Game Has Gone to the Dogs

[Taz]

They have made the game so dependent on dungeons and parties to get these stupid stones that take so very long to get that it is difficult to play and enjoy yourself.

People are demanding experience for runs and those of us that don't have it are left out in the cold. As the groups that are left are of newbees and 9 out of 10 we go no where.

The duty finder and roulette are a joke - for weeks I have tried these and every time I get in one it is on the way out as they can not handle it. Part of this is the poor caliber of some players and you can not help that. But these people demanding exp players are not supporting the foundation of these games as to get people together to play a great game and have fun. They are ruining it!!!

Sorry but this is how I see it - I am sure many other people have a different story to tell. I just want to get it out there so that Square Enix may see this and have other people with the same complaint and change things in this game.

[Edenholt]

What this game lack is a REAL Open world content. Not talking about FATEs, I'm talking about exploration, things you can go around and without any pressure. They've added treasure hunt and that's a step in the right direction, but we really need much more than that. I love the game, but only standing in the city queuing and shouting for groups gets old fast.

[Ricky]

What this game lack is a REAL Open world content. Not talking about FATEs, I'm talking about exploration, things you can go around and without any pressure. They've added treasure hunt and that's a step in the right direction, but we really need much more than that. I love the game, but only standing in the city queuing and shouting for groups gets old fast.

Everything gets old fast when you are locked out from doing them as much as you want

[Magis]

What this game lack is a REAL Open world content. Not talking about FATEs, I'm talking about exploration, things you can go around and without any pressure.

I think this is what is wrong with "themepark games" over sandbox ones. If the whole "end game" is focused on just the next dungeon, coupled with instant teleports to said dungeons ... then there isn't really anything else to do. No reason to exit whatever hub is designated by the devs/players. WoW (at least TBC and Vanilla, quit after) let you build reputation and made you traverse the world to reach dungeons. FFXI was even MORE on exploring the world to complete objective. If your going to have a world and then proceed to ignore it (except for leveling), then you might as well just make a lobby server and save the money.

If that truly is "Yoshi's vision" then I don't know if I myself could keep playing, but I hope 2.1 shows they aren't trying to turn XIV into that.

[indira]

What this game lack is a REAL Open world content. Not talking about FATEs, I'm talking about exploration, things you can go around and without any pressure. They've added treasure hunt and that's a step in the right direction, but we really need much more than that. I love the game, but only standing in the city queuing and shouting for groups gets old fast.

the open world can only handle a hand full of people in each area since its so tiny. there almost no mobs in the zones.

like strongholds were packed full of mobs and higher level then you in 1.0, now there empty and populated by weak mobs.

FFXI abandoned that model and proceeded to lose many subscribers and unbalance the game to shit. Even the devs said they broke the game with Abyssea.

everything here in FFXIV is even more broken then abyssea. you just have to get tome stones to gear up & you XP so fast make aby look like slow motion. you atleat had to get key item to enter abyssea & kill nm's to gear up while gianing curor to but the base gear in ffxi.

This isn't 11 years ago everything is online and people are paying monthly to be entertained, the only way to justify this investment is to cater to everyone. No matter how much you want to keep the genre pure.

FFXIV is not a MMO, nothing to keep pure its a lobby game or just another multiplayer game nothing massive about it.

[Sasagawa]

I love the game, but only standing in the city queuing and shouting for groups gets old fast.

Party finder please use it !

[Wired-Lain]

What this game lack is a REAL Open world content. Not talking about FATEs, I'm talking about exploration, things you can go around and without any pressure. They've added treasure hunt and that's a step in the right direction, but we really need much more than that. I love the game, but only standing in the city queuing and shouting for groups gets old fast.

Something that's really starting to wear on me is how little impetus to spend time in or explore all the new zones once you finish the MSQ. It feels as if there's rarely any hand crafted touches tucked away in a corner somewhere, no interesting npcs or flavorful locations. They tend to just amount to a big area with a lot of random monsters milling aimlessly around. I hate doing it, but its one of the areas I always found WoW a lot more successful at. The zones are packed with stuff, the animals and monsters you find have contextual reasons to be there. There's little mini stories going on in every corner of the map, treasure to find, puzzles and minigames to engage with. Even goofy little gags like finding the entire cast of Winnie the pooh chilling by a lake somewhere, or a cave with surprise fight tucked away guarding some fun loot that's basically useless but adds a little character to the zone. It just feels as if there's nothing to see out in Eorzea, you aren't rewarded for exploring these places because they're basically just weirdly large backdrops to the MSQs A-B-C plotting.

[SoulKhan]

They have made the game so dependent on dungeons and parties to get these stupid stones that take so very long to get that it is difficult to play and enjoy yourself.
But these people demanding exp players are not supporting the foundation of these games as to get people together to play a great game and have fun. They are ruining it!!!

Sorry but this is how I see it - I am sure many other people have a different story to tell. I just want to get it out there so that Square Enix may see this and have other people with the same complaint and change things in this game.

Thumbs up man I totally agree with what you say, I mean this mmo is the best! make it a bit more better and bam its golden.

[IStolzI]

You say majority left out so why not band together to do stuff. You don't want to learn it, you want farm groups to carry you. That's the real problem.

[ArcheustheWise]

This is Yoshi's Dream of an endgame. Please look forward to it.