Thread: FFXIV 2.0 ... or FAILURE 2.0?

I undestand money is needed to continue what must be a very expensive revamp of fundamental game systems. However, I do not think that FFXIV is ready to ask customers for their money, given the current state of the game. The biggest problem here is that the game experience / functionality is simply not ready for primetime.

CASE IN POINT:

• After yesterday's patch, I hopped on and got ready to do a Darkhold run.
• Showed up with full PT, tried to enter instance. Upon entry, was given the old (40000)4 error. My char was now stuck inside Darkhold, unplayable. For the 3rd time since starting FFXIV, a patch had corrupted my game data.
• Attempted to uninstall with a "Catastropic Failure" prohibiting that.
• Manually deleted the FFXIV / My Games directories.
• Tried to reinstall - seemed OK
• After complete reinstall, redownload of patch data, the updater failed at the last moment with 20564 (another indication of a corrupted patch attempt).
• Tried to uninstall. Uninstall failed again.
• This time, I could not reinstall or uninstall, I was stuck, with no recourse or path to take to try to get the game working again.

Because I am an IT person, I manually searched the registry, deleted all the keys referencing FFXIV, and successfully reinstalled. The average user, however, cannot be expected to this.

Fundamental features like an updater MUST work before expecting average users to pay money for a game. Therefore, they can try to take people's money, but I predict FAILURE 2.0 instead of FFXIV 2.0.

Good job on bringin up a thread almost a month old wtfail, /clap.

Troll thread

it must be a troll thread your in it.
there is so much that needs fixed in this game, and it pisses people off to hear about it, keep up the good work OP

Originally Posted by irongripz

it must be a troll thread your in it.
there is so much that needs fixed in this game, and it pisses people off to hear about it, keep up the good work OP

Im sorry but callling 2.0 a failure in point blank when its not even here yet, is trolling.

it must be a troll thread your in it.

I could say the same thing back, since people do that all the time here :/.

Originally Posted by Starlord

Im sorry but callling 2.0 a failure in point blank when its not even here yet, is trolling.



I could say the same thing back, since people do that all the time here :/.

it was a prediction not a statement, you look at every thread like these your on the front page with nothing useful to say. i guess having a different opinion than yours = trolling? yea i can do that to. learn what a troll is, or better yet just look in the mirror.

Originally Posted by irongripz

it was a prediction not a statement, you look at every thread like these your on the front page with nothing useful to say. i guess having a different opinion than yours = trolling? yea i can do that to. learn what a troll is, or better yet just look in the mirror.

Why would I need to look in a mirror if i'm looking at one?

Edit: What the OP said within his post was fine for him to say, ( He had a problem couldn't fix it blah blah, though this post really should be in the Technical forums, but that's neither here nor there). What I do have an issue with is that, He's calling the game itself a fail weather it be now or 2.0. Predication/statement which ever words you like to call it. Saying " 2.0 is going to fail" is outright a trolling statement.