Loosing players after update?

[Fendred]

I didn't leave the game because of the current patch. Rather, I left after reading all the announcements of Yoshida on the direction of the game. The patch just gave me some minor gripes and a little relief.

(1) He can't seem to figure out that he is squandering all the potential of a Final Fantasy job system by cleaving all the potential hybrid options out of the cross class skill system, and as a result locks up the inventory system with huge cooldowns as well. It creates an overall system that doesn't even resemble a Final Fantasy game by the time end game is reached.

(2) We're regaled with a cutscene depicting a mass battle at the very start of the game and nothing like that ever happens in the game. Armies of adventurers clashing in coordinated units against an encroaching army determined to take Eorzea for itself is MMORPG material, and its something not delivered on.

(3) Continuing to give the same stuff that is available in every MMORPG like they are required features (when they're not). Battleground PvP is not a required feature of an MMORPG. What it is an example of is a dead horse that keeps getting beaten for the sake of it being there. If they'd cleaned up Blitzball and made it so you could go against other teams of players, that would have been something incredibly unique to draw people to the game.

(4) Bad end game encounter design that pits players against one another inevitably with time. Had they stuck to being more tactical and loose with combat, we wouldn't be having the kinds of elitism issues we're having right now. End game encounters lead people to attack who they perceive is the weakest link instead of working with the fact that players will have varied levels of experience and skill. They don't need to have fights that are tweaked to the utmost peaks of difficulty. They just need fights that are fun. Lockouts prevent people from bull-rushing content anyway.

Is it a bad game? No, but it squanders so much potential for the sake of following the dead horse of MMORPG design that the game is a 6/10 for me in the long run.

[VolatileCore]

We're regaled with a cutscene depicting a mass battle at the very start of the game and nothing like that ever happens in the game.

To be fair, that's a cinematic depiction of the end of 1.0.

[Felis]

(2) We're regaled with a cutscene depicting a mass battle at the very start of the game and nothing like that ever happens in the game. Armies of adventurers clashing in coordinated units against an encroaching army determined to take Eorzea for itself is MMORPG material, and its something not delivered on.

It was delivered, before the calamity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLd-AYXaaKs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_36...22E4C3766EBA70
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZFi...22E4C3766EBA70

[Sessurea]

It's because se has sent us to the dungeons for this relic, instead of running around zerging hunts, like previous relic.

[Gaddes]

Is it just me or does it seem like the servers are emptier as updates go by? My fc hardly even logs on anymore even though they were all very active.

No one seems excited about the update and mordhona is a ghost town on a legacy server.

On a legacy server that may indeed be the case, but Behemoth still seems to be quite bustling. I could see legacy players either burning out or getting frustrated by SE and leaving though... I have a couple RL coworker friends who were on Hyperion that quit a month or so ago.

[Dyvid]

It was delivered, before the calamity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLd-AYXaaKs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_36...22E4C3766EBA70
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZFi...22E4C3766EBA70

I was thinking about this and it would have been nice if they carried on the tradition of main scenario building up to something grand with small hints and event to keep players interested. There is two patchs left though so who knows.

[RiverTams]

I don't understand why people get upset on a minor patch.

My main language isnt english. Sue me?

[RiverTams]

Scratch that. Wrong reply. Phone isnt very useful on forums.

However i have to agree with a prior poster, when you reach endgame some features dont feel very FF like. It almost seems as if the game is getting further away from the FF feel.

[Ryios]

FFXIV 2.0, in it's current state, for many people, is just a filler MMO. We play it when we have nothing better to do. As soon as a new game like "Destiny" comes out, we cancel our sub and go play the new games. If we get bored, we come back. E.g. this is a fall back MMO.

SE could have made this game great, but there decision to go with 4/8 man party sizes, the slow speed of new job releases, the way lockouts work, etc (Could go on all day) has caused many of their dedicated core fanbase to lose faith and leave. And I'd wager most of their dedicated FFXI players have left to play wildstar or gone back to FFXI.

[Radaghast]

I MAKE THINGS UP BASED ON MY OPINION.