Square Enix has given up on real gameplay

[Nuru]

Once they fix the PL issue, there is more content for players that haven't reached 50 yet. For those that have, what do you expect? Seriously, they've released enough content to last but some people are whining because they can't even clear Darkhold or Ifrit, they consider that content to ignore because they cant do it.

Gear up and go do the content, if you have everything cleared, then maybe you whining about content will actually mean something.

[Pyrix]

Where is this crafting experience you speak of?

[ZakarnRosewood]

I'm not saying the gameplay is not there at the end but why can't it be there the entire way through? Its abhorrent that you can literally one button press your way through an entire craft. Why couldn't there be a more elegant enjoyable solution? Why is there no feeling of advancement? Why would people rather powerlevel than enjoy the journey to 50?

What are people rushing to the end game for? what exactly is there for end game content right now? and easy mode and hard mode of the same dungeon? the one primal boss fight? i really dont see the huge fuss over all these posts gaining attention where they bash the game "its too hard, its not hard enough, people are power leveling" by the time they have this game up to snuff where they will be opening the ps3 version and finally charging people most of this player base will be level 50 in at least 1 class.

i do sympathize with the power leveling complaint for the time being but they are fixing it and i seem to recall there was a bug where people could cast cure on themselves to rank up, they fixed this and then dinged the people they felt exploited this. i'm sure it will be the same for this claiming bug. stop getting your panties in a twist people and relax, it is obvious they are working on it.

[zaviermhigo]

They made crafting a lil less involved sure, I mean post 1.19 i press carefulway more often then I could before, maybe because of the stats changes. That's what I mostly believe. But crafting still has risk, the literal risk of each action during the synth is still there, and if you accumulate too much risk your craft will start failing, so lets say you hit 50% complete and risk is high your next 5 standards could completely fail. Risk isn't given to us, and you still have to figure it out. So if your a fake ass crafter who hits standards all the time, you won't be the same person probably crafting our epic pieces later, just sayin, you'll botch every piece, you aren't used to risk.

[Tiraelina]

They made crafting a lil less involved sure, I mean post 1.19 i press carefulway more often then I could before, maybe because of the stats changes. That's what I mostly believe. But crafting still has risk, the literal risk of each action during the synth is still there, and if you accumulate too much risk your craft will start failing, so lets say you hit 50% complete and risk is high your next 5 standards could completely fail. Risk isn't given to us, and you still have to figure it out. So if your a fake ass crafter who hits standards all the time, you won't be the same person probably crafting our epic pieces later, just sayin, you'll botch every piece, you aren't used to risk.

So you use bold and rapid for the purposes of levelling up?

There's a big difference between making items which can be enjoyable and the mindless grind to be able to do that in the first place.

This is the same BS that the majority learns their class while levelling, it doesn't happen. Not to mention missing majority of your skillset until you have your/other classes higher up there.

[smokymcweed]

so you think that becuase you got a class or 2 at 50 you should get special treatment? not even close bub your opinion is elitest and should be kept to your selfe everyone should have to earn thier lvls at the same pace no speed lvlng becuase you got other classes at 50 powerleveling should be a permanent banning offens

[grandm]

i was of the opinion "do what you want it don't affect me"

but the more i think of it, i think

if you don't like driving don't play a racing game
if you don't like fighting don't play a beat-em-up
if you don't like guns don't play a FPS

(can you see where i'm going with this?)

if you don't like leveling up don't play an RPG or MMORPG

[Lavani]

obvious troll is obvious

[Altera]

Ah great another post about this? Is it really nessecary? They will fix this in .19a, so please shut up and wait. I have only been PL for 1. I find it more fun doing leves myself, but it seems unlike a ton of you cant make your own decisions. Yes the possibility to PL is there, but to do it or not is entirely up to your own damn choice. Or are you all complaining cause nobody will take you into their party??

Enough of threads about this issue.

[Nuru]

You can sit there and have your character powerleveled to almost 50.

You can press one button 1000's of times to level your craft to 50.

Has SE given up?

Think of a single-player RPG whose combat and leveling experience was so enjoyable, you actually craved more! Think of how satisfying it was to gain a level and have access to more powerful abilities, spells, equipment. Think of what drove you to attain more for your character.

This type of experience is completely lacking in FFXIV and instead of fixing it with superior gameplay, SE has simply thrown in the towel. They've decided to simply make leveling a stupid easy no thought required process which is only a means to an end. In doing so they have sucked the life out of the RPG experience, which is to grow your character and gain satisfaction from doing so - to take your character on a journey.

There are no journeys in FFXIV, only destinations.

You can never relate any MMORPG and even dare try to compare it to a single player game. First of all, most of your MMORPG experience is directly with it's community. A single player game is just all about gameplay and that's it. MMORPGs can be about gameplay too, and we all know that is what FFXIV lacks. However, that isn't to say that they aren't changing this game as we speak, because they are, and we just have to be patient. How the game will be like, nobody knows right now, but valid opinions, criticism, or suggestions never hurt.

You can't actually say that SE has really given up on anything, they might as well give up on the entire game if they have given up on gameplay. Right now they are fixing the core problems which reside in the UI, Combat, and Armory systems. In order to add more gameplay features they must perfect the core mechanics. So hold your chocobos and stop assuming things.