What's the point of ranks?

[Abriael]

Finally someone who lives in reality.

I'm afraid that I have to make you aware of the fact that agreeing with you and living in reality are two separate things

Correlation does not imply causation.

[BadJoeRed]

He's not trolling the FFXIV forums, he's giving criticism to SE amongst all the fanboyism through this cesspool, as I see it. SE wants our opinions, they will have them. Every single one of us.

Really whats this talk about FFXIV giving a chance since it's a new game? If you bought a brand new cellphone but you discovered that it had all these flaws in it... would you return it or get the repair guy to have a look at it because the store can update/fix/whatever is wrong with it. I know MMOs evolve over time blah blah but the point of presenting a product initially is to present it with the least amount of flaws so it appeals to the most amount of audience.

As it stands, this game sucks. And SE will hear our opinions.

neat post, i never seen this before.

someone tell him next:
"If it sucks so bad, don't play it"

then, you reply with
"I spent my money on it, they owe me something"

then, someone
*insert random analogy* like buying a car or something, and not having to make payments on it.

[viion]

neat post, i never seen this before.

someone tell him next:
"If it sucks so bad, don't play it"

I dont play

[Benediction]

neat post, i never seen this before.

someone tell him next:
"If it sucks so bad, don't play it"

then, you reply with
"I spent my money on it, they owe me something"

then, someone
*insert random analogy* like buying a car or something, and not having to make payments on it.

Well my reply would be that whatever the amount of money you spent on the game is only worth as much as you want it to. So if you feel like getting your money's worth, then play and complain all you want. But to some people, they might just not care about the amount they paid and don't care either way on how the game ends up, so they just quit.

Either way, we're not forced to play it but rather we're driven by our personal justification as to why we should play it.

For me, I play it because I got an awesome Linkshell going and doing something besides school, study, doing homework and essays is really boring... so why not fill in the time with this beta that I paid to get into?

[Baccanale]

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[gifthorse]

Anyways, as per the original post, what is the point of ranking up? This has still not been justified or resolved. Can I just ask: If there's not enough content in the game to justify 50 ranks worth of grinding, then why not stop the game at R15 and condense all the content currently in the game into those 15 ranks?

SquareEnix, you can raise the cap when you have reason to have 50 ranks.

(I'd be kind of pissed off though because i have two R50s and like 5 R25-40s)