Anyone else feeling...uninspired?

[Fauxglove]

I don't mind them trying to make the world accessible. I certainly can't complain about no longer having to spend ten minutes just planning how I was going to travel from town to town.

But if I want to throw myself face-first into danger that's a honest-to-god personal challenge, I'd like that option to be available.

When I was playing WoW, that took the form of grabbing a friend and duoing old raid content that nobody thought could be done with only two people.

There's no equivalent of that here.

I love the FF MMOs, and I really want to like this game. I'd just like to see some content I can't sleep through, that doesn't take 24 players to do.

[Eissels]

Video games don't run on no money.

Super hardcore game = less players = less money = no more game.

[joshsecret]

Video games don't run on no money.

Super hardcore game = less players = less money = no more game.

this x10!
while group A likes these types and group B likes that; the only group that really matters is the one that pays.

[Hoshikogi]

If you wear i50 or lower gear, the world and many FATE still appear challenging. However, we are literally gaining equivalent levels as we obtain higher iLv. gear and gaining such gear is relatively easy. It is for this reason that we can generally run through the world, pulling everything in sight, and barely receive a dent. It's also the reason Elite marks such as Naul die in a matter of seconds with just a few people in range. There's little way a level 49 mob will survive against an iLv. 110 player. Gear is so oriented around events such as coil that it has caused great imbalance.

I assume the developers are just beta testing the game's mechanics at this point. May take years before the game is moderately balanced.

[Eggnook24]

Want Risk? Face roll DF.

[Dravion]

We most certainly live in a new age of MMO where things are easier or more simplified, or rather easier. It's one of those things where I'm ok with it, but I also miss some of it. Yes as a level 75 Corsair I had to hide and sneak from every waking danger, but as a level 50 Black Mage I'm a walking path of destruction that hides from no skelly man. I do miss the feeling of dread when it was night, but I'm also happy I don't have to worry about dying constantly. I also miss taking the long boat rides just to immerse myself in the game, but I also like being able to get where I want without having to wait.

To me it's oranges and apples, two totally different fruits, but I like the taste of both.

[Gilthas]

It's true that FFXI's overworld is a lot more dangerous than FFXIV's, and yet I vastly prefer FFXIV's.

The reason? Killing stuff that agros me is a hell of a lot more fun than having to sneak past mobs because they can kill me just by looking at me. That stuff gets real old real fast.

[Triston]

If you want to play XI, go play XI? It's still alive, and SE continues to support and update it.
XI and XIV are totally different; XI is extremely inaccessible and XIV is very accessible. If you want to have your cake and eat it too, play both games? There's good features of each, and trying to turn XIV into an XI clone will just dismantle it like 1.0

[Sonofbaldo]

If you want to play XI, go play XI? It's still alive, and SE continues to support and update it.
XI and XIV are totally different; XI is extremely inaccessible and XIV is very accessible. If you want to have your cake and eat it too, play both games? There's good features of each, and trying to turn XIV into an XI clone will just dismantle it like 1.0

XI is not the XI the OP is remembering. He's probably thinking of pre-WotG XI where it was actually challenging and took effort. A party took skill and team work. Not button mashing and yawning. Unfortunately the people who love a care bear game like XIV cried enough to get literally the entire game of XI nerfed. I mean literally the ENTIRE game. XI is a joke compared to what it was when it was great. Funny thing is, I think the last i saw XIV brags about having 2 million accounts. I think at XI's height (when it was actually challenging and time consuming) had over 6 million.

So to the people who say a harder game cant make money, I say thats doubtful because games like XIV keep a small amount of regulars and then have a rotating mass of people who get bored of Care Bear Land and take months/years off. Probably to go play other MMO's to find one that isnt an exact replica of WoW like XIV is.

[Deusteele]

Funny thing is, I think the last i saw XIV brags about having 2 million accounts. I think at XI's height (when it was actually challenging and time consuming) had over 6 million.

FFXi topped out at just over 500,000 subscribers and 1.7 million characters. According to Wada in 2008.