How can this remain competitive in the MMO market?

[Ostia]

To REMAIN! It would need to first be able to COMPETE! Wish sadly it is not.

[Verecund]

I kind've get the feeling that it will only really sell in Japan (if at all) when released on the PS3. The failed PC launch has definitely tarnished the title... and I doubt that anyone outside of original FFXI players will even purchase the game on PS3 in light of this (in the west that is).

[Silvyaniss]

Here's the thing...you look at Games like Guild Wars 2 and IT has everything players want...

Fast Travel
Smooth UI
Smooth Skill bar
Tons of Skills for Builds
Excellent Graphics

I mean except for the Graphics GW2
has everything better than FF14 and
GW2 when it's all said and done might
be better than FF14 in the Graphics Departmetn!!!


and It's F2P .....(shakes his head)

I mean how can you compete with that???

In my honest opinion here are some things SE should of done from day one

1. Smoother UI, hassle free
2. Fast Travel from day one, NO ANIMA
3. Chocobos day one
4. Auction House
5. Mail System
6. Class uniqueness
7. More Armor
8. High End Content ( I mean when do you guys plan to put it in next year) So I guess all the level 50's can just hang out at nanawa mines and kill Coblyns out there and do level 30 behests cause I always see them overthere.

I mean seriously look at this list...I mean this LIST got people fired for Gods sake.

5 years and no MAIL system! Fired!
5 years and no Chocobos! Your Fired!!!
5 years and no Auction House! Your Fired!!! Dang I wish I knew how to say "Your Fired" in japanese..

[Ostia]

Here's the thing...you look at Games like Guild Wars 2 and IT has everything players want...

Fast Travel
Smooth UI
Smooth Skill bar
Tons of Skills for Builds
Excellent Graphics

I mean except for the Graphics GW2
has everything better than FF14 and
GW2 when it's all said and done might
be better than FF14 in the Graphics Departmetn!!!


and It's F2P .....(shakes his head)

I mean how can you compete with that???

In my honest opinion here are some things SE should of done from day one

1. Smoother UI, hassle free
2. Fast Travel from day one, NO ANIMA
3. Chocobos day one
4. Auction House
5. Mail System
6. Class uniqueness
7. More Armor
8. High End Content ( I mean when do you guys plan to put it in next year) So I guess all the level 50's can just hang out at nanawa mines and kill Coblyns out there and do level 30 behests cause I always see them overthere.

I mean seriously look at this list...I mean this LIST got people fired for Gods sake.

5 years and no MAIL system! Fired!
5 years and no Chocobos! Your Fired!!!
5 years and no Auction House! Your Fired!!! Dang I wish I knew how to say "Your Fired" in japanese..

I really cant wrap around my head, how did they even think, that releasing the game in such a state could be good in any sense.

I mean NO MAIL SYSTEM? REALLY ?

[Abriael]

I agree with you to a degree, but this game is just a big LAG right now, literally and figuratively. If something isn't done about the Market Wards, ie frequent crashes and price finding (maybe an SE sponsored suggested price range averaged out by world or SOMETHING that is not going to force players into gil buying, which I adamantly refuse to do) the game is going to hemorrhage players and encourage corruption. I have been loyal to SE via FFXI for years and am severely disappointed in how market unready this product is. While they are compensating with the "no charge" status for now, we still paid good money for a game which is virtually unplayable as it stands. These issues should have been resolved in beta, don't you think?

Rome wasn't made in a day. They have been constantly adding features to the market wards system since release. They will add more.

Also, who ever buys gil? Money in FFXIV is probably the easiest to get in any MMORPG i played to date.

[Dingleberry]

It's hard to see now, but if you think about, oh say 6 months from now we may all be saying how can any game compete with ffxiv.

[Abriael]

I mean how can you compete with that???

By making a deeper and better game. Considering that FFXI is a deeper and better game than Guild Wars has ever been (and it started equally bad as FFXIV, the ones that played, like me, the Japanese release can confirm), I have no doubt that there's plenty chances for FFXIV to become a deeper and better game than Guild Wars 2 will ever be (and in the graphics department there isn't even a comparison, GW2 characters and models have pretty much half the polygons of FFXIV's and lower resolution textures).

This without mentioning that, so far, GW2 looks a lot like a clone of the many MMOs already out nowadays. if I want to play another clone, I'll play one of those. FFXIV has the potential not to be like that, which is already a big boon by itself in an extremely stagnant market.

[KRTGDL]

It's hard to see now, but if you think about, oh say 6 months from now we may all be saying how can any game compete with ffxiv.

Wait until CE release. Wait until SE release. Wait until November. Wait until December. Wait until February content update. Wait until March content update.

Now folks are saying wait until September 2011?

[Ostia]

Wait until CE release. Wait until SE release. Wait until November. Wait until December. Wait until February content update. Wait until March content update.

Now folks are saying wait until September 2011?

Then it will be "Wait until next year, rome was not built in a day blablablablabla"

[KRTGDL]

This without mentioning that, so far, GW2 looks a lot like a clone of the many MMOs already out nowadays. if I want to play another clone, I'll play one of those. FFXIV has the potential not to be like that, which is already a big boon by itself in an extremely stagnant market.

Correct. FFXIV has the skeleton/foundation to be better than any game on the market. This can only happen, however, if SE is devoting the necessary financial resources to precipitate these developments.

I don't see any evidence that the necessary support required for this has been given to the development team in the form of doubling, tripling, or quadrupling staff numbers and boosting the development budget.

Perhaps a dev rep can give us some concrete numbers?