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3. How do you feel this game will fair against current upcoming titles?
I don't like a single title that is coming out in the near future. Tera looks decent however that game's success here in the states will be based on if they have server clusters located state side. I think that if ffxiv introduces a solid party system with some good high end content things will be just fine.
i'm feeling the opposite, most mmo's have a little something that intreges me, but the biggest problem with all of them is they are solo friendly. but they all have some type of gameplay that already makes me think it ok cause it has this an that in it. like tera has no target system and action oriented, if this game fails in the states i think it cause of this more then anything but that my opinion. also they all will have some pvp in them.
but i agree ffxiv just needs a few things to make it great, like u said party play grinds, this is very important to me, we need at the lowest a 4man grinds but i really want the full8 man. if the grinds aren't enough players i would just rather solo and chillaxe and not worry bout replacing people or i can go afk every 5mins if wanted solo, when i wouldn't in group.
but this game can't be just solo i'd run to the any games out instead then. party play all the way, also party play missions with the story play is needed, u can't go from ffxi to what we have in ffxiv, yeah ff series mmo's only ones with cut scenes an story witch is why i love these rpg mmo's but... no party play in them makes them pointless, i'll go play a real rpg offline then and get way more out of it.
and 3rd'ly large scale linkshell events ...so important, if we got dinky dungeons only, and even hamlets witch sound like a version of gw2 public quests but that game will have 100's of them at launch, giant bosses in them from level 1 zone to the end on top of there small man dungeons. so in reality making this endgame when in other games it's just normal leveling to max stuff ..doesn't work.
this game needs these things to stay alive and be a great mmo in my opinion i said this so many times in diff posts. very important, it is all this game has to make itself different from other mmo's. other then that, way more things in other mmo's to try and enjoy.