Annoying things about FFXIV

[KaedrianLiang]

D&D was one of the first rpg... And everything you did was based on a dice roll. This makes the game a bit of fun cuz it would be dull if we suceeded everytime. Luck plays a factore in real life also. You will alwts be 99% in everything, meaning for every 100 items you make 1 will always have an error.

If crafting were a dice roll where you just wait for the roll to come up. I would be satisfied, like FFXI's input mats and wait crafting system.

However, here in 14, you have to do the work for that dice to roll. You can make all the optimal decision, only to fail at the end because of the dice roll mechanic. Take this into account for the hundreds of items you need to synth per rank at a late point of your class, and the some 100+ unstable elements you will see per rank that will foil your good fortune, it is very tiring and annoying. It feels like its broken to be honest.

[Demacia]

1. The community
2. Guildleves
3. Awful world design
4. Most of the music
5. No delivery system
6. No auction house or convenient market system
7. Full retard battle system
8. AoE everything
9. No MP management
10. Armory System
11. Poorly designed classes
12. Broken stats
13. Poor itemization
14. Basically same mobs in every zone
15. No content
16. Unnecessarily long crafting sequence
17. Can't attack while moving
18. Can't engage disengage while moving
19. Can't cast when disengaged
20. Can't use abilities when disengaged
21. Can't invite or kick LS members without being near them
22. Can't /sea all
23. Stupid party invite feature
24. Awful ability/spell/weapon skill animations
25. Poor lighting
26. Lack of lore
27. Poor character creation
28. Stupid pirate speak
29. Maps are in Eorzea semi-english gibberish
30. No transportation, just teleporting everywhere from lv1
31. No reason to explore
32. No reason to level up
33. Can't equip a ranged weapon and melee weapon at same time, throwing only
34. Battle Regimens
35. Classes bound to a single weapon
36. Can't fall off ledges
37. Poorly optimized
38. Cost me $80
39. All mobs have ranged attacks
40. Elezen females are somehow WORSE looking than Elvaan females
41. No emotional attachment to the game, world, or characters
42. "Sweetling"
43. Fatigue slowin mah grind
44. Weapon/armor damage
45. World too small
46. Nobody talks
47. Terrible UI
48. No menu shortcuts
49. Terrible macros
50. No fun

[Eldaena]

1. The community
2. Guildleves
3. Awful world design
4. Most of the music
5. No delivery system
6. No auction house or convenient market system
7. Full retard battle system
8. AoE everything
9. No MP management
10. Armory System
11. Poorly designed classes
12. Broken stats
13. Poor itemization
14. Basically same mobs in every zone
15. No content
16. Unnecessarily long crafting sequence
17. Can't attack while moving
18. Can't engage disengage while moving
19. Can't cast when disengaged
20. Can't use abilities when disengaged
21. Can't invite or kick LS members without being near them
22. Can't /sea all
23. Stupid party invite feature
24. Awful ability/spell/weapon skill animations
25. Poor lighting
26. Lack of lore
27. Poor character creation
28. Stupid pirate speak
29. Maps are in Eorzea semi-english gibberish
30. No transportation, just teleporting everywhere from lv1
31. No reason to explore
32. No reason to level up
33. Can't equip a ranged weapon and melee weapon at same time, throwing only
34. Battle Regimens
35. Classes bound to a single weapon
36. Can't fall off ledges
37. Poorly optimized
38. Cost me $80
39. All mobs have ranged attacks
40. Elezen females are somehow WORSE looking than Elvaan females
41. No emotional attachment to the game, world, or characters
42. "Sweetling"
43. Fatigue slowin mah grind
44. Weapon/armor damage
45. World too small
46. Nobody talks
47. Terrible UI
48. No menu shortcuts
49. Terrible macros
50. No fun

@ Demacia

1. Negativity tends to breed itself.
2. Yes, because we need our free sp ride changed.
3. The world is actually quite beautiful, with a few copy/paste areas. I guess it's all in the eye of the beholder.
4. The only issue I'm aware with music is that the tracks are not long enough. ^-^
5. Valid argument.
6. Market Wards are more than convenient since the updates. This topic is too old, please move on from XI.
7. I'm not sure what you mean by this but it probably falls under something or other they are fixing soon.
8. There are lots of AoE moves and a lot of times I feel you aren't allowed to use them. If that is what you mean.
9. If you honestly believe this, you need to work harder as a mage, because you aren't doing enough.
10. Are people just butthurt because DoW can equip cures?
11. Far be it from SE to try to make something new. Feels like ranking these classes will eventually unlock more.
12. Valid argument to some degree. This definitely needs work.
13. Not sure what you mean by this but the variety of items is quite vast. If you mean storage, well...here's hoping.
14. Well the bugs and marmots I suppose, but who cares about them? It's all like rank 1 mobs.
15. There are several quests to take up in this game. Claiming "no content" is completely false. You just want more.
16. I guess, but I never thought it was that long
17. Sometimes I can see that being realistic and sometimes not. Moving around does sound like fun, though.
18. ^
19. ^
20. ^
21. Need some LS management, sure.
22. Not sure what /sea all would merit you. Is there water out there? >.>
23. Party invite seems okay, but has a few bugs. I wish we could add people while engaged in battle, though.
24. Everything is amazing in this day and age, and no one is happy. They could do better, surely, but awful? -. -
25. Sometimes it's a bit too dark I think, but that's kind of fun too.
26. There is lore all around. o.o Do you not read any of the tomes or talk to the NPCs?
27. Are you serious? Really?
28. Deciphering the lingo is rather enjoyable. Sorry that you get lore, and you toss it aside like that.
29. lol everytime you get lore, you hate it. You are self-defeating.
30. We all agree that we'd like chocobos and airships. ^-^
31. On the contrary, there are some very nice sites worth exploring in my opinion. Screenies and videos! ^^
32. What does that mean? Leveling up gains you more allocation points, and ranking up helps with skills.
33. Is it pretty common that knights run around with longswords and bows? Not sure on this one...
34. Are a tad boring, agreed.
35. It's a little strange how people want class uniqueness, yet shun away the things that make them unique.
36. I guess they want a since of realism; where you aren't just falling from everything.
37. All I can say is they're working on it. Not that I'm saying it's okay it wasn't on release, but we've known this.
38. And how long have you been playing? I've been playing since release and for $80 only, that's pretty good!
39. Yes, agreed.
40. They are? Hm...guess in the eye of the beholder again.
41. I guess you don't get very involved with a game if you constantly bash on. it ^-^; I am the opposite of you on this.
42. Huh? lol
43. And everyone else's. Don't worry, they're going to take the training wheels off soon.
44. You think wacking that coblyn repeatedly isn't going to nich up your blade?
45. I bet you don't feel that way when you're running place to place. =p
46. How is Nobody? I haven't talked to him in awhile. Though I have been busy chatting it up with others. =p
47. What's wrong with it exactly? It's way faster than it was at release.
48. I guess that it would be nice to cut out the 3 seconds it takes to pull up the menu.
49. The only thing I can complain about on this is how I wish the macro square held more lines.
50. I'm sorry you feel that way. Maybe you should try to find an active LS or take a break while they continue fixing things. Right now, it just feels like extended beta. If you don't care to participate, that's fine. I understand you spent money on the game, but typically the average $60 is going to last you about 2 full days of gameplay. I'm sure you've played at least double that (or at least I hope so considering your post number.) It's been several months since the game's release and one way or another, you've gotten your money's worth + free game time. Just take solace in the fact the money you spent got you this far + the fact that you know that money is somehow helping SE get this game to a place you most likely do want it to be. =)

[Kafeen]

Lack of transportation:
Everyone is waiting for chocobos and airships. One day they will be here, but at the moment its annoying to only have to rely on teleporting and running. If behest starts in 5 minutes, I wouldn't mind riding a chocobo out to the location rather than wasting my Anima. Plus if I teleported out there I would have 5 minutes of standing around waiting for the warden to show up.

Is that really that much of a problem? That if you teleport you have to wait 5 minutes?! If riding a chocobo to get there would take 5 minutes, what if there was 10 minutes before behest started? You're going to get the same problem. Either wait 5 minutes or do something else to fill the time. Its not a long time to wait.

[Ilean]

Is that really that much of a problem? That if you teleport you have to wait 5 minutes?! If riding a chocobo to get there would take 5 minutes, what if there was 10 minutes before behest started? You're going to get the same problem. Either wait 5 minutes or do something else to fill the time. Its not a long time to wait.

You are missing the point. What we don't like is having to pick between walking for 10 minutes or spending anima, which regens way too slow and eventually runs out, which pretty much makes the game unplayable.

[Ilean]

• Snail-paced anima regeneration
• Stopping to sheat/unsheat weapons
• Stopping to cast
• DX9 only in 2010, because...
• SE decided they could create a latest-gen game engine for PC without hiring talented, experienced in the field people and now...
• We have an unoptimized engine that struggles with stuff that has been standard in PC engines for years
• Camera insists on pointing at our asses when target-locked FOR NO PRACTICAL REASON
• Limsa and Gridania city layout look like puke patterns, everywhere is twice as far because of this
• Only one action bar row is visible at one time, something that every f2p MMO gets right
• BR system is crap
• Still can't see your party member's TP, SE idea of cool awesome communication is spam TP report macros, in 2011
• SE still doesn't get that if they can't make crafting fun they should at least make it level much faster. My point: If it's something people rather just bot, it means that:
  a) its design is so simple that it offers no real challenge
  b) they rather not do it, if there were realistic alternatives to getting the rewards
• Game still requires that we keep our eyes on a scrolling chat log. Apparently the minimum required resolution of 1280x720 doesn't give them enough freedom and flexibility to design a proper GUI that relays information to the players in a natural, concise and intuitive way.

[Corrderio]

The forums

[Captaindownsyndrome]

The forums

well said never should made them all everyone does is bitch

[Ilean]

well said never should made them all everyone does is bitch

Agree. The biggest bitches even bitch about the bitching!

[Captaindownsyndrome]

Agree. The biggest bitches even bitch about the bitching!

yeah you showed me ... what ever man keep trolling game about everything every post on the forms is just bitching, an a lot of which is on both sides of the same damn subject which leave you and rest of the complainers at stalemate.