Direction of FFXIV?

[InuraBera]

I'd agree with Kilta. Unless they do something crazily drastic and remove the ability to level anything but one single class, most of the content is going to have to be repeatable - at least to some extent. I haven't played Final Fantasy XI, but I like the sound of defending against the enemy with the chance to 'lose out', be it Beast tribes or Garleans or the Star Marmot Army.

The short lived Tabula Rasa had bases you defended against the enemy alongside other players, and that was probably the best thing about it - working together towards a common goal, without the need to worry about organisation *too* much, but with a nice community building aspect about it.

[Quisi]

I don't understand why we can't lvl up with quests in this game? Imo those quest hubs will be the same as in other games. You do a quest.. kill 10 rats, you get 500 exp. Rinse and repeat > move to the next quest hub. At least that's what I think it will be and everyone will be disappointed by that. The thing is nobody will do those if they will give some useless rewards, then their whole work would be wasted.

[Felis]

I don't understand why we can't lvl up with quests in this game? Imo those quest hubs will be the same as in other games. You do a quest.. kill 10 rats, you get 500 exp.

Because in another games you have 1 Char = 1 Class. But here you have 1 Char = multiple classes. You can't quest leveling with each class, when you can do the quests only once each char.
Because of this I doubt they give us exp

[Shiyo]

Their direction is clearly to make this game like every other MMO on the market, hopefully I'm completely wrong in every way possible, we shall see.

[Sonic_the_Hedgehog]

Their direction is clearly to make this game like every other MMO on the market, hopefully I'm completely wrong in every way possible, we shall see.

Yeah, the direction the MAJORITY of players want it to go.

[Shiyo]

Why? You can go play rift, a much better game at doing that.

[Sonic_the_Hedgehog]

Why? You can go play rift, a much better game at doing that.

Maybe because I don't like Rift's art style or plot?

[Quisi]

There is one problem with copying WoW. You can't outwow wow from wow. XP If you want to compete with older games which have 100 times more variety and content you have to show up some new ideas. A lot of games tried and all failed. Even SE won't be able to do that at least not in the west. They probably will get some players in japan.

[Sonic_the_Hedgehog]

There is one problem with copying WoW. You can't outwow wow from wow. XP If you want to compete with older games which have 100 times more variety and content you have to show up some new ideas. A lot of games tried and all failed. Even SE won't be able to do that at least not in the west. They probably will get some players in japan.

And that's why Rift copied them and people say they're doing successful.

[Quisi]

And that's why Rift copied them and people say they're doing successful.

Check out Rift in 3-4 months and see if they still have as many players as they have. Besides they actually tried to add something new.. you know.. rifts and all this dynamic content?