A Plea for Sanity

[Raldo]

People don't sell low-level gear, because it's doesn't sell as well as high-level gear. Simple as that.

[Bulwarkz]

Well, I'll tell ya right now as far as gear goes - it's not that diverse. I'm sorry that you went all the way to Ul'dah to find that out, but yeah NPCs don't do hardly anything for gear - and the items on the MW are 6 or so levels apart like you said. When I hit my first 50, I noticed there wasn't another LNC I wasn't nearly identical to. You'll have to farm at 50 and beat end game for semi-diverse items.

Also, the outside of Gridania is in pretty bad shape and they intend to do some serious overhauling on it for 2.0. It's an extremely linear maze... a forest in real life would be nothing like that lol.

Most of your complaints are well known. That's why they're completely overhauling the game. 2.0 comes out very late this year or early next year.

[Saeb]

Thank you for the replies. I don't have much else to say right now. I seem to have vented most of my energy in the original post. It's just exasperating.

[Quesse]

Thank you for the replies. I don't have much else to say right now. I seem to have vented most of my energy in the original post. It's just exasperating.

This is a bit telling because I've actually been pleased with how the game is progressed. But to see someone come on new and have such a high level of frustration shows how much farther this game needs to go. Sometimes I'm blinded by how bad the game really was at launch. Its still not that great, in fact many facets of it are really pretty awful. There is a ton of work left to be done.

[Zetsumei_Tsunarashi]

As someone who has been here from the very beginning, let me tell you this: As bad as it may seem right now, you have no idea how far this game has come.

It would be easy for me to be an elitist asshole and tell you "lol l2p newb, if you want easymode go play wow!" but actually you're pretty spot on with your comments. The fact that a lot of the playerbase does not experience what you are experiencing is a problem that unfortunately puts your issues on the bottom of the list of priorities. Most people have been around awhile and are already capped out on many classes. Furthermore, the players who have been here for awhile went through a long period where guildleves were the only thing to do in the game, and they gave you an exorbitant amount of money for completing them, (100k in a single guildleve was relatively easy to get by today's standards) so a lot of people have a lot of money, and therefore have no real motivation to sell things for marginal profit (lowbie gear).

This game currently is severely lacking new players right now, and as a result things in the beginning of the game tend to get ignored production wise. However, I do appreciate your comments as they highlight areas of the game with issues that aren't being brought up very often, but need to be addressed as they will likely be the bane of SE's subscriptions in 2.0 if not fixed.

Imo the beginning of the game is the most crucial in an MMO, as that is the point where you decide "am I having fun?" If the answer is yes, you'll continue to invest your time and therefore your money. If the answer is no, then SE has a serious problem on their hands (again).

[Hubbington]

Thanks for all of the replies everyone. I am said friend playing with Saeb. Based on what you have all said in the more recent comments with regards to server sizes I am curious if it would improve our game experience to switch to a server that is more highly populated by NA players.

Because the chocobo ratings are apparently unreliable, I was also curious if you all had any input as to which server would be the best for us to roll on.

[Vorn]

Thanks for all of the replies everyone. I am said friend playing with Saeb. Based on what you have all said in the more recent comments with regards to server sizes I am curious if it would improve our game experience to switch to a server that is more highly populated by NA players.

Because the chocobo ratings are apparently unreliable, I was also curious if you all had any input as to which server would be the best for us to roll on.

Why would you want to reroll?
Cornelia isn't bad at all once you get the ball rolling, and know people.

It's very diverse, and like said yes, heavy JP, but there is enough in w/e time zone you play to get things done without feeling cramped.

You may want to read some of the threads from the problems in the bigger servers, such as not being able to summon a retainer from crowding.

[Zetsumei_Tsunarashi]

For NA/EU populations I would maybe look at the numbers found at XIVpads It's a pretty popular site for NA/EU but I don't think many JP people use it so the numbers probably reflect more so NA/EU populations.

[darkstarpoet1]

For NA/EU populations I would maybe look at the numbers found at XIVpads It's a pretty popular site for NA/EU but I don't think many JP people use it so the numbers probably reflect more so NA/EU populations.

i don't think any third party site will ever be a true estimate of populations.

i would love it if they could put like a search menu that refreshes every week or so that shows the max na/jp/fr/de players on each server during the previous week. i'm not sure something like that would be possible for them to incorporate into the character creation of the game, but maybe a player tracker in the lodestone or something.

it's just hard to judge a servers population by an optional third party site like that unless they hear about from someone else they may not even be aware of. i'm not saying it's numbers would be completely wrong, but it may be just as accurate as the other numbers we have seen already. we just won't know unless se gives gives us the ability to see actual numbers during all times of the day and the groups those numbers represent.

[Saeb]

We can't thank you enough for your feedback. I am curious to see anecdotal data on NA server populations if anyone would care to oblige.