12,95 a month for what?

[Koga]

I wont troll about how other MMO's are doing so well or how FFXIV is doing so poorly.

To be quite honest i was only here for the communities within the game & the FF feeling when you engage in the lore, cinematics , epic fights .... I didn't even mind so much that they released FFXIV 2 years earlier than it should have been. I also didn't mind having payed 65$ for a pre-beta game. However , i absolutely refuse to pay a monthly fee for something that isnt even half ready for presentation.

That being said i'll be leaving til 2.0 or Maybe indefinitely or maybe til their next MMO we'll see. unless SE has some sort of stroke of brilliance on their part and somehow realize what they are doing will kill what little they've got, im done. I have multiple R50's, crafts, gear, whatever dosnt matter just to show im not just talking from beneath the lvl 20 cap like most ragequitters, ive seen what FFXIV has to offer in and out... It took a lot of pondering but in the end, i wont pay for something i can't fully enjoy, or something i WANT to enjoy but can't to its fullest capacity.

A feeling of sickness comes over you when you see a screenshot with someone holding 1000million gil in their inventory. Broken mechanics have ruined the game long before they tried to fix it, thats aside from all the players who exploited the aoe heal glitch and capped their jobs to 50 near 1.1. The economy for the longest time was also based on crafting for cheap & NPCing goods for large sums of gil and at very fast rates creating big gil fluxes making botters top gil makers in your economy in turn selling the currency or just buying everything they desired at rediculous prices making crafters rich, making everyone richer. Inflation seems nice but it is the enemy not your friend anyone playing FFXI in 2006 knows this, every single peice of decent gear was out of reach for any aspiring players. the time frame for obtaining them through monetary ways was like climbing mount everest.

So i would rather pay 12,95 for FFXIV the way it was on release day than where it is now. Sad you would say? Glitches & bad planning did not ruin the game on release day, leaving things the way they were is what did. SE should have known from its past errors in FFXI not to re-commit to the same mistakes. yet they turned around and created juggernauts with un-rivaled economic power, introduced a very poor crafting system - reinvented it & then dated all the time and effort we had put in our old +3 items. ( IE dated Crab bow +3) This is like wow releasing an expansion and forcing people to tier up their gear to reach the new standard. something i always frowned upon, however FFXIV just did it without any apparent event , expansion , NOTHING. FNM< drops are worthless now? what if people payed 10mil for bucc? least they could have done is allow them to be socketed, they are only RARE, no SE is not that nice.

Anyways, asking us to pay for this sum of garbage is just not what i could call a smart move. AT LEAST wait til PS3 "RELEASE" til you charge us your players. FFXIV IS NOT EVEN OUT ON PS3 THIS IS A BETA YOU ARE CHARGING US FOR...

It's sad that it has come to this but, Sayanara, maybe til the next FF title, maybe til 2.0 who knows, they said they have another MMO in the works. I am very unimpressed with their latest call in FFXIV, could maybe lose my business forever, 20 yrs of customer reliability. Peace Outtie.

[Jigg]

Don't let the door hit you on the way out /wave
It's been stated several, several times that mechanics were going to be changed. one of the changes they are making is a way to expand gear in number and appearance. In order for them to do that, they had to create new structures for everything. The existing structures were not designed for materia socketting, which is why you can't socket materia into nm drops because they existed before materia.

Instead of drastically reducing the amount of gear available, they got crafty and left the old gear in prefixed with "Dated" so that the gear still exists in game until they can add more new gear to the system.

The game in its currently state doesn't serve hardcore play very well at the moment...if you go all out all the time, you will run out of stuff to do. Pace yourself and make some friends and the game is much more enjoyable.

I'll be paying because I am enjoying myself. Things are changing, we've known this for quite some time now. Roll with it or don't.

[viion]

Don't let the door hit you on the way out /wave
It's been stated several, several times that mechanics were going to be changed. one of the changes they are making is a way to expand gear in number and appearance. In order for them to do that, they had to create new structures for everything. The existing structures were not designed for materia socketting, which is why you can't socket materia into nm drops because they existed before materia.

Instead of drastically reducing the amount of gear available, they got crafty and left the old gear in prefixed with "Dated" so that the gear still exists in game until they can add more new gear to the system.

The game in its currently state doesn't serve hardcore play very well at the moment...if you go all out all the time, you will run out of stuff to do. Pace yourself and make some friends and the game is much more enjoyable.

I'll be paying because I am enjoying myself. Things are changing, we've known this for quite some time now. Roll with it or don't.

Pace yourself? You'd have to fight 1 mob, go make a cup of tea, fight another, have a snack, fight another, watch Dexter, fight another, just to slow this game down lol.

There is hardly anything in the game and all of it has been easily completed by everyone by now.

So many people have completed all achievements (that means all quests, nm kills, imperial events, other random crap). As well as all levels, got all the best gear and socketed it. Then theres... nothing else to do. woooop.

The only endgame content atm is Ifrit and even that is dying.

So I understand the OP's worries, the game has nothing to offer if you play "normally", if you spend about 5 months levelling sure, you panned it out yourself, but by playing the game like.. a normal game, you soon run out of shit to do. Look at ifrit, guy is a serious joke now due to lancer method, he was fked within the first week. And its not about making things harder, its about making MORE things to do lol. All that balance and design and crap that went into ifrit was a complete waste of effort.

[Koga]

"in the meantime, i'll enjoy something else that works fully and completely & that asks me the same equitable sum of 12,95."

Would you pay for a car that dosn't start, unless you were a Mechanic? I Don't have the tools to fix ffxiv maybe when it works i'll hop on the band-wagon, paying before that is ludicrous. You can slam me to make yourself feel better bout paying for broken goods but it will always bother you.