Be brave

[Neptune]

@Mortikhan I like your perspective.

@ Wolfie, I'm a little puzzled by your post. I'm not sure if you were trying to point something out to me or maybe the community in general. I'm surprised you went over every bullet point with comments. About that, I'm aware that most of it has been addressed, but it has not been fixed. Just because for instance, they slightly increased anima regeneration doesn't mean that it is suddenly regenerating fast. It's still super slow. I know they want to fix that stuff but it's not like a contest between what they want to do and what a bunch of reviewers have to say. My OP was about how they haven't focused on criticism. They have TOUCHED on it but it isn't their focus. And when you look at the trend you have to agree with me that it's baffling.

I'm a huge fan of the Armoury system but I agree with you about the homogenization. It seemed like there were really 2 classes, mage and warrior. Even original WoW with 4 or 5 classes made you feel like there was a lot more definition and roles, and people do like to have their roles. I'm not sure this is really some kind of major flaw though.. I think they could have worked with it more. They never implemented the positioning system they said they were going to implement. But your criticism of the stats, food, gear, and battle regimens shouldn't be so closely linked to the Armoury system. Conceptually those are independent of it.

Your main claim is that people noticed problems with it after a month.. I would say you really started to play your character after a few months. Look up some videos by Kaeko on the Lodestone to see what I'm talking about. You can do some really unexpected things with the Armoury system. If anything it's biggest flaw was that it made playing seem mediocre in the hands of players that lacked creativity.

ALL MMO's loop their soundtracks, the ones that don't are the ones people complain doesn't have enough music in. *Menu> Audio > move slider down*
Apparently there's a great deal of people too stupid to know how to do that if reviewers consider it an issue! Warcraft syndrome perhaps?

Not knocking your friend but in an account management system where all you do is answer the questions and keep clicking 'ok', I reeeeaaaally can't see anyone's point of view when saying it's difficult.

I chose those particular criticisms because they are easily the DUMBEST 'cons' I've ever seen reviewers try and use. It's like they were desperate to say it was a bad game, as if they HAD to, were forced to. "No PVP" is just downright complete and total stupidity as a con when reviewing a final fantasy game, the reviewer must have been thicker than the table I have my keyboard on right now.

Plus those reviews are very much like the ones I read before I bought this game 3 weeks ago, they listed the same cons that friend told me about, he'd heard them from his sister who had played the game.

I still bought this game.
I'm glad I did
I like it!
And I will continue to like it unless they do something incredibly amazingly stupid, which I doubt.

But seriously, some of the gripes the reviewers gave the game was just retarded.

I think one of the posters when you first made the thread hit the nail on the head "They're always going to hate this game because it's unique and it's not WoW"
ALL MMO's that try to clone WoW always get excellent reviews when they first come out. Warhammer Online had way more problems that FFXIV but people didn't kick up a stink 'cos it was a WoW clone.

The opinions were biased.

They always will be.

I'm a little puzzled by how you felt the need to defend some of the criticism of the game. It's not as if your defense is going to convince anyone that felt strongly about those points to begin with. I think you're wrong about a lot of these reviews. If you look closely you can tell if someone is biased and I don't think I ever ran across one biased review of this game. Most of the reviews show that a lot of people really had high hopes for this game.. the big letdown was in fact what led to the negativity. Something like PVP for instance: of course this doesn't fit Final Fantasy as we know it, but did you know PVP is a priority for the dev team? Why wasn't it included at launch? PVP is just another way to have fun in an MMO. There is something to learn from this criticism.. you don't need to blindly reject it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...d_weasel_words

Haha.. what??

They're getting rid of the system where we can switch weapons on the fly instead of having to go change our class like in FFXI? What the fuck is wrong with SE?

We don't know what they're doing but it's not going to involve taking a walk to switch classes. The controversy is that originally you could make your own character by changing your stats and abilities and now they are making it so that all characters of a certain class will be very similar.

re-worded.

haha