Who is really optimistic about this game?

[CoDeWa]

This game will boom when it hits ps3. There has to be a pretty nice demand for MMOs on consoles. I know I liked the idea of being able to play DC universe on ps3 even though it isn't my kind of MMO. Would have never stopped playing FF11 on 360 if it didn't catch on fire. Cannot wait till FF14 is on my ps3.

[Pyretta_Blaze]

I am optimistic, not really for 1.x but for 2.0. I will be very disappointed if 2.0 does not completely blow us all away.

So I am optimistic, but prepared to be disappointed.

[Uzziah]

I'm a (medically) retired IT consultant. After working in the field for over 22 years, I have two opinions. One of the original development team and it's leadership and one of the current development team and it's leadership. The only thing I'll say about the original group here is that they should be absolutely ashamed of themselves after working on this game for as many years as they did!

Now, on to the new development team, it's leadership and the state of the game as it stands and it's direction. I will say right now that I am 100% optimistic regarding this game. Yoshi and new team have been performing wonderfully. They are doing something that has never been done before (as far as I'm aware). They are taking an absolute failure and turning it around into a complete success.

When the game first released, I was in utter disbelief at what I found. My first thoughts were "What in the hell has this development team been doing with it's time for the last four to five years?". They sure as hell couldn't have been working very damn hard! I kept playing anyway (most of the time, in utter frustration).

Finally they announced the restructuring of the development team. When I found out who had been put in charge, I did a bit of research and learned what his past accomplishments were. I was impressed. Straight away, I told my wife (who also is an avid player), "They will begin rewriting this game from the ground up, to include the engine, while continuing to update this nightmare on a regular basis.". She thought I was nuts. Sure enough, that's what is happening. I knew that there was nothing short of a rewrite that could redeem the catastrophic failure that we had on our hands.

Now, this kind of stuff takes time. Developing an MMORPG from the ground up in 2 years is nothing short of awesome (if they are successful, which I believe they will be). At the same time they have been providing fairly decent updates. I become more impressed with each update. Sure, they make mistakes and bugs pop up here and there, but they are coding at blinding speed. I'm actually amazed that there aren't more bugs than we've seen.

It's a bit disappointing that we have to actually play the game between patch 1.20 and 1.21 with the class changes already made but still waiting for the jobs. I would have rather waited the extra 2 months to see both enter the scene at the same time. Game play would have been more enjoyable both now and then, but hey, we'll live and the show will go on.

Anyway, I've already written too much. I'm very, very optimistic and encourage SE not to ever abandon this project because I truly believe it's headed in the right direction. As hard as it's going to be to recover the "Final Fantasy" brand and as hard as it will be to recapture the trust of the players, it is entirely possible and probable that they will succeed if they just don't give up.

I would encourage those people who are still playing, to keep playing. If for no other reason, than just to get yourself way ahead of everyone else who will be flooding back to play when 2.0 is launched. I think, once we see the introduction of jobs in the next couple months, that the game will really begin to take off. Once the 2.0 client is redistributed and we load it up for the first time, I totally believe we'll all be blown away.

This dev team is not the team that ruined the game, brand name and company reputation, but it is the team that will restore all that has been lost. The community will see.

[UmJammerSully]

I'm optimistic-ish, thanks to 2.0. A lot of the stuff shown looks really exciting but I've learnt to be cautious with my optimism this time due to how bad badly they missed my expectations the first time around.

That being said, I'm confident that 2.0 will be a noticeable step-up from what we had before and we have got now.

[Betelgeuzah]

If you aren't at all optimistic, what are you doing here?

[Orcishgrappler]

with caution yes. I want more than anything for this game to be great someday. I think we all do even people that post on here with negitive posts still want the game to make it.

[ChiefCurrahee]

I've been a part of XIV since closed alpha. I took a break from Feb 2011 - July 2011. I peaked in from time to time with each new update. It was patch 1.18 that really brought me back to XIV for good. It was the first real update of the players polls, the promises and the "hype" of the rewrite. patches 1.19 and 1.20 have tempered my faith that this team will turn XIV around.

I'm looking forward to Ver 2.0. but I'm also looking forward to the updates we'll get for ver 1.x while we wait for October to roll around so we can get our first taste of ver 2.0

[kanjitai]

I wanted to clarify something since it seems I'm my posts go from one extreme to the other. I was disappointed with this game. There's no nice way to say it but it flopped. I can see the potential in it and that's why I'm still around. I just want SE to give us some content.

I don't want to pay for a year before 2.0 and get nothing but basic tweaks to the game. Tweaks that should have been there from the beginning. I don't think I'm the only one who feels this way. At least I hope I'm not.

[Betelgeuzah]

If you are here solely based on potential it shouldn't matter what happens before 2.0 as the game isn't good enough for you to begin with, with or without a fee.

The whole concept of paying- no, playing a game only for it's potential sometime in the distant future is insanity. You either like the game yet deny it and that's why you play or you don't. And if you don't play any stance you are taking, any cause you are fighting for is completely lost. You are essentially fighting someone else's fight, taking a stance that the service should be free for those that SE owes nothing and hold no silly grudges over what should or shouldn't have been in the past. Meanwhile your own role in all of this is to be a bystander that all of this has no effect on, and even worse, an entitled one at that.

[Dragon]

[OP post snip]

I suppose I'm cautiously optimistic.