A word from IGN.com

[Betelgeuzah]

The media and the players can say whatever the hell they want about the game, it won't be fixed any faster regardless.

The developers may have a huge list of flaws and additions they want to fix, they aren't any less informed about the shortcomings of the game than we are. Fixing them takes time, money and manpower and even the gigantic Square-Enix only has so much of each at their disposal. You don't simply pull people from other projects to work on the game and expect it to work either.

Why it must be said repeatedly time and time again, I have no idea.

[Donta]

I am kind of laughing at IGN and PCGAMER reviews, Iv been playing mmorpgs since the start of the alphas around 1995 and the first launch in 97 of the first successful mmorpg UO. They said a vet will have trouble playing the game.... its not too hard to figure out if the author is a vet mmorpg player then I must be a Jedi Master.... interface is not hard to figure out... if you played an old mmorpg/rpg its easy to figure out. Just small quirks here and there the hardest thing for me was setting up the account with 3 codes, 3 dif urls, and not knowing I had to unlock a character slot to make a character and play the game...

[Yumi_Hibiki]

broken bazaar system? what the hell are they talking about?

[TheVedis]

broken bazaar system? what the hell are they talking about?

its not an AH, thats what they mean
another one of those type of people are reviewing

[PeppinoTuna]

broken bazaar system? what the hell are they talking about?

its not an AH, thats what they mean
another one of those type of people are reviewing

They don't like the retainer system? I sort of like it... I get to see what the equipment looks like before I buy it, if the retainer is wearing it and I get to see what people are selling for instead of the ten lowest prices people last sold the item for.

If there is one thing I disliked about FFXI which had an auction house, it was bidding for something and then finding out that I could have bid much less than I bought it for.

The only thing I dislike is how I'm constantly running out of space even though I've got 300 slots for space, including the retainers' bags. 300... I guess I'm a hoarder? I have to do a Spring Cleaning session up in the Market Wards.

[Ostia]

They don't like the retainer system? I sort of like it... I get to see what the equipment looks like before I buy it, if the retainer is wearing it and I get to see what people are selling for instead of the ten lowest prices people last sold the item for.

If there is one thing I disliked about FFXI which had an auction house, it was bidding for something and then finding out that I could have bid much less than I bought it for.

The only thing I dislike is how I'm constantly running out of space even though I've got 300 slots for space, including the retainers' bags. 300... I guess I'm a hoarder? I have to do a Spring Cleaning session up in the Market Wards.

Shit + click and you can see what a piece of gear looks like on your toon, atleast in wow is like that since the dawn of time, so yeah AH>>>>>>>Market lol

[TheVedis]

Shit + click

id prefer not to ruin my chair

[Nuru]

Way to beat a horse. >3>

[chime85]

Ok, read all the reviews on that site. I have several comments to make about those reviews.

1) very short. If I was a person trying out an MMO for the first time but a regular gamer (idk say I had played RPG's and a few stragagy games with a few FPS. Also, without any commitment to any particular brand/franchise), I would find it difficult to distinguish between any of the MMO's. If I had to decide on an MMO, I would be better off asking the staff who worked in my local computer game store.

2) Age=better. There is a clear indication, that the older the game, the better it is. This does seem to be an unfair way of reviewing an MMO. As any veteran MMO player knows, the games often (with exceptions of the rule) develop through time. As the saying goes, like a fine wine, they mature gracefully.

3) Video Clips. This rather annoyed me. Even with the glowing review of FFXI, they could not even be bothered to pick a video which would give a good minute and a half representation of the game. For FFXIV, the video link did not work. With most of the others, they had good, attractive videos (except GW, which was a dot).

4) "latests versions". This portion of each review was very casual, and gave no reference to how long each product has been updating. Not only that, but "still a bit buggy" does not sound like a respectable, or accurate response to any game issue. This point also stretches to the "how much you pay" sub-heading. I can gather no clear indication from the information of "between nothing and $200 a year".

5) General Tone. Some people may get on much better with an informal tone for a game review. Personally, I found the lack of professionalism and back handed "jokes" over-bearing and distracting. If these reviews were from a forum or personal blog, I would have expected this. On an online article, on a "respectable" gaming website I would have expected much more clear cut language and less of the "facebook" styled input. If I wanted a review like this, I would text a friend.

Kimiko x

[Zenaku]

I hate IGN they review sometime are wrong in many ways they give bad score to games that should have good scoring.