I hope this game doesn't become like FFXI

[Amage]

ungh..

No gear swapping please.

That was one of the things I ended up hating about FFXI. We all have limits to immersion breaking elements in a game. For me, it was seeing your party blink in and out of existence with different gear every time they used a particular skill/WS/Spell. It was rather obnoxious.

I think the materia system allows players to better round out their gear for this game so they aren't stuck with single-purpose items like FFXI had.

Like i said Its my opinion on that one so...... Well Materia as i dont know how they will change here how it works Money = best gear
which means if there is good materia and the price would be in the millions so if your someone who can not make money your comment would change in a heart beat .


But with the game having gear swaps and in blinking or w/e
but the meaning was the diversity of equipment and and the lack gear .

[moriandrio]

Its money or luck = best gear ^^

[Ralos]

The hardest thing for any game to do i catering to a wide audience. Games usually pick one core demographic (in this case casual or hardcore) and make a game tailored to them and the games that try, usually fail and lose their entire audience (he who chases two hares catches neither) but I think FFXIV is heading in a great direction and what I've seen so far looks like a game that will be enjoyable for all levels of "gamer"

[strallaalaa]

and to think with just a few tweaks we can have mmo companies catering to all of us http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...icated-Servers lol shameful link to my thread on trying to do so, cater to all of us not just one side or the other. or fail trying to smush us together with lets face it half the content for either of us.

[Wynn]

You guys get trolled far too easily.

[Kaizuko_Hakupac]

You guys get trolled far too easily.

what he said.

[RagnaBahamut]

did forget that was FFXI added tough challange link here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KI0guIwSJaI FFXI - Legion, Hall of Mul, Attempt #6
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_otAkCgFgY Tri Arch Dynamis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yykQeU1WaRM Provenance Wacther
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4m5U_dEOws Umagrhk Meeble Burrows
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyDiSk3-HuY Divine Might Pld solo

[fusional]

This game needs to be harder in a lot of aspects. Maybe not the longer time-consuming grind that XI was, but they really need to ramp up the difficulty. There is absolutely no sense of challenge or accomplishment for doing anything

anything? while i agree the game needs an increase in challenging content (without sacrificing easy and somewhat-challenging content), and while most of the content in XIV is definitely what i'd consider easy (garuda included)... i don't necessarily think a player has earned the right to say there's no sense of challenge or accomplishment when they've objectively done so little in the game.

ifrit extreme was quite challenging, albeit for the wrong reasons. rivenroad hard was challenging for the right reasons. the correct position would be requesting we see more content like that, if not more challenging in 2.0- because while 1.0 certainly lacked in top-end difficulty, the dev team showed encouraging progression in ramping up difficulty in subsequent patches from moogle onward.

perhaps if you'd actually played and experienced the game you'd know. and that isn't necessarily a slight against you- i'm merely pointing out that your argument lacks merit via lack of experience.

[RathSkybreaker]

I hope it doesn't become like XI either, because quite frankly, right now that game is a joke.

To put it into perspective ... 13-31 in 2 hours.. problem?

[pool842]

I hope it doesn't become a successful FF MMO either, nor do I hope SE doesn't realize what XI did right XIV did horribly wrong

While you may hate XI, XIV only exists because of it.

Actually your way off 14 exists because its needed in the market and SE just so happens to have mmo experience. Final Fantasy 11 was a great investment by SE, but that is not the sole reason on why 14 exists. I mean for the most part the majority of the players will not be from final fantasy ix if ARR is successful. In fact if 14 is to be as successful as any modern mmo then they will have to pick up new and old players from around the world from both mmo's and pc/consoles.