SE better do something or the game will drop dead

[Seif]

Funny debate but the battle system has changed very little imo since beta. So whichever side you're on is pretty irrelevant.

They promised very loud that the system goes through a complete overhaul but all I see is reduced number of skills to use and minor stat tweaks.

That's it? Was that the complete overhaul? Should we still hold on to hope that the jobs will affect how this game is played solo? If this is it then the word overhaul led me wrong as I thought they saw that the combat is not fun nor does it require any strategy at all.

[Gramul]

Funny debate but the battle system has changed very little imo since beta. So whichever side you're on is pretty irrelevant.

They promised very loud that the system goes through a complete overhaul but all I see is reduced number of skills to use and minor stat tweaks.

That's it? Was that the complete overhaul? Should we still hold on to hope that the jobs will affect how this game is played solo? If this is it then the word overhaul led me wrong as I thought they saw that the combat is not fun nor does it require any strategy at all.

Arn't jobs going to be suited for multiplayer? And what exactly where you expecting from the overhaul? How did it fail to meet your expectations?

[knite23]

Makes me happy to see the SE Knights protecting the name of FF14 makes me proud wont comment on the previous comments i see i think enough of you have made your points valid /GCsalute

[Xoo]

In all fairness, while people have left due to *insert reason here*, there has also been an influx of new players as well. In the last week we have had at least 4-5 players join our LS that have started recently and are (in fact) enjoying the game, plus I have met others that have just started as of P2P.

Since you are not playing the game anymore and cannot see this, you cannot state that there is no new blood entering the game.

As a paying player who is in the game and can see the player base; yes, there is new blood entering the game.

So no, your above comment is not a fact; therefore you make your point moot.

Apologies for necroing this thread...

What you can't seem to understand.

[Renshi]

You're saying that there's so little players coming in that it's not even worthy talking about.
Kai says we're having new players day after day, and I don't think having ~7 new players in our Linkshell is something little to talk about. Notice I've said New Players and not players who left to come back playin'. Adding that we would have around 15 in addition to our linkshell count.
Then get the players who join other linkshells and those who don't have one. I've seen many new players playing, both English-speaking and Japanese, and I can say this because I've seen them with my own eyes.

And now we can close this thread because of uselessness =)

[Bowen]

Just posted in another thread about how SE needs to advertise more. . .
And really, they do. After 2.0, SE will REALLY need to spread the word. . . Commercials on channels like idk uhhh Comedy Central, Animal planet, Disney. That would help soooo much. Half the reason people I know never have played it is because: "I have never seen a commercial of that game. . . Actually, I have seen one of FFXIII and trailers of the sequel but, never this game. . ."

[darkstarpoet1]

You're saying that there's so little players coming in that it's not even worthy talking about.
Kai says we're having new players day after day, and I don't think having ~7 new players in our Linkshell is something little to talk about. Notice I've said New Players and not players who left to come back playin'. Adding that we would have around 15 in addition to our linkshell count.
Then get the players who join other linkshells and those who don't have one. I've seen many new players playing, both English-speaking and Japanese, and I can say this because I've seen them with my own eyes.

And now we can close this thread because of uselessness =)

i can justify the to speak of comment. on my server after payment started we had roughly 50-60 english speaking players online. i have met at least 10 new english speaking players in the last few weeks. the english speaking population has dropped from 50-60 down to 30-40 at most times. yes, new players are coming in, but when the overall population continues to drop it's not enough to say that the game is bringing in enough new people to speak of.

[Renshi]

Then look at the future and see E3 and November's Beta and March's Release (didn't check back the plan, roughly), geez...
If you paid for it, have fun with what you have. Wait for the new players in 2013 before judging.

[darkstarpoet1]

Then look at the future and see E3 and November's Beta and March's Release (didn't check back the plan, roughly), geez...
If you paid for it, have fun with what you have. Wait for the new players in 2013 before judging.

then don't act like what someone said was wrong when it was correct ...geez.

[Hayden]

Why do these threads keep popping up? Honestly do the OP's think that THIS will be the rabble complaining post that will suddenly make something happen? That THIS will be the ONE complaint thread that people won't troll and WONT turn into a locked thread?

All that aside, OP, they ARE doing something, they ARE making things better, they even went through the tedious effort to create a road map for us, outlining EVERYTHING they ARE doing, WHEN they are doing it, and what EXACTLY will be done.

It's as simple as that. I don't understand why there are so many threads like this?

Edit:

It's classic. Somebody goes on the game, has a rough night, maybe they die a few times at a primal, bad luck crafting, maybe they couldn't find a grinding party! Maybe they spent too much time crafting and got a little frustrated?

They don't have all their classes at 50, have plenty of achievements to earn, beaten a primal, completed a dungeon or even finished the "main story. Have most of their DOL's and DOH's still to level. (this may not be the case with THIS OP) So they come on the Lodestone, whine about broken mechanics, bad players and that there is "nothing to do" because they had a bad night.

Go find a nice Link Shell, spend some time doing the things you haven't completed, or find a new game.

I know people going for their last DOL to complete every job at 50, have most Primal and Moogle items, and are working on their golden tools. These people complain less and they REALLY DO have nothing to do!