People who say's WoW had a better launch then this game makes me laugh ........

[Ugabooga]

Okey lets see WoW -> Schol/Strat Farm then UBRS/LBRS came Maraudon took a while.MC came before ZG and Farming MC with 39 other people and u had a slim chance of getting gear unless you were a tank or a high ranked member that had shit tons of DKP or w/e they used. DC/crashesMAINTENCES LASTED FOR DAYS NOT HOURS and they did this maybe 1-2 maintence per week and still there was shit tons of buggs and exploits ingame. FFXVI has tons of maintence yet fixes all the problems quiet fast enough. they are probly working their buts of and remember we all live in a huge time differents well we europeans are to the asian content and they work for etc when we are sleeping through the night and people dont say they dont work at stuff .. Do you work at the SE Offices?.. fuck no. Please people get your facts right and those who says that SE isn't working please post your proof of you being at their offices and overseeing this that you so state proudly

[SynMaris]

This is gonna be good. /popcorn.

[SakuraInoue]

In WoW, you can zoom out further. Maybe people think this is why it had a better launch....

[DoctorPepper]

The only reference I've seen about WoW in regards to this is people saying it wasn't any better.. Also, you realize that WoW came out 9 years ago right? OF COURSE they had a worse launch than this game, do you not remember how shitty computers were back then or what? Let alone the internet speeds people were dealing with..

[MrObject]

People only complain because they care enough to complain. What I'm worried about is how many people are just quitting and not saying a word because they really have very little faith things will change.

[Yamimarik]

In all seriousness though, I wish people would at least consider logic over just shouting "CONSPIRACY!" or w/e they say now days.

[Sepix]

WoW had something that FFXIV doesn't have though. Almost all players were new to MMOs and didn't have any expectations. People also didn't take everything so serious. When you walked into MC the first time with a new group you got owned on the first trash pull and everyone laughed. You were lucky to reach Luciphron on your first raid thanks to the core hound respawns and the evil imp cave before him. Yet nobody complained. In FFXIV you wipe once at Titan and half the group is gone. People got bitter over the time and that is the problem. Not the maintenances and not the content.

[Jermz]

In all seriousness though, I wish people would at least consider logic over just shouting "CONSPIRACY!" or w/e they say now days.

L O L.... RuPaul Memes.... <3 <3

[Raminax]

FFXVI

Final Fantasy 16? Sweet. Tell me, do I become the dancer of my dreams in the future?

And well, yeah, any new launch is somewhat devoid of content. Arguably, Final Fantasy XIV has tons of it. It's just that it's not used. Beastmen strongholds? Travelled through once to unlock the Primals Hard mode, nothing again. Dungeons below the level cap? There could've been hard modes and we'd have like 15 dungeons at level 50 to do!

Also, allow me to give a new perspective on the lack of content to the usual "omg wtf im bored crowd". Imagine if we demanded that every new MMORPG that came out had comparable content to WoW. So we want like 50-odd dungeons, 20-odd raids and whatnot. Sure, we could ask for it, but do know that designing content takes time. If Final Fantasy XIV was meant to keep adding content until it reached WoW's numbers of dungeons and such, we wouldn't be playing it now. We wouldn't even have the joy of a beta to participate in. Final Fantasy XIV would be stuck in a perpetual state of development because people keep demanding that it lives up to the amount of content that other competitors have.

Sure enough, we finally get 50 dungeons and 20 raids. Except the year is 2018. And it's a beta instead of release candidate. And the other competing MMORPGs have gotten 3 expansions each and added 20 new dungeons and 10 raids in that time. Can you see where I'm going? <3

tl;dr: Demanding WoW-like amounts of content means you wouldn't be playing XIV at the moment. It would be stick in a perpetual development cycle to meet your ludicrous demands, and simply cease to exist at some point.

[MrObject]

What I'd be more concerned about is the FFXIV/GW2 comparison. I played GW2's launch and it wasn't amazing, but it was pretty decent, similar to FF-ARR, both games had roughly the same end game content at launch and both had the ability to go play old content but there was a reason to actually go play old content in GW2, the loot scaled to your actual level.

Right now FF has a ton of under 49 content but no real incentive to even do it. It has the great level sync option and then they are like "We implemented this great system so that you can go back and level with your friends." Instead of scaling the rewards so that they can call everything that exists 'end game content'. At least give tomes of philosophy if you run any dungeon once your level 50.