I played at launch, and again in January after the B2P switch. The animations have always been shit, still are shit, and will likely always be shit. That being said, the atmosphere and story can't be beat by any other MMO's on the market today, but unfortunately, that isn't enough to keep me playing.

EDIT: Someone said the animations were motion captures, and I had to laugh. I didn't know that, but they don't even look motion captured... they just look like half-assed animations.

Originally posted by Kinh021
You do not understand what people are trying to show. Just come to read the posts with the "head made" with its ideas already formed. I understand when some talked about leaving and try other things but the game(mmorpg) is a pleasure for me as it is movies for some peoples. For years I get games and do some signing. Ex: Tibia, UO, WoW, GW and others. What I have tried is going on here: Not because we defend free to play we are children 12 years and have no job and able to finance games. yes we must question some points as consumers. Years in the gaming industry and do not like the direction that is being taken. We have reached the point that we pay to test a game in Closed Beta. Companies sell their games before they finish them and then sell again. Not because I'm a fan and I love games that accept pay anything and any value. Remember the initial subject of the topic and just try to understand the other side of the coin as we try to do when looking for the P2P mode.

The other side of the coin is easily understandable. People who want to play for free because they don't have the means to pay monthly, people who don't feel the product is worthy of a sub yet for some reason still want to play it anyway, or people are just too cheap and want to get as much for free as possible. There are plenty of other options for you out there, so leave the few remaining games that are P2P for the actual people who prefer P2P.

The value of money and the value of a game varies from one person to the next. Decide where you stand, make a decision to bite the bullet or not, and move on.

There's really nothing else that needs to be said about it.

Originally posted by nbtscan

Originally posted by Ghavrigg

If they EVER even THINK of putting an F2P option in this game, they better making it a high level requirement before they can start talking in any global chat that is available. I'd personally give separate global/local chat channels for P2P and F2P players.

Whispers and general chat is fine, however.

I don't mind if free players are actually playing the game, I just don't wanna read any of their shit, and quite frankly, it should be a perk of subbing that I never have to.

There were never any chat channels in 1.0 and there don't seem to be any plans to implement them in ARR.

Ok, well that works fine, too.

If they EVER even THINK of putting an F2P option in this game, they better making it a high level requirement before they can start talking in any global chat that is available. I'd personally give separate global/local chat channels for P2P and F2P players.

Whispers and general chat is fine, however.

I don't mind if free players are actually playing the game, I just don't wanna read any of their shit, and quite frankly, it should be a perk of subbing that I never have to.

D3 is actually Blizzard's first let down for me, and really, it's not even THAT terrible of one, I suppose. I've loved  WoW (for about 6 years), Diablo 1 and 2, and even though I have never been into RTS, I even enjoyed the original SC and the Warcraft series (the only RTS's I've ever gotten into), and sometimes even watch SC2 as my cousin is playing, or on twitch, 'cause it's just fun to watch here and there.

Diablo 3 has a decent combat system, but the leveling system and itemization gets old incredibly quickly. However, it's not until Inferno that these problem truly pop up, so up until that point, it's a decent game, albeit with an absolutely AWFUL plot hole-filled story.

But even then... D3 is still more fun to play than other isometric RPG's on the market to me. I gave PoE, Torchlight 1 and 2, each a solid 5 hours or so, and just couldn't get into them. D3 however, I put 76 hours into a character.... though I was expecting better of Inferno than was given. Now I just don't care enough to give it another go.

I'm also bitter about the RMAH/AH. I would've much preferred if neither were present in the game. But they'll never remove it.

Originally posted by kaiserxxx

Originally posted by Ghavrigg

I can only wonder what the advertising for this game will be like..

"Hey, you lonely, horny, socially dysfunctional nerd -- this is all the fap material you could ever need!"

ever heared of porn? 

Surely "horny socially dysfunctional nerd" as you call them (with so much description I think you're part of them too) are not waiting for Scarlet Blade to fap to their heart content.

Actually it was "LONELY, horny, socially dysfunctional nerd." ;) But yes, porn is the point.

I wouldn't call that "so much description", just a generalization of what these developers likely think of the gaming community. This really occurs to me as the only reason why developers would make a game like this.

Sorry you took that as insulting, as that wasn't my intention. Have fun.

I can only wonder what the advertising for this game will be like..

"Hey, you lonely, horny, socially dysfunctional nerd -- this is all the fap material you could ever need!"

Originally posted by JimmyYO

Originally posted by bobm111

Why?

Well just the fact that they had a disaster with the original and pulled it down to rework the entire game says a lot about square mentality. There history with this title has been inpressive except for the FFXIV original.

So this will make or break them in mmo world and have a lot to lose if they fail again.

My tip is they wont and will be the game of the year especially being elder scrolls went the doac way and neverwinter the f2p way. Many like me will be more then willing to pay a monthly sub to explore and entire world as well as all the other goodies square enix is capable of..

Wish hem the best of luck and sucess in this ballsy revamp and taking responsibility of making a fail mmo right..

 

Their supposed higher mentality isn't working on the horrible FF games they continually release after 11. It is clear this company has lost the ability to make decent games. Now they are attempting to rework a game that was so garbage it literally needed years worth of work and they're attempting to cram it into 1.

Good luck to the optimists but if you let them waste your money twice on the same game you deserve to be swindled.

They rip you off once, shame on them. They rip you off twice, shame on you.

It's actually been closer to two years since they started development on this new game. They began development in April 2011.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Fantasy_XIV:_A_Realm_Reborn

Originally posted by Aerowyn

Originally posted by Ghavrigg

The decision for 2013 seems to come down to: FFXIV: ARR, Neverwinter, and TESO, and to be honest, FFXIV looks to be the best of the bunch. I am glad they're sticking to their guns in regards to a subscription model rather than F2P garbage, and I truly hope it works out for them.

Same for TESO if it uses a subscription model. I don't know much about it.

forgot Wildstar and Archage those both should be big contenders this year as well

Ah, good call. They're both completely off the radar for me, but you're right, the hype train for them is well under way. So many choices!

The decision for 2013 seems to come down to: FFXIV: ARR, Neverwinter, and TESO, and to be honest, FFXIV looks to be the best of the bunch. I am glad they're sticking to their guns in regards to a subscription model rather than F2P garbage, and I truly hope it works out for them.

Same for TESO if it uses a subscription model. I don't know much about it.

MMO's are entertainment, and a life without entertainment is not a life worth living.

If you feel it's a huge waste of time, then don't play them anymore. Get out and enjoy other aspects of life that don't ring as a waste of time in your mind.

If it makes you happy for even a short amount of time, it's not a waste of time. If you feel you're addicted to the genre in theory, but aren't actually into the games themselves, then it's probably time to move on. Personally, I don't really find current MMO's overly fun, but I have an addictive personality, and I've been playing them for so long, I'm just on here checking to see what's up all the time. I haven't really played any MMO's in a long time becuase I always end up trying them and getting bored quickly. I was hoping GW2 was gonna be the end to that, but I ended up getting tired of that game within a month and now I'm back in MMO limbo.

I just basically go out and have a life, and when I'm bored, I try to find an MMO that's worth playing, and if I can't, I just play my PS3. :P

I think I'm actually more interested in fun PS3 games with an online component nowadays, rather than a full blown MMO's.

Full voice over really depends on how everything works together. Having a ton of different quest givers strewn about with menial tasks and full voice over in one area is gonna get boring, but if they have quality quest lines around as you explore areas like in Skyrim, it won't be so bad.

The voice over isn't what was bad about SWTOR, it was just how it was implemented with their quest system. The voice overs were quality, but the quests were shitty, so few people cared about listening to all the voice overs and just wanted to skip through so they could finish the quest and level.