Everything is dead?

[HyoMinPark]

Last weekend, J and E, peak hours, 200+ min queues three times for Rhitalyn. 200+ and 160+ for the two others. Never resolved. That is all.

Peak hours for you, or peak hours for JP? Because JP’s peak hours will be different than NA/EU timezones.

This game offers no such opportunities whatsoever.

I see people shouting FC recruitments in all major city hubs every day on my server. There are FCs that post recruitment ads on this very forum, as well as the FFXIV subreddit. You’re going to have a harder time—being on a JP server finding an English FC—but they do exist. So I respectfully disagree.

Image a scenario where the timezone would not be an issue in this case.

Time zone is an issue if you’re playing during NA peak hours on a JP server—in Japan, that’s usually when people are working or in school. As of this post, it’s currently approaching NA prime time. In Japan, it’s 9:43am. People are either at work or in school right now, so less will be online queuing for things. NA and EU have similar slow downs—queues are slower at 3am EST compared to 7pm EST, for example. Time zones matter, even if you would rather them not.

Anyway these have been very helpful, thank you. I will get a story recap from a youtube video and quit the game. Not trying to play any small violin here just letting you know. Have fun~

Thank you, I have fun in this game every day.

[roses_of_may]

Every class plays completely different from one another and they all have their unique style and gimmick.

Never have I been thankful or barely even noticed any differences in any of the classes. None of them bring anything unique to the table.

-After playing a certain game for so long, I'm happy to see skills look as good as they do in here. Every attack looks different from each other and feels good.

When everything is a special, nothing is special.

-No thanks, I rather feel like the skills I use mean something.

It's meaningless over-the-top visual overhead that brings nothing but epilepsy to the table.

-No point in kiting, though, at least not that much? I can't find a reason to "kite" world monsters for that long.

Yes in this game it serves no purpose.

-This is completely fake, I do it all the time, helps a lot in dungeons with healings and keeps tanks alive.

-Fake, downtime in which you're pressing 1,2,3 is really low and it's always about reaction/decisions in all forms of instanced content.

-There are many ranged monsters, heck there are many in Thousand Maws of Totorak, did you get that far in the game?

60 hours into the game haven't seen a single shred of evidence for this.

It's impossible.

You're going to lose your mind when you learn about magnets and how they work.

-Which game has "Interesting combat" according to you? If FFXIV is uninteresting to you combat wise I feel sorry for the rest of the MMORPGs as FFXIV is the best in the market right now.

Please you must be joking? Since you mentioned WoW before let's take a glimpse at how dynamic that games combat was in 2006.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VteMr4TjlDI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zzs3RkDAZQY

-There is such content, perhaps you skipped it? Like you seem to have skipped many functionalities and aspects of the game?

Nothing in the world is a threat to me or has ever been in this game or has required any kind of strategy or even thinking on my part whatsoever.

-There's more than that, it's the MMORPG in the market with the most active players.

You're right, there's more; but it's not even close to being the most active. And it's barely an MMOPRG. Looks to me like it's barely an ORPG.

-Can't tell, you quoted many aspects of the game which aren't real for FFXIV. You're either playing a different game and posting on the wrong forums or... Who knows?

Or maybe you're wearing rose-tinted glasses? Who knows?

Lives in NA but plays in JP datacenter? Why?

Who said I did?

[Siete]

Never have I been thankful or barely even noticed any differences in any of the classes. None of them bring anything unique to the table.



When everything is a special, nothing is special.



It's meaningless over-the-top visual overhead that brings nothing but epilepsy to the table.



Yes in this game it serves no purpose.





60 hours into the game haven't seen a single shred of evidence for this.



You're going to lose your mind when you learn about magnets and how they work.



Please you must be joking? Since you mentioned WoW before let's take a glimpse at how dynamic that games combat was in 2006.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VteMr4TjlDI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zzs3RkDAZQY



Nothing in the world is a threat to me or has ever been in this game or has required any kind of strategy or even thinking on my part whatsoever.



You're right, there's more; but it's not even close to being the most active. And it's barely an MMOPRG. Looks to me like it's barely an ORPG.



Or maybe you're wearing rose-tinted glasses? Who knows?



Who said I did?

Why not just go back to WoW, then?
Go play that calculator simulator with chinese RNG weekly grind and decaying class design to the point it can be played from a cellphone now.

[HyoMinPark]

Never have I been thankful or barely even noticed any differences in any of the classes. None of them bring anything unique to the table.

Have you even played most of the classes? I’m looking at your Lodestone, and you are still a Conjurer at level 57. You should have picked up a job stone for White Mage at level 30. That’s one reason you probably find things boring—CNJ stops getting skills at level 50, and WHM gives you more skills to play around with.

That said, I don’t think you can really judge any of the classes considering it doesn’t appear that you’ve actually played any of them—unless you have alts floating around that have actually leveled any of the other 16 jobs.

It's meaningless over-the-top visual overhead that brings nothing but epilepsy to the table.

You know you can turn off the flashy effects of player attacks, right? Character Config > Character Configuration > Character tab. Scroll down to Battle Effects Settings: you’re allowed to pick “Show All”, “Show Limited”, and “Show None”. Personally, I prefer to keep myself on “Show All” and everyone else on “Show Limited” (party members only) and “Show None” (non-party members).

That said, I do find it a bit contradictory that you’re complaining about how flashy everything is on one hand—and then complaining that nothing is impactful... But considering you’re missing half of your toolkit—and considering that you haven’t gotten to SB or ShB levels to learn those skills—its no wonder you haven’t found any impactful skills yet. The lower levels have been pruned repeatedly since SB.

60 hours into the game haven't seen a single shred of evidence for this.

??? There are ranged mobs literally in the very first dungeon (Sastasha): the archers before the last boss are all ranged. The reason you probably don’t notice them in dungeons that often is because tanks gather the mobs and move them towards the ranged mobs that refuse to move. This is so the DPS can AOE the entire trash pack. In the overworld, the Roselets in Central Shroud are ranged: they’re a level 10 mob. I’d wager you just haven’t been paying attention, considering how much you’ve rushed through everything else.

Nothing in the world is a threat to me or has ever been in this game or has required any kind of strategy or even thinking on my part whatsoever.

This is an intentional design. FFXIV 1.0 had level 99 mobs in its overworld, but when they shut it down and redesigned it for A Realm Reborn, Yoshida (the producer/director) said that he wanted to make the overworld more friendly to newer players. That included removing dangerous mobs. That said, low levels that run into an A-rank or an S-rank can get one-shot fairly easily.

You're right, there's more; but it's not even close to being the most active. And it's barely an MMOPRG. Looks to me like it's barely an ORPG.

When Shadowbringers launched, there were unofficial censes estimating that active characters was over 1,000,000. Even if FFXIV isn’t the most popular MMO out there, it has a very sizable playerbase. Yoshida said that FFXIV’s sub count is the highest its ever been when Shadowbringers was released. It’s in a bit of a lull right now because we’re a few weeks before Patch 5.1 is released—and people tend to take breaks between patches—but it’s still very active. Far more than 100,000 players.

Or maybe you're wearing rose-tinted glasses? Who knows?

Personally, I think you’d already decided that this game isn’t for you before you even made this thread—which, as I said before is fine; this game isn’t for everyone—but you still came here to rant without the intention to be open to anyone who might be willing to try and change your mind. You just wanted to rant for the sake of ranting—and, quite frankly, you’ve been extremely aggressive in this thread for very little reason. The post above mine where you’re cussing out Hasrat for literally no reason is proof of that.

I don’t think that this game has what you’re looking for, so it may be best if you just stop playing it. Not saying that in any malicious way; but what’s the point in continuing to play a game when you can’t even find one reason to enjoy it?


Btw, the only reason that I keep suggesting you find an FC or make some friends is because you have been complaining about how there’s no necessity to group up with other players. This gave me the impression that you aren’t really into solo play—hence why I told you to go find some people to do group play with. This game can be enjoyed with friends and solo—I play with friends a lot, but I also have alts that I play solo on when I want some me-time—but you have to be willing to find aspects about it to enjoy. And I don’t really think that you’re willing to do that.

[Hasrat]

Maybe the first question you need to answer is what do you want to get out of the game? You seem to very much not be here for story. If you're only really interested in running instanced content with other players, you may just be better off biting the bullet and buying a story and job boost. You'll find higher concentrations of players in the open world. You'll be able to run dungeons and trials and raids that might be more engaging, more current and therefore active content. Probably also buy yourself a transfer to a more appropriate data center. Gonna be hard to get much meaningful player interaction with a language barrier, to say nothing of time differences.

Basically, if you're rushing yourself through MSQ, have you stopped to ask why?

[roses_of_may]

Maybe the first question you need to answer is what do you want to get out of the game? You seem to very much not be here for story. If you're only really interested in running instanced content with other players, you may just be better off biting the bullet and buying a story and job boost. You'll find higher concentrations of players in the open world. You'll be able to run dungeons and trials and raids that might be more engaging, more current and therefore active content. Probably also buy yourself a transfer to a more appropriate data center. Gonna be hard to get much meaningful player interaction with a language barrier, to say nothing of time differences.

Basically, if you're rushing yourself through MSQ, have you stopped to ask why?

After the first 10 hours of pick three glittery dust from this location or talk to these three completely meaningless people hidden somewhere over here I just kind of don't give a shit about 90% of any of that stuff.

[Miminming]

I've absolutely no idea where I am. Did buy the complete edition, though. And the last MSQ thing I did was kill a snake (leviathan?) in the water on a kind of boat/ferry thing.




You could test your theory by queuing up for Rhitalyn yourself and see. Server and Day of the Week probably plays a role but timezones and languages had nothing to do with it I'm pretty sure.

On Jp server ｢masamune｣ to be specific, Rhitalyn on JP peak hour which is around 8-11 PM jp time on normal workday, with all language ticked 10 min as tank, 8 min as healer 14 min as dps, maybe quicker in 12 AM which is the roulettes reset time and more on holiday, dunno what you are talking about...

[AriaEnia]

Lives in NA but plays in JP datacenter? Why?

[Miminming]

Just try it on Jp server ｢masamune｣ to be specific, Rhitalyn*on JP peak hour which is around 8 PM jp time on normal workday, with all language ticked 10 min as tank, 8 min as healer 14 as dps, maybe quicker in 12 AM which is the roulettes reset time and more on holiday, dunno what you are talking about...

Oh btw just to say Rhitalyn is actually popular time attack here, some people including me queu it on daily basis... for time attack so might not be a good example. Will try queue old trial tonight but i doubt anything need more than 20-30 min atm

[roses_of_may]

I don't play WoW.