Me as a newbie after skimming through the forum be like

[SilversLyu]

Going to real, none of that matters to you right now, enjoy the game it is good. come back in 5 years once you are jaded by duty finder and party finder.

This. OP enjoy the game and the ride, forums in general tend to be viewed more through the critical lense and a feeling of some disappointment, not to mention people playing a game for years.. is bound to bring up spice. Chances are all of this will not even matter to you.

[Boblawblah]

[MsMisato]

Me: decided to make the jump to the complete edition as 3 of my classes are reaching the free trial level cap due to me playing in a new world and not wanting to waste any EXP.

Sweet, I heard that I can only access the official forum (or maybe post a thread?) if I have a sub. Let's see what people are discussing.

People in the forum: balance is out of whack, job identity is non-existent, content has gotten worse, the game is at the lowest point since 1.0, etc.

Me: Did I just make a grave mistake?

Run away as fast you can.

I jest.

You have to take this place with a grain of salt especially as alot of folks have been around for a bit and seen good and bad changes. You can praise a game but there are also things that are bad about that game and those deserve to be heard as well, provide its constructive as such and if a forum on both the english and japanese said was nothing but good things with no bad the game would get super stale...BUt since you are still new for the most past, enjoy the game and have fun.

[Tanis_Ebonhart]

Me: decided to make the jump to the complete edition as 3 of my classes are reaching the free trial level cap due to me playing in a new world and not wanting to waste any EXP.

Sweet, I heard that I can only access the official forum (or maybe post a thread?) if I have a sub. Let's see what people are discussing.

People in the forum: balance is out of whack, job identity is non-existent, content has gotten worse, the game is at the lowest point since 1.0, etc.

Me: Did I just make a grave mistake?

The forums are the vast minority. Most players have no idea that they exist, let alone use them. In-game you won't see any of this as if they're in-game then they're most likely enjoying the game.

Don't listen to the Job Identity thing. Players are happy with the jobs, mostly. The jobs also may have some similarities but you won't play, say, a Dark Knight the same as a Warrior. They're just built differently.

[BaconBits]

The forums are the vast minority. Most players have no idea that they exist, let alone use them. In-game you won't see any of this as if they're in-game then they're most likely enjoying the game.

Don't listen to the Job Identity thing. Players are happy with the jobs, mostly. The jobs also may have some similarities but you won't play, say, a Dark Knight the same as a Warrior. They're just built differently.

Cease.

[Raraka]

You kinda walked into the room with people at the end of the road

You still have 1k or 2k good hours of gamplay to go before you start seeing the problems people talk about in the forums (Assuming you take your time and do some side content)

Dont let the forums take away from your experience, come back when you want to have a laugh or enjoy some nonsense threads with popcorn

[Krojack]

Me: Did I just make a grave mistake?

By visiting the forums? yes.

The game is fine. Only unhappy people will complain. A huge part of the play base are happy and you won't see them posting about how happy they are.

[Mosha]

Don't listen to the Job Identity thing. Players are happy with the jobs, mostly. The jobs also may have some similarities but you won't play, say, a Dark Knight the same as a Warrior. They're just built differently.

Apart from the fact both have a skill that every 60secs you get 3 stacks of free uses on your heavy attacks which a normally generated through your 123 combo. It's almost like people are upset that DRK uniqueness got ripped out and transplanted by WARs Inner Release.

[Semirhage]

Cease.

"Jobs are totally fine!" is an opinion espoused exclusively by people who don't play them skillfully.

[Tanis_Ebonhart]

Apart from the fact both have a skill that every 60secs you get 3 stacks of free uses on your heavy attacks which a normally generated through your 123 combo. It's almost like people are upset that DRK uniqueness got ripped out and transplanted by WARs Inner Release.

Okay? You still don't play them the same way.

You're just looking at cooldowns, not gameplay.