FFXIV: ARR becoming TORtanic

[Chrysania]

This is the only part I want to reply to. This tells me you have never played a FF game.

<irrelevant words saying nothing that ever mattered>.

First town in FFIV is Baron. You had to grind to survive in the mist cave?

Wat?

I can't take you seriously. You might have spent hours running laps around Baron, but you really wouldn't have had to. Your estimation of survival chances is ...I don't even know how you factored that.

I can only conclude that you're just very bad at battle management and...leave you to it? Yeah. Definitely going to leave you to it.

Edit: Buy potions. Use them. They make the mist dragon fight super easy.

Edit 2: I still have my original SNES cartridge of FF2, from waaaay back when, before I knew it was actually 4! Lovely game. I was rather impressed with the PSP remake, though the After Years pseudo-sequel...eh. It missed something. Wouldn't you agree, mon peche?

[Yotsu]

- Little Post-Game Stuff to do (AK,CP Runs, Long Duty Finder Queue, Tomes Farming)
Very boring and repetitive stuff.

So you already completed coil? wow.

[broren]

Never going to be a pvp apologist in mmorpgs. There are games specifically made for pvp, like call of duty.

[Rainsford]

*snip*

Help me understand your complaint. An MMO requires subs, so you need people to be logging in to do stuff every few days. You hate gear treadmills, and don't want to have to "grind to beat the boss". So, if you had YoshiP's ear, what would you tell him to do? Have the main story quest give you fully materia'd i90 items and put you up against Bahamut? Then, after no reward for beating him, you can do what you do in every FF game and watch a cutscene before turning it off? If you had to pitch that to SE shareholders as a reliable option for a sub-based game (or any game that requires servers), how do you think that would go?

Perhaps I'm misunderstanding your complaint, though.

[Nukocafe]

- Crafting is very boring and inconsequential and a majority of players have no interest
In wasting their time crafting wherein they could be doing other more fun stuff
- Worthless monster drops that give nothing but stupid crafting materials
- Very hard to accumulate Gil in this game because monster loot sucks.
- Terrible Instance Dungeon queues in Duty Finder

[Miinister]

Hello community.

I agree with the original poster 'Juubi' for the most part with game deficiencies, however most of you are way off topic. My character is a level 50 whitemage and dabbled in crafting. All gear is obtainable through quests or dungeon drops, I never crafted or bought gear for my character. All the more power to those that enjoy crafting.

Comparing this game to the Juggernaut that is WoW. It is absolutely a fair comparison to compare any other MMO on the market, its called competition and we can learn about other types of game mechanics. WoW may of been out for 10 years, however how long was FF 14 in production to Live to FF 14 Reborn production to what we have now. This game seems to be lacking on content versus time versus other games.

[Miinister]

Pvp is not for everyone, however understand some players do want player versus player interaction. Those not wanting PvP can always focus on Pve, I do not understand why you would be against opening other play styles to attract more players. Then again PvP mechanics tend to disrupt Pve mechanics as classes are adjusted to maintain homeostasis.

Personally I took my time leveling, avoided fate farming, and completed every quest in each zone. End game is BORING, having to run the same dungeons over and over and over is not content. Crafting may be a fun minigame for some, though the craftables for the most part are useless. Mob drops are 'Meh' uninspired loot. The hard mode primals are fun the first few times ... Tell me why credits roll when you complete the main scenario storyline? Single player game methinks.

[AjoraOak]

Personally, think the pvp will be a laughing stock considering the current server side issues that they seem to not care about.

[Reslin]

It's amusing that the problems of FFXIV:ARR are being treated by White Knights as a non-issue, it's either mind-blindness or blatant denial of the obvious.

Can it read? Why. Won't. It. Read?? (south park reference that is very relevant here.)

[Yoko_Kurama]

I think the biggest issue with the game is that levelling through the story isn't that fun, challenging, or memorable. The simple act of levelling from 1-50 should be filled with challenging and immersing content with secret mobs and bosses that drop ultra rare items/gears etc.. And secret areas which scream "explore me and find the hidden chest at the end of this hidden boss" type stuff. In other words, each person who levels 1-50 should have wonderous memories and things to chat with their friends about, items they found which noone else did. Creatures they fought and special monsters they defeated that not many people knew about.

Each person should be able to have a unique experience just getting through the story. Since this is not the case, and for example every arcanist (which is what i am) who levels 1-50 will always have the same exact experience and everyone else levels to 50 in such speed that the word exploration becomes null and void...you get this situation where everyone expects the game to pick up after they hit level 50...and instead of picking up it just gets repetitive.