LOLPATCH 1.16a

[Elexia]

Rift=complete from day one and polished
FF14=hmmm yah....

This. Therefore it's useless to compare x MMO having y update that contains soandso features, when XIV got released before it was finished and therefore has to be finished basically for the PS3 release.

[Sojiro]

...And what's in 3 weeks?

Mortal Kombat of course! Its pulling all the MMO players from every MMO out there. Hundreds of millions of MMO players have been waiting on bated breath for it to come out. How ever could you not know about it!?!?! :P

All joking aside I liked mortal combat up till the second one. The series never caught my eye again after that, and much better fighting games popped up. Soul caliber, Virtua Fighter, Capcom vs. series.

[BelgianRofl]

Portal 2 kicks off the year with a ridiculously huge launch in 3 weeks.

[Zenaku]

Portal 2 kicks off the year with a ridiculously huge launch in 3 weeks.

that a offline game i won first one within 1-2hours gameplay lol. Ok listen who care of rift is doing a update or players leave SE still going to work on FFXIV because it a title and number of Final Fantasy. I think SE get it the game sucks blah blah blah enough each post is the same thing over and over i think most of us get that.

[Abriael]

Portal 2 kicks off the year with a ridiculously huge launch in 3 weeks.

That's one of the games with the least to do with FFXIV's playerbase, with very limited longevity (6-7 hours according to valve) and with no real chances to pull many away from any MMORPGs for any sizable time. Especially from MMORPGs they don't have to pay for.

So yeah. I'm sure Portal 2 will inpact FFXIV a lot. For 6-7 hours
Ah the tragedy... I can already see the empty servers... for a whole half a day

Rift is about to release patch 1.1 that has 12 pages of update content plus world events, now that's a patch. SE could learn a few things from these other MMO companies that are actually making money...

And do you know how much of that patch was already in development months before release and just didn't make it in the release? because that tends to count.

Rift=complete from day one and polished

Not to mention one of the blandest entries in the MMORPG market in years. Two months, and no one will even remember it existed, pretty much like all the previous wow clones. People are already murmuring how bland, boring and more of the same it is now.
I'll always be quite amazed on how some could consider releasing a game with such a completely soulless art direction.

[Ivar]

Ok, I just read most of the last 10 or so pages. *sigh* That was a lot of reading. haha Now I do have to say a few things.

1. As I have mentioned on my previous posts on this thread I am curious as to why people are worried about Square Enix as a company. Things like.... "Will it be able to hold it's fan base? or All of these people are quitting what will they do to keep them around? or They need to hire more man power to do ...blah..blah..blah. "

I seriously doubt that most of you who are all this concerned about this have never had a real job in your life. Because most people who do work in real life like me are barely keeping things together in their life and don't have time to be concerned about a gaming company on the other side of the world. But maybe that's just me. I guess I am a little selfish because I am fairly old. ; ;

2. All of the people who want an overhaul of the system or want their content now.

Are you a computer programmer or computer engineer. How about a computer graphics designer or w/e? I am not. However, I did study about a year of computer programming in college. It was a lot of work but fun. I remember it involved a lot of work to get anything good to materialize. Needless to say I am not a computer buff by any means but I do know that asking a company to redesign a new mechanics for the game and overhaul the game completely will require countless months and maybe years depending how much staffing they have. Same thing goes with a contents. Do you guys just all of these ideas just come out of their b*** and should be implemented by the next day with a help of a hoarde of 1000's for programmers? It takes time people. People have debates and meetings in their offices about every little they want to implement. Atleast that's how most of the companies I think in the world do it when they want to put their name beside a product.

3. To people who do not enjoy this game but yet they continue to play.

Why do you guys continue to play? Let me guess you are waiting for another major MMO to come out to replace this with? Why not just quit playing games and maybe leave the house and see what the real life is all about? That ought to bring a new perspective to everthing in life.

4. The game is free.

YES! It is still free except ...well it's financially free.
So just enjoy it....if not just quit.

[Apricoth]

Ivar - I agree with your sentiment. I have made similar posts here and another place time and time again speaking to the very same issues you and others have mentioned in this very thread but the folks we addressing just don't give a crap. They do not care about logic. They do not care about patience. They do not care about anything whatsoever except themselves and when the next opportunity to sow dissent and hostility.

On the same token you can think of them as hunting - they are looking for feed - and that is their specialized diet of troll feed. Not just any troll feed will do, either. It must be something thrown out there into the slop bucket that is associated with FFXIV. Just like there are trolls that prefer certain feed provided in other instances outside of FFXIV - like, real world problems (what I have in mind here are some of the comments made when Japan experienced the earthquake and tsunami). The particular breed of troll we see on these boards are insidious and very difficult to get rid of. They are worse than a foot fungus in some cases.

It is also interesting to see how quickly people forget that the game was shut down for 2 weeks. I have a feeling that the patch Yoshi-san and gang wanted to implement was going to be a huge deal and a sizable one but with having the servers shut down, they couldn't just throw it out there when they wanted. March is not over yet - not saying the dream patch we are looking for is going to occur before the month is done. I am just saying. I also need to point out that Yoshi-san did advise there would be a delay.

So with this LOLPATCH post - how about you LOLyourselfapatienceisavirtuetriteclichecomment at your nearest intellectual store.

[Hooptymobile]

I wont buy into the fear mongering tactic to assume that this game's progression should be excused due to the countries events. Yes the tsunami and earthquake occured recently and thankfully there was not a direct impact on tokyo. I want to pause and state my prayers go out to the tens of thousands who perished in the disaster and I hope my monetary donation will help those surviving and in need of aid. Now getting back to my point: (Sendai is 188miles away from Tokyo where the Square Enix headquarters operates!). Yes many companies were requested or chose to power down to be mindful of the nuclear crisis, but there was not a total blackout or loss of power to a major grid. Japan suffered a major blow,however, they were not completely wiped off the face of the earth. And no the economy is not going to crash and gas prices are not going to soar out the roof. Fear-mongering=troll, however;
showing concern for FFXIV's long overdue opportunity to present a revival (as stated in the OP comment) isn't.

[Apricoth]

Oh I agree Hoopty - I am just as concerned as the rest of those that do truly care about FFXIV. What I ask you guys to do is take things into context in regards to the time line. Be concerned. Voice your concerns in a civil manner, wait and see. And if SE does not deliver then it's time to move on, right? Right.

I also posted what I did seeing how others that choose to defend SE are being treated on these boards - it's quite deplorable. It's inexcusable. It needs to stop.

Quite frankly, I never mentioned the tsunami issue as a fear mongering tactic - that is quite a laughable accusation by good sir. Anyway, this game has come a long way since it's release. Granted there are many things that should have been implemented upon release instead of months down the road. The important thing that SE could have ever done was change the guard on the development team and trudge full steam ahead. Let them get the issues ironed out, allow them the time they need to get it done (and yes they do not have all the time in the world, we understand this) and see how it goes. They have a great deal on their plan of attack table.

[Elexia]

Yeah, it's not fear mongering but it does prove who hasn't actually been through a disaster such as this to know it's perfectly reasonable to understand things can and will slowdown at times like this.