Discouraged Player

[Orcishgrappler]

I would just take a break. Come back at 1.21 then you should have alot to do. ^^

[Rubicon]

I don't know why I still try to play this. All the friends I made are gone, I can't begin to find anything fun or rewarding to want to do. I was hopeful that this would be on track a year later, but most of the aspects that made my blood pressure noticeably rise are still a part of this game to this day. Now they're making chocobos and materia systems before they tackle this lousy UI and the horrible time consuming shopping in addition to making gear repairs incredibly frustrating. Their priorities seem lodged in a rut trying to please people for a small bit of time while the dinner on the table goes cold dealing with restrictions on game play to make sure I'm not having too much fun.

This actually would make delicious copypasta.

[Gramul]

I don't know why I still try to play this. All the friends I made are gone, I can't begin to find anything fun or rewarding to want to do. I was hopeful that this would be on track a year later, but most of the aspects that made my blood pressure noticeably rise are still a part of this game to this day. Now they're making chocobos and materia systems before they tackle this lousy UI and the horrible time consuming shopping in addition to making gear repairs incredibly frustrating. Their priorities seem lobleh bleh bleh blah bloo

So what?
What do you want me to do about it?

[Bubblesz]

Do what I do. Play Dragon Nest or other f2p mmo inbetween. My uber gum drop mushroom bard in Eden Eternal Pawns :P

[Tempestmoon]

There's lots of room for improvement :/ and fixing what is broken should take priority over adding new features. Whatever though, it seems your options are to suck it up or leave (temporarily). C'est la vis.

They can't just drop content for Fixes, or fixes for content. They need to do both. Fixing the UI is not going to bring people back, or keep new people if there is nothing to experience that new UI with. Players who have reached Max rank and done all the quests and missions are not going to aimlessly wander around the realm just because the UI is fixed. they need something to do, and it has to be more then one or two raids(dungeons, whateva).

[Jabo]

FFXIV should be judged when we have to pay for it, when the dev. team thinks they fixed most of the issues.

None knows the capacities of the development departments so claiming that they have the wrong priorities sounds kind of selfish.

[MrLion]

FFXIV should be judged when we have to pay for it, when the dev. team thinks they fixed most of the issues.

None knows the capacities of the development departments so claiming that they have the wrong priorities sounds kind of selfish.

This man speaks the truth..

[Coombah]

FFXIV should be judged when we have to pay for it, when the dev. team thinks they fixed most of the issues.

None knows the capacities of the development departments so claiming that they have the wrong priorities sounds kind of selfish.

Most of us did pay for the game.. At release and still have yet to have a finished game ..The reason is SE is not charging monthy subs is they dont want to refund everyone who bought our copies at full price or loose more of their playerbase .
Also people are entitled to their oppinion . If you dont like it to bad move on

[BlackRoach]

I started playing when this game first came out, quit, and now started again. They have made enough improvments to the battlecraft lvling system with quests and story quests to keep anyone entertained. I have been having a lot of fun this second time around and the UI is much improved.

The only big problem that can be a game quitter is the crafing system. I'm not like most of you who like to buy there gear and skip around the full scope of the game. I take the time and lvl my battlecraft in conjuction with my crafting to be able to make my own gears, and if I cant make them, I do not use them. This puts you right in the middle of the game where I belive Enix wants you to be. I know if you buy gear, youll never see the true issue with this game which is....

There are not enough rewards for the time spent crafting, you can make gear at lvl 15 (rank 23gear), then nothing good until about lvl 26 (rank 33gear). Those 11 lvls of crafting, although they went the perfect lvling speed, there were simply not enough mid rank rewards. What I'm getting at is there needs to be more gear to craft period. To keep people "on the seat of there chairs" so to say, there should be new, better gear at every 5 rank increments give or take. You know appx. rank 5, 10 ,15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50 gear at appropriate crafting rank increments. DONT THINK I MEAN TAKE AWAY THE ANYONE CAN WEAR ANY GEAR THING BECAUSE IM NOT, I REALLY LIKE THAT. Just need to have more of variety, lets face it, if you play it as you should this games about 65%crafting 35%actual battling. Since crafting is the majority of this game its should be your biggest issue to fix.

Second and quickly, get rid of that "your armorcraft is not high enough lvl" "your leatherworkers is not high enough lvl" to craft this item crap. There simply isnt enough inventory space to require your players to lvl every craft, it is impossible and just leads to headaches. As well as the issue that your going to ruin the interaction between different crafters because if everyone is required to have all crafts, why would you even bother buying anything.

Thanks for everyones time.

[Belial]

DONT THINK I MEAN TAKE AWAY THE ANYONE CAN WEAR ANY GEAR THING BECAUSE IM NOT, I REALLY LIKE THAT.

I guess you're gonna be even more disappointed with crafting once they phase out "optimal rank" gear.

There simply isnt enough inventory space to require your players to lvl every craft, it is impossible

False. Inventory management ftw. People were capable of it before extra retainers, before repair material changes, and before crafting dumb-down, so why is it impossible and why is not easier for you now?