One Year Ago! - The thread

[alexi14]

I remember thinking 1 year ago, this MMO has been getting bad reviews, but there is NO WAY I could ever find it not fun. I loved FFXI to death, and this one is going to have even better graphics!! Little did I know.. graphics is the ONLY thing it has. Everytime I check in on this forum, I cross my fingers hopeing the devs have made drastic changes only to find that they are making WOW instances for good gear, dumbing things down, and messing up the game more and more.

/fume

crystal tools is amazing. SE needs to just sell it to a game creator who actually has some good ideas. It's a waste of a good tool in SE's hands.

[polyhedral]

November 11th will be the 1 year anniversary of when I was suppose to receive my rites of passage, but never did...

I'll take an in game item instead of it, if you guys are reading this...

[Leeloo]

November 11th will be the 1 year anniversary of when I was suppose to receive my rites of passage, but never did...

I'll take an in game item instead of it, if you guys are reading this...

I never got mine either = (

I think on 11/11/11 I'll be playing the new Elder Scrolls

[HiirNoivl]

I like FFXIV I'll stop playing when they stop adding content.

The Achievement Junkie

[Orcishgrappler]

not nearly as far along as I had hoped it would be, but at least its not starting to look better. Get back to me next year and we will see

[Frisque]

one year ago........

-You had to have your panties repaired by the NPC (OR you had to roll w/ a spare set so they could be repaired thru crafting)
-You had to search every single retainer in the wards to find an obscure part to finish a synth, only to find out it was ridiculously expensive because only 2 people on the server could make it.
-Everyone and their mother were packed into the starting and secondary camps for each city
-You couldn't skip cutscenes (LOL, I know the guy who posted the "sight for me sore eyes" was in closed beta)
-you got to hear about it in your chat box every time someone crafted something (or pulled something from gathering)
-There was horrible UI (Menu) lag. (10-15 minutes to make a trade, anyone?)
-There were random DC's during levequests/behests
-Everyone seemed to have a "don't attack red-named mob" macro
-Every 20 mins or so in town, there would be /shouts from people looking for shields
-People would spam shout w/offensive crap just to see how long it would take for them to get kicked
-Parties would fight high HP low attack mobs like Nannys to draw out every single kill as long as possible to increase chances of SP from more actions
-Every mage looked like a real-life trappist Monk (Cowls & Rope belts FTW)
-Practically every recipe was guess-work because the Lodestone recipes were fail (and YG/Zam etc were having a helluva time trying to catch up)
-We only started with ONE retainer
-We were unable to summon retainers from outside of wards
-There was no Sort function on inventory
-there were "emergency maintenance" patches and server outages like once every few days
-There were no Forums (although to be fair, there are some days when I wish they weren't here)

(that's all I got time for.......for now)

*Edit: wait.....I think i"m wrong. Weren't the Behests added later? If so ignore my behest items, and add in: "-We did not have behests"

[KiniRyris]

pretty sure we had behest. but im not 100% sure

[Coombah]

We was promised player ran companies and would be able to make airships , boats, and Buildings... what happened?!?!!? I was really exited for them to add this!

[Seif]

We was promised player ran companies and would be able to make airships , boats, and Buildings... what happened?!?!!? I was really exited for them to add this!

You weren't the only one. It seems that their plans were so ambitious but now most of the planned features are not only downgraded to their XI counterparts but actually a far simplified version of XI's numerous systems.

To me linkshell buildings and own airships were the things I was most looking forward to.

Let's hope they'll keep working on these simple features after they're released. At least we already know that they'll add something unique to Chocobos even though they'll be released as a bare bones version first.

[Nero]

We was promised player ran companies and would be able to make airships , boats, and Buildings... what happened?!?!!? I was really exited for them to add this!

Show me the Letter or Interview where that was promised.