Are you satisfied with this game?

[Yashnaheen]

About 35% satisfied. I like tanking and pew pewing on BLM. I enjoy the crafting and gathering system. Story is good, visual design is excellent.

65% unsatisfied. Battle consists of memorizing mechanics and dancing while casting. Once you learn the steps to the dance you can't lose. There is no reason to gather and craft except to feed other crafters, who have no reason to do it either. There is way too much supply on the market boards. There is no way to increase demand other than hoping SE does something about it many patches from now.

More content will keep me playing, but there just isn't enough to the game to see myself playing after the first level cap bump. I'm not grinding lvl 100 gear so I can grind lvl 110 gear so I'll be acceptable in a party to grind lvl 120 gear, while tossing all the lvl 70/90 gear I've spent way too many hours getting.

[CatofNineTails]

NOPE all the mounts and minions makes this FF feel like a cheap cash shop game, the endgame is a joke (non existent actually) there is no point to doing coil or crystal tower loot is not a reason.

the story line was made secondary to dungeon grinding for tombs which defeats the entire FF of this game. the bosses are so scripted you can set a watch to evade because the latency is soo poor you pretty much need to memorize when a boss will do anything.

the Crafting is a pointless waste of time with gathering being ridiculously tedious for materials that have no value on market or off.

the RMT spam is so rampant that everyone has half the blacklists capacity used already and SE's lack of response to key game issues is par with the last decade (non existent actually)

[Malamasala]

I think they succeeded very well with matching the desires of modern MMO players. Sure, the people stuck in the same mentality they had 10-15 years ago won't appreciate the game. But everyone who evolved into "I'll play MMO and some other games too" are more than happy that you don't have to spend every moment of life online. Only thing I'm really missing is some vanity, which SE are probably going to screw up since they are very control addicted and want to force us into how we should look.

[Constance]

I'm enjoying myself because I'm not a brainless git who leveled to 50 just to cry there's nothing to do. I set small goals for myself every day, reach them, feel satisfied, take a day off from time to time and the game has been great fun.

/laugh <tools>

[ErisAsobi]

It’s all about the little things really. The game needs a huge amount of quality of life tweaking.

Things like the combat pet tossing you / your group out of the DF queue when summoned. Bad enough that it takes freaking ever to level and is (for the most part) pretty useless for the first three levels.

The need to repair categories of gear rather than a simple repair everything option. Never have I rocked up to a mender and thought hmm.. I only feel like repairing some of my gear.

The need to switch to the appropriate class to repair an item.

Why not auto dismiss your mount when riding into a city? You already do that with the combat pet, without asking me, and while I’m at it. Why do you feel the need to ask me whether I’m ok with dismounting? Are we feeling nostalgic over the UAC in Windows Vista?

[ErisAsobi]

The group interface needs a lot of extra work like enlarging my own buff / de-buff icons so I can make them out from those placed on the target by other players. We need a separate window showing an agro meter and while you’re at it why not toss in a healing and DPS meter for good measure.

I hear a DF queue gear score system is being introduced. Perhaps this is just limited to locking out dungeons that a person’s gear is not ready for.

Chimera and Hydra. Why on gods earth those two were not incorporated into the DF system I just do not understand. I spent day’s on finding groups for each one.

Bag space. SE provided a large amount of bag space and further expanded on it via the dual AH retainer system. Nice work however the need to flick through tab after tab just to find something is annoying. Take all my tabs away and just grant me one or two huge tabs taking up a quarter of my screen and let me see everything more easily at once.

[ErisAsobi]

Talking about inventory management. It's a royal pita making sure you only have one stack of the particular item in storage and don't accidentally have the same item split across more than one inventory slot. Arrrrrg I can go on and on about that one grievance. Some magic button to do a mass group / amalgamate of the same item would be great.

I hear the ability to mute other peoples crafting sounds is coming and certainly would be a welcome feature. That aside I would love to be able to do my crafting while inside the inn room.

Oh and while I’m posting this. Increasing the forum limit from 2000 characters to say 5000 would be appreciated. That way I would not need to split this accross three posts and waith 30 seconds between each to post them -.-

Otherwise its a brilliant game!

[DesuGenesis]

Ys but the constant Roleplaying is kind of awkward

[Hikozaemon]

Visually it looks good. Combat is ok at best. gear/itemization is downright crap. there is no soul put into this games item system it is uninspiring and a joke. should just call it "gearing for dummies" Where the holy hell are procs on gear? unique stats/buffs / ability altering enhancements? Its worse than a korean MMO at this point. Not to mention they made the economy so Anti-RMT that they made it more Anti-actual player by doing so. And if your going to use Ilvl you have to have restrictions in place from the get go not 5months downt he road. Just so many promises broken at this point I can see many people leaving or dying of boredom at some point. Whens 2.1 gonna be released now? Jan or Feb months after the projection? Next time dont give specifics or assume your going to stay on schedule devs it makes u look bad. Honesty is the best policy yo!

PS" please remove all the worthless skills from this game and replace them w/ something better.

[Amiantos]

I like to say I'm 85% satisfied as my only real gripes is the server side lag causing some more head aches that I like. As of right now the market place feels awkward with a lot of the stuff not being worth making/using. Other than that happy with the game right now. Never played FFXI prezilart or hell even pre CoP as I joined in right after the launch of CoP and the big thing at the time was running through Promyvion Mea, Dem and Holla. FFXI story if we bar CoP and up leaving city state stories and Zilart I felt they were about the same to the current story of FFXIV ARR. I played up to mid Wings of the Goddess so I got to sit through those 6-18 hour HNM spawns that had ass wipes crowding your LS if you got the claim in hopes of causing your pc to hate you and wiping your LS via lag. Only to have LS member jack the item while you try to find a person or persons to buy said item for 150mil. If I was still a shut in like I was during those days aka 7th or 8th Grade-Junior year in high school I'd want a boring grind fest of an MMO that FFXI was but that's not the case anymore and would not like a game to be a second job that I don't look forward to doing after working 9 hours at my real job.
People who bitch about the lock outs must not remember the lockouts to various things in FFXI either.