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Hellooo ... I was jokiiiiing!
It's a video game. How can anyone even take that little statement as being anything other than a joke lol
You know what ... nevermind.
Sorry that your wittle feelings got hurt over your beloved video game, sir.
/how annoying ....pffft...
LMAO... I find it funny how your only defense is that you where joking and yet you still feel the need to make a jab at the game itself and make some oddball connection.
"Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game."-Guybrush Threepwood
"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me."-Hunter S. Thompson
It's not a defense. It's just not that serious or important to me that I should have to try to somehow build a defense.
It was a light hearted joke and plain to see to anyone who isn't so sensitive and quick to go on the offensive for every little quib made on a forum.
For the record, I do love Final Fantasy which is why i enjoy reading this forum, because my friends and I do intend on playing FFXIV eventually. But it is just a game to me. Nothing more, nothing less.
Sorry, I don't share your passion. Otherwise we could really go at it and get all "huffy-puffy" with each other. But I am just not there yet. Maybe next time ok.
Here is my problem with the premise of this poster's arguement:
There is a reason for your entertainment at these forum posts you speak of. There is a reason that people express expectations of some hail marry patch to come in at the last second before game release.
Most of these people in question have the memory capacity of like -whatever is the oposite of an elephant memorywise, in the animal kingdom. Bad, is the general theme i'm going for.
They don't remember that -every- single mmo that has come out has had a crappy launch. They seem to forget that even WoW was rough when it launched.
There is a reason that AoC, WAR, Aion, all had fantastic sales at launch, and then enjoyed drastic drops in their subscriptions not a month after. Everyone gets all caught up in the hype of the release of 'the best mmo since somone put the second M and the O in the genre.'
Each of those games (which I reference as arguably among the bigger mmo titles since wow's release) has had to shut down servers, merge populations, etc, on account of people leaving shortly after launch.
Those people who last through and don't go right back to WoW feeling defeated and ripped off are the ones who went in with reasonable, well informed expectations to begin with.
Every MMO sucks at launch. Every mmo is an unfinished product. Any mmo which reaches that point of being what you might call a 'finished product' has peaked, and likely grown old with the majorty of it's player base. That's just the nature of the beast.
FFXIV is rough. What's it got going for it? It has the reputation of the previous MMO which while some may or may not like it, was definitely a success (making it to 6 or so expansions).
It's got the best graphics of any MMO on the market, bar none. It doesn't have major, massive bugs. It actually has more than two playable races and starting zones (vs aion which some measure as it's counterpart that only has 2.)
Sure, the interface sucks. It sucked in the first one. That's cause it has to work for multiple platforms. Get over it, or don't. Most of the rest.. lack of auction house, etc, can be fixed in the year ahead.
The best measure of an MMO is, does it still suck after a year? If yes, then it really sucks. That has yet to be seen.
Trolling, off-topic, harrassment.
On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.