New Player: General game review

[AsteriaStarfall]

You should check out any one of the dozens of bard threads, MSQ threads, Crossdressing threads, or basically any thread requesting anything other than the status quo.

When i wrote the part about the community being better, i meant in game. Forums are usually not the best place to judge behavior that you would most likely come across in game

@Ceodore While i can agree with some of what you wrote, the glamour system in RIFT you speak of for example is something being handed to a player, no work needed. I despise game concepts like this. You pay to play the game, not instant win, nor have everything unlocked for you right away. While i will not argue with everything you wrote, it almost feels as if you wish my review had been negative the whole way through. My review was to show how I as a new player saw the game, and what attracted me to it to continue playing, and make it my main game.

[Ceodore]

When i wrote the part about the community being better, i meant in game. Forums are usually not the best place to judge behavior that you would most likely come across in game

@Ceodore While i can agree with some of what you wrote, the glamour system in RIFT you speak of for example is something being handed to a player, no work needed. I despise game concepts like this. You pay to play the game, not instant win, nor have everything unlocked for you right away. While i will not argue with everything you wrote, it almost feels as if you wish my review had been negative the whole way through. My review was to show how I as a new player saw the game, and what attracted me to it to continue playing, and make it my main game.

OH NO, not at all. I was happy to see someone with some positive to say about the game. And coming from a player with all the crafters at 50, I understand that a glamour system like RIFT's was something of a insta-win, but I still feel if you worked hard enough to get the piece, there shouldn't be so many obstacles between you wanting to wear it. I just felt that your review might have been too flowery, but then I also feel the same way about many reviews from the main stream critics. It's usually chalk full of erroneous and extravagant wording while keeping focus away from the pros and cons of the gritty details. But, perhaps I'm too much of a critic myself. However, I do stand by my thoughts of advising you to expand your repertoire of online games to include not the just the popular, but also small developer free to plays. It will give you a better idea of systems that are just aweful compared to systems that are truly innovative, much like GW2's "quest" system I mentioned. As it stands, this game is a solid piece of work. Nothing really horrible, and some truly great music, classes, and nostalgic fights. However, I still feel it has room for improvements on certain aspects. They aren't game breaking things, but they are things that could make the game itself even better. I also feel that not seeing the flaw in the glamour system I mentioned is a bit hypocritical considering your critique of the crafting system and the difficulty to level it. You either have to buy the prisms from other players, or craft them yourself. And while not horribly over priced, glamour prisms can still eat a massive amount of your gil. I would know, I've taken advantage of said system to make quite a profit as well with my across the board 50 crafters. Even if it might eat into my own profits, I still feel RIFT's system was the best one I have ever seen.

[AsteriaStarfall]

@ Ceodore, i appreciate that reply. I agree, there are room for improvements, there are in any game. That's why more expansions keep coming out, and forum threads get started, it's a never ending and sometimes vicious cycle
As i continue to play, i plan on starting a thread about improvements as well. However that is some time away, since there are already many of those type of posts on the forums to begin with. Sometimes developers read comments such as the forums, and never really get the praise for all the hard work they have done, my post was just for that. So that someone at SE knows that they have done a great job, and have made a player happy (and a new customer at that).

[NovaWulfe]

Great to have you as part of the FFXIV community! Thanks for the very detailed review, always nice to see some positivity on the forums. You were certainly right to not judge the community by internet forum standards.

[StrejdaTom]

Welcome, I am glad that you are enjoying the game. It is always good to see new faces.