Quote Originally Posted by Nix View Post
I really enjoyed fishing in XI and XIV (Call me a bit of a masochist...) and when they said they were revamping the fishing system for ARR I was wondering what they were going to do. I was hoping for an exciting minigame, hell even something akin to Ocarina of Time or Twilight Princess fishing would have been SO much fun, maybe not implementable but still an interesting idea to entertain.
Now I'm not so sure, I was really excited for ARR but fishing was a big hobby of mine and now I feel like it's something that's been ruined. This is reminiscent of the early XI fishing days before the minigame where you just pretty much hit 'Fish' and wait. There's no enjoyment in this><
I agree. Fishing was my main thing in 1.0. It was relaxing and fun, and even if the system needed work, it was still enjoyable. After seeing what the new botany looked like from the live videos, I got worried that fishing would be equally as dumbed down, but still held out hope because Yoshi said it was going to be different. Yesterday the interviews said that fishing won't be tied to crafting classes, which I took to mean it wasn't going to be completely dumbed down like botany looks to be. I guess everyone else understood it the proper way though, in that it won't be tied to a crafting class because it's going to be utterly pointless.

Laugh all you want, everyone reading this and wondering how anyone could have liked fishing in 1.0, but if fishing is truly as ruined as it sounds, there's nothing for me left in the game. All the housing and chocobo raising and whatever won't stand against the simple pleasure of standing on a cliffside, fishing all day, so that later I can supply my shellmates with free/cheap fish.

There's nothing left for me now.