Final Fantasy XIV going back to Final Fantasy Roots

[Saphirro]

Big wall of text complaining about game met with single sentence response of why people play the game. So yes, the statement is Valid.

Nope, as u read that again i didnt complain about it just said most of that things are already in MMORPG genre. So for expansion there was like 1 original thing. For the money just overpaid.

Also what makes a final fantasy game a final fantasy game is one that shares the same universal cosmology and mythos. They also tend to follow the same stucture of an intrepid band of heroes vs a higher malevolent power.

Thats right up to that part "They also tend to follow the same stucture of an intrepid band of heroes vs a higher malevolent power." coz this is pretty common in eastern games.

Elemental strengths and weaknesses arent exactly central to final fantasy. They occur in some series but not all, and are not the defining feature of the game.

If it no defining future of the game try to deafeat ifrit with fire spells or shiva with ice spells. Pretty much it does affect game at all. And i bet in new FF there will be again this aspect of the game.

When I think of Final Fantasy, I think of a great cast of characters, amazing over-arching storyline, and great music. The titles themselves are always changing from one to the next in terms of adding or removing things from the gameplay.

Overlooked it so here it comes

characters - agree, but this is mmo so main character is you and... well... 3 millions of other chosen for single player yes for mmo no.
storyline - ok not important for me in MMORPGs but i give you point for that
music - didnt change that much for all FF series so, could be, but this is subjective. I played several eastern single player games with similar music so its not that unique.
You said that titles change themselves from one to another but anyway there are still some things that weren't changed in neither of them. Up to FFXIV, and i bet we will get back several of them in next FF title.

MMOs are a peculiar type of game compared with single player.

Since FF is mostly single player series than yes we can compare same titles even though one is SP and other is MMO.

And now they can't create new content for us fast enough. When they do its not enough or it's the same as before, nothing new.

Actually thats not true. Since game content is done by bunch of people you still can increase number of those people but company wont do it coz of profit.

They put in insane hours sacrificing their health and families for us. And still we complain.

Farmers spend insane hours in fields. A lot of people spend insane hours in warehouses. They are paid for it so you cant argue they spend a lot of time there. They have option to leave but they are still there.

There is a heck of a lot to do in this game and will have much more when 3.1 comes out.

There isnt much to do if you are interesting in PvE or PvP content. If you are interested in leveling and crafting than yes.

The problem though is with a lot of end gamers. They really don't bother too much with the side content, could care less about the story so skip over most of it then get bored cause there isn't enough to do but run the same dungeons/raids over and over. Of course they get bored then stop playing till the next content patch. I know many who do all kinds of things in the game and are content with it.

I have people in fc that have everything maxed. So what next? There is no content for people they play from start of FFXIV. Story? Once u finish it, it wont continue till next patch, ATM it is 5 months. Side content is what exactly? Crafting? Sorry not much people said "I'm gonna play this game so i can craft".

This is the game that was created no one is forcing anyone to play it if they find they hate it

Dont agree. F.E. if you are interested in 210 chest u are forced to play 4 weeks. This new loot system forced you to play if you wanted something.

That said I feel there needs to be something outside of the box done to improve this game.

Thats true. Now tell me whats different from FF and other generic MMORPGs? 90% of game features are same in every mmo, if we take but something like resistances, and elemental damage you wont find much or any mmo with this system. And i think something that isnt same in generic MMORPGs is "taken as outside of the box" .

What I am thinking looks to be coming in part in 3.1. However I would like this game to move away from this pattern: do story quests till done, including all dungeons and trials tied to it, then when done spam the same over and over for the gear grind.

For most of people i know, they dont think 3.1 will keep them interested in game for long time. I hope they are wrong but thats all we can do. Since game is gear based there always will be grind. This game is PvE oriented so the PvE content should be good enough to get rid of PvP based MMOs and let u interested for more than 1 month.

I would love for the Dev's to find a way to take this game way beyond the WoW raid and gear grind till the next expansion then rinse and repeat trap we are now in.

everybody would love that but its hard to create something unique and entertaining.