Just wait, it will get better!

[Gilthas]

I've been seeing this said since Sept 30, 2010.

You're right. Instead of waiting you should whine on the forums.

[Alavastre]

How many major patches has there been so far?

2.0 ie the relaunch of the entire game.

[Tupsi]

If you're not happy after three years, why are you still playing?

ARR hasn't been out for 3 years and just per this topic you can't consider 1.x as ARR since if you say as such people will gladly correct you. For as much as we heard "ARR will fix everything" from SE, you can't blame people for wanting to see how it turned out.

[Keres]

Nope, worse.

Did you play at 1.0 launch? Because I have a really hard time believing that anybody here would actually consider 1.00 of this game to be anywhere near as good as what we have now, much less "better." I know that nostalgia goggles are quite a thing, but do you remember the 2+ second menu delay involved in every single UI command? How it would take 5+ minutes to sell off your vendor trash? How finding anything on the market wards involved manually walking from retainer to retainer, targeting them, opening the system menu, selecting "Check", browsing their inventory, closing the menu, then repeating dozens of times? How it was pretty much impossible to reliably compare prices on anything? How there was literally nothing to do but levequests?

I can totally respect an opinion wherein someone doesn't like the style of the game today, but glossing over the huge number fundamental problems that the original game had is pretty crazy.

[Shiyo]

I've been seeing this said since Sept 30, 2010.

<<FF14 1.0>>
Game will be different at release! It's just beta
it's just 1.0, FFXI sucked at 1.0 too
<<FF14 A realm reborn>>
It's just alpha, wait for beta
It's just p1 beta, wait for p2
it's just p2 beta, wait for p3
It's just p3 beta, wait for p4
It's just p4 beta, wait for release
It's just early access, wait for release
The game just released, give it a month
It's only 1 month into the game, give it 2 months
It's only 2 months into the game, wait for 2.1
When will it end?

[Orophin]

ARR hasn't been out for 3 years and just per this topic you can't consider 1.x as ARR since if you say as such people will gladly correct you. For as much as we heard "ARR will fix everything" from SE, you can't blame people for wanting to see how it turned out.

OP didn't specify either way. They just said they've been "waiting for it to get better" since the launch date of the original game. ARR wasn't even an thought then.

When will it end?

When you finally get the sense to step away from the game when you realize it's not for you.

[Welsper59]

All these people who still pay for this game but dislike it... LOL. Such mock-worthy peers we have.

[Blackheart]

<<FF14 1.0>>
Game will be different at release! It's just beta
it's just 1.0, FFXI sucked at 1.0 too
<<FF14 A realm reborn>>
It's just alpha, wait for beta
It's just p1 beta, wait for p2
it's just p2 beta, wait for p3
It's just p3 beta, wait for p4
It's just p4 beta, wait for release
It's just early access, wait for release
The game just released, give it a month
It's only 1 month into the game, give it 2 months
It's only 2 months into the game, wait for 2.1
When will it end?

if they've been waiting that long and not enjoying the game they might want to rethink their tactics...

[Starlord]

-snip-

If you were around for 1.0 you would know that they were maintaining 2 games. 1.0 and 2.0. In which 1.0 is being totally thrown away, for 2.0 when the time came (which it came).

1.0 had a terrible launch, and since they were maintaining 1.0 ( for the players that stuck through it) and Building FFXIV ARR (2.0), they really didn't have much time nor resources to deliver awesome content. The game went f2p for 1 year before turning on the subs at 1.20.

Just like any MMO when it's release (and yes 2.0 is a new release re-release whatever), the game needs time to grow and that's the factual truth. You don't like the game currently now? Unsub and wait 2 years ( or even 2-3 patches) when the game has enough content to provide to you.

You know what I say to what you said? Wait 2 years into FFXIV ARR life-cycle. Then you will see a huge difference in this game.

Edit: Also, if you are saying when will it get better from 1.0 till now ( 3 years) you should really think and say to yourself. Do I really like this game or not? Because in 3 years time and you still don't know AND your paying a sub for it.... (insert something here :/).

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.

[Blazer]

<<FF14 1.0>>
it's just 1.0, FFXI sucked at 1.0 too

I don't know of many people who complained in FFXI at (NA...assuming RoZ) launch. The only "hate" back then was there was "too much" to do. I miss the time where it took months to hit level cap. I remember the first 100 crafters on the server, THAT took some actual dedication.