Disconnection issue during instanced raids and improvement in the Loot System

[Defmetal]

So this means it's likely going to be a
Need/Greed/Pass loot system right? That's what most non-ffxi mmos have these days.

Would fit perfectly in FFXIV, along with of course the ability for party leaders to determine who gets items (for ls of course).

The connection lost issues are killer, it's hard to get one night where someone doesn't DC in the dungeons.

[Deceptistar]

i think they got the priorities wrong >.>

[Zenge]

Yeah they need to add a loot roll system. I was in a darkhold group today and CON/THM shoes drop, but a LNC got them and later DCed. It's very frustrating.

[Nixius]

Great! I was hoping they would change their mind again cause a lost connection by one member can be pretty devastating!

Initially didn't they say you would join back in the dungeon, then later announced you would go outside? As a developer that to me sounds like "We wanted to let you join back in, but we ran into some coding issues so for now you will have to go outside and we will fix it when we can". So they got the dungeon released in a working state rather than delaying it to let you join inside. That's just my opinion anyway.

It seems to me we are getting more and more posts that contain:

we are working on implementing a system similar to other MMOs

I'm not asking for the game to be FFXI-2, but FFXI never shied away from being innovative or implementing systems that worked but were different. I think we need more unique and imaginative solutions to some of the issues instead of looking what other MMO's do =).

Not trying to flame or say the devs aren't working hard, just don't be afraid to innovate.

[Corrderio]

Initially didn't they say you would join back in the dungeon, then later announced you would go outside? As a developer that to me sounds like "We wanted to let you join back in, but we ran into some coding issues so for now you will have to go outside and we will fix it when we can". So they got the dungeon released in a working state rather than delaying it to let you join inside. That's just my opinion anyway.

Pretty much the gist of it.

[TirionCrey]

We had several issues with people DCing on our dungeon runs, especially on the first 2 days after the patch...

Most of them have no issues anymore and OH MY GOD, big surprise...most of the time it was on their end...

Nobody can tell me the game has issues with DCing people, when I and a ton of other people I know didn't DCed cause of the game(not my/our end) for several weeks/months...

In 90% of the time I knew people who had DC issues, it was on their end...

My favourite is people using wireless connections and then bitching about having connection issues...or also good, have their game on high settings and then be surprised if it lags like hell, when their comp barely is enough for low/mid settings, but they don't want to miss out on the awesome graphics...
Another good thing is, running like 5 different programs while running XIV and then be surprised they get kicked or have other connection issues(we just recently had a case where two brothers played over the same router, while 2 more comps were running on the same router AND they had stuff like netflix, torrents and whatnot running while playing)


I don't doubt that there are people out there who DC due to the game and not due to their connection or whatever, but this doesn't change the fact that most of the people don't have DCing issues and it's more likely that people need to change stuff on their end to get it to work properly.