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).

[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.

[giftforce]

"the final fantasy brand"

... am I close?

[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.

[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.

[Rimmer]

"the final fantasy brand"

... am I close?

I lol'd. Cause its just about it.

[giftforce]

Customise your own combat job (oh wait... no)

Active combat system where position matters (oh wait... no)

Player-driven economy and content (oh wait... no)

Um... Autoattack... ?

Yes, sad but true. Autoattack is the selling point of this game. For only 12.99 per month, players can go AFK in combat and chat up a miqo'te in Linkshell chat! But wait there's more, you can also do a bunch of frivolous quests with absolutely no emotional context or dramatic delivery which you will probably just skim-read, if that.

[Demacia]

Nothing makes this game unique or competitive. Sure it's pretty fun with 1.18 but GW2 is looking mighty fine. So is PSO2 but with Sega who knows when that will be released outside of Japan.

[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...