FFXIV Fails.

[Meridian]

Apologies, but every good point you've made has been undone by your trollish thread title. Consider changing it.

[Lardinho]

thanks for replies

[charliesheen]

Apologies, but every good point you've made has been undone by your trollish thread title. Consider changing it.

Not sure how it makes his points "undone". Can people not read? Not every phrase is meant as trolling. Infact, isn't it the case that people now look for trolling and anything even remotely trollish is slated as trolling and that person's points irrelevant?

Basically, consider learning to not be so sensitive.

[Ryoshi]

I really want to believe that FFXIV is going to succeed, and I'm feverishly ranking up my character's battle classes in anticipation for the Jobs system and dungeon content, but then I think about the game as it stands now (and how it released) and I lose some optimism. Frankly the linkshell limitations in particular show a real lack of not only testing time but also foresight and design in general. There's no amount of testing really needed at all to think of about a dozen different situations the current LS restrictions could make difficult - these issues should've been caught in A&D, well before the programmers sat down and started writing code.

I mean, frankly this:

as far as i remember they said in a post that its "difficult" to implement and they are looking for a way to do it.
I HOPE that this is a lame excuse for something since if it really is so difficult... i think nobody can repair that sinking ship.

should never happen in a professional environment. If you have coded an MMO engine in which it is difficult to implement something relatively straightforward like a mailing system, *you have coded the engine wrong*. MMOs aren't new ground here, you can't expect stuff like that to fly here in 2010-11.

The new systems have a heck of a lot to make up for. But, despite what I said above, I believe that this game will still grow into a fantastic MMO, and I'm drooling over the planned changes. Here's hoping S-E pulls through!

[Linkurrra]

Aside from the fact that the OP wants to turn FFXIV into FFXI the secuel.
It's not a bad idea. I mean whats wrong with taking the best parts of FFXI and importing it into FFXIV? It's what ppl expected despite Square wanting to start anew!

Nobody expected that FFXIV to have the same amount of content that FFXI has built over 7-8 years of development. But on the same hand, it should have roughly the same amount of 2 yrs of development when the game released! Transportation, Auction House, and new more areas to explore instead of just 2 other lands outside the 3 main cities. :P

The only thing that FFXIV do better than FFXI is the tutorials. Because they are both pretty lousy. They story quests are excellent introductions. But what would be better is if the voice actors could voice the tutorial as well!

This game is SO much different than FFXI and ppl that did not play FFXI are in a world of pain! Nothing makes sense to them because they are trained from WoW! or nothing at all!

Game terminology such as Linkshells, TP, and chocobo's are foreign to them. It all needs to be introduced and not through text, but through voice!

It allows you to enjoy the game more when you don't have to do so much reading. It's a shame to miss out on the excellent animations when your eyes are focused at the bottom of the screen reading.