Problems With FFXIV that SE should do something about.

[AnaviAnael]

Aren't most of these issues being addressed? The devs are well aware of the lack of content, mounts, etc. ^^

[Commat]

You have got to be $hitting us? How much easier do you want it? You are either doing something wrong, or games like this are not meant for you. It's laughably easy to rank up in this game.

Alright so...

That would be the problem. The game has 2 ways of play right now. The right way, that no one wants to do because leve parties are boring and stupid. And! The wrong way, which is everything else.

So, how about instead of making fun of people that are decently interested in the game you take the time to acknowledge that unless you play the system getting to 50 is a world of pain and unbearable hurt that will never get more then 50k people to play even as FtP.

Anyways, not trying to be rude. We get that some people min/max their way to 50 in 5 days while others struggle. I doubt he wants it easy. He just wants his time to be as productive as yours or mine.

[Arcell]

EXP
The amount of exp needed to gain levels is way too high.

It's really not. I went from R37-R39 in ONE night doing guild leves at 2 camps with a party. Get a party of 8 (max party bonus), leve link(bonus) and use guardian's aspect(bonus) and then honestly try and tell me that SP gains suck. It's really not all that bad once you figure out how to properly level. Sure you can solo grind but of course that's going to be MUCH slower.

[MagicofGaia]

Hate to sound like a douche, but this. In fact, the reason the forums are so cluttered right now is because of all the repeat threads.

Try not to come off as self-important and try looking around the forums for awhile.

I totally don't mean to even rub off as a prick myself. But it's just truth. It's a lot of bullcrap that if you just search around for more than 2 minutes, you can find plenty of people talking about the same things. They had to further expand the forums to allow for more threads, and yet people are still posting and re-posting the same bs threads over and over just because they're too lazy to do a little research.

[SydeBeheln]

Just to respond to the original thread concerns, I like to think SE is in favor of making there games somewhat less revealing of where you are supposed to be heading for SP.
If you look/ read the world is divided into SP camps, and besides grinding, levequests, and behests are both optional features for exp as well, and both these features are divided amongst SP camps.
I will admit to the lack of content however, but I think SE for the most part is doing better than usual for there MMORPG to even remotely direct you in the right direction. Play FFXI and you will feel the amount of misdirection/ no idea where to goness is pretty intense.
I personally enjoy systems built around adventuring to the unknown. =]

[Choc]

why is exp always an issue in every game until it gets reduced to the point where max lvl is attained in a week? Is this really what everyone wants in an mmo? You cant complain that theres no content in low/mid game and want a super fast grind at the same time, because nobody is even going to bother with it if everyones 50.

Honestly its 10x faster sp than it was at release and it wasnt a super long grind back then either, if anything we get too much sp currently, especially at lower lvls when you can get 3+ ranks on a single behest.

[Seif]

I'd also say lack of story. It concerns the main missions that are a storytelling mess and the side-quests don't support it in any way nor do they have any cutscenes.

[Xatsh]

Too long to level: I completly disagree, you can hit cap from rank 1 in about 2 months... if anything it is way to easy to level. It is a mmo it should not be a fast experience, it should be a long journey. Short games belong offline. Pre-abysea the sp gain is actually about the same in the amount of time it takes to hit cap in FFXI, and yea FFXI is level 75, but remember at release of FFXI it took alot more sp to level up as well they mega nerfed the required xp tnl.

UI: still needs more tweaking I agree, battle personal opinion really but they are changing it already so can't complain anymore it will do not good at this point they already decided to redo the whole thing.

Need of Mounts: chocobo's should of been added already agreed, as for flying mmos maby depending on how they do it.

Lack of Quest: Agreed they need alot more, disagree on them needing to be a source of SP/XP outside of quest mobs you kill.

Lack Of Content: Big Agree this is 80% of FFXIV's problem atm.

I agree on most parts besides putting to much focus on Solo leveling (quest based leveling) and easy mode (endgame in a week). FFXIV needs to improve in every other area, but the last thing I want to see is World of Final Fantasy or this already easy as crap game get easier.

[Kilta_Firelotus]

all these issues were already noted and being addressed. Though delayed. CS take tme to render and not every quests needs them. In truth most ppl in ffxi hated them. as they took long to do. And most ppl i know in ffxi didn't care much about the stories only the rewards. CS are time consuming and ffxi is suppose to be less time consumimg.

the plan

2 mnths worth of updates to the battle system each update will also have more and more quests added to them. These quests do have story or hints to basic lore of the game. Lore is also back drop not just the current story. Not to mention instanced dungeons along with the first set of battle adjustments. And companies are getting launched.

due to the disaster in japan these did get delayed a bit. Maybe by mid april we will see these things.

[BadJoeRed]

why is exp always an issue in every game until it gets reduced to the point where max lvl is attained in a week? Is this really what everyone wants in an mmo? You cant complain that theres no content in low/mid game and want a super fast grind at the same time, because nobody is even going to bother with it if everyones 50.

Honestly its 10x faster sp than it was at release and it wasnt a super long grind back then either, if anything we get too much sp currently, especially at lower lvls when you can get 3+ ranks on a single behest.

I agree with you 100%

not posting in this thread anymore though, cuz it's dumb and redundant.