Originally posted by Ozivois

Everyone notice how FF XIV's score here has dramatically dropped since OB? It is disappointing that this game didn't turn out to be what many of us hoped it would be. 

Now I need to know, what is the next MMORPG in development to start following and get excited about?

The open beta revealed one of the more annoying and irritating MMO experiences in my recent memory.   This game was made by a bunch of JRPG developers so full of themselves they never bothered to see how MMOs (and gaming in general) have evolved from the 90s.  

Then there's the more fundamental problems, like the horrible game camera and sluggish response to the most basic commands.   The game is coming in how many days?   Coding issues like these should have been fixed MONTHS ago.

My recommendation would be to check out Guild Wars 2.  Or if you don't like fantasy there's Warhammer 40K or Star Wars the Old Republic. 

Originally posted by Kaocan

Originally posted by Scripture1

Originally posted by Ozivois

Everyone notice how FF XIV's score here has dramatically dropped since OB? It is disappointing that this game didn't turn out to be what many of us hoped it would be. 

 

Now I need to know, what is the next MMORPG in development to start following and get excited about?

A conversation between my freind and I while playing FFXIV:

Me - Dude, these controls suck

Friend - Yeah man but maybe they will get better after beta

Me - ....Nah, I doubt that, the release is less than 19 days away

Me - What the hell is up with the no auction house thing? why did they think it's a good idea to NOT have an AH??

Friend - Well they have bazzars and a "retainer" system

Me - That's asanine.....

Me - Everything is so spread out, and I have to spend like 10 minutes reading everything and the rest of the time I'm running around to find an npc..... the way the controls are suck.

Me - Aight man I'm logging out, this has failed to hold my attention, this is just nothing like FFXI, infact I'm going back to FFXI and unloading this crap off my PC.

Friend - Aight man I'm gonna do dailies on World of warcraft then, this is kinda boring.

So yeah, many this game just aint for me. FFXI was my first mmorpg and I had high expectations for XIV but it just aint jumping off for me, sorry Square. There will be those who like it though.

So you gave it what, 30 minutes? 2 hours? 4 hours? And decided that going back to what you know was way more fun that trying something new? I can understand that, not everyone has the ability to play something thats new, controls can be confusing, difficult even if its hard to hold your attention long enough to do so. I see you mentioned how bad it was to have to actually spend a whole 10 minutes reading something, and you made it through highschool huh? Thats ok, obviously this game doesn't cater to you or your friend, too complex, too difficult, so not instantly gradifying. Those dailies in WoW you mentioned, not boring at all, at least not the first 638 times you do them huh?

Hahahahaahahahahahaha, OMG sorry, but this post just makes me laugh my ass off. Yuo seriously decided to not play FFXIV with the above conversation? Hahahahahahahahahahaha.

Haha, your really funny so I'm guessing your a comedian? Actually I played the OB for three days and a few hours at a time each day and in regards to that high school crack.... I won't even touch on that since it would mean comming down to your level but lets just say I doubt you have completed more degrees (Two) much less collegial hours seeing as though you have time for this :). If you got that from my recent post is when I decided not to play then your reasoning skills are pretty shallow, this was actually a brief conversation over loud speaker, not even verbatim. The post was kind of just a way of painting a picture of how uninterested I became after actually trying the game. Not that I'm proving anything to you because your completely not worth the effort but this board is to make comments in regards to the game according to the related topic. However, people like you roam the boards seeking posts to be-little while at the same time not realizing that you are in no way shape or form even relevant to the contex of the topic.

I'm glad you found some amusement out of my post because that was ACTUALLY one of my smaller intents, but next time you decide to take a lashing at someone's post and intellect you may want to start with yourself. People that do what your trying to do has been shown to come from very troubled backgrounds, mentally unstabled etc.

Poor you.

The only reason this game took a dive in hype is because people that played open beta are not getting as good of experience as those of us to played during closed beta. The game when it release will be a lot better. The graphics are pretty incredible and the storyline is great. Just like in ff11 you can level up different classes, which is a whole different part of the game which gives you tons more gameplay hours. People in open beta also think they are playing "all" of the content, this is also untrue. In open beta we are only test 1/3rd the actual content. I would recommend to wait till launch before you judge this game, because open beta really isn't doing it justice. 

Originally posted by toddze

 MMORPG.com is a toxic waste pool when it comes to discussing a game. Theres no disscussing theres just straight trolling

...yet you still waste your time here posting almost every day. Must be a masochist... or also a troll?

Originally posted by knaple

The only reason this game took a dive in hype is because people that played open beta are not getting as good of experience as those of us to played during closed beta. The game when it release will be a lot better. The graphics are pretty incredible and the storyline is great. Just like in ff11 you can level up different classes, which is a whole different part of the game which gives you tons more gameplay hours. People in open beta also think they are playing "all" of the content, this is also untrue. In open beta we are only test 1/3rd the actual content. I would recommend to wait till launch before you judge this game, because open beta really isn't doing it justice. 

You've seen the game at lauch already? Then you must work for S-E.

Why did you guys use the exact same crappy system for the downloads. Most people now can download over 1MB/second. It shouldnt take 15 hours before you can play.

Why do you expect people to pay yet only level 15 hours a week, not to mention the last 7 are at 50% normal exp?

Also, the fact your OB servers couldnt support visitors and told them to retry at a different time,  you lost at least 15 people I know, excluding me as I was lost at the point right above this one. Why at least? Because their guild has 138 members on the forums, 76 of which are still actively playing WoW, serveral of them are just waiting while playing CoD and TF2.

MAYBE you come from the future too... hows that time machine working out for you?

Can you get me some stats on how well GW2 is working in 2014 compares to FFXIV? If not ill just suppose you're too much of a fanboi to admit this game is terrible.

Originally posted by jackmcleod

Originally posted by knaple

The only reason this game took a dive in hype is because people that played open beta are not getting as good of experience as those of us to played during closed beta. The game when it release will be a lot better. The graphics are pretty incredible and the storyline is great. Just like in ff11 you can level up different classes, which is a whole different part of the game which gives you tons more gameplay hours. People in open beta also think they are playing "all" of the content, this is also untrue. In open beta we are only test 1/3rd the actual content. I would recommend to wait till launch before you judge this game, because open beta really isn't doing it justice. 

You've seen the game at lauch already? Then you must work for S-E.

Why did you guys use the exact same crappy system for the downloads. Most people now can download over 1MB/second. It shouldnt take 15 hours before you can play.

Why do you expect people to pay yet only level 15 hours a week, not to mention the last 7 are at 50% normal exp?

Also, the fact your OB servers couldnt support visitors and told them to retry at a different time,  you lost at least 15 people I know, excluding me as I was lost at the point right above this one. Why at least? Because their guild has 138 members on the forums, 76 of which are still actively playing WoW, serveral of them are just waiting while playing CoD and TF2.

MAYBE you come from the future too... hows that time machine working out for you?

Can you get me some stats on how well GW2 is working in 2014 compares to FFXIV? If not ill just suppose you're too much of a fanboi to admit this game is terrible.

Well if you were smart you would have downloaded the torrent version which only takes a few seconds. And yea your right I don't know exactly how it is going to do at launch but I am really hoping it does. I was just saying that in closed beta this game was awesome, and in open beta it is almost unplayable. You can dislike the game all you want and think that it may or may not be ready for launch all I am saying that this game has a ton of potential. I am really hoping everything is in working order when this game launches, because then even I will quit and I have been looking forward to this game for some time. 

* oh and in 2014 WOW is dead, and GW2 and FF14 are second rate games because Tera reigns supreme.*

Originally posted by Home15

Originally posted by MisterSr

I predicted this, this was the same reaction FFXI received, not surprising FFXIV is getting the same criticisms. People that don't understand or follow SE don't really understand how they operate. They work very differently than most companies I've seen, I have no doubt this product will be the product we expect at launch, like FFXI they are not releasing the full game till release... They are indeed hiding 6GB of the 15GB file from us during OB. SE is more concerned about stress testing the servers to maximize the stability than they are about marketing their product in OB, which is fine, I rather have a game where the company worked until release day to maximize performance than a company that just spat everything out during the end of CB and said, "We're done." FFXI from the beginning was always a work in progress, constantly getting updates and expansions, and in the end it probably has the most copious amount of content of any MMO i've played so far, dare I say more than WoW? Of course it is a couple years older than WoW too... The reaction which FFXIV is of no surprise because the game is so different in the way it is run and the way it plays that people are not sure what to think. I have full faith that it would live up to the standard FFXI put for and exceed it, it's just going to take time to grow. From what I saw with FFXI it will probably get a new content patch every month or so, and slowly grow until it is what we would call a complete game. I say by the PS3 release it should be what people were expecting at computer release, so for those who are disheartened now, you may want to wait till March and give it a second shot. 

Why hide content when it needs to be tested, doesnt make sence.

If its abouth spoilers, then it shouldnt be a issue, beta testers are to test content and see the spoilers, i dont believe there hiding anything, this will be the game on release.

The content does not need to be tested, the servers, log in system, UI and controlls need to be tested.  Thats all