This game has lost it's identity again.... (Ranting Thread)

[Paladinleeds]

Story is the main set of content for this game, and for a lot of players (from my understanding, though I could be wrong on this), they do indeed enjoy the story. Not everyone is going to enjoy the story and that's OK, but instead of trying to get Square Enix to turn Final Fantasy into something it's not, maybe it's time to look elsewhere like you've said. I've absolutely loved the ShB story so far (not quite finished yet though). Dancer is a lot of fun, and I'm going to be picking up my healers after. Are there areas where they can improve? Certainly. But, I will vehemently disagree on it losing its identity. One of the things that keeps me coming back to FFXIV: I feel immersed in the world through their storytelling. I played WoW, and I couldn't get immersed in the world there. Now that's not a knock against WoW (its focus is more the endgame content, and that's fine), and things could well have changed since I last played (Pandaria), but WoW just wasn't for me.

With regards to the parsers, that's a twofold thing to refute.
1. If you're seeking a casual static, they don't really care about logs for the most part (if they decide to become midcore, then yeah, they'll start caring, but that's a player phenomena), and casual statics exist in droves from my experience. Have been in them and indeed run one myself.
2. Parsers are a thing in every game. But if someone mentions actual numbers to you saying "You did this much damage", you can report them, as SqEx operate a "Don't ask, don't tell" policy. Parsers aren't going away anytime soon. Not unless they find everyone making the parsers and fire legal action at them. The amount of bad PR that would generate though would be astronomical and be the equivalent to shooting themselves in the foot, with a nuclear rocket launcher (not just a standard rocket launcher). But most people don't give two hoots about DPS, as long as the content gets completed. A lot of those who do, also do not care outside of Savage/Ultimate (where it matters more, they may slightly care in Extreme primals though), so your casual content will still be very much OK. Only a few will cause issues in casual content and that's just donkeys being donkeys.

[LiteBrite]

Damn... People are really ganging up on the OP. lol

[Nedkel]

Oh its one of those "weekend threads". xD

[XenociderOmega]

So this is about not getting a new healer and has nothing to do with the title at all

[gumas]

- healer dps
- fix *insert job here*
- #notmyfinalfantasy
- tank pull

seems to be the weekend thread nowadays

[xbahax92]

I love this game I do! I enjoyed playing for like 4 years. I feel like SE thinks we are stupid this is the exact same thing over and over and over. Next expansion will take my money elsewhere because there is no more growth. That's why I pay is to have growth but sorry I'm not gonna buy into this anymore. I started out as SMN but went healers and the fact they didn't add another healer and the generic feel to the current 3. This is not what I call a final fantasy game.

Identity? Healers? What does one have to do with the games identity? More over content is the same like 4 years ago and the healer debate is still fresh and there might be changes when savage raids are introduced. Your rant is rather groundless.

[Ssmiley_Bjakkzz]

This game will never change, only poop expansions.
Its just a game not a relationship.
Play something else and come back anytime sweetie.

[Arngrim_Greyashe]

Troll thread.

[Zanarkand-Ronso]

Troll thread.

Reading everything he typed here...Im convinced its a Troll thread as well.
Btw...KITTY -Boobs the snoot- <3

[Arngrim_Greyashe]

Reading everything he typed here...Im convinced its a Troll thread as well.
Btw...KITTY -Boobs the snoot- <3

-is booped- I am a fierce warrior! But I accept the boop.