To be honest, if there were other major titles coming out in this quarter, I would be less likely to give FFXIV retail a solid shot.
So you are saying that the more games that comes out the less are the chance of you to play a certain one of them?
You are indeed wise.
fiontar's point is rather logical and strong, because let's face it, not everyone can afford 2 or more p2p titles. With that said, I believe he was talking about other MMOs not games in general in which case I completely agree with him. There are many people who will do the same I believe, play FFXIV because there is no other interesting game coming this year, at least none of those highly anticipated titles (gw2, TERA, tor, rift)
I looked into FFXIV for the sole reason it would waste time for the next MMO, but after playing the OB there is no way I will be buying this. It was probably worse than Aerrevan.
I will be picking up Halo/Fifa for a little over a month and then knuckle into DC Universe. *Fingers crossed Sony don't kill it*
Maybe I'm just expecting too much these days. In the last 1-2 years most all of the MMO's released have been incomplete and had lots of trouble at launch. Perhaps unfinished, non-optimized games are the way of the future and I should just get used to the fact that the first couple months of gameplay is going to be a pay to play continued beta test until all the kinks and bugs are worked out. The best I can hope for for FFXIV is a savior patch on launch day that fixes a boatload of issues with the game. If that happens then perhaps I will give it a try and ride out the bugs and see how the game pans out.
Tried the FFXIV OB and didn't care for it at all even though I am in an MMO slump lately. So I went back to LotRO, because it is better than nothing and better than FFXIV...f2p or not.
Cataclysm has a "rumored" release date of November.. That's not exactly very far off. I think I'll hold out for Cataclysm rather than put money into this game. That is to say that I won't buy this game *eventually*, but right now it's too chaotic with all the new people starting. I'd rather wait until it calms down a bit so I don't get frustrated trying to spawn camp normal monsters like I use to do in FFXI with HMs.
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Cataclysm has a "rumored" release date of November.. That's not exactly very far off. I think I'll hold out for Cataclysm rather than put money into this game. That is to say that I won't buy this game *eventually*, but right now it's too chaotic with all the new people starting. I'd rather wait until it calms down a bit so I don't get frustrated trying to spawn camp normal monsters like I use to do in FFXI with HMs.
The game certainly won't go anywhere. Wise decision.
Using LOL is like saying "my argument sucks but I still want to disagree".
I was going to play this game until the fatigue system was announced. Nope, can't do it. Good thing I got into EVE a week ago.
Yeah just watched the official SE video on the Fatigue system. It's pretty stupid. They claim it's a way to make it more fair to players who can't play 15 hours a game but once you cap your Physical level EXP you can switch your class and the EXP meter resets for that class. So if you're a hardcore player you'll still be leagues ahead by having higher ranks of every class in the game, combining their abilities, etc. So if "fair" was their idea, it's still not fair. The normal leveling curve timesink isn't broken and really doesn't need to be fixed, IMHO. And their version of fixing it doesn't REALLY change that much. I'd probably need a back-up MMO to subscribe to play this game, so when I've maxed out what I can do in FFXIV, I would switch over to another game until my EXP threshold reset. Kind of lame.
It's a different system, but to be honest with you if you are into WoW and want to play Cataclysm then I wouldn't think more about XIV. I would have thought that within a day or two of release people will be reporting the first level 85s, and a few days later most of the raid content that is clearable will be cleared by the hardcore of that game.
I was going to play this game until the fatigue system was announced. Nope, can't do it. Good thing I got into EVE a week ago.
Yeah just watched the official SE video on the Fatigue system. It's pretty stupid. They claim it's a way to make it more fair to players who can't play 15 hours a game but once you cap your Physical level EXP you can switch your class and the EXP meter resets for that class. So if you're a hardcore player you'll still be leagues ahead by having higher ranks of every class in the game, combining their abilities, etc. So if "fair" was their idea, it's still not fair. The normal leveling curve timesink isn't broken and really doesn't need to be fixed, IMHO. And their version of fixing it doesn't REALLY change that much. I'd probably need a back-up MMO to subscribe to play this game, so when I've maxed out what I can do in FFXIV, I would switch over to another game until my EXP threshold reset. Kind of lame.
I am one of the biggest FF fans on these boards, but even Ill admit theres nothing fair about it, but then again you cant make everything fair when you have player 1 who can play 6+ hours a day, and player 2 can only play 2 hours a day. The people who can play more will always have an advantage over the people who cant. In FFXIV's case the people who level all the classes are going to have a much much much more more powerful character than the person who only levels one class. Maybe they will be able to play together, maybe the community will shun the person with one class? who knows, the communities hidden rules wont be set for awhile. I personally think the system is there to slow people down from rushing to cap and realizing theres very little content. FFXI launched and its cap was like 60 for 6 months until NA release came with RoZ. Think back to ffxi, if you played it, there isnt a whole lot of content at all at level 60. I think FFXIV is following the same format SE knows gamers are a lot more impatient now a days. They want it all and they want it NOW. So they probably decided to slow the players down, to buy them some extra time to get content in the game.
That doesnt bother me at all because I know SE can deliever great content in decent time frames. I have saw it with my own 2 eyes in ffxi over my many years of playing the game.
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No I will be passing on this title, Buying something just because it's the only thing coming out is a bad idea.
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I looked into FFXIV for the sole reason it would waste time for the next MMO, but after playing the OB there is no way I will be buying this. It was probably worse than Aerrevan.
I will be picking up Halo/Fifa for a little over a month and then knuckle into DC Universe. *Fingers crossed Sony don't kill it*
As much as I defended the game which in alot of ways it still is a good game, I can't see myself playing this like I did with FFXI. So I am passing on this and waiting for Guild Wars 2. Instead I'll be playing games like Fallout New Vegas,Starcraft 2, Torchlight, Catlevania: Lords of Shadow and Borderlands in my free gaming time until Guild Wars 2. The only 2 mmos I'll be sticking with is Guild Wars 2 and Torchlight mmo.
I wanted to love FF14, when I got the open beta, was very excited. I already had the mindset that no jumping or swimming wasn't a big deal. While I was downloading the daylong download at the time, I watched wowfony's review about copy pasta'd terrain on youtube. Wow. That is so cheap. I have never seen copy and pasted entire 3d terrain before. I tried the first hour of the game and couldn't get it out of my head that I would be walking outside enjoying the same graphics over and over. It's shallow of me to base a game off of that soley, but my threshold of pain is very low now days. I guess that since I have tried so many horrible games that it doesn't take much for me to reach my limit.
With that being said, no, I wont be buying FF14 even though there is a drought.
So far after trying out closed and open beta (was in close from the start so i did watch how the game did improve over the time) I can say im not buying it prob till after a few months later.
However Ff14 only woken up my desire to play ff11 again.
Well if they designed the game primarily to be used with a controller they learned NOTHING from their old mistakes.
Only an idiot would design a pc game which required a controller to be played at any useable level and only a complete moron would do that twice.
I hoped they would wake up and actually support PC users keyboard and mouse 100%, since, well, it's being released on PC!! FFS.
Obviously they don't give a crap about PC users and only care about console kiddies so I for one won't be buying the game and supporting them, I will put my money into a company that gives a damn about it's PC players, sod them they lost my sale.
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fiontar's point is rather logical and strong, because let's face it, not everyone can afford 2 or more p2p titles. With that said, I believe he was talking about other MMOs not games in general in which case I completely agree with him. There are many people who will do the same I believe, play FFXIV because there is no other interesting game coming this year, at least none of those highly anticipated titles (gw2, TERA, tor, rift)
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I looked into FFXIV for the sole reason it would waste time for the next MMO, but after playing the OB there is no way I will be buying this. It was probably worse than Aerrevan.
I will be picking up Halo/Fifa for a little over a month and then knuckle into DC Universe. *Fingers crossed Sony don't kill it*
Maybe I'm just expecting too much these days. In the last 1-2 years most all of the MMO's released have been incomplete and had lots of trouble at launch. Perhaps unfinished, non-optimized games are the way of the future and I should just get used to the fact that the first couple months of gameplay is going to be a pay to play continued beta test until all the kinks and bugs are worked out. The best I can hope for for FFXIV is a savior patch on launch day that fixes a boatload of issues with the game. If that happens then perhaps I will give it a try and ride out the bugs and see how the game pans out.
Tried the FFXIV OB and didn't care for it at all even though I am in an MMO slump lately. So I went back to LotRO, because it is better than nothing and better than FFXIV...f2p or not.
Yeah, what the hell man?!
Cataclysm has a "rumored" release date of November.. That's not exactly very far off. I think I'll hold out for Cataclysm rather than put money into this game. That is to say that I won't buy this game *eventually*, but right now it's too chaotic with all the new people starting. I'd rather wait until it calms down a bit so I don't get frustrated trying to spawn camp normal monsters like I use to do in FFXI with HMs.
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The game certainly won't go anywhere. Wise decision.
I was going to play this game until the fatigue system was announced. Nope, can't do it. Good thing I got into EVE a week ago.
I think i can't wait till R:PoT and GW2 than get this game
Well, you did write, "so... they chose a great time to release it."
I was exaggerating a bit trying to have fun with it.
I might to be honest but it's def becuase their is nothing else coming out anytime soon that I'm interested in... not untill Guild Wars 2.
Yeah just watched the official SE video on the Fatigue system. It's pretty stupid. They claim it's a way to make it more fair to players who can't play 15 hours a game but once you cap your Physical level EXP you can switch your class and the EXP meter resets for that class. So if you're a hardcore player you'll still be leagues ahead by having higher ranks of every class in the game, combining their abilities, etc. So if "fair" was their idea, it's still not fair. The normal leveling curve timesink isn't broken and really doesn't need to be fixed, IMHO. And their version of fixing it doesn't REALLY change that much. I'd probably need a back-up MMO to subscribe to play this game, so when I've maxed out what I can do in FFXIV, I would switch over to another game until my EXP threshold reset. Kind of lame.
It's a different system, but to be honest with you if you are into WoW and want to play Cataclysm then I wouldn't think more about XIV. I would have thought that within a day or two of release people will be reporting the first level 85s, and a few days later most of the raid content that is clearable will be cleared by the hardcore of that game.
I am one of the biggest FF fans on these boards, but even Ill admit theres nothing fair about it, but then again you cant make everything fair when you have player 1 who can play 6+ hours a day, and player 2 can only play 2 hours a day. The people who can play more will always have an advantage over the people who cant. In FFXIV's case the people who level all the classes are going to have a much much much more more powerful character than the person who only levels one class. Maybe they will be able to play together, maybe the community will shun the person with one class? who knows, the communities hidden rules wont be set for awhile. I personally think the system is there to slow people down from rushing to cap and realizing theres very little content. FFXI launched and its cap was like 60 for 6 months until NA release came with RoZ. Think back to ffxi, if you played it, there isnt a whole lot of content at all at level 60. I think FFXIV is following the same format SE knows gamers are a lot more impatient now a days. They want it all and they want it NOW. So they probably decided to slow the players down, to buy them some extra time to get content in the game.
That doesnt bother me at all because I know SE can deliever great content in decent time frames. I have saw it with my own 2 eyes in ffxi over my many years of playing the game.
Waiting for:EQ-Next, ArcheAge (not so much anymore)
Now Playing: N/A
Worst MMO: FFXIV
Favorite MMO: FFXI
Yeah just watched the official SE video on the Fatigue system. It's pretty stupid.
No you didn't, considering there is no official SE video on the Fatigue system. What you watched was probably the video made by FFXIV Tactics.
No I will be passing on this title, Buying something just because it's the only thing coming out is a bad idea.
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Wow your full of it lol
As much as I defended the game which in alot of ways it still is a good game, I can't see myself playing this like I did with FFXI. So I am passing on this and waiting for Guild Wars 2. Instead I'll be playing games like Fallout New Vegas,Starcraft 2, Torchlight, Catlevania: Lords of Shadow and Borderlands in my free gaming time until Guild Wars 2. The only 2 mmos I'll be sticking with is Guild Wars 2 and Torchlight mmo.
I wanted to love FF14, when I got the open beta, was very excited. I already had the mindset that no jumping or swimming wasn't a big deal. While I was downloading the daylong download at the time, I watched wowfony's review about copy pasta'd terrain on youtube. Wow. That is so cheap. I have never seen copy and pasted entire 3d terrain before. I tried the first hour of the game and couldn't get it out of my head that I would be walking outside enjoying the same graphics over and over. It's shallow of me to base a game off of that soley, but my threshold of pain is very low now days. I guess that since I have tried so many horrible games that it doesn't take much for me to reach my limit.
With that being said, no, I wont be buying FF14 even though there is a drought.
So far after trying out closed and open beta (was in close from the start so i did watch how the game did improve over the time) I can say im not buying it prob till after a few months later.
However Ff14 only woken up my desire to play ff11 again.
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Well if they designed the game primarily to be used with a controller they learned NOTHING from their old mistakes.
Only an idiot would design a pc game which required a controller to be played at any useable level and only a complete moron would do that twice.
I hoped they would wake up and actually support PC users keyboard and mouse 100%, since, well, it's being released on PC!! FFS.
Obviously they don't give a crap about PC users and only care about console kiddies so I for one won't be buying the game and supporting them, I will put my money into a company that gives a damn about it's PC players, sod them they lost my sale.
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