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Has the open beta changed your mind about getting FFXIV: ARR?
Syno23
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Personally I think that it has confirmed that I am going to buy FFXIV: ARR and play it a whole lot. The game is awesome. But I understand what most of you guys have your opinions? Are you going to keep your preorder and buy the game at launch or has the open beta changed your mind?
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I am using my first free month and then i am out . FFXIV is very generic and in my opinion not worth the sub money when you have much better MMOS for free or B2P.
I bought CE for original version so i didn't have to buy the game again.
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yeah definitely feels very generic so far.
It should be fun but it doesn't appear to offer anything new
It does seem pretty run of the mill. But it is GREATLY improved over 1.0. I mean don't even think about 1.0 anymore. It's not that game.
I plan on playing it.
As far as the price, it's pretty reasonable. I always end up spending money on "free" games anyway
Definitely, i went from being pretty excited to completely bored in one day of beta.
The game seemed very bland to me personally, i realize MMO's usually don't really shine in their first few days of play, but there was nothing there to keep me interested till that time came.
Anyone who was expecting anything new from this game will have hard times playing it...rest of us who ware just tired of every mmo bringing "next feature that will revolutionize genre", will love it. It's just kinda old school mmo made with modern tech.
If you expect anything new from it, action combat, fast paced combat - you have no rights to be bash that game since from very beginning it was clear what direction its going and it's only your fault that you tried it w/o checking what its about before playing.
Not sure why people keep referring to it as "old school". It's not, at all.
It has no emphasis on grouping, you can do everything outside of dungeons solo, the time it takes to level is some of the fastest I have ever experienced in a game, no fear of dying, telegraphed combat, quest hub based, zone markers everywhere, and slow combat (No, it's not tactical, with a 2.5sec Global Cooldown it's simply slow). That is just a couple of things I can think of off the top of my head. How this game is considered "old school" to me is baffling.
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This is a subjective topic. How else can you reply?
For me, I am still looking for what the mainstay of the game is. Chalk me up as undecided.
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Favorite MMO: Vanilla WoW
Currently playing: GW2, EVE
Excited for: Wildstar, maybe?
It has an emphasis on grouping. It's just not forced grouping. There are many activities that require a group that you as a player will care about, and groups also get a huge party XP boost. It's also an endgame oriented game.
The leveling speed is honestly not that fast, and considering that you may want to level a bunch of classes, not just one...
The game's questing style is actually old school. If you check out WoW Cataclysm or Rift Storm Legion, you'll find those games use a distinctly different questing style, that's very few quests along a specific path. FFXIV is a crapload of quests all over the place. And a bit closer to Vanilla Rift, with lots of other options so you can always find something to do.
Slow combat is more of a TBS relic, but that's definitely not anti-old-school by any means.
Favorite MMO: Vanilla WoW
Currently playing: GW2, EVE
Excited for: Wildstar, maybe?
This will be the first game I am subscribing too. I only ever played on others accounts. SWG, etc. So yeah. It is reviving the franchise for me. I thought Final Fantasy was a gonner after that travasty, FF 13
Downloading the game now, just 6 more gigabytes to download. This thread has got me a bit concerned XD. (I refused to try the old version due to how bad I read it was from early tester reviews).
I hope to God that I can play like I usually do with Final Fantasies:
1. Don't read any fcking gamefag/wiki that is not inside of the game.
2. Enjoy ingame music. (important one; for certain melodies I tend to sing a long XD)
3. Talk to every person in town just to hear what they have to say.
If those 3 are able to be met, the game stands a chance, it is FF after all.
This version blows 1.0 out of the water. That's not saying much though because 1.0 was one of THE worst video games I've ever played, and I've been playing them since pong. So don't concern yourself with 1.0. It's not that game.
On its own merits ARR seems( I say seems, I'm only level 5) pretty solid if you want a traditional tab based mmo.
you get all that and way more dude. I mean way more. and the music is the bomb dude. They took every score from every FF game and put it all in. Just hearing the Battle music makes me feel nastalgec.
And yes EVERY npc has dialogue. EVERY BODY.
And don't listen to the trolls. There is more positive than negative about the game.
What is it about the game that makes you think you'll play it a whole lot? Tbh while I'm only level 4, my opinions of the game so far are fairly negative. Obviously I don't expect this to be an accurate representation of the full game but seriously, sticking you slap bang in the middle of a huge city to begin with was a stupid stupid stupid idea for new players trying to grasp the game. I'm not one for linear games but at the start at least, it helps when finding your way is that little bit easier.