Can we please get SOMETHING TO DO ingame?

[Celtodeno]

Why is it that people who play boring games continue to play boring games if the games are boring?

Because these games are free and the people want desperately to believe that these boring games can be fixed because they don't want to have to go back to those other games that, while much more entertaining, are very predictable.

Sadly, FFXIV is becoming both not-free and predictable.

[Yelta_Sumasu]

I too crave new and interesting content and sometimes find it a challenge to be patient. I try to remember they are reworking a lot of broken stuff as well as adding things that should have been included in the game at release.

Once they start charging money I will have to evaluate if I am having ~12 worth of fun a month.

[Neptune]

How about go play something else instead of playing FFXIV all the time

First thing you've ever said that made sense.

[Lavani]

How do games where you can only be one class do it?

They have content from lvl 1-end game at launch, their quests are quests. This means they have a story, 14 has no quests in comparison with any other MMO (the main story and side quests are very few). The guildleve system is what killed the game, as far as leveling up, IMO because of the fact that they are a bad grind method for xp gain and do nothing to progress the game story.

[Petdo]

There are TONS of things to do in-game.... research!

[Tezz_Xivectro]

Something i've been thinking about lately to help fuel content is the user add-ons (still far off though).

So many people keep expressing the desire for more mini-games and what not. While i still think SE should add their own to incorporate with the environment as well, but if we had the options to literally create our own mini-games and interact through the upcoming add-ons, it could really boost the game.

Then the most polished & liked/voted for add-on mini-games would eventually win out for PS3 support.

For the time being though, i think we're SOoL.

[Rowyne]

They have content from lvl 1-end game at launch, their quests are quests. This means they have a story, 14 has no quests in comparison with any other MMO (the main story and side quests are very few). The guildleve system is what killed the game, as far as leveling up, IMO because of the fact that they are a bad grind method for xp gain and do nothing to progress the game story.

^ I agree 100%.

The ONE thing SE really excels at with the Final Fantasy series is the story. For all the amazing lore and potential this game has, it feels empty. Because they've done so little to really get you involved with the story.

The dev team seriously needs to put some real effort into implementing quests, real quests, into this game.

[Celtodeno]

Once they start charging money I will have to evaluate if I am having ~12 worth of fun a month.

I get what you're saying but the bigger question is will the worldwide MMO gamer community be willing to pay ~12 PLUS invest their time playing FFXIV when there are now a lot of other choices out there.

I want that answer to be yes but, If 2.0 rolls around and square has still not made the quest lines and overall experience of moving through this game ATLEAST as epic and engaging as other MMO's out there then the funding for this game won't be there. Square knows this.

I came to this game hoping that the experience would MORE epic and engaging than anything else out there because that is what the FF series has always brought to the table. As of right now, Leve's, NPC's with ole' English walls of text (bleh), stagnant unchanging zones, extreme grinding, ect. make this game all key strokes, numbers and no soul.

Now i know its all 'wait for 2.0', but there is no guarantee that when 2.0 rolls around that the Dev's have put in a system that is more than EXP grinding and 'Tank and spank' instances followed by a few good boss fights.

[Celtodeno]

It would be nice to hear how the Dev's plan to make the game Engaging. It has to be more than Class changes and pretty looking zones, but that's all they've shown so far.

Please Dev's, show us how you are going to make this game engaging, Like a great book I can't put down! Like every other Final fantasy or Chrono Trigger and Secret of the Mana. Hell even Deus Ex was engaging.

Or let us know that this game is designed for pretty graphics, soulless-grinding and 'user-generated' content. That would be fine, we could all move on and leave this game to the niche group that is already in for all that.

[Majidah]

You don't have to have SE to implement this stuff, get creative and provide some content for yourself!

Was this sarcastic? Because you are suggesting for players to play make believe inside an actual game.
I mean I paid like 60 bucks so I wouldn't have to grab a cardboard sword and pretend I was a knight myself. That's kind of the point of video games...