Game doesn't feel that epic anymore

[LavellaNyteshade]

You need to realize that the game is still in its infant stage... They created it fast and as low budget as they could because they were afraid of a failure... Give it a little bit and for them to create more content and soon you will have that vast world that you crave...

And additional aeths, ships, etc will be added as well to save time for the lazy, casual gamer who cant appreciate exploration. Hard to enjoy a vast world crammed in a sandbox. No more open-world NMs. Everything is handed to us on a silver platter.

Gamers these days don't appreciate reward from hard work.

[sheepysheepy]

And additional aeths, ships, etc will be added as well to save time for the lazy, casual gamer who cant appreciate exploration. Hard to enjoy a vast world crammed in a sandbox. No more open-world NMs. Everything is handed to us on a silver platter.

Gamers these days don't appreciate reward from hard work.

you can still run everywhere if you want

[Phyllo]

And additional aeths, ships, etc will be added as well to save time for the lazy, casual gamer who cant appreciate exploration. Hard to enjoy a vast world crammed in a sandbox. No more open-world NMs. Everything is handed to us on a silver platter.

Gamers these days don't appreciate reward from hard work.

Hmm... I think I've seen more casuals saying that they enjoyed wandering around Eorzea than experienced gamers, which means that what you say Lavella is actually wrong :/

The real problem is than once you reached the end, the world becomes pointless since you can simply duty find everything and teleport everywhere...

Personally, I enjoyed the dungeons much more than I do now when there was no duty finder back in the closed beta.
You had to personally search for people to play with and probably become friend with them, plus as far as I remember, I never met any annoying pricks that way while I meet one every three or four instances now...

The problem isn't the casuals but the developers who are way too afraid to fail and thus, make everything short and easy.

But that's just my opinion ^^

[JonBigwood]

I think the world in FFXIV is beautiful, and appreciate a lot the possibility of traveling quickly once you have already visited a place. In older FF games (not online) where you had to cross n times the same places fighting the same trash mobs and couldn't avoid them (because you didn't see them) it was much more annoying than rewarding, for me.

[Phyllo]

Well, i can show you one example of wasted feature in this world; the ferry.
While it seems to be a good idea and alternative to airship because of its low price, some of us thought that it would be like ff11 in which you had to way for it (a few minutes) and then wait in it (a few minutes) before you got where it is headed to.
However, it's exactly like airship except that it cost almost nothing and that you have to walk for it BUT.. it's not over!
You can teleport where ever you want to!
Which means that ferry went from "interesting feature" to "completely useless feature"

And there are a lot of examples like this which makes this world beautiful but unfortunately wasted

[HulveinBlitz]

Well, i can show you one example of wasted feature in this world; the ferry.
You can teleport where ever you want to!
Which means that ferry went from "interesting feature" to "completely useless feature"

And there are a lot of examples like this which makes this world beautiful but unfortunately wasted

I would never deem anything completely useless. Why? Because an MMO can constantly evolve.

It's not the same as a packaged, priced game you usually get. Sure, the ferry may not have that much of a usefulness now, however... Who knows what they have planned for it? It's not wasted, until the game is taken down/offline.

[Phyllo]

Don't get me wrong, the game itself is no waste, but some ideas have been wasted, they could have either be done better or are too present like aetherites, there was many in V.1 too but the maps were waaaay bigger so it wasn't a problem.
All you do now is tp everywhere since it's so cheap, nothing makes you want to travel by yourself.

[bardaboo]

Like the chocobo porter system... I used it once just to use it. That was it. I don't use airships either. /shrug
But I still love the game

[Phyllo]

Well choco porter is nice for low leveled but that's all.
IMO, the only two major flaws of the game are dungeon musics since they only appear a few second then there no music at all when out of battle and the fact that the world is small and have poor usefulness once you reached endgame.
Other than that the game is great.

Oh and I forgot about latency, quick AOE can piss you off quite easily.

[CrashingWaves]

Wow what? Rarely use the porter system? I must be the rare case then. I often use it to miserly hoard my gil rather than teleport when I can. And it gives me a convenient break to go grab food or hit the washroom.