will take! thank you much!

Junta - Endgame Linkshell - NOW RECRUITING!

Originally posted by Gash55

To be honest if I dont see a patch soon I will be unimpressed with SE. Apparently they chose to have all decisions go through their server or something before they show up on our screens and that is why we see a huge menu response lag. And their silence about working on it, may mean they only hope that scattering of populations into other zones will remedy this as zones populations lessen. - This is an MMO, we should not have to wait untill zones see shrinking population in order to be able to use our menus without horrible delay. Nor should we have to wait upwards of 30 seconds to see people load on our screen. And they shouldnt have to be in our immediate vacinity or else they are invisible. How is an mmo immersive if you can only see people 20 feet in front of you (game feet). 

 

So far I am disapointed that they have not spoken to these issues. If they were honest with us and said. "Yes, we are experiencing difficulties and we are working on them." We would all be rest assured. But then we would question whether we ought to pay for our services, in continuing to test the game out. Why pay for extended beta. Which is why they are silent.

 

They better get their shit together.

thats not how SE works.. They'll fix it and let you figure it out for yourself its fixed.  Or you can read it in the patch notes..  get use to it

Originally posted by scythe99

Yeah i'd have 5-10 second delays on pretty much everything and i'm on a fiber optic connection, my ping to japan is fairly decent too. I think the problem is, the game seems to verify any menu access with the server first and if its lagging well "everything" will lag.

i think you're right.  I think they wanted the menu's to be server side to prevent hooking them for bots and things.

Originally posted by spankybus

Originally posted by birdycephon

Really? I thought it was pretty easy.

Compared to Rocket science, yea its easy.

 

Compared to every other MMORPG billing system out there, it IS rocket science. 

 

Leave it to SE, the makers of that wonderful invention 'Playonline', to complicate the obvious:-)

PlayOnline in its vision was a great idea... See Steam.. Thats what Play Online was suppose to be, but for SE games.  Just turns out they never put anything else on it and create the SE Account instead.

i'm playing the game and loving it.  I went in with no expectations of what it should be like, and played it for what it is.  I didn't try to compare it with other MMO's because it isn't other MMO's.  I really like the vision SE have for FFXIV and plan to stick with it as I know they'll see their vision through and won't cave to the whiners.  

they're really trying to make this a "Sandbox" PvE game.  I LOVE IT!

i feel like I did 8 years ago.. When I first stepped into Vana'diel.  A game hasn't given me that much excitement in 8 years.  This game is going to be great.  Will have a great population for the future, just like FFXI.  All the same type of hate, yet 8 years later its still one of the only games from its era still being taken care of, content released, and an active subscriber base.

I'm having a ton of fun.  Did my leve quests, did some fishing, did some cooking.. feels like FFXI to me.  The people enjoying the game are in game enjoying it, not on the forums bitching.  I just have to go to work, or i'd be playing :D

Originally posted by Aguitha

They use click and buy and it doesnt seems to like me cause it keep giving Unknow Address Error.  I put every format possible to NO AVAIL.  Anyone else having problem setting up their billing info ?

just pay using Crysta... You can pay with paypal, MUCH easier.. Click & Buy is a pain in the ass.. but it is better then the alternative they used for FFXI.

someone hook me up with a buddy key NA please :(  I'll forever be grateful.. i can't afford the game right now(yes I have a job) =/.. bills due, new apartment, etc.. Share the LOVE I WANT TO PLAY SO BAD :(

can someone please send me a buddy key :D

Originally posted by Darthyoyo

 Did you discuss with anyone else any information about the testing or gameplay? 

 Do you mean while in the game?I havent discussed it in any forums until now.

And in the game I really didn't say anything non-quest related. So no I haven't discussed it publicy until now.

So, since you got banned you might as well spill the beans about the game.. I mean you're already banned... 

i was on Laskhimi and i loved it =/.

Yes.. Loved FFXI and the "Side Grades" not "up grades" .. SE does a lot of horizontal design and i like it  a lot.

It is a lot like SWG Pre-CU in that way skills work..

what i don't get is if you don't plan on playing and don't like the game, why are you here?

played FFXI since beta till now.. I'm playing cause its time for a change and I'm in the "target market."  

I'm loving the game so far =/  

the UI is server side in FFXIV ... anti-cheat.

Originally posted by segyn

Originally posted by Asm0deus

hmm my very 1st post here lol in fact i decided to make an account here at mmorpg becuase ive been looking for a single player mmo.  i currently play DDO with my wife but need something i can play without "waiting" for my lovely lady to join me etc etc

 

ive been a fan of FF since the very first one on the nes (gods wasnt it such a great reward finishing the game and seeing that credits and that nice "swamp" picture lol  )

 

anyhoot i been in FF14 open beta last 2 days . to get a key just keep trying over n over n over eevry few mins and eventually youll get thru.

 

whats worries me about this game is the method they use for "patching" how horrible i never got it to work , i had to goo looks on google for alternate DIRECT dl  methods. 15mins later found a ff14 site offering this and took the night to dl all the patches.

 

next day went back to that site followed the simple instruction n voila i was in !!!. i have to say i hate torrents ive always thought its a stupid way for a hgame to offer clients,patches etc torrents are the lower rung of the hiearchy in this kinda thing, add to this fact ALOT of ISP's cap torrents nowadays!!!!!

 

now in the game ithought graphics are GREAT looks like there finally gonna be an MMO where there actually a storyline  thats not just some ancient lore u read about at start of the game n then is completely ignored awsome they even add your toon in cutscenes as u created it COOL

now this is something ALL mmo could learn from square....

now on the other hand square could learn something from other mmos out there like ui ease of use etc i want to play this game i want to love this game but the way the ui works is just very very annoying to me .

 

i dont mind all the menus for evrything what i do despise is the lag on waiting for a window to open then for the next one to open n then u finallly get what u want to buy for example n cant close them all at once , u cant just run out of range etc . another thing if u use the mouse and click at bottom right of screen on the icon for main menu  do your thing and then u cant just click on same icon to close it oo noooes u have to click the annoyingly small x that easy to miss at top right of the open window.

so the game will be good i think if only they can fix up some small details . i cant speak for anyone else but all these small details add up and is what makes or breaks a game for me.  i have to add i play sarlona (i think its spelled like this lol ) and in 2 days of playing i saw 3 people help other out in public chat, myself being one person that helped anouther find his way out of town. Have to admit i was kinda disappointed in the FF community as there was plenty of people around just no one could be bothered to help out .

 

this is open beta so hopefully they will fix some stuff  but as is i will not play this game when it comes live, i will not pay to buy the game and then pay a monthly fee as it is now . perhaps if i had a ps3 i might as its obvious SE made this as a console game first and pc game second otherwise they would have made it with friendlier pc player mechanics..

 last thing combat is really slow but this is a FF game not  ZELDA game so :P

 

so its not a horrible game its very pretty and im sure some people will love it n play it as it is now but i think many wont but then like i said early this is open beta hiope fully some stuff will be adressed then again maybe it wont time will tell . my guess would be to look to FF11 players n see what SE track record is with them ? i never played that one so...

 

i think the lack of people chatting or helping out in chat is a lot of people are actually using gamepads instead of keyboard i imagine it would be a pain to put down the gamepad to pick up keyboard and type. than pick gamepad back up. But I use just the keyboard to play and am having a lot of fun in game. yes the ui is slow and laggy but it is the only UI that allows me to play using only the keyboard the way i like to play the most. FFXI introduced me to playing this way and i have been disapointed in every other game that i had to use the mouse and couldn't map my keys to hte point that i didn't need to use the mouse. 

Everyone chats in linkshell.  Public isn't the place to chat.  It's probably more a Japanese thing then it is a Controller thing.  I have a wireless keyboard in my lap and chat with my linkshell all the time =/  Its the same way in FFXI.  Talk in /tells use shouts for Seeking for parties for events or what not, get help from your linkshell.  No one talks in /say like in the barons in FFXI.  If you're in party you use party chat.  Just the way it is. Get use to it.

and talking in shout is considered rude.  Most of the japanese people will even apologize for using /shout at all.

Originally posted by xpiher

You do realize that the only reason why FFXI was "complete" for the international release* was because it came with the first expansion? 

lol xipher are you quitting darkfall for FFXIV?  

But you're right most people don't realize that the game came out on PS2 in Japan a year before that.. FFXIV as far as development goes is LIGHTYEARS ahead of FFXI @ beta when I played it.  I have played FFXI since then.. i can't freaking wait for this release(did play some darkfall too for my pvp fix).  

i'm pretty hyped about FFXIV.  People judging it on Beta content are hilarious and huge rookies.  As a 8 year FFXI player i'm PUMPED about FFXIV after getting ti play beta.. beforehand not so much.. I also played FFXI Beta.. I'm well aware of SE development routines and know how they work.  It isn't for everyone, but for the people who like this type of game its going to be A LOT of fun over the next 8 or so years.

I was worried they were going to dumb it down with all their, "We're making it for the casual gamer" talk.  I'm ok with making it for casual gaming because I'm pretty casual about my play, but I didn't want it dumbed down with ? ! and being lead around by my nose.  They've managed to build a great world, which is going to have great crafting and economy once all the kinks are worked out.  It will be one of the best PvE games of the decade I think for those willing to get to end game.  FFXI still has some of the best end game content of any MMO out there.  Not only really good content but A LOT of content.  

I remember when the only thing to do in FFXI was kill Serket, Roc, and Simurgh... Thats it.. Level cap was 50.. Of course even most of the americans didn't start playing till after CoP.  FFXIV will have 10x's the content of FFXI @ launch..