What makes this game competitive / unique?

[Azurymber]

Here's an honest question of great importance.

What do you think makes this game competitive with other MMOs. And what makes this game stand out?

We know this game is a bit of trainwreck, and many seem to argue they will fix it and relaunch it into a success. But think about that for a second. What does this game have to compete on?

It doesn't have voice acting in every quest.
It's behest and leve system can't really compete with the whole rift system.
It doesn't really have a functioning economy and with some people holding on to 100mil+, probably won't for years.
It doesn't have all the skanky costumes that seem to make many Free MMO's so popular.

Originally it had the ability to play as crafting or gathering as a main. And would have had the company system (enhanced linkshells/guilds), the ability to craft in groups, etc. But since Yoshi-P took over many of the creative things that would have made the game stand on its own have been removed.

I mean honestly, what will this game compete on? In almost every aspect it can't even hold up against FFXI pre-abyssea.

And please don't assume I'm trying to be negative or say this game will fail. I'm just curious what all the people who believe this game will be really successful think about this.

Personally I think this game stands out in the graphics department + in the music department. Other than that, I haven't read of anything that sounds overly unique coming anytime soon.

[Coldfire]

Don't know why people think this game stands out in the graphics section. It doesn't. Maybe compared to old MMOs, but definately not to the new ones and let's better not talk about non-MMOs xD
I think SE just forgot that times change. They hope the PS3 will save it but I have my doubts. Maybe they should release it for PSVita too(I would totally buy it again).

[Cichy]

Don't know why people think this game stands out in the graphics section. It doesn't. Maybe compared to old MMOs, but definately not to the new ones and let's better not talk about non-MMOs xD
I think SE just forgot that times change. They hope the PS3 will save it but I have my doubts. Maybe they should release it for PSVita too(I would totally buy it again).

I completely agree with the PSvita thing. They already thinking about putting FFXI on there but I think the mechanics of FFXIV would make it a better fit for it.
PS3 is the only hope they got otherwise.
It's funny how people keep saying give them time and wait for more updates. There have been MMOs that were fairly successful that came and gone in 1-2 years. FFXIV is almost at a year now and it's still awful.
SE will not keep this game alive for 30,000 subs, this is not League of Legends (I think LoL has more players than that actually).

[Shneibel]

This game graphic does stand out even with the new mmo, but its world is not lively, example : flying bird, butterfly ? sure those thing dont do anything about gameplay but it give a different feeling while walk around the world, and the collision on field should implant again instead of remove, run up and down of small cliff is....not worth it to show off to other ppl who play other game. The unique part about this game is player can play crafter w/o being a combat

I creater this thread about the combat LINK because I think it is lack of visual and exited.

[Azurymber]

This game graphic does stand out even with the new mmo, but its world is not lively, example : flying bird, butterfly ? sure those thing dont do anything about gameplay but it give a different feeling while walk around the world, and the collision on field should implant again instead of remove, run up and down of small cliff is....not worth it to show off to other ppl who play other game. The unique part about this game is player can play crafter w/o being a combat

I creater this thread about the combat LINK because I think it is lack of visual and exited.

Player can't play crafter without being a DoW or DoM anymore. They already said that crafting and gathering are now just side jobs.

[Coldfire]

This game graphic does stand out even with the new mmo, but its world is not lively, example : flying bird, butterfly ?

It seems you missed that thread where ffxiv was compared to other new MMOs with videos and pictures. Sadly it was closed (for obvious reasons). A vivid world is part of the graphics obviously. But if we talk about bare graphical features this game is dead. No proper FSAA support, bad shadow implementation, bad mipmapping, no parallax occlusion, no interactive water, 2d battle effects, unstable fullscreen mode. I could probably come up with some more things but this should be enough to point out that this game lacks alot. It's not always about the polygon count if we talk about good graphics...

[Platinumstorm]

I'm quite pleased with the story presentation, and I'm glad it isn't littered with unnecessary, expensive, and hard-drive sucking voice acting. Star Wars has voice acting but not even a fraction of the quest presentation in it, so imo, I believe it's the leader in story presentation.

[giftforce]

"the final fantasy brand"

... am I close?

[Rimmer]

"the final fantasy brand"

... am I close?

I lol'd. Cause its just about it.

[viion]

Its unique in that it has 4 more windows than traditional mmos for every single action/input. But no it doesnt. Its sad that its failing every day and theres no other competition around.