there.

It's a bit silly to me. If someone has even the most minor concern about an announced change or a feature already in the game they get labeled as a whiner and are told to stop QQing, when to me it seems that the more we find to complain about the greater potential the game has for improvement.

There are alot of aspects about 1.19 that fill me with hope... and there are a few that just make me wince. I have tremendous respect for the whole dev team, I think they are doing incredible work... but at the same time that doesn't mean their actions are above questioning. They don't get a free ride... and if I don't think a change is justified or if I have concerns over the ramifications of how they are altering certain things I shouldn't have to combat such a large portion of the community just to express those concerns.

At least the mods don't delete every single one of your posts and accounts and usernames just because everyone else calls you a troll.

On topic, though, I agree that there are some good things coming, but many of the good changes are poisoned by simultaneous bad ones. It's as if they don't know how to leave well enough alone. And honestly, the amount of time they expend on making worthless and destructive changes could probably be spent on improvements instead. Change is not always synonymous with improvement.

And sometimes additions can have ramnifications on other systems which SE doesn't seem to understand. For example, you cannot change crafting by oversimplifying it without also influencing the demand of every item. (Coupled with the increase in localleves, then it's pretty safe to assume economy will stagnate). And another example is the job system. You can't insert jobs as advanced classes and still maintain the functionality of the armory system.

Sometimes it makes you wonder.