Bored...

[viion]

Ah that is a very good point but do you think they will have enough changes in place to actually promote it at E3. I'm not so sure, if they promote it at E3 and people come back and they haven't got the content ready then they will just leave again only this time it will be harder to get them back as they would be less likely to give it a 3rd shot after being burned twice. I don't think they will do much promoting until they think the game is ready, which will be PS3 release.

Who knows though maybe they do have a load of stuff ready to go and are just waiting for the finalised battle system and job system. If that's the case though then this goes back to communication and they should tell us.

XIV will not be at E3, they'd have to be really dumb or have something stupidly insane up their sleeves.

[Mack]

lolyouareblind if you think this game is exactly as it was in December.

LOL! its not that different......................

[BruceyBruceyBangBang]

Dear lord. Development does take time but this is beyond absurd. NO feature I've worked on in any genre has taken as long as the tiny small minuscule edits they're doing. I've seen entire animation systems being re-written and hand animated from ground-up in the time that SE has managed to scale up dodos.

It's another thing to cut SE some slack because of bad management but accepting that they have accomplished NOTHING substantial is just blind faith.

The fact is that no one, not you or I, have worked on an SE project. You might have an understanding in development, but you obviously haven't worked on a large scale project.

Also, major changes don't affect just the ascetics of the game. It affect the lore, too. How to incorporate these changes to the classes and changing them to jobs affects so much you really need to figure out the best way to execute that and make it cohesive to the already implemented world. Development of this game took about... what? Five years and it was still not completed, why? Because it's not completely about small time development of stand alone objects.

If development did not take so much time there would be no need for advance planning and no need to take half a decade to finalize a game.

[Chardrizard]

LOL! its not that different......................

I agree, other than everything being faster and bigger. Its still the same things, you do leves everyday.

[Tezz_Xivectro]

Played everyday from Alpha till January 21st? Then i told myself "If i can't have fun in an MMO anymore, then i'm not going to play".

I went back to FF11 and messed around till March till it got boring again (it's losing its flavor faster & faster these days).

Now i've been logging back into FF14 each patch, but i log off at the end of the day/night and wait until the next patch. It's sad when i can't even log back in the next day because of how bland & boring everything is.
There was a time when i had a little bit of fun with FF14, but that quickly ended.

I won't play unless there is fun to be had.
I'm sticking around and hoping FF14 makes a comeback, because it's the last MMO that I'm willing to devote myself to (with the exception of maybe TERA, but doubtful).

Everyone around the forums just want to whine & moan about slow/lackluster updates & who is/isn't right or wrong. If you're one of the many caught up in this negativity then I'm sorry, sux to be you.

To those who still put yourself through the torture that is FF14 and/or the Forums, you should really think about just not playing and don't stress over it at all. Just check back with each update or 2. Unless you enjoy it as is.
This game probably won't be too enjoyable until the end of the year or next year. I don't know about you guys, but i'm going to find fun elsewhere until/IF this gets fixed/updated.

[Onidemon]

Ah that is a very good point but do you think they will have enough changes in place to actually promote it at E3. I'm not so sure, if they promote it at E3 and people come back and they haven't got the content ready then they will just leave again only this time it will be harder to get them back as they would be less likely to give it a 3rd shot after being burned twice. I don't think they will do much promoting until they think the game is ready, which will be PS3 release.

Who knows though maybe they do have a load of stuff ready to go and are just waiting for the finalised battle system and job system. If that's the case though then this goes back to communication and they should tell us.

E3 needs to be huge, a miracle! that's the only thing that will save this game now. There is no way to know what kind of content or info will be ready then as they keeping all the info on the low lately.

If they are smart they will have a lot of stuff to show. Future content, armor,weapons, items, new spells, new class system, new battle system, PS3 trailer, patch 1.18 trailer, expansion set teaser, artwork, in-depth info for grand companies, chocobo mounts and other transportation methods, even stuff that will not be ready anytime soon will be teased.

Now that will give the game a 2nd chance and will have a lot of people maybe be excited for the PS3 release.

But if all they are going to show is a PS3 trailer with the current stuff we have on PC then they shouldn't even bother....

[Mack]

even stuff that will not be ready anytime soon will be teased.

Why, so they trick the PS3 players like they tricked us?

[viion]

1.17a included a new quest system. Yeah it wasn't much, but it's a nice way to get guild marks.

No it didnt, it copy/pasted what was already ingame (class quests) and threw on an icon above npcs. This is how SE gets away with it lol.

even stuff that will not be ready anytime soon will be teased.

Thats a lie, there are tons of stuff in our files right now that is "locked" but fully complete. Even some mobs. Not only that but they've been in this state for months now.

Every skill above rank 50 is fully implemented, i dont see why they couldnt just take these and put them over our current spells/animations to keep people from whining then update the 50+ come level cap raise, but nope SE dont think logically.

[Onidemon]

The short of this is that, as far as being bored with what's available now goes (also hi Alexia), you can safely put this game on the dusty shelf of shattered dreams until mid-June at any rate until 1.18 to check back in, as per the most recent letter from the developer.

What more one can do in the interim I don't know.

I don't believe the whole wait until 1.18 thing... That's what everyone said for 1.16 and then for 1.17 and then for Grand companies. Truth is at this point, with no information available, 1.18 might just be as lame as 1.17 for all we know. It will introduce ground work for the battle system but that same was said for 1.17, that will introduce "ground work" for future content... yet it sucked imo.

To all the people saying if you dont like it now just go play something else and come back late... do you really thing if someone goes playing WOW or any other mmo and then start having a great time, that they will give it up and then come back to FFXIV just because they added 2 dungeons and auto-attack to the game?

[Gramul]

No it didnt, it copy/pasted what was already ingame (class quests) and threw on an icon above npcs. This is how SE gets away with it lol.

Class quests can only be done 3 times for a job. This can be done every day.

Like I said, it's a nice way to get guild marks.