Seriously give the game time?

[Mega]

Simply don't respond to name calling. Don't insult people by claiming they're tactless.

Ignoring cyber bullies won't make 'em stop. I r a hero for the weak on which you prey.

[Belial]

Guys give the game time? No thats bs at this point of time to be honest. The games been out for almost an entire year and it has yet to have any end game content. How can you say things like give it more time when we've yet to see the things thats needed?

Make instance'd pve dungeons. For every level and then have heroic level 50 instances.

Add more notorious monsters that drop gear as well as a type of currency like Plaques of achievement for example.

Stop reskinning mobs and thinking by making it bigger its okay. Yes wow does this, but xiv has only 5 unique looking mobs which they've just reskinned

Add armor thats not reskinned. Same thing you did with the mobs. All armor is the same just recolored or something.

Don't add more classes yet. First fix the main issues once you do so add new classes later.

If you really must add PVP which at this point of time not many people care about since ff is typically a PVE game add battlegrounds and arena. Don't rush it either and take your time, but don't take a year to add one UI change like you typically do.

Nerf graphics? You guys pissed off atleast 50% of the people who wanted to play xiv because the graphics are so intense. Even though the game's shiny its hideously looking. Yes look at the water graphics, look at the nature, look at the copy pasted terrain. Now lets look at WoW, Rift, and Aion. All decent graphical games, but they're all more beautiful then xiv due to there terrain.

Add achievements a small thing, but every small thing matters in an mmo.

Tittles small thing once again.

Add Auction house and mail box.

Now don't listen to the people who say this game is fine the way it is and just needs endgame. These people are people who are idiots in real life and have mental issues and thinks SE cares for there customer base when everyone obviously knows SE could give a damn about there customer base.

Add chocobos its been almost a year and we still have yet to see any. Give it a .dot hack type of mount system where you start with an egg and you can feed the pet and it eventually grows up to be a mount.

My best advice to give SE at this point of time would be to completely scratch the game though and have yoshi go play rift hit cap try endgame and do the same with aion and wow. Afterwards take the things from there and notice how 99% of gamers could give a damn about graphics. Make a game that looks like aion, but has a nice fluid combat system. Afterwards do all the things I said above.

Add costumes that cover over gear that drop from bosses or are given from quests.

Add more cities. 6 places does not make a world nor does 9 nor does 12. Have atleast 20 different areas to go to.

Make it possible to solo, BUT at the same time group to level up so players have the choice.

Stop taking 3 weeks to fix a small UI change or something otherwise you won't get any progress done.

Okay thanks for reading I know many people will troll me saying xiv is fine and all, but those guys are the real trolls because they want xiv to fail where as I want it to be the best it can be.

Btw if theres spelling errors I don't really care.

lulz. No care ever.

[zaviermhigo]

There are achievements btw, on the lodestone, half of things you mentioned we do have in some form, how long have you been playing? Cause I played since Collector Edition release and every new patch has been the content I've had to live through.

[Verecund]

To be fair, this game was released as an MMO title without even having end-game content. Who in their right f**king mind does that?

[gifthorse]

They need to hire more staff and poor funds into this piece of crap to get updates out at a rapid pace. There's no way FFXIV can compete with upcoming MMOs unless it is worthy of competing with them. And it just isn't. And it won't be until some time unless they increase manpower. GW2,TERA, and ArcheAge are already in way better shape than FFXIV even before Beta testing for those games has started (at least judging by the videos: endgame, combat system, UI, quests, miscellaneous features, many many zones, etc).

FFXIV just doesn't have much hope in terms of gameplay. The lore, setting, and graphics are reasonably sound. But that won't be enough to maintain subscriptions, even on PS3 where competition isn't so fierce. Mainly because PS3 has DCUO and Blade&Soul on the way.

I don't mean to be the harbringer of doom, but Greencactuar does have a point. Updates are slow. Even though there are reasons for the slow updates, it just isn't good enough if FFXIV doesn't want to fade into obscuritiy.

[Zahak]

Um..Lore is one of the best parts about the game world. I don't see you staying here long

[Speeral]

I think this thread needs to be locked

Mental issues .......

Have some tact

[Kaedan]

Arcell addressed what I would have said fairly well.

Greencactuar... you are pretty much the epitome of wowtard. This game doesn't need to be, and shouldn't be, just another wow-clone like Aion and Rift (the other two games you believe they should base it off). If you really like the concepts of a wow-clone... go play one of them.

[Zahak]

What Kaedan said.

Also heres a unofficial account of the first year of XI and beyond. There was a better one but I can't find it now.
http://zeusls.llima.net/download/ffxiupdatehistory.html

[Tezz_Xivectro]

I wanna hear from someone that played during JP launch of FFXI (no expansion) Their take on the games beginning. because people seem to have it in their head that FFXI started out with EVERYTHING to do. They probably didnt have chocobos either.

http://www.jpbutton.com/?p=157<-- 2002 End of PS2 Beta.
http://www.jpbutton.com/?page_id=113<-- Bottom of the page (2000 - 2004).