Just wait, it will get better!

[Tupsi]

And it has. I don't see your point.

Subjective - What got better in one area, another took a few years worth of backpeddling.

How many major patches has there been so far?

If we're to be honestly serious about this? Every patch since 1.19 was framework for 2.0 - Now we're finally getting an actual patch for 2.0...in december at some point.

[ken00]

@Pseudopsia omg the sig just killed me with cuteness XD

[Alavastre]

How many major patches has there been so far?

2.0 ie the relaunch of the entire game.

[Nuinn]

I don't understand people sometimes. If dissatisfied since 2010, why the heck to you still subject yourself to something as unenjoyable to prompt you to make a thread with such a topic. I mean. . . . I'm into a little masochism myself, don't get me wrong but, this sounds like a whooole different kind of a scenario (and we shall not get into that here).

[LoLo]

I don't understand people sometimes. If dissatisfied since 2010, why the heck to you still subject yourself to something as unenjoyable to prompt you to make a thread with such a topic. I mean. . . . I'm into a little masochism myself, don't get me wrong but, this sounds like a whooole different kind of a scenario (and we shall not get into that here).

you spoke no lie but someone will come in and call you a white knight. lol

[Nuinn]

you spoke no lie but someone will come in and call you a white knight. lol

I don't mind when kids come on here to have fun with words and stuff I've been called worse (and I liked it!!!)

[Starlord]

FFXIV "ARR" has zero major patches, so yes it will only get better.

In fact FFXIV "ARR" is a lot better than 1.23 (1.0)

Where has it improved? I would really, REALLY like to know.

1) Better Servers ( increased playability)
2) Has a lot more content than 1.23 (1.0)
3) Redesigned maps
4) Classes lore is awesome
5) Chocobo fighting by yourside!
6) 5 times the dungeons that 1.0 had and more

Soon in 2.1

7) PvP
8) Housing
9) New Dungeon and 2 Hard mode of old dungeons ( with new map layout)
10) Crystal Tower

And other stuff we don't know about yet I'm sure.

Yes it has improved immensely.

Edit: Now that they don't have to focus on building 2 games at once, they can focus all their man power on 2.0. By 2 years, there should be at least 1 expansion, 8 Major Patches. We should have by then:

1) Ishgard ( Jeuno of FFXIV)
2) Ala Mhigo
3) Frontlines
4) Coliseum
5) Full Length of Crystal Tower
6) Full Length of Coil
7) Multiple Tiers of Relic weapon
8) Continuation and ending of FFXIV ARR Main storyline
9) Expansion Storyline
10) Sky or Sea from the Expansion ( we don't know which one yet)
11) Level cap rise ( Probably 70-75)
12) Myth cap will probably be gone by then
13) New content within those 8 patches ( perhaps something simular to Limbus/BCNM/Dynamis etc etc)<--- Guessing on this one

And probably other things we just don't know about yet

When you look ahead 2 years from now even if the subs drop to 300k ( Yoshi-P initial prediction). When 2 years come and go, people will slowly make their way back to a potentially awesome game.

[Entropic]

From my / a raiders point of view:

1) Better Servers ( increased playability)

Connection etc. still sucks

2) Has a lot more content than 1.23 (1.0)

really? glad i didnt play 1.0 then

3) Redesigned maps

unimportant

4) Classes lore is awesome

unimportant

5) Chocobo fighting by yourside!

useless

6) 5 times the dungeons that 1.0 had and more

yet only 2 lvl 50 dungeons. bad bad bad

[Yagrush]

I knew people liked to hate this game, but I didn't know people were willing to throwaway their credibility if they want to imply ARR hasn't improved upon 1.0 vanilla. Opinions are subjective yes, but there is a fine line between having your own opinion and being ignorant.. and being a troll.

[Tupsi]

I knew people liked to hate this game, but I didn't know people were willing to throwaway their credibility if they want to imply ARR hasn't improved upon 1.0 vanilla. Opinions are subjective yes, but there is a fine line between having your own opinion and being ignorant.. and being a troll.

Note on the above post: Trolling = "I disagree with what you wrote." No one here trolled - If anything the statement of people are "ignorant" because they don't share your same opinion or agree that ARR is absolute perfection (basically how it comes across when someone says ARR is vastly superior) is more so than people saying "no."

Let's be honest, ARR is well designed compared to the 2010 XIV released in September 2010, aka version 1.0, but vastly superior to version 1.23? It's more like it's a lot more streamlined by being designed with every system found in modern MMORPGs, so superior may not be the right word for it, it's more like it's a heck of a lot more playable. The whole "it'll get better" is pretty much what people were saying all through 1.0's beta phase and..almost every other MMO that came out the past 5 years.

Let's wait and see, ignorance is bliss but the reality of the situation is if ARR is a superior product, everyone would be playing it and have no legitimate complaints (lack of content is one of them, even Yoshi admits it) not just 1.5 million supposed active accounts.