What is FFXIV trying to BE?

[Nephera]

the bad ratings were true in this case though most real gamers dont at all listen to reviews and bias ratings but i think the FF fans are pretty united in the fact that those poor ratings and reviews were not to far off. this game proves that new isnt always better not every new idea is a better one, sometimes if something is said to have never been seen/done/tried its for a good reason.

I always thought numerical scores were a poor measure of a personal opinion, that being said if you actually read the reviews they slam this game pretty harshly even in the few sites that gave the game great scores.

edit: also what new ideas do we have besides the armory system,which is like the only critically praised feature.

[gifthorse]

edit: also what new ideas do we have besides the armory system,which is like the only critically praised feature.

I know right.

A slow & unresponsive battle system isn't new, neither is exhausting grind and minimal quests with no rewards or goals other than getting gear.

[Xedonius]

I know right.

A slow & unresponsive battle system isn't new, neither is exhausting grind and minimal quests with no rewards or goals other than getting gear.

This seems to be a rediculous observation; all MMO's ultimate goal is "getting gear." :/

[Nephera]

This seems to be a rediculous observation; all MMO's ultimate goal is "getting gear." :/

Naw.

in eq2 it could've been "deck out your house with awesome stuff" or "buy the biggest house"

in swg it could've been "build a city", "deck out your ship" "deck out your house"


but yeah usually if its not housing its gear, at least for the individual player.

[gifthorse]

Hope this answered your "What does that even mean?" question Gifthorse.

You're being irrelevant.

This seems to be a rediculous observation; all MMO's ultimate goal is "getting gear." :/

LOL.

That's my point. It's nothing new.

Something that it's not - and that never works.

FFXIV tried to be anti-WoW version of WoW when it should have been an improved FFXI. FFXIV had a sense of newness, but killed itself by failing at everything FFXI did.

Even still, don't you think their vision should be bigger than just: "let's imitate a bunch of games?"

Even if they had taken it upon themselves to make FFXIV a new and improved FFXI, it begs the question: improved how? What's the direction they should take to improve FFXI?

When making a game, a definitive direction is needed first and foremost. Only after this should other games be looked at.

[gifthorse]

I think the closest thing we got from Yoshi is that he said he thinks of games as Themeparks, and that he wants to give players lots of things to do.