Embarrassment when others see me playing Final Fantasy XIV

[BelgianRofl]

Whenever someone walks in on me playing FFXIV, and let's say I'm Crafting or Gathering, and this person starts watching the screen, I get this feeling of judgement. They're looking at the screen watching me select synthesis options and watching the incredibly slow and uninteresting animations on repeat. I become embarrassed knowing that they may be thinking, "This guy sits in a chair doing this in is free time?"

To spare myself the embarrassment, I normally time my crafting for when my girlfriend jumps in the shower. When she's done, I'd then switch to something else as to avoid judgement.

The truth of the matter is, FFXIV was originally intended to be a pay to play game. With Gathering and Crafting classes intended to be as center-stage as any battle class, I'd say Tanaka was out of his mind to think that people would pay to play the Crafting and Gathering mini-games.

I think an incredible solution to solving the problem of player-embarrassment and FFXIV's lackluster profits, the Crafting and Gathering games need to be spiced up. The mini games should be visual puzzles that induce thought and strategy - a different puzzle for each kind of tool used. This way each job feels different from the next.

Also, because of the emphasis on crafting and gathering, it shouldn't take longer to level a craft to 50 than a normal job - remember, the ultimate goal is to create a game that people want to pay a monthly subscription to play.

Or... another solution is to totally deemphasize crafting. Remove the mini-game altogether. Make each synthesis pass or fail, and focus on the battle system instead - making it one where players wouldn't mind spending a good portion of their free time for years to come.

Square-Enix's Net worth has dropped 33.0808081% since September 27th. You want to make money? If you want people to rebuild Square-Enix's net worth, and if you want Crafting & Gathering classes to be as upfront and important as any other class, they need to be fun and awesome.

As it stands now, I challenge any of the developers to level a craft or gathering skill to rank 30 in their free time.



Warm regards,

-BR

[Verecund]

I laughed so hard at the first two paragraphs... because it's absolutely true (really, I feel like that in real life).


And I think SE was going for more of a 'mini-game'-type solution for crafting, but they never fully fleshed it out (not to mention the outdated classic FF UI just outright harms that experience in my opinion).

[Zezil]

SE should make it harder syn with mini game that bot can do (not just push one buttom until end).. or just kick it out from system.. just syn fail or success.... syn ever good thing when it can make good money when u have high skill but now all ppl if he want something 50... mean of boring syn system the reward become to money but.. now it meanless... just open bot craft and wait it 50 so now alot item that expensive not come from skill but come from how rare of item

[Sonic_the_Hedgehog]

To answer this topic seriously, you should tell the people that are "judging" you to screw off. It's your money, your free time, and you can do whatever the hell you want to do. If you want to craft, then craft. If your girlfriend is giving you problems about it, then put her in her place.

[Khazar]

i agree, synthesis mini game could be different, something more fun or less boring, what you want. And if it should be boring at least allow us to push an autocraft button while we go to play other games lol.

[Neptune]

Tanaka was out of his mind....

lol. I think the problem was he was IN his mind.

I know what you mean though. I think synthesis should be more realistic and not be a mini game, or the mini game should go altogether. Whatever they throw at you is not going to be like Dr. Mario because puzzles have nothing to do with crafting. Crafting is more like work than a fun mini game.

[Xatsh]

With the amount of people who enjoy the crafting system in this game... it would be crazy for them to make crafting subpar like the majority of the mmo genre.

[TonyMontana]

Welcome back BelgianRofl that week away must have been pretty tough.

[Shiyo]

I love this games crafting, even though it's boring I think it's a ton better than any other MMO I have played. FF11 had the second best crafting system, then waaay below everything in the universe, we have western mmo "click 1 button, go afk, and come back @ capped skill level" craft systems. Seriously, the crafting may not be that good but it's the best that's ever existed in a MMO ^-^

[TonyMontana]

I love this games crafting, even though it's boring I think it's a ton better than any other MMO I have played. FF11 had the second best crafting system, then waaay below everything in the universe, we have western mmo "click 1 button, go afk, and come back @ capped skill level" craft systems. Seriously, the crafting may not be that good but it's the best that's ever existed in a MMO ^-^

I think it is the worst ever. Three people I wanted to recruit to play the game were at my house the other night for a little get together. I showed them the game, they all watched me do 1 local leve and no joke ALL THREE said they would never play this game. Its really kinda sad.