ffxiv everything designed wrong about this game

[Kalandros]

Stopped reading at 'laments terms'.

Same, its just too poor even for a troll.
Go back to school kid.

[Mistoltin]

Of all the things wrong with this game, you pick a very specific and odd thing to complain about.
Sort of disappointed that in a topic labelled "everything designed wrong about this game" that there was only one thing when there's so, so much more.

As for the levels, I feel the only thing wrong is just the fact that the game is designed around you leveling to 50 on one class, then when you want to level another class you're fucked because you basically have to grind to 50.
Doesn't help that the level cap is so high, I never really understood that, especially when so many times you see people saying that MMOs "only start at endgame" more or less.

[Conradus]

Wow, that's awful. You should stop playing.

[Lexia]

You seem to be describing how 1.0 ran, so they been there and done that already.

[Cid_Grim]

I think they are doing a great job so far. Gotta love opinions.

[TouchandFeel]

Stopped reading at 'laments terms'.

Well, he/she is apparently distraught over how leveling is handled in the game, so I guess lamentations are occurring ...
so maybe by saying "laments terms" they wished to convey "in terms of (my) lamentations" ...
Nah, probably not.

As for the idea itself, eh ... I like the system in place more, although I'm glad they are moving away from classes. The proposed system seems unnecessary with the added level of complexity that doesn't really bring a lot to the table, IMO. It would also make content balance kind of difficult.

[kyuven]

but keeping the class/job system was one of the biggest mistakes.

In retrospect it is, but they clearly had ideas for it that ended up getting scrapped in the long haul as shown by the SMN/SCH split and the way WAR and PLD are set up.
It's a shame, but if I had a penny for every idea from an MMO that seemed like a cool idea at the time but ended up hurting the game in the long run, I'd never need to worry about paying for a sub on any game I play ever again.

[ReaperT]

I've always wondered why people feel the need to make posts like this. Do people really think that a developer is going to read a very poorly written piece about something by a random guy on the internet who obviously doesn't know what they're talking about and decide to trash everything they've done just for that random guy? SE has experienced, professional designers to work on this game's design and they're "wrong" because you say so? I mean... really??

[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.

[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.