ffxiv everything designed wrong about this game

[Ceodore]

Developer's thoughts: "This guy is amazing! He knows way more than I do with my years of formal education and years of experience in this field because his credentials just outshine mine by being a random person on the internet."

Dude, you're like one of those self diagnosing patients that medical doctors loathe to see come into their office. Patient: "Doctor, all my symptoms point to me having a thyroid problem." Doctor: "No, you just eat too much."

Seriously, people who complain about game development to a professional game developer should just go and develop their own game instead if they think they can do it better.

[AmewKitsune]

Could you imagine the nightmare Level Syncing would be for a 1.0-like system? While, admittedly, a progression system like PhysLV would be nice, so it doesn't feel like that mountain of HP I had suddenly vanishes because a grabbed a stick, it created a problem when you *could* cross-class *any* skill, classes lost their meaning a bit. The direction moving forward is cutting off the classes in the Armoury System, though it feels the need to be there, because it was part of the XIV design, and advertised as such, an "improvement" such as PhysLV would be a step back from the current vision.

What's next, wanting Miqo'te being locked to females again?

[Noshpan]

I played a game with a similar feature. That game doesn't exist anymore. Oh, I'm not referring to 1.0, but a game called Secret of the Solstice. Though Maplestory does have a similar feature as well.

[TheRogueX]

For the Physical level:

With the physical level you gained stats points for the character, while leveling up the class/weapon only gave you new skills.

Problem 1: Stats were character bounded, not class bounded. You can level up THM, put all points into Int, change to MRD and have a MRD with a lot of Int. In ARR the people complain that SMN and SCH share the same stat points. Now imagine how it will be if all classes/jobs share the same stat points. There was a way to reset the stats, but it needed time.

This is something that might have been fixable without the removal of the Physical Level, though.

Problem 2: the difference of power between someone with (as an example) 25/30 THM and 25/50 THM

I personally don't see this as much of a problem.

Anyway, I know it's not going back to that, and that's fine. I don't agree with the OP about, well, much of anything. I do think the Class/Job system does need a makeover, just not that extreme.

[Milmoko_Gemoko]

I like the game design and leveling isnt that intensive these days with roulette's, challenege log, resting bonus, fates etc.
Dont get me wrong theres room for improvement in places in the game but over all its hitting all the right notes for me as an FF game and for me thats what matters, was never really an MMO player till this as the genre didnt appeal to me but Beta testing this got me interested.

[Nephera]

[sound of stifled laughter at "laments terms"]

[Lilaith]

thank you OP. thank you oh so very much!