What's unique about FFXIV:ARR?

[Spy]

Invalid point. We are getting vanity slots.

Vanity slots will be for players who find a particular gear set that they find appealing that don't have the stats of their top tier gear. Like using AF gear in their vanity slots, while wearing something else that offers better stats. It has nothing to do with the overall appearance of most of the gear that is 'realistic' as I put it, when it comes to actual protection. One of the only exceptions to this would probably be the Colosseum gear that they had released. Beside that, every piece of gear I remember coming across offered good coverage that didn't make characters come off as sluts/clowns, while still maintaining an elegance/finesse about them. Most of them anyway. At least a lot more than pretty much every other mmo I've played.

Find me a screenshot of someone who looked like a clown or a slut in 1.0 without using the Colosseum gear.

[Deli]

The level of the detail of the works are impossible to find in the other MMO

1. Music. each song have lots lv of details, the beats, the instrument, it sings or don't sings all good. unlike the 15 seconds repeating GW2's
   
2. they make boss fights strategically difficult. such as ifrit & garuda.
3. character art detail. even at 1.0 lots details at emotions. also not adding aura or spikes to show how good the item is... FF don't need that cus we have the best artists. and you need to see the concept art vs the real in game SS...
4. story. even language they use, name of Roe are carefully done
5. dev team. I often saw other forum ppl start bragging that their dev team go to forum and answer questions... our producer himself is answering players questions! Soken is super fun too. Rukirrii is super hot... and one dev rep is a rabbit. XD
   
   
   1. Camate is a angora rabbit and can hide inside the barrel.
   2. Bayohne Bieber is cool
      
      1. Okiuit always wears deal-with-it sunglasses
   3. Rukkirii >>= Bayonetta
      1. sorry let me test with Reinheart's super list function :O

[auritribe]

The level of the detail of the works are impossible to find in the other MMO

• Music. each song have lots lv of details, the beats, the instrument, it sings or don't sings all good. unlike the 15 seconds repeating GW2's

• they make boss fights strategically difficult. such as ifrit & garuda.

• character art detail. even at 1.0 lots details at emotions. also not adding aura or spikes to show how good the item is... FF don't need that cus we have the best artists. and you need to see the concept art vs the real in game SS...

• story. even language they use, name of Roe are carefully done

• dev team. I often saw other forum ppl start bragging that their dev team go to forum and answer questions... our producer himself is answering players questions! Soken is super fun too. Rukirrii is super hot... and one dev rep is a rabbit. XD

I was not aware that rabbits could type, let alone code.

[Keiyoshi]

In the end, what separates FF from all the other games will be its new first impression and the experience.

Haha... this comment made me laugh...
"What makes FF unique is quite a lot of things which SE have failed to even implement..lol."
-Solace

Or things that are taken out... I still dont dunderstand why the /Meh was taken out.

[Saif]

I think ffxiv 1.0 at release is a great example of a game trying to be too different for its own good. Oh... other games have auction houses that are easy and convenient to use? well we want to be different and create an overly complicated system with tons of problems that we don't have solutions to.

As one of the OP said, people are obsessed with "unique" and different", but at the end of the day, certain things work for these kind of games, and certain things don't. Use the things that work, add a little FF flavor, and enjoy.

[Masamune1004]

The fact that it doesn't try to be unique in one way and fail in every other aspect.

[SkyeWindbinder]

[Abriael]

This /10chars.

[neorei]

well you see the best thing about FFXIV ARR IS

[Gramul]

Nothing substantial yet. It's pretty generic.

If there isn't anything, I probably won't bother beyond a few months. I'm just not interested in playing the same MMO's I've been trying for years. But It's only at the beta stage so far and a good chunk of the content still isn't available so I'll give it the benefit of a doubt.

XIV's failure wasn't from its original ideas. It was the lack of endgame, basic content, and overly simplistic level design.

I'm getting sick of seeing this. The guy isn't even saying the game's in trouble. He's asking a basic and totally reasonable question.