Why its hard to play ff14

[Minro]

After playing games like WoW and other mmos ive noticed that 14 has a good possibility of being good but refuses to fix the easy flaws that it has.
1)holy shit is the combat boring, it feels like i need to stop moving for a few seconds to cast an ability
2)were in 2019 and the combat is still yet to be action combat based, why is this? it makes it feel so static and lack luster, the abilities can be flashy but they still need to be fun to use
3)There is a few people who follow it but honestly the story for 14 is the worst captioning story ive ever seen in an mmo and I played draenor in wow (other than the actual final fantasy games based content)
4)why in the world is this game so dark? it's color scheme is way too dark for a final fantasy game, tone down the grays and the browns and make it easier on the eyes

Why do the devs hate this game? the game could be amazing but the big things are whats keeping them down, the player housing is amazing, the class diversity is amazing and world is alright at best (would be better if there were no loading screens.) Can I get someone to tell me when they're gonna fix these things because were way past the era this games feels like it should be in and damn i wanna play it but damn do I get bored of it

[Dualgunner]

You're a low-level, and you're still in ARR content judging by your main job's max level. ARR wasn't the high point of the story, and combat is geared for endgame not for leveling. The game could be better about the pacing of players catching up, but I don't think they'll do that because they have Level Up potions and Story Skip potions on the cash shop.

Have your criticisms of the game, but the devs certainly do not hate it; they clawed and fought to bring it back from the brink that was 1.0.

[Minro]

well yea im a low level but ive seen gameplay from multiple streamers/youtubers and from friends who all do new released content on the daily and they said the story gets kinda better but the combat stays the same, the devs may have brought it back from dying but im sorry the game is gonna officially die if they dont fix the fixable things now before its too late, also they arent trying that hard bc they just released the regalia instead of fixing issues

[guardin]

well yea im a low level but ive seen gameplay from multiple streamers/youtubers and from friends who all do new released content on the daily and they said the story gets kinda better but the combat stays the same, the devs may have brought it back from dying but im sorry the game is gonna officially die if they dont fix the fixable things now before its too late, also they arent trying that hard bc they just released the regalia instead of fixing issues

i agree. archage (p2w) but had really fast fluid and probably the best example of of tab target can be fun. Even at max level it feels like you are dancing or fighting the air then actually fighting an opponent. and then they take forever to die as you mspam the same rotation again and again. The boss fights are amazing but after you learn the pattern then you just go on repeat mode. Thankfully they said they are reworking the combat so hopefully combat speeds up, gets condensed, and feels more fluid. A good mixture of gw2 and archage combat. That is why eureka is boring because you mostly fight and ff14 doesnt shine in the combat department.

[Dualgunner]

If it were to officially die tomorrow, the game will have lived and thrived for six years counting only ARR, and that's not a bad lifespan. That said, it's lived just like it is now for the past six years; I think it's safe to say that it won't be dying for at least another two years.

[Minro]

two years is extremely close especially for a game, the new xpac could've been withheld for about another month or two just to give the devs more time to fix things like gravity and combat but I guess they just want to pump out content like wow did in legion and look where that ended up, in the end the games got a chance to do something good but I honestly doubt that they want it to bc then they're wallets would be empty

[Hasrat]

in the end the games got a chance to do something good but I honestly doubt that they want it to bc then they're wallets would be empty

Empty wallets means no game at all.

[Dualgunner]

I'm sure two months is enough time to overhaul the entire in-game physics engine (based off of spaghetti code from a 2010 game) and completely revamp the combat system that you dislike, but have only been able to provide nebulous suggestions regarding.

[MistakeNot]

After playing games like WoW and other mmos ive noticed that 14 has a good possibility of being good but refuses to fix the easy flaws that it has.
1)holy shit is the combat boring, it feels like i need to stop moving for a few seconds to cast an ability

Boring? Slow I get, but boring?

2)were in 2019 and the combat is still yet to be action combat based, why is this? it makes it feel so static and lack luster, the abilities can be flashy but they still need to be fun to use

It is not supposed to be "action combat based". Why should it be? It would not be an improvement.

3)There is a few people who follow it but honestly the story for 14 is the worst captioning story ive ever seen in an mmo and I played draenor in wow (other than the actual final fantasy games based content)

Here I am afraid you are simply wrong.

4)why in the world is this game so dark? it's color scheme is way too dark for a final fantasy game, tone down the grays and the browns and make it easier on the eyes

Dark? Visually it isn't very dark at all.

Why do the devs hate this game? the game could be amazing but the big things are whats keeping them down, the player housing is amazing, the class diversity is amazing and world is alright at best (would be better if there were no loading screens.) Can I get someone to tell me when they're gonna fix these things because were way past the era this games feels like it should be in and damn i wanna play it but damn do I get bored of it

The things you complain about are not actual problems, and are thus not going to get "fixed".

[Dzian]

Boring? Slow I get, but boring?

The combat generally is boring imo. But thats something I’ve said since alpha pretty much. I also think it’s too fast. (well perhaps not fast but requires far to much input for what you get out)
The reason it’s boring though is because skills all feel lacklustre and combat never changes. It’s just a long ass glorified auto attack with a few flashy and sparkly effects that don’t really have any connection to the fight.
Blm for example.
Enters a fight with lets say Chaos. B3 > t3 > b4 > f3 > f4 > f4 > f4 > f1 > f4 > f4 >f4…….
same blm goes to fight Lakshmi. B3 > t3 > b4 > f3 > f4 > f4 > f4 > f1 > f4 > f4 >f4…….
same blm goes to fight Yojimbo. B3 > t3 > b4 > f3 > f4 > f4 > f4 > f1 > f4 > f4 >f4…….
same blm goes to fight Kefka. B3 > t3 > b4 > f3 > f4 > f4 > f4 > f1 > f4 > f4 >f4…….
same blm goes to fight Belias. B3 > t3 > b4 > f3 > f4 > f4 > f4 > f1 > f4 > f4 >f4…….
same blm goes to fight anything else…. B3 > t3 > b4 > f3 > f4 > f4 > f4 > f1 > f4 > f4 >f4…….
and so on and so on and so on…

Boringgggg! Oh Hey new primal in 5.0 I wonder what a blm will do.. B3 > t3 > b4 > f3 > f4 > f4 > f4 > f1 > f4 > f4 >f4……. (maybe squeeze in a new job action somewhere or swap t3 for t5..) it really is mindless

Going back to lacklustre skills the problem is nothing looks or feels powerful. And generally nothing is actually seen anyway. I play sam fairly frequently but if you hid the sen bar from me I wouldn’t be able to tell you if an attack animation was kasha or if it was gecko because outside of a different buff icon whats the difference. They’re both just flashes and sparkles lost in a myriad of flashes and sparkles from a bunch of other players..
I don’t want action style combat or anything like that but it would be nice to feel the buttons you press actually do something more add a few sparkles to auto attack. But that’s where I feel its too fast. Constantly pressing buttons but nothing ever actually happens…. Its like the difference between smacking a red striking dummy and a blue one….