Open Beta player looking to return.

[RoyalJester]

As the title says, I played this game in Open Beta. Many things weren't up to scratch for me, building up into one huge let down, and that's me being as reserved as I can. Basically I liked nothing about it, besides the fantastic visuals. It's been some time since then and my thoughts came back to this game.

I'm wondering if any of you fine folks in the community could clue me in on any changes that have happened to this game since then? Has it improved a lot? Will it improve? Also, is it possible to make a character and acquire an outfit that makes me look like a black mage (love vivi from FF9, hehe)?

Thanks in advance for your time to those that respond.

[Zenaku]

They remaking the game adding auto attack, maybe adding jump remaking the class system taking a few thing away and they thinking of two system

Tree base system One of the following class can become one of the 1-? set of class one of them could be black mage or white mage if you level conjurer. They said it wont be like wow tree system but something new

Or

More like a flyff system you level up conurer to max whatever rank they set and you can unlock the follow job White mage or Black mage by doing a quest line. You can alway go and unlock white mage also so you wont be lock only to black mage.

For me i like the 2# system more it give us more of a feel like ffxi and also give us more storyline and they can add AF looking gear like in FFXI.

[Betelgeuzah]

Firstly, there is a forum for "new players". If you want to ask questions in the future, try to make threads there instead .

I'm wondering if any of you fine folks in the community could clue me in on any changes that have happened to this game since then? Has it improved a lot? Will it improve?

Alright, here's the thing. The game was released in September, but after the first major patches the management team changed, and a lot of people from other projects were reassigned to work on the game. In addition to this, the development process was restarted. The whole process took probably a month or so.

So, fast forward to this day the new development team has been working on the game since January-February. Their main objective at this point in time is to rehaul existing game mechanics and get them up-to-standard. As you could guess, developing these kind of rehauls is a time consuming process, and since the new development structure and plans have only been in place for a few months, the rehauls have not been completed nor implemented as of yet.

So to answer your questions- to this day the game has changed but not by much. The biggest changes are probably the change of development pace (from tri-monthly patches to monthly patches), the addition of the forums and the increased speed of progression. Now, "will it improve"? It has been roughly 2-3 months since the development on the rehauls started, so that means few things:

A) The rehauls will be either completed or partially completed very soon, and can be implemented to the game. That means the next few months will definitely be interesting and pretty much determine whether this game has a chance at this point.

B) The game will look like a construction yard until the rehauls are complete and polished, so it'll take them until the end of the year to finish, probably.

If you want to join in now, well, you will be entertained by the substantial patches but the game will most likely still not be good enough by a mile. What you could do is go check the forums from time to time and see what the patch notes say, and what the community reaction is.

As far as the rehauls, the combat system is getting a rehaul, as well as the class system. Auction House is on the way, as well as a Jumping feature and a "Company" feature which no one knows anything about. Implementing those either completely or partially is the plan for the Spring.

Along with the class system rehaul, the producer has released this picture for the upcoming class-specific equipment:

http://static.finalfantasyxiv.com/to...d05abbe05968ef

[Sinzfeldt]

Nothing has changed, just empty promises for now.

[AlexiaKidd]

The phase "All show and no go" springs to mind when trying to think of a way to best describe FFXIV in it's current state. It all looks very nice but still needs a lot of work.

[Majidah]

My advise? Come back in a few months.

[Kazimir]

If you honestly didn't like anything that was in the game I wouldn't even try it until the PS3 version is released.

[Jinko]

To the OP, if i was you I would wait another 3 months or so and then try coming back, right now the game is much better than it was in beta but still not up to stratch.

[Sasse]

I agree with the others. If you had a miserable time with the game during beta, you won't find much here now either that will change your opinion of the game. FFXIV is still very much a work in progress.

? Will it improve?

I honestly believe so!

[Dargoth_Draconia]

Don't listen to the ignorant trolls and just come back and play in about 2 to 3 months time when we have some mid to end game content. So that when you cap out your class level you will have stuff to do.(I'm not pointing any fingers either just saying that in general)