FFXIV ARR "Easy Mode"

[BlossomRose]

Didn't WoW have both Onyxia and Molten Core at launch? There was also UBRS, which while it wasn't a "raid" (back then raids were 40man, only) was still basically one (I don't remember if it was 10man or 15man, though).

Not saying we should compare this game to WoW at launch, just saying, the statement that "no MMORPG at launch has lasting raid content" is wrong. A couple games have successfully done "enough raid content to last a while". Even SWTOR actually had enough content to last about 3 months because it included three difficulty modes from the start for the raids. Rift also had pretty significant raid content, although most of the difficulty was due to bugs and poor game design more than anything.

This game wouldn't have been so bad if they'd managed to get CT and minimum dungeon ilvls at launch.

Oh well, 2.1 is coming soon.

[Mattmar42]

Wow did not have onyxia or mc for months. As somebody who played from beta, you had scholo, ubrs, lbrs, dire maul, and another five man I'm forgetting for quite a time. There was a number of people who went hard fully geared in tier 0 before mc release.

[BlossomRose]

Wow did not have onyxia or mc for months. As somebody who played from beta, you had scholo, ubrs, lbrs, dire maul, and another five man I'm forgetting for quite a time. There was a number of people who went hard fully geared in tier 0 before mc release.

You're thinking of Stratholme, I think.

Also, I doublechecked.

MC and Onyxia were in at launch/release.

Maybe not in beta, but they were definitely in at launch. Wikipedia and WoWWiki both say so.

So there you go. Some MMORPGs did do it right. WoW, SWTOR and Rift are the only three that come to mind, but I am certain there are others that had "adequate" endgame content at release. FFXIV definitely doesn't, though.