Direction of FFXIV?

[Mack]

Dungeons are fine, I hope they're a lot of fun and they're a challenge, however I agree that they need to take somethings from FFXI that made it great such as all the story driven content otherwise they'd be alienating their largest online fanbase and it'd be a stupid move.

[Ostia]

Their direction right now is "Somewhere that is not where they are right now, but they have yet to define where that is At"

[JGwinters]

This has been stated many times. The only problem is they continue to introduce things that are ... inspired by WoW at least, if "inspired" is the right word. Actions are speaking louder than words, because words are vague and distant.

It may just be that I haven't paid attention enough, but where have they stated it at all? Can't remember a single instance of defining a direction, let alone defining a direction not-Wow.

[Hikozaemon]

They could add sp rewards to the damn story line quests and some minor quests i have no need to complete a quest for 4k gil or a pair of shoes i already have 5 of. They have already ruined sp gain thru behest might as well make questing a bit more rewarding. At least the storyline quests are rather well done and enjoyable and small sp rewards at the end of them would be icing on the cake.


People need to stop it w/ the damn WOW comparisons. WOW was not the first MMO by any means and everything WOW has done was done before ;ff11 even did it before in some cases. Instance dungeons, killing X # of mobs for exp etc where all done long before wow existed get over yourselves.

[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

[Shai]

It may just be that I haven't paid attention enough, but where have they stated it at all? Can't remember a single instance of defining a direction, let alone defining a direction not-Wow.

I knew after I said "many times" I'd be called out because I only read it once. I'm fairly sure it was Yoshida in an interview. I thought I could find it, but didn't. It read something along the lines of - rest assured everything we add will be in the style of FF and XIV even if inspired by ideas from other games.

I have a pretty good memory but lose track of things like where I read it. I'm sorry. I checked the last few interviews I read but couldn't find it. I only did a quick scan for "WoW" and "Warcraft" though so maybe it wasn't named. I'm not gonna read every interview again for 1 sentence.

Again, I apologize for the "many times" phrase. ^^

[Scotchio]

I miss the "milestone" type quests from FFXI.

Things that you had to overcome to continue your own progression in the game. Like the sub-job quest and level cap quests. Also the Artifact Armour quests, map quests, kazham access, things like that.

I know they were annoying at times but they brought the community together. And made for a great sense of achievement when you finally completed them.

Also I would like the party seek system to be sorted. I liked the party seek system in FFXI. I have never joined a party to level in FFXIV as yet. The current system has its potential, but when ever I look theres never anything for me.

I used to enjoy putting my flag up and getting on with something else waiting for that invite tell. It was exciting when it came and then I made my way to the party.

And then there's the story missions. Again I would prefer some sort of party based battles as the missions progress. So far (I'm only rank 26) I just solo them with hardly a fight.

Since I started playing FFXIV I have just soloed and duoed with a friend. I would like to join a bigger Linkshell but its hard to really meet up with others to do so. The quests and missions I have mentioned above actually forced players to interact and usually helped us make friends and join up in groups.

I would like FFXIV to go this way.

[Akumu]

A lot of moaning about SE fail "direction" for listening to it's players. I must be going blind but where is this direction again? SMMFH I'm still confused on it as nothing has been stated to point to WoW(Yoshi said the opposite). I also haven't seen anything added that just yells WoWCLONE! Dungeons and Quest hubs =/= WoWCLONE.

You were given instanced dungeons because you asked for it so why are you surprised they added it? You thought they were going to continue doing bad with the public by continuing to ignore us?
What else makes anyone think this is pointing at a WoWCLONE? If that's the case you guys chose to ask for everything WoW has. Remember most players on those polls played FFXI so why wouldn't they decide to listen?

http://static.finalfantasyxiv.com/pl...36kgy8gt57.jpg

Get over yourselves after reading how many people wanted Instance dungeons and seeing the results you should have quit by then. OMGAWD questhubs how could they add something that covers up some copy/paste terrain and gives us more content along with it. The horror of SE to give moar content to it's starving, crying, and confused playerbase.

[gifthorse]

I think people just want to know where the game is going, if SE even knows.

[Akumu]

I think people just want to know where the game is going, if SE even knows.

I agree I would love to know the direction so I can know if i'm going to stick with this game for years to come. It's just amazing people are pretending they know the direction based off of instanced dungeons(which they asked for) and questhubs(which every MMO have in one form or another?).