The whole game is a bug

[REDace0]

It's not just that quest. Like, I'll be in Grinadia in a shop or something and the shopkeeper and other NPCs will just disappear. It's usually everyone in the room/area, but sometimes it's only some people. Like, in that quest, I can see me and Powle but no one else. Once or twice when it's been people in a building that disappear, I can make them reappear by leaving the building, going to another area where there are people, and then coming back. But I've had times where every single person is gone. Every once in a while I'll even disappear, but usually that's just because it's loading my new gear or something.

That's strange. Rezoning does require that all character models be reloaded in the current engine, which has invisible zone lines in places. Depending on your connection and system the reloading could take a little while. What's the connection integrity widget doing during this? That's the little icon in the top-right corner with S, R and numbers. If you're mostly disconnected ( R=0 ) then often nothing will load, but you can move freely.

[PSxpert2011]

When I first started playing, there was also an error that said *"Final Fantasy XIV stopped working" or something like that and just quit the application at that point. I think I fixed that by installing DirectX 11 or something, I'm not sure. But I'm really disappointed in how easy it is to crash this game. I have a nice system, there isn't anything that is wrong with my system itself that should make a game crash. It seems to me that this game is very poorly coded and that all of the effort was spent on the graphics and zero on stability or playability. (The graphics are amazing, btw, but that's entirely useless and pointless when I don't even want to play the game because it's so annoying and crashes all the time.)

Does anyone who works for Square/Enix read this board? If not, is there a place where I can voice these complaints directly to them? I'm just so glad that they give one month free of subscription. I don't want to pay one dollar of monthly fees for this game until it's actually fun to play.

*I got that message "double attacked" on me just awhile ago...(pissed me off) and I'm NOT about to blame my PC(Duo-Core Quad CPU, 8GB RAM and on Win7)! I feel your pain but I'm a FF-fan boy, I don't think I'll quit anytime soon.
Maybe I would want to upgrade my GeForce GTS 450 but it not really giving my problems ATM(or is it?).

SE really needs critical feed back like this and I'm all for specific improvements over these issues. I'm not so much into code but as much 14 has in it due to UI and other "bells and whistles", it's probably their ambition that's causing the system to crash( much like how Microsoft Windows like s to crash alot).

[ganfalfxviv]

*I got that message "double attacked" on me just awhile ago...(pissed me off) and I'm NOT about to blame my PC(Duo-Core Quad CPU, 8GB RAM and on Win7)! I feel your pain but I'm a FF-fan boy, I don't think I'll quit anytime soon.
Maybe I would want to upgrade my GeForce GTS 450 but it not really giving my problems ATM(or is it?).

SE really needs critical feed back like this and I'm all for specific improvements over these issues. I'm not so much into code but as much 14 has in it due to UI and other "bells and whistles", it's probably their ambition that's causing the system to crash( much like how Microsoft Windows like s to crash alot).

I was a fan boy myself, until around FFX when they ruined the series and then it just went downhill from there. I still buy the games and play them just out of loyalty, but none of them has been nearly as fun as 7 and 8 were. They really really need to remake 7 with current-day graphics. It was their best game ever, and SO many people would buy it if they made it.

[ganfalfxviv]

That's strange. Rezoning does require that all character models be reloaded in the current engine, which has invisible zone lines in places. Depending on your connection and system the reloading could take a little while. What's the connection integrity widget doing during this? That's the little icon in the top-right corner with S, R and numbers. If you're mostly disconnected ( R=0 ) then often nothing will load, but you can move freely.

I don't have a connection integrity widget. But I can watch the resource manager while the game's running to see if that's the problem. But, if it were, why would it make people disappear? If they're already there, that means they've already loaded. I could understand it being the connection if they were never there to begin with, but that's not the case.

[REDace0]

I don't have a connection integrity widget. But I can watch the resource manager while the game's running to see if that's the problem. But, if it were, why would it make people disappear? If they're already there, that means they've already loaded. I could understand it being the connection if they were never there to begin with, but that's not the case.

You have to have the widget unless you've dragged it off-screen somehow. It's right above the minimap. Those invisible rezone lines could be the cause of things disappearing. You cross one, in town or out west of Bent Branch, and everyone vanishes and starts to reload. If you've ever tried buying directly from the market wards you get the same behavior because it has to temporarily rezone you to where the item is being sold. Both of these are side-effects of some poor design and implementation choices in the server and networking code. The server and networking code are replaced in 2.0.

[ganfalfxviv]

You have to have the widget unless you've dragged it off-screen somehow. It's right above the minimap. Those invisible rezone lines could be the cause of things disappearing. You cross one, in town or out west of Bent Branch, and everyone vanishes and starts to reload. If you've ever tried buying directly from the market wards you get the same behavior because it has to temporarily rezone you to where the item is being sold. Both of these are side-effects of some poor design and implementation choices in the server and networking code. The server and networking code are replaced in 2.0.

Oh, in the game? Is that what that is? I was wondering. It never explained what that was. In fact, most of the UI was unexplained. Some of it is quite obvious, but other parts aren't.

[ganfalfxviv]

Are you kidding me??? You can't change gear in combat? I mean, that makes sense, but it makes the gatherer classes extremely vulnerable. If I could have a pickax in my off-hand (which it won't let me do) then that'd be fine, because I could still do real damage to the enemies. But if you're attacked while you have one of the wimpy law of the land classes' gear equipped, is there nothing better than running away from the enemy until you're not in combat anymore? I mean, there's the throw rock skill, but it only does like 2 damage per throw.

Either let me change to a battle class when I'm attacked or let me equip the non-battle tools in off-hand so I can still be a conjurer for when I'm attacked.