Would you have paid monthly for FFXIV if it was released the way it is today?

[Rowyne]

I think you just need a new husband who doesn't see having a "go to button" for combat as an example of good design.

With the combo system giving us free weapons skills constantly, basic attacks would make it an unbearable spam fest with little chance/reason to use other abilities.

But I guess some people would prefer that because it requires significantly less thought and they can pretend like they are being more "interactive" by mashing their "one go-to button".

There's no reason to be rude, just because you don't agree.

[MicahZerrshia]

No.

I only play casters, and he only plays melee (his main is a PGL).

He was so frustrated with the battle system changes, I thought he was going to throw his keyboard out the window. He apparently no longer has a single go-to ability that can be activated without TP. So, he stands there and waits for auto-attack to get in a few hits before he has any control over his character?

Answer: lvl 14 lnc skill "Invigorate", would take him an hr or so to get, problem solved.

Also I would pay for it as it is now and in fact I will be.

The devs have shown us that they can do something with a game that was completely and totally broken at launch and the fact that so many of us are still playing shows that we as fans have faith in them that they will be able to recover.

The ppl who complain about the game being half done and do nothing but complain...I dont understand why they are playing at all. Makes no sense to me, but thats just me I guess. I quit ffxi a few months ago to full time xiv because xi frankly is not a game worth paying for since they dropped the aby bomb it and does not seem to have a bright future, unlike ffxiv.

Some of us also remember xi at its launch, it was buggy and bad, there wasnt much to do or many places to go but we got expansions, new jobs and it was turned into quite a fantastic game...until, like I said before, they dropped the aby bomb and added crap like magians trials and procing lol. So I have faith that the game will continue to improve. Outside of the having to spam 5 nm over and over again for just ok moogle weapons I was completely happy with 1.20 as well as most of the changes before. Some things were awkward and wierd but we have come to learn how to work with them and there are very few downfalls to the changes imo.

I'm cheering on the devs cause they are doing fantastic and if you dont think so, again why are you even still playing?

[Tenshi]

That's a can do attitude right there! For the record, I'm hitting the Like button more than once.

Edited to add: That's not working so well for me, so once it is!

[Mamba]

I'll have to disagree.
What killed FFXIV was not solely the lack of content.

Agreed, FFXIV had a really horrible UI and the whole skillpoints system at start was making me cry every time I tried to compete for SP with other mages. I didn't even get as far as any content when I turned the game off in frustration.

There is no quest-based leveling in this game. Nothing but mindless grinding. I want a story to follow. And there is just not enough leveling content.

Every time I have done a quest or a mission I have received exp points... isn't this considered quest-based leveling?

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BUT to answer the original question, yes, I would pay for the game if it had been released in this condition. As a lvl 1 noob there would be loads to do and explore.
I was on 6 months break and even I find so much to do in 14 now - But I would like to point out that I don't play 40 h a week - maybe 15 max on a really good week.

[viion]

I'd of paid for 1-2 months because its new and exciting and I wouldnt know better.

Until I did everything XD

[Burn]

Nope

Class balance is still atrocious. Every time new content comes out a new class becomes flavor of the patch.
Crafting still sucks.
Exploring the game world is useless due to ridiculous level 80-90 mobs in random spots.
There is still a ton of annoying things that won't be fixed until 2.0
The way quests flow in this game is completely terrible, like an example:

Pick up quest in town, go kill X mobs at a nearby camp, then bring an item to freaking corethas.

[Rowyne]

Every time I have done a quest or a mission I have received exp points... isn't this considered quest-based leveling?

Yes, but there aren't nearly enough to progress from 1-50. When there are enough to get to level cap solely from questing, then I will concede that this game truly offers quest-based leveling.

It's a start. Now they just need to build on it. I sincerely hope it will exist in 2.0.

[Atoli]

I would have paid for this game since they got rid of the action bar..I think 1.18?
My standards are not that high, so I liked it enough to pay since back then

For a player starting now, there really is a lot to do!
The only reason why people bitch about lack of content now is because they've been around for a whole year already and already did everything they liked out of all the new content we got.
But if the game was released the way it is now, after a year (now) there would be the first expansion so people would get a lot new content and not get bored

[Majidah]

Anyone who says yes hasn't played online rpgs in a while. Don't get me wrong, I'm probably going to stick around because I support FF mmorpgs and would like to see 2.0 come to life ... but this games has close to no content, the areas are all uninteresting copy/paste, the delivery of the lore is awful, the community is small at best, leveling is boring ... if this wasn't a FF title I'd have quit long time ago.

[Blarp]

I doubt I would pay a sub beyond a month or two.