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    Idk if it could ever be fixed

    Just to put it out there I've played FF ever since it came out on Nintendo. I've always loved the game besides FF9, FF10, FFX-2. FFXI was amazing, but FFXIV is so bad I don't it can be salvaged. There is so many reasons why, and would take so much time to even list them.

    For starters the classes are horrible. I mean seriously it's like who wants to play an Archer when a Ranger is so much better. Why play a Pugilist when a Mnk/War is more fun. Lancer for example, where is my Dragon? Seriously the classes are so basic it's pathetic, and why something like this was even created is beyond me. Why isn't there classes like RDM, THF, NIN, SAN, etc...? The job system in FFXI was really good and really stood out from other games. Like why fix what wasn't broken in the first place?

    Second is the lets start out with some quests but then end up soloing mobs. Seriously the game leaves you with a start but then just leaves you hanging(You do beginner quests then end up like ok I'll go kill something I guess)(No Valkrum Dunes I guess) . The mob distribution is so messed up that it's ridiculous(I mean a level 3 mob standing next to a level 30 mob). I can care less about quests, because I figure finding a group would be so much...

    Who cares, this game sucks(And by sucks I mean terrible). SE will never be able to do anything with it. Me typing my opinion wouldn't matter anyway, just a waste of my time. Thanx for destroying a great game and following the wow trend and making something so fail I just don't even want to play.

    I hope and wish FFXI could follow to maybe FFXV, but I doubt it. TBH... I hate dying in FFXI, it sucks I lose XP and had to HP or get a rez lol. But at the same time I loved the challenge to it. Even tho I was like freak this, I understood that noobs never made it past level 40 period. Doing Limbus was fun, but now it's like WoW but retarded. So.... No thank you, I don't want eazy mode.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gankfest View Post
    For starters the classes are horrible. I mean seriously it's like who wants to play an Archer when a Ranger is so much better. Why play a Pugilist when a Mnk/War is more fun. Lancer for example, where is my Dragon? Seriously the classes are so basic it's pathetic, and why something like this was even created is beyond me. Why isn't there classes like RDM, THF, NIN, SAN, etc...? The job system in FFXI was really good and really stood out from other games. Like why fix what wasn't broken in the first place?
    Which is why they're creating the job system. In addition, with the release of 1.19 they're releasing their intended redesigns of classes and their abilities for player feedback.

    The original idea was that you could create your own class. You could be the FF classic like Black Mage or Paladin or something completely unique. But the sad truth is that the game was rushed out the door before that system could be thoroughly developed.


    Quote Originally Posted by Gankfest View Post
    Second is the lets start out with some quests but then end up soloing mobs. Seriously the game leaves you with a start but then just leaves you hanging(You do beginner quests then end up like ok I'll go kill something I guess)(No Valkrum Dunes I guess) . The mob distribution is so messed up that it's ridiculous(I mean a level 3 mob standing next to a level 30 mob). I can care less about quests, because I figure finding a group would be so much...
    I'm not sure this happens too often. Not sure what you mean by "it leaves you hanging" either.

    It's an MMORPG, it's up to you to decide where the adventure goes. Albeit, it's an MMORPG in a major state of change. patches 1.18-1.20 were meant to alter some core mechanics of the game.

    With the claiming and exp chain changes coming in 1.19, so too are mob placement alterations.

    Quote Originally Posted by Gankfest View Post
    Who cares, this game sucks(And by sucks I mean terrible). SE will never be able to do anything with it. Me typing my opinion wouldn't matter anyway, just a waste of my time. Thanx for destroying a great game and following the wow trend and making something so fail I just don't even want to play.

    I hope and wish FFXI could follow to maybe FFXV, but I doubt it. TBH... I hate dying in FFXI, it sucks I lose XP and had to HP or get a rez lol. But at the same time I loved the challenge to it. Even tho I was like freak this, I understood that noobs never made it past level 40 period. Doing Limbus was fun, but now it's like WoW but retarded. So.... No thank you, I don't want eazy mode.
    To be completely honest, this barely is a coherent thought.

    What exactly is "WoW-like" about XIV?

    It's not that they set out to be WoW-like anyway. They originally set out to be "not like XI."

    XI was a game for folks with a time of time to invest. XIV was, and still is, intended for players with less time to devote. There are very few things in XIV that overtly emulate World of Warcraft, in any way.

    Saying a game is "just like WoW" without substantive examples of what ways it is like said game and how that is a negative is just a red flag for poor trolling.

    The initial release of XIV is a symbol of what happens when a developer deliberately avoids game mechanics just for the sake of not being like some other game.

    It's like saying Call of Duty sucks because it's just like Doom. What with it's first person shooting and what not.

    People keep crying "easy mode" in relation to XIV as if XI had any real challenge. The only "challenge" in XI was staying awake between spawn windows. Outside of that the game pretty much played itself unless you were a tank or healer.

    EDIT: And to be completely frank, unless you have another character, I don't think you've invested enough time in XIV to know if it's like WoW or not.
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    Last edited by Sephrick; 09-19-2011 at 01:03 PM.

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    What I mean by leave you hanging as it starts you out with adventure quests and when you complete them it doesn't really give you any more direction of what or where to go. I was just like ok... I guess I'll go like grind stuff to 50. This isn't a big deal to me as FFXI was a lot worse in the way it gave you no direction at all. But can see this as being confusing for people that are new to MMORPG's.

    By "WoW like" I mean combat is a lot of skill spamming. I just spam reg. atk and then my TP atk every so often. I haven't played to 50 and haven't gone far. But from playing and watching videos it seems that there is no real tactics in the game, besides just pushing some buttons, and if I die no big deal because I just get a rez sickness for a short time and go do it all over again. Actually it's pretty easy to just disengage and run away from a mob and not die at all.

    FFXI is actually pretty tough, you had to play your class and know what you're doing because if you don't you're dead and losing XP. I don't know when you played or how far you got, but before level syncing it actually took skill to play. Losing 10% of your XP mattered a big deal after 40+. That is why people learned to play the game and stopped sucking and got good at the game, because no one wants to lose xp. The problem in WoW is that there is no real consequence in dying, which is why so many people are level 85 and still suck at the game.

    These are only some of the problems, and I'm not going to write a 10 page forum on what is wrong with the game. I hope the game can be fixed and flourish, but IMO of how fast MMORPG's and computing develops. I just don't see that happening in a timely matter. It's just my opinion not a fact, but I hope I'm wrong; because I would really like to like this game.
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    Go play ffxi, you love it. This game should never be ffxi. Im not saying its perfect by far, but as developers you should look to making a new game experience. You should petition ffxi to remake their graphics/polygons and make an HD ffxi.

    Im not even really hating on what your saying, im dead serious. Whatever they end up making this game, it shoud offer a unique expereicne from ffxi. FFXI can have expansions to expand the story, and they could theoretically redo the whole graphic engine while keeping the same game and data for probably a lot less money than making ffxiv ff11. There is no logical reason to make this game offer the same expereince as ffxi.
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    I'm gonna start by saying i really enjoyed FFXI and played it almost since launch back in the day, but is FFXIV really worse then FFXI though? it's kinda like saying a baby is a worse driver then an adult. i remember back in the earliy days of XI it was also limited on content and full off issues but it evolved into what is currently a much better game then FFXIV (go ahead and flame me for that comment). that being said FFXIV has a better base to build on then FFXI so imagine how it's gonna be when it evolves.

    i agree a tiny bit on the classes but thats just me being used to the names and what the abilites are/do in FFXI i still use names like Taru and Galka and prob will for a while yet.

    if anything my complaint would be that they haven't learned enough form XI, i'm not taking about the game play i'm talking about things like a player search function and linkshell admin, these should have been there from the very 1st day of the closed beta, there is also a bunch more things they could have lernt form XI without making this game anyting like XI, but just make it work better.
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    Last edited by Okiura; 09-20-2011 at 07:52 AM.
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    many jerk need bans for bad actitude

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    Someone doesn't read
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    Quote Originally Posted by PrettyPrincess View Post
    Someone doesn't read
    me? what part did i miss?
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    Quote Originally Posted by odette
    many jerk need bans for bad actitude

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    The OP silly :P
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    Quote Originally Posted by PrettyPrincess View Post
    The OP silly :P
    phew thought i made a boo boo
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    Quote Originally Posted by odette
    many jerk need bans for bad actitude

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    nice sig btw. lol
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