One Year Ago! - The thread

[Sephr]

edit: i never said the implementation was good nor did i say they were complete and ready for release, but the foundation was sound. with a few tweaks here and there the system would have been massively more successful than what we have right at one year later.

...What? How was there a sound foundation?

The very definition of a foundation was what was wrong with the game the most. The UI was terrible (it's still not great, but better) with SO many menus, the lag was TERRIBLE (again, still not great but on it's way), basic content was almost non-existent, the basic communication functions didn't work, the trading systems in place didn't work and regularly disconnected people. The alpha and beta were there to fix the foundation, and nothing was done.

Sorry, but the fact that 95% of the playerbase left within the first few months should tell you that it was on the road to ruin. Saying that it would be much better now is totally unfounded, and the only evidence we have suggests otherwise.

FFXI changed radically when Tanaka left (although he's back there now, but the team is taking LOTS of player feedback into account) for the better, and I'd say the same is true of FFXIV. The man has a lot of visions, but is totally unqualified and incapable of carrying them out, if this game is anything to go by.

[3Jane]

'Limsa Lominsa, a sight for me sore eyes'

[Zenaku]

...What? How was there a sound foundation?

The very definition of a foundation was what was wrong with the game the most. The UI was terrible (it's still not great, but better) with SO many menus, the lag was TERRIBLE (again, still not great but on it's way), basic content was almost non-existent, the basic communication functions didn't work, the trading systems in place didn't work and regularly disconnected people. The alpha and beta were there to fix the foundation, and nothing was done.

Sorry, but the fact that 95% of the playerbase left within the first few months should tell you that it was on the road to ruin. Saying that it would be much better now is totally unfounded, and the only evidence we have suggests otherwise.

FFXI changed radically when Tanaka left (although he's back there now, but the team is taking LOTS of player feedback into account) for the better, and I'd say the same is true of FFXIV. The man has a lot of visions, but is totally unqualified and incapable of carrying them out, if this game is anything to go by.

Taking players into account not always good idea look at wow. Let's say there something that working how it should be and 100 people dislike this idea and dev read it and yoshi-p change it. This is where the forums system fails Dev is only taking into account around 50+ people on here the rest are playing or don't care. This is why i said many time i here forget the forums and do a month by month poll and you most do it before logging in. this would get a better overall view.

at the end it should be the dev who come up with the ideas and make this game how it should be played not how we think it should be played but anyways i hope ffxiv become better beta1-open was lame lol.

[AsterBarnivere]

one year ago the game had good ideas that were not finished. today we don't even have the good ideas anymore.

^THIS. ^THAT. ^THESE.

[Keith_Dragoon]

Man how the game has changed. I thought this would be worth sharing, I remember this day like it was yesterday. My heart was pounding with excitement when I read this post. I had finally got access to the Final Fantasy XIV beta!

http://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/forums/...t=beta+tickets (Eorzeapedia link)

With my 308 some beta tickets i had spammed for! (really wasn't worth it lol!!)

As each day passes, what are some of the things/experiences you remember from one year ago? (within the month)

One year ago I was right alongside you trying to get beta code for my friends and you. Was camping file planet, eorzeapedia, ZAM and FFXIVCore. I spent weeks camping and in the end I had scored two beta invites for a friend and a random eorzeapedian.

Looking back I wasted a perfectly good birthday week for that beta only to have it end 4 days later.

[Verecund]

Stamina and Retainers were the most promising ideas this game had. Too bad they were implemented poorly and never expanded upon (not to mention Stamina as well as Fatigue were installed into the game as actual anti-RMT measures......).

[Atoli]

Has it been a year already?
I remember how happy I was about the beta key..until I realized my PC was not able to handle it-_-

Couldn't play, so..no more memories for me.

[Zenaku]

I remember i wont that i played a friend beta for a while so i did play beta1-2 too i won my own which was that one lol.

[Anty]

Man how the game has changed. I thought this would be worth sharing, I remember this day like it was yesterday.

It really feels like it was yesterday since not much did change, at least not enough for 1 year. But it is slowly getting closer to one of the many un-needed wow clones out there.

[Falcus]

One year ago I was laughing at all the people who were refreshing a page every 2 seconds for a beta code.
I was lucky and had SE give me access to alpha stage 2 and onwards. So I got into beta 13 months and 1 week ago :3

edit: Thought I was in from beta, but just looked at the email I got an I was in alpha xD