Remember - you cannot review an MMO until 6 months after it's launch - which is today

[Abriael]

Well im a mage so i dont even press 1 lol, I run to the tank then wait, when hes low I hit 3, hit enter, and cure him for 700+, then I wait a little more... and a little more, waiting is fun

I Also nuke, so I pressed 5 then pressed enter, then waited some more, had a sip of my tea, sometimes, every 5 minutes THINGS GET INSANE, because people want protect/shell/spikes, so unreal now, i press down, and press 1, 2,3. Woah the excitement is killing me, just thinking about it gives me shivers.

This can be applied to every MMORPG out there. Mind you, in every MMORPG out there you can just sit there and do absolutely nothing if you're really so inclined.
Of course you're not being in any way as useful as you could be, you're hurting your group's leveling pace, but if that's ok for you, I'm afraid the problem isn't in the game.

[Rjain]

If I hear the word hyperbole one more time I'm going to kill this hostage I have.

I mean. I am going to go walk off my rage.

[TheVedis]

Well im a mage so i dont even press 1 lol, I run to the tank then wait, when hes low I hit 3, hit enter, and cure him for 700+, then I wait a little more... and a little more, waiting is fun

I Also nuke, so I pressed 5 then pressed enter, then waited some more, had a sip of my tea, sometimes, every 5 minutes THINGS GET INSANE, because people want protect/shell/spikes, so unreal now, i press down, and press 1, 2,3. Woah the excitement is killing me, just thinking about it gives me shivers.

this still describes every mmo pretty much

1) Spam your strongest attacks in sequence until mob dies
2) If mob attacks a certain spot, dont stand there if it can be helped
3) Continue til it dies or you do.

There really isnt an MMo out there that doesnt follow this format. Even the most so called "complex" boss fights in some games are still the same thing.

Dont stand next to the mob or in the path of its attack on killer moves, otherwise, unload on it.

Yet people somehow complain every time a new game comes out for the same reason....when every other game does the same thing, and they justify it with the same excuse "because they do it, but its not the same" which is basicaly saying, that they cant explain it, but they wanna badmouth it anyway

[Martin]

Give this game some time guys, let it update, let it enhance things, we are all coming to very soon and harsh conclusions of the game already, EVERY MMORPG needs time to get improved. (In some cases it gets worse tho :/)

[AtlasNR]

I could put up with the broken nature of the game if they would fix the UI and controls for mouse & keyboard players.

[Anathiel]

I quit playing in november, but I really want the game to succeed so I'm active here and I regularly check lodestone. I think when it comes out for ps3 it will be a good mmo, but until then its just garbage. Oh well, I just want to know what these big changes actually are. Yoshi-p says changes to classes, battle, and world are coming but he never says what THEIR idea's are. If I had a broken game I would say I was fixing it too,

[BelgianRofl]

One (or even several) opinion hardly make a rule.
You can quote all the people you want, but quoting them doesn't cancel the fact that you're spamming the forums with "opinions" that completely lack the backing of direct experience.

LOL! OK FFXIV is great. That's why the majority of people who purchased the game no longer play, and its greatness also explains why Tanaka and other lead figures were booted from the project. It also explains why SE's net worth dropped 25% - and SE is a publisher! What an awesome flippin' game!

Oh and did I mention that the average score (meta-score) of all of the big publishers is 49/100? Yeah, my opinion is waaay off...

Here are some other quotes I found in this thread:

Right on the money ^ There is absolute nothing different between rank 1-15 or 50.

I gave this game much less scores than Bel and im rank 50 so him being 15 means absolute nothing lol. Just that he caught on earlier and wasnt fooled into thinking it might get good like the rest of us have

All this game has is levelling and even that is a complete waste of time. And if your game cannot motivate people to get higher than 15, well i say motivate theres nothing beyond 15. Then you've failed hard!

[Rhianu]

this still describes every mmo pretty much

1) Spam your strongest attacks in sequence until mob dies
2) If mob attacks a certain spot, dont stand there if it can be helped
3) Continue til it dies or you do.

There really isnt an MMo out there that doesnt follow this format. Even the most so called "complex" boss fights in some games are still the same thing.

Dont stand next to the mob or in the path of its attack on killer moves, otherwise, unload on it.

While it's true that almost every MMO experiences this problem to some degree or another, it's much worse in FFXIV than it is in most other games of the genre.

[BelgianRofl]

Abigail, how about instead of telling other people how stupid and invalid their reviews are, you write your own review?

[TheVedis]

While it's true that almost every MMO experiences this problem to some degree or another, it's much worse in FFXIV than it is in most other games of the genre.

the only difference is after time, most mmos you wont notice it as much cuz your doing other things

but in the begining all MMOs are like this, and after being in dozens of launches, ive learned to look past it myself