Disappointments and regrets of FFXIV

[jarud]

Thankyou chayala i hope SE reads this instead of profits.....well the might becuase the profits are dropping.

[Mega_Man_U]

You do realize this is 2.1 version? The game has been out for 2 1/2 years it is not a baby and I am not surprised they have not fixed anything as a MMO goes it has been failure since 2 1/2 years ago on many things and sadly the few "very FEW" things that i enjoyed in it cannot overide the bad and the continuation of bad to worse. So when you call this a baby make sure it is infact a baby hence 0-6months, this is a retarded toddler that is sniffing paint, read chayala's original post again i am pretty sure you missed a lot of it.

Wow, dude.

Wow.

[jarud]

Well if the shoe fits.....but if you think i am wrong give a good reason Ffxiv 2.1 isn't. Ffxiv 2.1 is a side grade not a new game or expansion and they reduced the size of the original 1.0 world. The reason why games like AO EQ still have a subscription attached even though u can choose to play a free version, is that they were made into very good quality games and have survived the test of time. The same is true till recently for FFXI, since SE messed it up to get ppl to jump to FXIV. Bad games die off and no one cares, They reinvented it to generate cash with lots of hype and very little substance.

[Rekujen]

1) Grouping - Everyone has a right to group and do their own things. You can't monitor their dps or tell them what to do and you can't control your own groups. You could preform before but now with crystal tower and daily roulettes they are doing everything they can to take the abilities out of players hands and force everyone to group with everyone. In FFXI you did not need to group with everyone. In every game you never needed to be forced to group with "everyone" as this game makes you do. You could pick and choose who you grouped with if you decided to. Adding on to the fact that people get geared up excessively quickly and aren't required to do much if ANY learning while leveling to 50 and you have a whole mess of idiots running around expecting that other people will group. I've never seen a more toxic group of people than the general population here because of the entitlement that SE fosters. No control of alliances, loots, groups or anything? Even FFXI when it was released had better management. And add to the fact that you can get banned for trying to control your group's dps or target who's not doing their job? Why even give people the group leader ability in the first place. Just make EVERYTHING random que up since that's what you apparently want anyhow.

I'm sorry but I disagree, FFXI was terrible in that regard. To do almost 90% of the content you HAD to be in a group, there are times where I had to wait 3-4 hours just level past 30.

You would spend hours forming a group and once the healer left, everyone would disband... waste of time if you ask me, why pay monthly to spend the majority of your time sitting there with your seek party flag open?

Nobody is stopping you from choosing who to group with, FFXIV is no different to FFXI in that regard. FFXI you spammed for randoms or you joined with friends, same thing in this game and every other MMORPG.

2) Content - I thought it was threadbare to start. Out of all the games i've played this one has had the least content on launch. Nevermind that it is a second launch.

Really? most games that have come out recently have failed to supply a decent end-game at launch (Aion, WAR, GW2, Conan, StarWars) FFXIV had 10x more dungeons than those games at launch, not to mention a raid that took 3 months for 1 FC to finally clear...

I think you're being too harsh, 3 months after launch we had 2.1, which was literally an expansion-sized patch that added multiple new features and we are ALREADY coming close to 2.2. Not to sound like a fanboy but Yoshi and Co are working around the clock to get us content, to think two Leviathan modes, extended story quests, new models, new dungeons and 4 new turns for coil are coming so soon is actually pretty damn cool.

tldr: if you're not happy, move on.. I think you're misguided in what FFXIV truly is, maybe you should go back to FFXI.

[jarud]

"I think you're being too harsh, 3 months after launch we had 2.1, which was literally an expansion-sized patch that added multiple new features and we are ALREADY coming close to 2.2" As you said....funny do you know that "ALL" that new content was already made and was "Supposed" to be in the 2.0 release. Please read up on stuff before you make a comment. Also the only reason they are working soooo fast to get "new" content added is becuase ppl are waking up and seeing the product they are releasing, then leaving. So they have to do something becuase they are losing money like a cheerleader with severe Bulimia Nervosa (throws up to get skinny) loses lunch. So yes you can try not to sound like a fanboy but Facts are Facts.


P.S.
1.0 was a lot bigger then 2.0 they reduced the game size so its not an expansion.

P.S.S

2.1 is not an expansion, even rift, ffxi, terra, wow, expansions were larger and all that content they gave us aside from supposed to be in 2.0 release they gave us what?

P.S.S.S
Levathain was supposed to be in 1.0 but hey who is counting. We do get his fight x2 woooo thats original..

[Rekujen]

1.0 was bigger environment wise, it was a joke of a game and that's why not many people bothered playing let alone investing in Legacy.. hell most people signed up for Legacy and played other games :\ it was a terrible idea for an MMORPG with broken interface, combat system and filled with errors and optimization problems. Not to mention the game play it self was out dated. They tried to make something between FFXI and WoW but they couldn't factor which side to lean on.. and that's why we received a broken FFXI-styled version of WoW.

I never said 2.1 was an expansion, I said it was "literally expansion sized" which is a fair comment to make considering how much content they added in only 3 months after launch...

You can't count 1.0 as a time-line for A Realm Reborn development progression because they are marketing it as a whole new game. Making a game from scratch is 10x easier than fixing someone elses mess, especially considering they only took 3 years to do so, other companies would have taken 5+ minimum for the amount of work that was done. You have to factor in all the changes they have to make and not piss all the 1.0 players off too, that's not an easy task.

[AjoraOak]

I was expecting the gear to be pointed out in the recycling section, CT gear has more diversity than Coil gear in appearance although they still rely on recoloring mage gear for caster/healer... can't tell if they're just lazy or what. But in general a ton of endgame gear sets are recycled models with different jobs/colors stuck on them (myth/healer vs caster sets etc).

[jarud]

Due to the lack of content in 2.0 "dungeons = trashmobs->boss1 in arena->trashmobs->boss2 in arena->trashmobs->boss3->end dungeon, for every dungeon with no option to explore becuase dungeons MUST be perfectly linear and ppl will love this since they cannot choose a direction" A broken crafting system which while fun and quite good only has 2-3 pieces worth making ie gryphon skin ring mat. for tanking aside from cooking. And you state only took 3 years to do HAH they had everything already done for them, also they had to pump something out to make money again. They lost the cash cow of FFXI when they decided to tack on the last expansion and Yoshi P didnt want to get fired so they rushed a product slapped a bunch of hype NEW GAME Buy me and like suckers to include myself we gave it another try and now are reaping our rewards, Chayala isnt the only person posting this and it is the vast majority. Fool me once shame on you Fool me twice.......wont fool me again.

[Wyyote]

sums up what many of us have been saying for weeks.
9/10 of my friends have quit. The ones that haven't just log on to say hi and do coil on monday, cap mythology an hour later, then log off for a week.

That single friend must really like you. You should feel fortunate.

[Sygmaelle]

It's precisely because I take this game as a game that I still enjoy it

The only thing I want is comin with 2.2, and its Vanity system, finally no graphic copycats anymore ^^'

Other than that I don't get all that whinin about the classes, that its the same for everyone and all the like. In other mmos you had skill trees but same weapons, and most of the time when someone figured out a cookie cutter build well, everyone played it.

SWG Jedi anyone ? please stop already ... that diversity thing is just wasted text on a forum. You just got your cookie cutter build delivered in the first place.

Sure it's only one build, nothing clearly oblige you to play just one class tho, or beein just "decent" at what you re doin.

Not the tools that make a worker. Not the tools