Thread: 2.0 in vain?

Originally Posted by Sinzya

The only single thing i can really agree with this guy about is... I really don't know why im grinding guild leves, sure they have a quest box but I feel they lack the pazzaz that I felt while watching the original opening video for this game. They portrayed it much more like a group experience but here I am doing the same leve's in the same zone with the same music against the same enemies for several hours on end. 90% of the time alone~

BTW: I really must say that the cinimatics in FFXIV are very well done and unlike any other mmorpg i've played out there beside from ffxi. If you want a story you can rely on getting it here.

Have you perhaps thought of doing leve-linking with your friends?
It's pretty worth it! You can usually ramp up the difficulty by a lot.

Hell the other day I was doing Faction Leves with a PUG, good heavens those drakes were murderous, guy set the difficulty at +9, we were facing a small group of L59 foes, oh god. It was a boss battle in and of itself D:

Originally Posted by afk4life

This game bombed miserably and was universally panned and I'm the troll. I didn't realize people were still burying their heads in the sand.

It sounds like you think this version (1.22c) is what will become 2.0. That is not the case. 2.0 is pre-alpha and has only been seen by some press & fan site reps at E3.

Today's FFXIV still suffers from a lot of the bad design decisions that SE couldn't incrementally improve upon (large, featureless zones; inefficient server data exchange; laggy UI; etc.). It's why most people I've heard are telling people to wait until 2.0's release before judging the future of this game.

Originally Posted by Skies

Have you perhaps thought of doing leve-linking with your friends?
It's pretty worth it! You can usually ramp up the difficulty by a lot.

Hell the other day I was doing Faction Leves with a PUG, good heavens those drakes were murderous, guy set the difficulty at +9, we were facing a small group of L59 foes, oh god. It was a boss battle in and of itself D:

I have done leves with others a few times and it was fun, but nothing in this game has really made it mandatory to group, so other people dont seem to want to group up, thus I haven't actually made any friends in game.

The only game I'd consider leaving ffxiv for is ffxi.

Originally Posted by afk4life

They haven't said anything about the UI except making it more responsive.

So obviously you don't read the Dev updates, because there have been many posts regarding new UI features and changes coming in 2.0.

Originally Posted by afk4life

A whole slew of recent MMOs (Rift, Aion etc.) as well as some old MMOs (WoW) have shown that an RPG doesn't have to be about grinding the same mob for hours on end.

O.o ...I'm sorry, have you actually played any of those games? To say they have shown that MMORPG's don't have to be about grinding is a completely ridiculous statement.

Originally Posted by afk4life

This game bombed miserably and was universally panned and I'm the troll. I didn't realize people were still burying their heads in the sand.

You're not a troll because this game failed horribly at launch. No one has said that so quit being ridiculous. You are a troll because you created thread about what you feel is wrong with this game and 2.0 without doing any research about the state of the game in its current version and what is to come with version 2.0.

Next time you feel like making one of these threads, please do us all a favour a do a little research before you start writing.

Have you even played Aion? Its all grinding child.