Alpha Video 6 - Crafting and Gathering~

[indira]

Are you sure you like games, Indira?
I mean, sans the very latest of gaming technology, games have always been about button mashing like that

i love videogames but people are always making excuses for lame ass shit. even a game like old 80's gauntlet has more to it then FFXIV crafting and thats a button masher.

if i play mario bros. i im pushing button while making sure not to get hit or fall in a pit. im thinking when then i have to push buttons or pushing multiple buttons i have to time a jump making sure i dont miss the moving platform. i play zelda i make sure to look for keys, not get hit, solve puzzle and so on.

even a old nes RPG i had to think about how many step through a menu i had to do an attack or talk to npcs there was some type of feed back to your brain to make you choose. i didnt just sit there mashing a button.

in FFXIV crafting my character sits there i push button(s) and watch a bar grow in about a min. mindless button mashing no form of simple skill not even simple timing you just push a button.
the crafting in FFXIV is horrible one thing i hate about the game i dont care about the success/failure rate the system its self is a pure time sink.

there is NO effort put into that system at all. theres games 10 years old or close to it that have way better systems SWG, fallen earth, eve online just to name a few.

[Felis]

in FFXIV crafting my character sits there i push button(s) and watch a bar grow in about a min. mindless button mashing no form of simple skill not even simple timing you just push a button.
the crafting in FFXIV is horrible one thing i hate about the game i dont care about the success/failure rate the system its self is a pure time sink.

there is NO effort put into that system at all. theres games 10 years old or close to it that have way better systems SWG, fallen earth, eve online just to name a few.

Only if you don't want a HQ item. If you want to make a HQ item, you need to use the right skills to increase your quality bar without the durability bar hit the 0 before the success bar reach 100%.

In other games you just hit a button and then you have the item or not. This I call a mindless crafting system.