More advanced battle system please!

[Mastanight]

First of all for example howcome shield, parry, sword fighting isn't more controlable? Players should have their own control and timing to block and attack enemies by their own reactions, is this not possible or not given purposely? (Parry then attack open area of target like a real fight, instead its more hacken slash and take the hit playability). Also i don't like where 1 player can cause a wipe to whole party or 1 player is in control of keeping another alive totally, like pld has healing for example but without a healer his cures don't compare at all. No matter how good you are we are still dependant and which feels if there is less control of my own character this could be made possible but fights would probably need to be made more difficult to balance out the change.

[Squrilruler]

You seem to be looking for a SINGLE PLAYER game... Maybe Skyrim or Dark Soul.

Or wait 10 years for VR tech.

[Sumimi]

Vindictus, Fiona.

You're asking for an Action RPG. FFXIV isn't really one.

[Xystic]

Vindictus, Fiona.

You're asking for an Action RPG. FFXIV isn't really one.

Goodness, I haven't heard about Vindictus in a long time.

[Risvertasashi]

Vindictus, Fiona.

You're asking for an Action RPG. FFXIV isn't really one.

Personally I'm a fan of a team/party being required... although there are alternatives to the Holy Trinity that accomplish this, that's what the devs went with.

But mostly Sumimi nailed it. There are games that do this, XIV just isn't that kind of game... It's a design decision to not have active blocking and parry, and instead you rely on tactical, timed use of cooldowns. It's not for everyone.

[Mastanight]

No this battle system is more ancient and not much playability to it, also feels like half the time some other player is playing my character for me.

[Kasathar]

OP: So what you don't like about the game is..."team work"?

[Mastanight]

Where is the group combo system also, it made fights more fun like in FF11

[Risvertasashi]

Where is the group combo system also, it made fights more fun like in FF11

Now this I could get behind. Skill chains and MBs were, I thought, a pretty awesome way to work together. (In concept, I realize at times the system has had its... quirks.)

[Shadex]

Problem is we live in a Brondo chugging, 'Ow My Balls' watching generation of MMO gamers. Yoshi wanted and got this game to cater to the lowest common denominator just like WoW did. He didn't come into this project to make a compelling, deep, complex game. He came at this with let's make this as Tinker Toy easy as possible so we can rope in as many people as possible. Ever wonder why when you watch the Academy Awards 90% of the awards go to films no one has ever seen? Because the greatest films are watched by only a very small number of people. The general populace wants simple characters, explosions, gratuitous sex and violence and that is what puts butts in the seats.

In this day and age what puts butts in the MMO seats is: ridiculous ease of entry, repetitive grind to catch a carrot on a stick, and LOTS of near naked women. FFXIV has all of this in spades. Yoshi read the demographics correctly when he took over the project. He made the quintessential Chicken McNugget MMO and people are eating them like they are going out of style. Unfortunately asking for more complexity would be like asking for complexity and character development from Twilight. It doesn't sell son!