Endgame Content, Competitive Atmosphere

[Madruk]

Good design takes away the need to bot. Asian developers haven't understood this since the beginning. When you have repetitive tasks that need to be done over and over it's just begging to be botted. There's no skill involved in spamming standard, no skill hitting X 5 millions times, and no skill grinding out 5000 gathers for an achievement.

The economy is shit because there are no limits in place for any type of gear. No rare craftable drops aside from the NM's first introduced. About the only thing worth gil right now is materia because some are rarer than others. One crafter alone can ruin the entire market by themselves if they wanted to just by spamming whatever gear to saturate the market.

Materia gear has been the only savior of the market simply because you can't spam double or higher materia due to the rng factor.

[MeowyWowie]

Good design takes away the need to bot. Asian developers haven't understood this since the beginning.

Not really. People have been cheating since the dawn of civilization.

Name one game where you can't cheat. I bet you can't. There's no such thing as "good design" when it comes to botting, everything is prone to being tampered with.

Action, MMO, Single Player RPG, FPS, Strategy, Cards, Sports (game and real life), this list goes on and on. People cheat in every single one of them. The only exception I could think of is something like frisbee lol, and that's not even a real game.

The point is, it's impossible to make anything completely immune to cheating, especially when it comes to video games. So instead of making a bot-proof game (lol), make a fun one and get rid of the people who do bot.

[BlackomegaKingofwaffles]

Name one game where you can't cheat.

Calvinball.

[Treach]

Name one game where you can't cheat. I bet you can't.

Beer pong and flip cup.

[Zanfire]

Beer pong and flip cup.

also bumper cars...NO RULES...RULES!

anyways like the over 40 people who like the OP...i agree 100%
The main jist and likely future of this games endgame until late 2012 seems to be primals and 25+ and 45+ dungeons over and over. And yes RMT are already here, and if this game gets better, there will be a buttload more, reguardless of what content we have.

[tachikoma]

If the devs came out and said "we plan to introduce many forms of endgame, it is a priority that we provide challenging content to all groups of players. We are going to implement XYZ for 2.0 we are going to have many free roaming HNM's that require large scale player involvement and strategy to tackle. We are going to introduce a RELIC system for the player who wishes to put in years of work for a very long term goal" this would make me a FFXIV fan and player for life.

tldr: I want content that is more then a spammable 5min. zerg where I can't bring my mule in to the fight and come out w/o a death.