Listing to all the noise in the market about 2.0........Follow

Even though I'm no longer interested in playing the game, I'm certainly interested to see how 2.0 works out. Even though there's virtually no chance of a positive conclusion, that extremely slim possibility that SE might pull it off keeps me (and probably many others) attentive to their actions. For the fact is, of course, that we cannot say for certain what the outcome will be.

There are lots of posters like that on this forum. They feign lack of interest in the game but are seriously interested.

People who really don't like the game probably stopped caring and don't post at all.

I completely agree with you... I hope it gets the attention I think this game greatly deserves!
And honestly only thing that can happen for this game is to continue going in a positive direction!!!

False, it did get a generally negative response in Japan on its first year. It was incomplete, full of bugs, etc. It got good scores in NA shores because we got it a year after release and after the first expansion pack.

It's really too bad, 2.0 isn't even out yet, and FFXIV is already a very different game than what either of you played. But it sounds like neither of you will ever work up the interest to pick it up again and try it out. It's a shame too, since it is symptomatic of the biggest problem FFXIV really has at this point; a bad brand. I'm not saying FFXIV is a great game, but it is an enjoyable game, particularly for people like you, who have not been playing the game the whole time and would have a truly impressive library of content to tackle at this point.

The only thing that gives me hope is the fact that the population does seem to be rising regularly. I consistently see 1-1.7k on at all times now, which is comparable to some of FFXI less glory days. Hopefully when 2.0 rolls around, burnt individuals like yourselves will give it a shot, and hopefully you will be pleasantly surprised.

That's why I post.

Honestly, I'm with KK and preludes. I tried Welcome Back and couldn't muster any enthusiasm for a game that superficially looked somewhat different, but was still fundamentally broken to me. So now I'm in a holding pattern of checking the boards every few days and watching the 2.0 rollout, but honestly, it's mostly morbid curiosity at this point.

You're absolutely right. But that's part of the problem, you see. Why should I have to grind anything to get to interesting, meaningful content 20 levels from the beginning of the game? I've said this before and I'll say it again. The starting process in XIV is atrocious. A good impression it has never made. Levequests are the absolutely laziest filler for content I've ever seen. If I take a leve from a farmer who wants moles removed from his fields because they are eating his crops, I expect to see a farmer, a farm, crop fields where I will then remove the moles. I expect there to be an actual in-game-world reflection of what is allegedly going on. But that's not what we got. We got endlessly-go-to-the-crystal-and-kill-mobs-outside-the-camp ad infinitum. Now, if you go to the crystal, start the leve, and the whole scenario is generated with the farmer, farm, fields, etc... that'd be a different issue entirely. But it's not.

So, I can do these lazy placeholders, behests no one do anymore in the early levels, or I can just go grinding thousands of mobs to get to a point where the game says "Oh, well, here's something else you can try now" -- Sorry, but no. That is the farthest possible opposite of interesting and engaging to me for fun in a game. I have no interest in sitting at my computer and grinding endlessly like some sort of lab rat hitting the pellet pedal for another crumb of food or opiate. I want to be engaged, not anesthetized. And really, FFXIV can't even anesthetize because of its ham-fisted controls, busted operations, and ridiculous UI. So, right now, it's the perfect storm of maddening and completely non-descript.

So, while you're right in what you say, I think the fact that new players have to just suck it up for 20 levels to get to something interesting is unforgivable.

I respectfully disagree with your opinion on the grind. It's very easy to get to level 20. Maybe a little -too- easy, with rested bonus, it shouldn't take more than 30 minutes a level. (And that's on the really slow end). In the lower levels you can unlock the achievement categories, do some of the NPC quests, ride a rental chocobo and get aetherial gates, and catch up on the main scenario questline.

I will agree with you on the controls and the UI. That's the one very thing I am still displeased about when it comes to the game. Oh, and the annoying zone/region layout, of course.


Edited, Jul 11th 2012 12:15pm by UltKnightGrover