A Word of Thanks to the FFXIV Development Team

[Jedgar]

You will eventually begin to eat your own arm with this game due to absolute nothing to do later on. Even at the low levels what is there to do? Quest = Killing, Grind = Killing, Guildleves = Killing, and Killing is as boring as watching paint dry.

And what MMO out there doesn't have this same Kill, Rinse, Repeat format? And before you yell yes I know the Guildleves are pretty much generic. The Side-quests are pretty much easy Guildleves that give no EXP/SP but instead a craftable reward. And there is no end-game content. Yet still you log into a MMO to do what? Quest = Killing, Grind to Level = Killing, Dungeon / Raid / End-Game Content = Killing, Gathering Mats for crafting = Mind Numbing Harvesting and sometimes Killing.

[viion]

Well to answer the question of "What do you do?":

When I'm sitting down specifically to play FFXIV I can choose to craft, gather or rank up combat.

And there you go, like I said the only answer to "What can you do" returns "Grind", your crafting is grinding, your rank up is ... well grinding and gather? Also grinding. R40 leves = grinding.

I guess prepairing for NM's is "something to do" but once you do them and find out how stupidly easy and rubbish they are you will be sad that all your prep was worthless. Get a couple 50's and you can do all of them. Hell im sure you've seen that THM can solo most of them excluding buffalo. But then you kill bulffalo and get an material for a very rubbish item. So thats pointless.

[Arcell]

In what MMO is there anything else to do aside from those 3 things? I mean in others it is masked by quests or instances but the goal is all the same. Hit max rank/level and get the best gear. That's about all it comes down to in any MMO in existence.

[Joe_Cool]

The thing is, if people who didnt like the game just left, how would the developers know what to fix and know why people are leaving?

As usual, constructive critisim overpowers someone just being rude, but you are expected and should know people will not agree with what you do and that some people are blindly confused as to how you think the way you do.

But as I said in my previous post it all comes down to Time. 2 people who genuinely like the concepts and are interested in the game will have absolute different views on it due to how long they've played.

And since you're low level, you've not hit that wall yet, you're still fresh and think things are going fine, but you will eventually undoubtedly turn into the rest of us as you realising your progression is not climbing up, its just walking in a straight constant line.

Those who have played and enjoy the other games get to their rage meter a little quicker due to the rules of comparison.

I agree that constructive criticism is a good thing. But there is a difference in constructive criticism and that of trolling, flaming, etc. (Not saying that toward you, just saying that in general). I would also like to add that I have been playing since the CE edition and although more content and such is needed, I still enjoy playing FFXIV along with fellow players on my server. So your comment about undoubtedly "hitting a wall" isn't really true and is a case by case situation.

But as far as your previous comment of there being nothing to do except grinding....

1.) NM's--Pretty fun battles that require cooperative play and planning to defeat.

2.) Class Quests--At the moment, each job/class gets 3 class quests each as they progress through the ranks. Although some are fairly short, some are fun (rank 20 GLA quest) and do offer some good storyline that also hints at what may come to the world of Eorzea!

3.) Main Quests--Very good main story in FFXIV imo. Much better than what FFXI had to me. I was seriously ranking up faster so that I could get to that next quest and it got better and better. Rank 46 mission was ftw!

4.) Side Quests--There are already quests in the game called "Leve-Quests" but they aren't NPC interaction quests. Thus Side Quests^^


To conclude, many may disagree with me but since I usually rank up with linked up leve runs, I consider that a part of content and progression since they are technically Quests and I enjoy the laughs and social part of the linked-up leve runs. That and the fact that most spells/abilities/traits that you learn from one job can also be used on another job pertaining to that particular Discipline.