I wouldn't mind FFXIV becoming a WoW clone in the casual/hardcore appeal if...

[XxOstiaxX]

Not acting like anything just pointing out what I see. And there you go again trying to start a fight.

Edit: Flood depends on the person, you may not think its a flood, ( and I agree it wasn't exactly a bombardment) but the Gameplay alone speak a 1,000 words, as the saying goes a picture speaks a thousand words. 27 Screenshots + Gameplay Footage is alot of information along with the few interviews that came out thus far.

There is nothing subjective about a Flood! A flood is either a flood or not a flood, there is no in between here, the only thing positive so far has been the gameplay video, and even that was not released by SE Wich brings a lot of questions, as far as the screenshots, who cares really, 27 or 30 worked screenshots are not a flood.....

[Starlord]

There is nothing subjective about a Flood! A flood is either a flood or not a flood, there is no in between here, the only thing positive so far has been the gameplay video, and even that was not released by SE Wich brings a lot of questions, as far as the screenshots, who cares really, 27 or 30 worked screenshots are not a flood.....

I'm not going to argue with you, but judging by those Screens and Presentation Its already better than the Original FFXIV, People aske for Screenshots.. they get Screenshots they complain.. People ask for Videos.. they get Videos, people complain, People ask for gameplay, they get gameplay, they complain.

Honestly, all I can say to you and anyone else thats having problems, wait till 2.0, because there's not a whole lot they can just "change" being this close to Launch.

[elreed]

Some would miss the good point that op has because theres no examples, as i see it is casual content means no long timesinks without reason, hard content i would compare Garuda fight with ifrit hard mode, after they fixed that fight theres a lot of difficulty and teamwork in that fight, ifrit fight is just know the spots, i want more fights like garuda for endgame

[Jeronlmo]

Some of this is prob mixed up (in placement), its late, kinda just typing as I thought of things.

Played WoW for about... 2 1/2 months, quit about 6months ago... maby longer, idr.

Ilvl 398 resto druid - full heroic gems
Ilvl 394 prot pally - full heroic gems
Ilvl 393 shadow priest - full heroic gems
Ilvl 396 combat rogue - full heroic gems (legendary around 75% complete or something)
7 capped professions
4/8 heroic (nearly killed 2 skittles and higara heroic last week i played)

The last few weeks i basically stopped logging on, all I did was wait for each characters DS timers to be up then wait for each chars raid day, so 90min/week/char.

I know mentioning all of this is going to bring some obv trolling but the game isnt hard. Its a flat out joke. Your all praising old raids that were hard, Yoshi is forcing his team to play wow "now", not in the past (time machine?). The thing im worried about are the stupid nerfs that wow does shortly after any content release, if even a single group/party/ally of people can win a piece of content, it should never be nerfed, ever, its beatable, suck less.

Gear is handed to you in wow mainly because its 1 class/raid, if priest gear drops, guess who gets it... the priest, and (trying to remember...) what.. like 3 pieces are 100% to drop? People get geared very quickly and it kills content, saying that many cant beat the content and only 30% or something of raiding guilds can win it now at a 35% nerf means very little to me. The fact that 5% beats it often considering how big the WoW community is sounds like a prob to me, thats alot of people with nothing to do.

I had never seen/played wow before hand, I didnt know anyone that played but my super-casual brother who is now 6/8 heroic with his bad guild saying things like "we would be 8/8 by now but its only a 35% nerf). (and yes I tell him to "suck less")

Saw a few post actually judgeing people for playing more than them... lol, you only make them/us want to play more knowing it makes you so mad. I have a family/own a business, ill play as much as I fkn want, and if Ican beat all the content, the game failed, MMO's should be unbeatable, which is why I liked 11, no matter how much you play, even the best endgame ls's in the game, they didnt win, they were still playing til the game died (abyssea/lvl cap increase did kill 11).

If... and I do mean if... FF14 had some of the old fights that I saw WoW, though when i played them, they were a complete jokes, I did see the old mechanics, and it was interesting, i wouldnt be against it really... I just fear out-dated content, 11 basically had 0 outdated content... ever, mainly, if not completely because of gear swaps. Best example is the old "relics" in wow that were lvl50 or something, is now a joke to get, so all the time people put into it was wasted, I started years and years after them, and I was better than their relics from a few days after i started my char.

[Ruisu]

Why do people who have never done a games endgame, always feel the need to comment about it?

Most people got to level 20, thought that was what endgame was like, and called it quits.

Which is funny because if you did that in XI you would have just barely gotten your subjob.

[Churchill]

I'll just point at that before the 2h update and some changes to how pDIF and level correction worked, those were the only things making XI difficult.

You had a game where the "boss" mobs took -50% damage from a Lv75 character from the get-go, not accounting for the fact that players could not cap pDIF (making that -50% more like -80%) or Accuracy. This is why Ranger and Black Mage were the preferred end game classes. Black Mage has an easier time dealing with higher level mobs, and their gear is easier to stack for such and Ranger suffered almost no level correction penalty.

"Difficult" should not be confused with "poorly designed". You're talking about Dynamis Lord kills in a period of time where 8months earlier WAR was tanking things by spamming barspells and PLD was a main healer.

[Aceofspades]

hmm, not sure who is right or wrong on the technical side of things, as i dont program games, however as a gamer, I see a game in two lights, fun or not fun. WoW was not fun, FFXI (pre level cap 80) , and ffxiv (after yoshi took over and started fixing stuff) were/are both fun. I like the more realisic take on stats and how they effect each job/class, and how the graphics run along the line of being more realisic, even xi had a more realistic aproach to game designe. Going to admit tho, if they put a train in this game , its gona kinda lose that apeal. They are already pusshing it with space ship like airships and magicly powered robots. If they introduce light sabors, im outa here lol.

[Gokulo]

Since the very first announcements XIV was advertised as a mix of fantasy and s-f/steam punk, so you should not be surprised by such elements in the game.

[Aceofspades]

lol , did you call me a "punk" or is that a term I am not understanding , from you. Either way, didnt say I was turned off all together by the game , just dosent make sense that we would be using swords and arrows, or even muskets , if others have available , lasers , robots and , god forbid, machine guns. that hasn't happend yet, besides the robot part, but If it did, It would obviously remove some of the lore from the game, not that it wouldn't make sense via story line, just wouldnt make sense logicaly. As far as calling me a "punk" , I just gota LOL at that, to get soo excited of ones mild views over a game is just stupid, thats IF thats how you intended it.

[Gokulo]

Lol, google "steam punk" :P
Aside of there existing something like genre mixes (and this games was advertised as such, so you saying it wouldn't make sense doesn't work here), it explains you can have stuff like sword and arrows with robots next to them