The Many Deaths of Final Fantasy XIV

[Twilite]

I'll read this on my dayoff from work.

[Arkenne]

I'll read this on my dayoff from work.

Why wait? This thread is great to procrastinate!

[Violyre]

I really think this topic is deserving a comeback...

Ask and ye will receive...at my earliest convenience.

I've been kind of off the forums for a bit, between working on three Let's Play series at a time and fitting in what free time I can. I'll try to catch up on some of the things, but let me get down one that I know was a thing.

43: The Fall of the Ishgard Wall: With the Heavensward expansion, it was decided that only players that had finished all main storyline through the 2.55 patch could access the new lands. This was decided due to two variables, that it makes sense story-wise, and that it keeps gilsellers out of the new areas so they can't ruin the prices of new gathering items. But the people who only wanted endgame didn't want this. "I hate having to wait on my friends to level up so we can do Alexander right away!" bellowed the endgamers, not realizing that their friend still needs to hit level 60 first, and that with the change of exp given by adding exp to level 50 MSQ was more than likely a boon so that the later player might actually get a bit ahead towards 51 and beyond. Due to SE's decision to keep the gate, no one bought Heavensward, and many servers were shut down to absorb the loss. Many players quit when they were 5000 in the server queue, causing SE to take the remaining servers offline as it was no longer profitable.

[DarkChild]

Any new deaths since Heavensward?

[Zohar_Lahar]

Any new deaths since Heavensward?

Red Scrips?

[Violyre]

It's been awhile on updates, yeah? I wasn't feeling clever for awhile. On that note, I've added two new ones to this post!

44. Boost to the Max!: One day, people were curious as to why their Cheerios sat with a yellow liquid in the same bowl. His Excellency Lord King God Emperor Yoshi-P, Esquire made an off-handed comment about considering a level jump potion! Players grabbed a bottle of ragehol to state their beliefs. "People should play this game uphill in the snow both ways!" declared the people who joined in 2.0. The 1.0 players facepalmed. "Look! It's already in the Chinese Cash Shop, they're obviously our guinea pigs" cried out the people who forget that there are government-mandated fatigue systems in place among other limitations. With no actual verification of them being added, many players quit the game at this point, causing SE to take the servers offline because the game will be no longer profitable.

45. Region Exclusive Items: China is a bit strict in their internet usage, even with games. You can't do certain things there that are normal for us. Because of this, some new things were added to their version to make up for what they lost. Eventually someone found out that they had stuff we didn't, and rallied a mob. "Give us the pretty stuff!" they cried. "We need the far eastern matriarch set!" said the female characters who felt they needed to look pregnant. Despite the fact that many people want all of the Chinese cash shop available and demand it never to be fully realized over here both, many players quit the game at this point, causing SE to take the servers offline because the game will be no longer profitable.

I got more on the way, so stay tuned!

[DarkB]

i think the game died for one simple reason, segregation.
this game can be played as a whole by just standing into one spot and using DF.
The whole model of weekly lockout, instances, segregation during raids because you cant even whisper to a friend, the whole closed mindset this gaming bring is astonishing.

Content is really weak. one step in righ direction is palace of the dead.

personally i'd add 1000 floors. to last it long enough for developers to push out content. and remove the weekly lockout from everything. This is so stupid i have no clue why games nowadays still adopt this system. You think that people wont quit because they have to come back the week after? guess what, people did, because its boring to not be able to gear up all your classes, people want to play at their pace, not at a forced pace.

Make palace of the dead harder, add more floors, make people busy clearing that content, add new gear sets even better than savage if you hit floors, make relic armor drop from potd, make them upgradable within the instance, you will see people will play that more, you have to give players something to do, not the opposite, like oh hey, weekly reset, log in one day, clear all the crap, log off, see you next wednesday.

This is why this game died.

[Vamelo]

So...what's the magic butt to kiss to be able to post this much worthless text, when normal people can't post an entire page? Is this some childish incentive program - more Itopsych.

"Why aren't you with your group?"

[Violyre]

i think the game died for one simple reason, segregation.
this game can be played as a whole by just standing into one spot and using DF.
The whole model of weekly lockout, instances, segregation during raids because you cant even whisper to a friend, the whole closed mindset this gaming bring is astonishing.

Content is really weak. one step in righ direction is palace of the dead.

personally i'd add 1000 floors. to last it long enough for developers to push out content. and remove the weekly lockout from everything. This is so stupid i have no clue why games nowadays still adopt this system. You think that people wont quit because they have to come back the week after? guess what, people did, because its boring to not be able to gear up all your classes, people want to play at their pace, not at a forced pace.

Make palace of the dead harder, add more floors, make people busy clearing that content, add new gear sets even better than savage if you hit floors, make relic armor drop from potd, make them upgradable within the instance, you will see people will play that more, you have to give players something to do, not the opposite, like oh hey, weekly reset, log in one day, clear all the crap, log off, see you next wednesday.

This is why this game died.

Someone only read the title and not the post~

So...what's the magic butt to kiss to be able to post this much worthless text, when normal people can't post an entire page? Is this some childish incentive program - more Itopsych.

"Why aren't you with your group?"

When you post, click the edit post button at the bottom, and it ignores the character count. You also should try reading some more of it before putting it down.

[ZhaneX]

Got a laugh out of this. Funny stuff.