Official Unofficial Bugs, Thoughts, and Suggestions

[Bricklayer]

Re: Official Unofficial Bugs, Thoughts, and Suggestions

hmm, finally created my first character, but now i can't login to the server.... there's just this ominous thunderstorm sound, and "now loading..." heh heh, looks like my server is down

[Kailea]

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My thoughts exactly, I say scrap the 22nd release date give it another few months, do another open beta in January and have a worldwide multiplatform release. At the present time there is no force in the universe that will have me buying this game, let alone paying a monthly fee for it as well.

It needs a lot of work still. It was my thoughts when they announced release it wouldnt be ready and It is not.

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as for knowing nothing about MMO's my experience in FFXI, WoW, EVE, Aion, SWG beg to differ, and I know one thing about MMO's, if the gameplay is clunky, than it won't last long (Warhammer,LoTR suffered from clunky gameplay). It can look as awesome as possible, but if you can't get around (movement) or issue commands (in battle) without good response times, than it is going to fail.

It has potential to be a great game but ATM it is aweful, and if SE rushes it out the door, they are going to be shooting themselves in the foot. Especially with the well established WoW releasing yet another expansion this winter.

Every MMORPG is "awful" or "crap" when they come out

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See, thats your opinion and you are welcome to it. There are others, me included, that feel this game needs more time in development and not to be released on the 22nd. There is more to a game besides looking amazing. There are TOO MANY issues this close to release and during an open beta. I've been testing games for many years and I have to say this open beta ranks up there in the 5 worst that I've experienced. I love SE and I'm a FF fangirl, so I want nothing more than to have this game succeed. In fact, in a little corner of my fangirl mind, I want it to be bigger than WoW. lol But with the path they are taking, they are hurting their success, especially if they decide to release at the end of the month.
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top 5 worst? oh please now I know your blowing smoke out your butt -.- There have been many many many MMORPGs that have started out (and some still are) way worse then FFXIV is right now.

[Yellow Mage]

Re: Official Unofficial Bugs, Thoughts, and Suggestions

There were no mounts in EQ till the Luclin expansion or access to the Nexus stones.

Reading this sentence actually reminded me of something: EQ players just recently got player housing with their latest expansion.

/golfclap

[MrMageo]

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I love SE and I'm a FF fangirlBoy, so I want nothing more than to have this game succeed. In fact, in a little corner of my fangirl mind, I want it to be bigger than WoW. lol But with the path they are taking, they are hurting their success, especially if they decide to release at the end of the month.

My thoughts exactly, I say scrap the 22nd release date give it another few months, do another open beta in January and have a worldwide multiplatform release. At the present time there is no force in the universe that will have me buying this game, let alone paying a monthly fee for it as well.

It needs a lot of work still. It was my thoughts when they announced release it wouldnt be ready and It is not.

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as for knowing nothing about MMO's my experience in FFXI, WoW, EVE, Aion, SWG beg to differ, and I know one thing about MMO's, if the gameplay is clunky, than it won't last long (Warhammer,LoTR suffered from clunky gameplay). It can look as awesome as possible, but if you can't get around (movement) or issue commands (in battle) without good response times, than it is going to fail.

It has potential to be a great game but ATM it is aweful, and if SE rushes it out the door, they are going to be shooting themselves in the foot. Especially with the well established WoW releasing yet another expansion this winter.

[TheGrandMom]

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Really, though... the overall game looks amazing, beta will be beta, errors will be found, no reason to try to turn the entire forum off to the game because of a few bugs you encountered during free play.

See, thats your opinion and you are welcome to it. There are others, me included, that feel this game needs more time in development and not to be released on the 22nd. There is more to a game besides looking amazing. There are TOO MANY issues this close to release and during an open beta. I've been testing games for many years and I have to say this open beta ranks up there in the 5 worst that I've experienced. I love SE and I'm a FF fangirl, so I want nothing more than to have this game succeed. In fact, in a little corner of my fangirl mind, I want it to be bigger than WoW. lol But with the path they are taking, they are hurting their success, especially if they decide to release at the end of the month.

[Grizzlebeard]

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Suuuuure, did you ever play EQ?.

Yeah, played it from release in 1999 through to around April 2004.

There was no exp debt in Everquest, you lost exp when you delevelled just like FFXI with the additional problem of appearing naked at your bind point and having to make your way back to your corpse in order to loot it before it vanished and took all your gear with it, something they relaxed in later years. And while exploration was there initially, as with FFXI, once people had established the optimal areas to exp in it was very rare you found people venturing off the beaten track. The two games were very similar in so far as they had a brutal death penalty and limited transport options. There were no mounts in EQ till the Luclin expansion or access to the Nexus stones. Prior to that the only forms of transportation were druid and wizard portals, boats, and your own feet. Depending on your playtime it could take days early on to venture between alternative exp camps if you didn't know a high level druid or wizard.

[abknight]

Re: Official Unofficial Bugs, Thoughts, and Suggestions

Really, though... the overall game looks amazing, beta will be beta, errors will be found, no reason to try to turn the entire forum off to the game because of a few bugs you encountered during free play.

[TheGrandMom]

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Ok, let's not start shit. Everyone has an opinion and is allowed to have one. If you can't discuss things civilly, I'll close the thread and hand out infractions.

[abknight]

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Don't listen to a word this Magio guy says. He's a fool and knows nothing about MMOs; or videogames, in general.

[MrMageo]

Re: Official Unofficial Bugs, Thoughts, and Suggestions

I dunno if they are o not but I have seen distinctively the Japanese Flag, The Union Jack, and the EU circle of Stars beside peoples names. so either people have similar ideas as to what their LS should look like or SE's regional registration is being represented in game by a regional flag.

[TheGrandMom]

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not to mention I have no idea how to check mobs,

http://www.ffxionline.com/forums/ffxiv-new-player-resources/77701-aetheryte-help-tome.html#post891118

Section 3 – Target Strength
A target's relative difficulty can be discerned from the color of its aura (displayed next to its name). The color will change depending on whether you are fighting alone or as a member of a large party.

Blue: Easy Prey
Green: Decent Challenge
Yellow: Even Match
Orange: Tough
Red: Very Tough

[Fliegar]

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Starter zones are terrible, not to mention I have no idea how to check mobs, I fought one that one shot me for 2.5K DMG wtf is that shit. Im done with it, to clunky, to WoW like, and it makes my computer sound like shit and run very hot. Unless they tackle this stuff I personally won't be playing. If I wanted to play WoW and just quest the whole damn time, Id go revive Furrymonkey and play WoW. The game looks good, but the game itself is trashy.

Not to mention wtf is up with displaying my country flag on my name, I assume it does since ive seen little JP flags, and little UK and EU flags. If I wan't people to know where I am from Ill tell them myself I don't need people knowing Im from Canada, just by seeing me playing a video game.

Im disapointed in the game, although it seems to be par for the course, pretty well everything Square and Enix have done together of late has been a snooze fest, im talking about FFX-2,FFXII,FFXIII, and FFXIV seems to be right up that same linear as hell, mind numbingly boring ass game.

Um.. aren't those little flags just your linkshell colours or something? O_o

And about the checking mobs deal, if it has a red helmet by its name, and it looks like it could rape you, it probably will.

[MrMageo]

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Starter zones are terrible, not to mention I have no idea how to check mobs, I fought one that one shot me for 2.5K DMG wtf is that shit. Im done with it, to clunky, to WoW like, and it makes my computer sound like shit and run very hot. Unless they tackle this stuff I personally won't be playing. If I wanted to play WoW and just quest the whole damn time, Id go revive Furrymonkey and play WoW. The game looks good, but the game itself is trashy.

Not to mention wtf is up with displaying my country flag on my name, I assume it does since ive seen little JP flags, and little UK and EU flags. If I wan't people to know where I am from Ill tell them myself I don't need people knowing Im from Canada, just by seeing me playing a video game.

Im disapointed in the game, although it seems to be par for the course, pretty well everything Square and Enix have done together of late has been a snooze fest, im talking about FFX-2,FFXII,FFXIII, and FFXIV seems to be right up that same linear as hell, mind numbingly boring ass game.

[Cyprius]

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If it's any help, Mageo, I ventured to that fourth city (forget the name -- not one of the starters) and even farther. There's mobs everywhere compared to the starter areas (and cluster-fucked together, too.) Really wish the starter zones were the same.

If it's the one I went to, you can't get there. Guards won't let you pass.

[Etra]

Re: Official Unofficial Bugs, Thoughts, and Suggestions

If it's any help, Mageo, I ventured to that fourth city (forget the name -- not one of the starters) and even farther. There's mobs everywhere compared to the starter areas (and cluster-fucked together, too.) Really wish the starter zones were the same.