Started playing another MMO: what I feel FF14 lacks in regards to uniting a community

[Skivvy]

GW2 is a lot of fun! And I LOVE some of their basic features (AH from anywhere, material bank, shared account storage, shared glamour log, megaserver, etc. Love me some Jumping puzzles also. And their events! And the changing world...good fun

I'm currently back in XI for now, but I may have to pop back over there when I need a breather. I'm not good with playing more than a single MMO at a time :X

[ShinMetsu]

Plays the FFXI card

Rose-tinted glasses and whatever.
Say what you want, I loved actually having to communicate and co-operate with other players on a pretty much daily basis to play.
Actually moving through the actually dangerous open world together to reach our location, sneaking past monsters and stuff.

Often for days, even weeks i don't leave my house in ffxiv.
Limsa infested with ERP catboys anyway. Catboys were a mistake too. Aw man, i miss FFXI.

[Rasikko]

Active open-world would improve the community feeling alot, this is sadly something that FFXIV is lacking alot. I mean, aside from FATES (which people skipped doing since they added Deep Dungeon) and hunts, what else are the players doing toghter in the open-world?

FFXIV needs to step away from the duty finder and add long lasting group oriented content for the open-world. Sadly, I fear this wont happen, untill SE fixed the whole server memory data blablablabla issue.

They should just let us have transworld teleporting. Just zip to another server for like 6 hours or something and then kick us back to our original. Would solve the "can't make friends in DF" problem.

[NaoTenbe]

I played GW1 5 years after support had been cut for GW2, leaving that just before they finished the entire storyline there. When NCsoft took over most of the customer service, yeah, that part of it went REALLY downhill. I will say they learned from it, but not soon enough to protect a friend of mine who's account got hacked, and they lost a chara that had been in the game literally since opening. (was a necro. Only chara left on the account was a stupid rit used for farming underworld)
NCsoft has gotten better over the years, and playing a game like Wildstar, which is a sort of...optional to pay, showed me they've improved on that regard.
I did try GW2, but I massively suck at jumping puzzles, and other aspects of the game I just couldn't get into.

I will admit, the Dungeon finder seems to be the thing that is most killing off any community here. Also I have never been thrilled with PoTD, and the horrible grindy aspect of it really bothers me. Still, to each their own, and something that FF does that few other games do, is manage to make older content still relevant, one way or another. And that's good.

[winsock]

overly competitive towards each other in FF14, even in community, non-competitive combat like PVE dungeons and fates (see: the debate on parsers.)

I think you are blowing this out of proportion.
The vast majority of the ffxiv will not care so long as you are somewhere around average for your gear. The argument in support of parsers is so people have feedback on their performance. When you see DPS get destroyed by tanks and healers in equal gear then discover the DPS doesn't even realize there is a problem, it's a problem. We want them to be a team player, but they can't if they are unaware.

Also, unless gw2 changed, I left it because it doesn't facilitate team play well. At the time, ppl we're forming parties via 3rd party application. Party request nearly always wanted everyone in zerk gear and want more than half the party to be on warrior. DoT classes had issues with contribution on world bosses b/c targets could only have so many DoTs. Etc

[MistyMew]

The repetition of the same old pattern is what kills ffxiv for me, not a community or needing a close knit community. I could be solo 24/7 in ffxi and still found oodles to do and oodles that I COULD STILL ACHIEVE alone.

Tight knight community is always low on my list what makes a great mmo to me .

Having what we do now as a core, or a base is fine imo, exactly how it is too is fine.

BUT by now...after all these years se MUST inject something new, completely new to the pot to breathe new life and interest in the game (for me). Without it, it is becoming massively less interesting or enjoyable.

It will take everything in me to simply finish msq...again this patch in order to get to the inevitable /sigh...new dungeon /sigh....to gather the same old designed gear.../puke....with a predictable 2000 tome limit to grind. I do apologize but OMFG how the same can ya get!

This is what is happening now OMG

The team needs to add new and vast ideas/zones/events into the game ...yesterday!!



and for all that is holy remove the 1000 character limit ....

[Luciel-Nyx]

The repetition of the same old pattern is what kills ffxiv for me, not a community or needing a close knit community..

Definitely agreed in this matter. There is no real excitement over the same pattern over and over again.

While I agree that GW2 is a really nice, solid mmo, it actually bored me in a short time because I felt like there is not really a goal for me to reach. I don't really prefer open world mmos in general (such as black desert for example, but again, that's a sandbox too), so I felt a little lost at times with not exactly knowing what to do. Plus people actually tend to be rather quiet there tbh, at least in my experience. It definitely has nice ideas though, and the thing with their world events are a good thing. Not sure if the participation reward would be good idea in ffxiv, but other than that it's solid. But I really minded not having the old fashioned class system with healer/tank/dps and ffxiv will probably forever stay my fav mmo I play the longest without occasional breaks. In GW2 it's so much to do I have basically nothing to do, if that makes any sense ^^'

[Nedkel]

Just make a server-wide "shout" option not restricted by regions, so people could actually speak to each other like in metin2.

It will restore the communication between players in instant.

[Usho]

Plays the FFXI card

Rose-tinted glasses and whatever.
Say what you want, I loved actually having to communicate and co-operate with other players on a pretty much daily basis to play.
Actually moving through the actually dangerous open world together to reach our location, sneaking past monsters and stuff.

Often for days, even weeks i don't leave my house in ffxiv.
Limsa infested with ERP catboys anyway. Catboys were a mistake too. Aw man, i miss FFXI.

So having a all catgirl race was better? Double Standard much? FFXIV did mithra justice by adding in playable male cats and of course they added female roes as well. Besides, unless you we're incredibly blind in XI, more than half of "mithra" in XI was played by men who were obsessed with catgirls. So in a way catboys did exist in a way in FFXI but in this case it was men playing in a mithra body.

Having races with only ONE gender WAS THE MISTAKE which FFXIV thankfully fixed.

[RyuDragnier]

Really wish in FFXIV you could be apart of 5 FCs at the same time.

I'd still kill for this. I think they want Linkshells to be similar, but IMO they don't really feel like it, they just feel like a group private chat.