Who is really optimistic about this game?

[Felis]

I'm optimistic that the game is real good at christmas 2011

[Jupiter]

After the ultimate let down of the CE launch, I came back to FFXIV about a month ago. . . Due to my original server being dead, and all my friends long gone; I ended up starting a new character on Besaid. After a solid month of running around Eorzea, I'm impressed with the improvements. This game is enjoyable now. Regardless of when these changes or "fixes" were implemented, the game has come along way (and has a long way to go). I kind of feel sorry the people who knew at the time of release that the game had little to no content and still rushed to end game. I personally feel that setting the game down for the 6 months or so that I did was the best decision I could've made. . . I came back imho at the best possible time. I should be hitting ~30's on at least 2 DoW classes right around the release of 1.18 and will be able to thoroughly enjoy the new battle system and dungeons on my favorite classes =D

With that being said: the fact alone that I have optimism for this game says a lot. I've never been a hardcore FF fan. I enjoyed a select few from the series. . . Most notably, FFVII, Tactics, FFX, and of coarse FFXI. Anyways, after playing this game for a week after release, I was sure this game was doomed to fail. I had no intention after the extreme let down, of returning. Not sure what made me re-install and try again but so far, coming back was a great decision and I look forward to spending more time w/ my current LS and the ever changing world of Eorzea.

[Amsai]

I'm not very optimistic about the games prospects. I am hopeful that maybe it can be a decent game, on par with how good I thought FFXI was maybe. But definately not even better, and not as good as some of the new MMOs coming out in certain aspects.

[Azurus]

After reading through these posts i have deemed that this is a very good act of masked sarcasm. Props to you my friend you were very believable in your deliverance. The 2 parts that gave it away for me were the pirates vs ninjas thing and the wanting to parley against people online haha well played sir.

as for my 2 cents, i dont know if it is pessimism or optimism in Se thats caused me to just spend my time playing the FF rpgs on the psp more then 14. Atleast i have brand loyalty haha.

[SniperRifle]

Can't tell if being trolled or not.

However, I won't travel off topic. Today was the first time in a while I worked myself into an optimistic mindset. I'll share with you how I got there. I was thinking in my head back on 1.17. Which came out 2 months and a few days ago. With 1.17 came a drastic change in the game. It became better. Noticabley better. 2 months since we have seen 1.17a,b,c which were all just bug fixes which most of us overlooked. But... 1.18 is coming in less then 2 weeks now. And it's the biggest patch to date; content-wise. I think a little bit more then just 2 dungeons and auto attack will be arriving in 2 weeks. Not saying it's going to be orgasmic and an answer to our prayers. But it will bring what 1.17 did to the game for a short while; life.

From my stand point and a lot of pessimists (sp?) is... once we clear these dungeons, what then? Back to the same tedious stuff we've been doing for the last 9 months. For another 2 months and a few days til 1.19? We'll be 1 year older since the days we played the beta.

Anyways... I won't stress myself out over a video game.

[Wolfie]

And giving detailed responses is only one step below "lying". Half the people here have no clue as to what they mean by "assessing costs" and "algorithms". Going into programming specifics woukd be dumb. Either way, nobody is going to give a shit about their early communication if they fix the damn game. Your priorities are all kinds of fucked up if you think they "should" focus on letting us know every single concept, problems in implementation and testing as well as all the setbacks that make the feature less than intended.

People damn right give a s*** about their early communication because the MMO market (and gaming market in genera) evolved to the point where developers need to be in constant communication with their fan base and customers. They don't have to give us technical details, but they SHOULD be giving us their thoughts on the overall design of things.

Here, I'll do some research for you and show you what good developer posts look like:

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/1179708
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/2956383

Notice how he's actually analyzing the design changes they're making, and ones that are frequently suggested, and what works and what doesn't. I have yet to see SE do anything close to that; instead, they throw out off the wall stupid design changes like kicking retainers out of MW based on a set of arbitrary rules.

And for the record, Blizzard HAS indeed come out and said that they can't do X, because it's a Y problem with the engine, and they're doing Z to address the engine change. SE has only given us their three-word buzz phrase of "Core Programming Issue" time and time again.

"We can't do X" is not a non-response. You may not like it, but it answers your question very clearly. You don't like the answer? That doesn't make it a non-response I'm afraid.

Yeah, you're right about that one. Still, the reason as to why they can't do X is important.

We don't "need" to know anything.

And it's this kind of attitude that turned FFXIV into the abortion that it is today.

[Shikyo]

I think its heading in the right direction see as they seem to finally be trying to add what ppl want some of XI's core systems but tweaked they keep it up and they may have something that ppl will pay for.

[odintius]

I'm optimistic hoping this game improves still play ever so often just waiting now for 1.18 and see if anything really changed. So I still kinda new to the game just curious they way people bash each other on these forums is this a reflection of the community while playing in game?

[Carzilla]

it will eventually get there. 11 was fun and it was very bland looking. once 14 gets it right it'll be the best mmo cuz it will have gameplay and graphics to go with it. I think this game is still a Beta even though its been released. and yeah they should implement some of 11's game play. The only things that bother me at the moment are some of the battle music. guitar is cool But it dosent go with this game, and the levels really bug me. cuz when you try to explore you see the same thing over and over. why run for 10 mins when you know your gonna see the same thing.. But they know that already so im just playing the waiting game right now. hurryap SE ..

[Chezen]

I'm optimistic hoping this game improves still play ever so often just waiting now for 1.18 and see if anything really changed. So I still kinda new to the game just curious they way people bash each other on these forums is this a reflection of the community while playing in game?

Everyone I have met has been very nice. The chats are pretty quiet, which bothers some people, but all the people I have interacted with has been helpful and courteous.