What is everyones thoughts on this? Is he right about the game and Yoshi P?

[Daralii]

Actually in most FFs DRK are heavy armor dps with magic abilities. They rarely were the top heavy armor but instead armor much like scale mail in XIV. I think FFT is the only game were they wear the top heavy armor.
Sometimes they do not even have absorb skills and just have HP draining skills

The reason they have absorb skills in XIV is just because the game design necessitates it. They tried absorb tanking with 2.0 warriors and they were the worst job in the game.

[Treble]

I LOVE how this guy talks about shit like how his wife can't handle latency changes, but his FC mates can because they're adults.

Like seriously? SERIOUSLY?! DAYYYYYYYYYYUM way to throw your wife under the bus hahahahhaha.

As for the rest of this, this guy seems pretty dumb imo.

People can't play other MMO's besides their first? I'm pretty sure ALOT of us here came from much older MMO's. Like, UO era MMO's. And the newer generation that grew suckling on WoW's teet for years? They play all sorts of MMO's (this one included).

And the chat stuff? Yoshi specifically stated that chat programs put alotta strain on the servers, AND most people perfer to use shit like TS and Vent anyways! So they don't bother with it. (same reason blizz and riot don't add them to their mobas infact)

And the classes taking too long to make? They aren't ONLY making classes. These guys are making ENTIRE GAMES in the time span of a year and a half or so. The fact that they can pump out 3 classes that are both interesting and fun WHILE developing an entire expansion speaks volumes about them as devs.
Look at most MMO's! When they get an expo they get like, 1 race, 1 class. Maybe only one or the other infact! BUT WE GET A RACE AND 3 NEW JOBS EACH OF A VARYING ARCHETYPE! Srsly, stop complaining.

These guys literally busted out ARR in like 2 years time, WHILE developing content for 1.0 and improving upon it like crazy, THEN doing the same during ARR/2.0 with the improving on it like crazy WHILE MAKING HEAVENSWARD AT THE SAME TIME.


They work their ASSES off for you people compared to other MMO developers!!!!!! Like HOLY CRAP!


ugh.. /rant

[Sylve]

Heh, mandatory voice chat would be nothing but:
Munch Munch, Rustle Rustle, Crunch Crunch, Sluuuuuurp and 13 year old high pitched whining that you arent doing your role to the perfection of their standards.

So yeah, no. If you've ever played Space Marine or CoD online ... Always on voice chat is akin to stabbing oneself in the ears with a frozen butter knife.

[Silverbane]

Abusive behavior would be a lot harder to police in voice chat than it is in text chat. FCs police it themselves in TS/Mumble/whatever, but that would not be possible for in-game voice for DF pugs.

Other than that: TL, DR.

[Nadirah]

I think instead of VOIP they should instead add chat boxes that "force" people to see what others are saying unless they are blacklisted.

How about "F no"?

I turn chat bubbles off immediately, they block my view of important shit, like that fire I don't want to stand in.

[Gaddes]

The guy is just full of contradictions. Granted the game can be far too easy at times, but it's that way because of the demands of a large portion of the userbase that frankly are either really casual or can't be arsed to properly learn mechanics... which are people like his wife. Blame them. It's as if he's just letting her act retarded and not trying to help her to improve to make everyone's life better.

As people have pointed out, he also hasn't even cleared T13, so it's a little odd for him to act like his opinion on endgame has any weight. I'm also guessing he's got some serious rose-colored glasses for FFXI's endgame... I was in FFXI endgame up til Abyssea and although it had some cool elements it also had a ton of problems. There's a reason I don't play that game anymore.

And yeah, the game could definitely use tweaking/improvement, but getting rid of chat and implementing voice is one of the worst ideas ever. I think we've all played enough online games with voice chat to know how quickly that can devolve... plus chat provides ample chat logs for evidence if someone ever starts making trouble. I'm not sure how that would even work with voice chat.

[Yumi_umi]

That guy must have had positive encounters with random ppl with voice chat lol.
If someone trolls on a mic? Ppl mute them = defeats the purpose of using voice communication.

[zcrash970]

The reason they have absorb skills in XIV is just because the game design necessitates it. They tried absorb tanking with 2.0 warriors and they were the worst job in the game.

Yes, I'm quite aware of why they have the HP absorbs in this game and how laughable WARs tried in 2.0, but I was trying to remember when they did have absorbs outside of FFT, FFXI and FFX-2.

I mainly remember dark night from FFIII and FFIV and i kinda used them to tank/dps but i guess the reason is because they gave the option for heavy armor, not just scale armor.

In the orginal version of III were DRKs could used white magic, they were more tanky. Honestly, in the new versions, they were only good for taking care of dividing monsters or Darkness spam.

Pretty sure Cecil always got used as a tank.

Probably some others but I only remember cecil offhand.

If I remember correctly, at the beginning of IV Cecil couldn't take a hit to save his life. Not sure if that's a pun.
Honestly, Cecil sucked at the beginning of the game. It wasn't until he turned into a PLD is when he could tank.

[Katlyna]

I loled. 80% of what is in there is your every day MMO problems specific to no MMO in particular.

[Elisewin]

I don't agree on the chat part ( I find really rude to ignore someone who is trying to communicate something to you), but I agree more or less on the rest of the blog post.