Quote Originally Posted by Malakhim View Post
There's hardly any need to be snide.

I've been reading these forums since they opened on day one, and one thing that I'm surprised to see(due to reading other forums) is a consensus among A LOT of players that they enjoy several of these things, and as such, would disagree with your original point.

I don't recall any other game in the main FF series having a system as active as this. Maybe FFX-2's was faster and more interesting with the combo mechanic, but you still had to wait on commands and turns.
"A lot" is an extremely vague term in this case, because "a lot more" people would agree with me.

I'm arguing with cold, hard numbers here, that you can see in the poll results that SE released:

http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com...16083b634f7678
http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com...98e4034b898102

Only 6.6% of the people polled thought of gameplay as the most appealing part of FFXIV. Auction house, a fix for market wards, was the 2nd most requested addition to FFXIV. 72% of the people expected overhaul to FFXIV gameplay. The 2nd most requested fix was the combat system, behind lack of content, and ahead of market wards. Only 16% of the people like the current bonus point system.

Seriously, I'm not trying to be a douche here, but you're clearly looking at this from a very biased standpoint. Gameplay is the WORST thing about FFXIV. It's broken and crappy and needs fixing. It's been criticized up and down about it since release, by professional reviewers, amateurs, current players players, former players, prospective players, trolls, cats, whatever. Even SE and Yoshi themselves released information that this is true.