What is FFXIV trying to BE?

[gifthorse]

edit: also what new ideas do we have besides the armory system,which is like the only critically praised feature.

I know right.

A slow & unresponsive battle system isn't new, neither is exhausting grind and minimal quests with no rewards or goals other than getting gear.

[Xedonius]

I know right.

A slow & unresponsive battle system isn't new, neither is exhausting grind and minimal quests with no rewards or goals other than getting gear.

This seems to be a rediculous observation; all MMO's ultimate goal is "getting gear." :/

[Nephera]

This seems to be a rediculous observation; all MMO's ultimate goal is "getting gear." :/

Naw.

in eq2 it could've been "deck out your house with awesome stuff" or "buy the biggest house"

in swg it could've been "build a city", "deck out your ship" "deck out your house"


but yeah usually if its not housing its gear, at least for the individual player.

[gifthorse]

Hope this answered your "What does that even mean?" question Gifthorse.

You're being irrelevant.

This seems to be a rediculous observation; all MMO's ultimate goal is "getting gear." :/

LOL.

That's my point. It's nothing new.

Something that it's not - and that never works.

FFXIV tried to be anti-WoW version of WoW when it should have been an improved FFXI. FFXIV had a sense of newness, but killed itself by failing at everything FFXI did.

Even still, don't you think their vision should be bigger than just: "let's imitate a bunch of games?"

Even if they had taken it upon themselves to make FFXIV a new and improved FFXI, it begs the question: improved how? What's the direction they should take to improve FFXI?

When making a game, a definitive direction is needed first and foremost. Only after this should other games be looked at.

[gifthorse]

I think the closest thing we got from Yoshi is that he said he thinks of games as Themeparks, and that he wants to give players lots of things to do.