A person who was looking to come back and play.

[ErBear]

Hello, Rokien here for the 100th time. I hope everyone is having a great weekend so far, I'm doing great, was kicking butt in destiny pvp last night. Anyways on to the topic at hand.


I come with a concern and sincere voice of opinions on how this game is shaping up from an inside out perspective. I'm going to just do a list of concerns and talk about them below in further detail one by one.

1. Content(instances)

-This is the reason, well, one of the reasons why I was considering coming back, this game updates faster than any other mmo out there, which is great. However(talking about instances for yoshi hates open world)! 90% of this content is either an added difficulty to existing content or more instances. Now don't go off your rocker yet, I understand this allows for more solid gameplay and controlled environments and that is a great thing to have in a game, but there is no randomness to these instances. I get that they change things up when you do Tam Tara on hard mode, though, it is still tam-tara with slightly different enemies and stronger foes. Why not make an open world version of these dungeons with the randomness of mobs and danger instead of putting hard next to it?

2. Gear Progression

-Sweet finally obtained my AF that can be upgraded! Oh wait... well, let me toss that aside for this new gear that came with that hard mode version. This needs to change, throw away gear. With each new patch you get better gear and toss out the old, that's okay for the first few times but after the 5th or 10th, why not add variety to the gear? Add different skills, like turn invisible after doing this, add luck, be able to jump higher, run faster with your weapon out, ect... When I look at all the new patches it makes me sad to think all that gear I spent getting will be worthless. "Out with the old in with the new."

3. Mounts

-I will probably get a lot of bickering about this one, but, the mounts are going over board. Npcs in your early days of travel(even strong ones) talked about the dangers of the world... yet you are easily riding everything that is dangerous in the world. I love fantasy but let us have a little bit of realism and cohesiveness within this world. Instead of making tons of mounts, spend that time making one amazing mount. Here we see a classic case of quantity>Quality. Now with new flying mounts(that can only be used in specific areas) are even going to be come more ridiculous.

4.Ps3

-When I think of an mmo, I expect a massive seamless world, however with this game still being supported by the ps3 I feel like we are going to see another ps2 ffxi pc era, which sucks. Though, hopefully they pull the plug.

5. Expansion Pack

-Now, correct me if I'm wrong here. There is one issue I have with the expansion pack and that is Ishgard is advertised as apart of it. Well, how long have we been waiting for this area? Pretty sure it should come free to all to those who pay a sub.

6.Crafters

Crafters are pointless in this game aside from being furniture and materia. Why not have crafters be an important part of the game? Make players work together instead of for themselves. I hope this will change in the future but I doubt it.

7. P2P/F2P

-This is my biggest grip about this game in recent news. I said it when the fantasia came out to change your character and I will say it again, it will only get worse. It seems like it has already, when I was browsing the forums I saw a thread saying that they are going to have exclusive pets in the cash shop. Well, NOBODY should stand for this, you already pay a sub to have EVERYTHING be obtainable through the game and by no other means. If yoshi wants this to turn f2p great, I will probably play it, but if the cash shop stays I will never touch this game with a sub. Sad because I have lots of friends who want to play together. Good thing this isn't ffxi-2. FREE TO PLAY ELEMENTS SHOULD NOT BE IN A PAY TO PLAY GAME!!!!!!

I am now tired of writing, but please comment down below with your opinions, hates and rokien thread posts!

[Gextiv]

PS3 limitations are a bummer indeed. Several times in the EU stream, the dev panel mentioned that they could not do certain things because of PS3 limitations. They also mentioned that they had to keep the PS3 in mind when creating the Heavensward expansion...

PS3 is here to stay for awhile unfortunately.

[ErBear]

PS3 limitations are a bummer indeed. Several times in the EU stream, the dev panel mentioned that they could not do certain things because of PS3 limitations. They also mentioned that they had to keep the PS3 in mind when creating the Heavensward expansion...

PS3 is here to stay for awhile unfortunately.

Thats terrible to hear, they should have really skipped the ps3 since the ps4 release was just a few months after.

[Xikeroth]

Well you can have your opinion I disagree with some of the things you said.

For the most part it takes 2 patches to replace a high end piece of gear (more than 6 months). The highest grade of tome item for example once you get it and its upgraded. It wont be until the next high end patch that it gets replaced. The last thing we need is situational gear or gear that last the entire life of the current patch series/expansion. Doesn't work in MMOs anymore.

Crafting should never make the best gear in a game: Reason is people can just make money and buy it. Nothing wrong with making crafters make stepping stones to get into content quicker, but having them make the "best" gear in the game doesn't help. Even if its materials are dropped in endgame you'd have a VERY small number of people taking advantage of and monopolizing it since not everyone is interested in crafting. Crafting has issues for sure. but that isn't it.

[ErBear]

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In 1.0 Crafting did make one of the best gear in the game and it was great because you actually had to rely on real people and not artifical things.

Edit: The items were also not easily obtained and they can be rare ex as well so you can't sell them.

[Xikeroth]

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1.0 Was also a disaster and they couldn't really do much with it due to the code it had. The vast majority of the MMO population doesn't want to do content they don't get rewards from FACT. A lot of people only have legacy status and subbed 3 months to get the discount.

Relying on real people doesn't make it great. You get a lot of d-bags monopolizing items, spawns and the markets. RMT tend to run rampant for people who buy the best gear rather than doing anything for it. It has VERY major flaws. FAR more flaws that advantages. Making crafters make the best items you would get charged 5million gil for 2 extra strength(just like in ffxi). It makes the majority of the MMO players turn away from it its why ffxi's population was so small compared to other MMORPGs even in its prime. FFXI had MANY complaints. One was that it took too long to save up gil to get an item you needed from the AH or a crafter that was better than any drop.

[ErBear]

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We don't have a lot of D bags in this game monopolizing on other crap in ffxiv 2.0? Just because an MMO doesn't have millions of players does not mean it wasn't successful, my most played mmos were ffxi, than mabinogi, ffxiv 1.x than everything else.

I loved going out and farming for gil and obtaining gil and finally being able to buy a piece of gear that will last me till end game. It was great. none of this grab and toss crap we have now. Everything meant something when you got it in that game. There is no meaning to anything you do in this game, there are no long term goals just short term.

My definition of an mmo is a cohesiveness between its players all interacting with one another in some shape or form. Crafters provide the gear for warriors. Warriors provide the crafters material. It goes full circle and that's how it should be. Though, I guess this is just a single player game with multiplayer aspects.

[Corfish]

Don't feed the troll. This happens every patch, this person is clearly a troll looking to rile people up, please don't add fuel to the fire.

[ErBear]

Don't feed the troll. This happens every patch, this person is clearly a troll looking to rile people up, please don't add fuel to the fire.

Sorry, but I am not a troll just a concerned legacy consumer who is disappointed in his purchase and just voicing an opinion. Also I didn't even talk about a patch everything I'm talking about now I've said before except for ishgard thing.
But if you have an opinion about any of the topics I shared go ahead and I will discuss them with you.


I will report you for calling me an idiot xikeroth, don't be a jerk.

[Slayer25c]

PS3 was promise ff14 many years ago but 1.0 was terrible