FFXIV gets a 4.0 from Gamespot and other reviews & hilarious discoveries about FFXIV

[Fliegar]

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So I decided to go back to being a lancer, and I now have to re-distribute points and be useless for the next several hours, so I have devised a plan! Re-distribute, play an hour of Demon's Souls (new PS3, old files gone), re-distribute, make dinner, and possibly more Demon's Souls after that.

And if being a lancer isn't fun again, I'll probably stare blankly at the screen as I traverse through copy-pasta terrain so I can read the 2 good areas of the game.

Seriously, the area with the crashed airship + dragon, and the area far to the north are beautiful. It almost reminds me of living in BC again.

[Aksannyi]

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Because I wanted to. It was something I was looking forward to.

[DakAttack]

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Yes, when I rolled my DK (I think it's still like 63 lol) I loved how she jumped.

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Just seems like so much simple shit is missing from this game. Jumping. Hotkeys (as far as I can tell, correct me if I'm wrong). Search. AH. I mean this is basic shit for MMOs these days that's just not there. People were expecting a lot of SE because now, there's a market standard for MMOs. XI was very different from most MMOs out there right now but it still worked. It was still fun, once you forgive some of its hangups. And people who start playing it now think, "Well, this game has been around a while, it's okay that it doesn't have X."

A lot of shit that's missing here in XIV there's no excuse not to have. I can even forgive jump because it wasn't in XI ... (as annoying as that is to me) ... but some shit is so basic I just have to wonder what the hell the devs were thinking. I mean come on, they eliminated the AH to circumvent RMT ... it's like bombing the entire continent of Europe to get rid of Germany. Complete overkill. And they're so narrow-minded in that respect that they can't see how much it hurts the game. All they see is the small bit of progress against RMT. I mean come on ... really?!? Their priorities are fucked. They will fix really stupid little shit before they fix anything major. And quite honestly, as pretty as the game looks, I highly doubt I'm going to even touch it. With their track record for fixing nothing but the dumbest of shit - and some shit that the players actually like (like when they fixed Sambas so they don't affect your BST pets ... was that really hurting anything?) I have little faith that they're going to bring this game back up to my (and others') expectations. And that's sad.

So if that's what they want to do, that's fine. They can have their "soup nazi" kind of game, but they'll have to put up with their shrinking playerbase. I hope they're okay with that. I'll take my business elsewhere, which will probably be right back over to WoW.

You don't even play the game, so why are you complaining?

[Firewind]

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I loved PvP noobs who would try to bunny hop on Aion. They would end up gliding and it would make it to much easier to gank people during Rifts because they can't fly away.

[Ufgt]

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Truth.

Case in point: You can jump in Aion.


Icemage

You best be able to jump in a game where you can FLY.

For the record, I love Aion.

[Aksannyi]

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Aw but I liked it in WoW. My Blood Elf Rogue would do a little twirl in the air when she jumped along and it always looked so pwetty .

Yes, when I rolled my DK (I think it's still like 63 lol) I loved how she jumped.

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Just seems like so much simple shit is missing from this game. Jumping. Hotkeys (as far as I can tell, correct me if I'm wrong). Search. AH. I mean this is basic shit for MMOs these days that's just not there. People were expecting a lot of SE because now, there's a market standard for MMOs. XI was very different from most MMOs out there right now but it still worked. It was still fun, once you forgive some of its hangups. And people who start playing it now think, "Well, this game has been around a while, it's okay that it doesn't have X."

A lot of shit that's missing here in XIV there's no excuse not to have. I can even forgive jump because it wasn't in XI ... (as annoying as that is to me) ... but some shit is so basic I just have to wonder what the hell the devs were thinking. I mean come on, they eliminated the AH to circumvent RMT ... it's like bombing the entire continent of Europe to get rid of Germany. Complete overkill. And they're so narrow-minded in that respect that they can't see how much it hurts the game. All they see is the small bit of progress against RMT. I mean come on ... really?!? Their priorities are fucked. They will fix really stupid little shit before they fix anything major. And quite honestly, as pretty as the game looks, I highly doubt I'm going to even touch it. With their track record for fixing nothing but the dumbest of shit - and some shit that the players actually like (like when they fixed Sambas so they don't affect your BST pets ... was that really hurting anything?) I have little faith that they're going to bring this game back up to my (and others') expectations. And that's sad.

So if that's what they want to do, that's fine. They can have their "soup nazi" kind of game, but they'll have to put up with their shrinking playerbase. I hope they're okay with that. I'll take my business elsewhere, which will probably be right back over to WoW.

[Grizzlebeard]

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Aion's system requirements are about the same as WoW. Most MMORPGs made in the past 5 years are benchmarked to WoW's specification. Any system that can handle WoW can handle just about any games. The exception here is FFXIV. Remember, when FFXI first came out, it was also considered a "high end" game.

Whenever I hear someone pulling out the amazing system requirement card I think of Vanguard.

How did that end again?

Oh, and you can jump in Vanguard.

[Firewind]

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I'm glad there is no jumping so I don't have to watch a bunch of idiots jumping around like their asses were on fire all the damn time.

Aw but I liked it in WoW. My Blood Elf Rogue would do a little twirl in the air when she jumped along and it always looked so pwetty .

[Aeni]

Re: FFXIV gets a 4.0 from Gamespot

Truth.

Case in point: You can jump in Aion.


Icemage

Aion's system requirements are about the same as WoW. Most MMORPGs made in the past 5 years are benchmarked to WoW's specification. Any system that can handle WoW can handle just about any games. The exception here is FFXIV. Remember, when FFXI first came out, it was also considered a "high end" game.

[Icemage]

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It's funny how every other recent MMO has managed to implement jumping in their games despite the "technical issues". There's zero reason to not have jumping in a game other than to act as an additional impediment to player progress. S-E are past masters at making the player endure hours of worthless shit in order to achieve the simplest of tasks, anyone believing otherwise is simply deluding themselves.

Truth.

Case in point: You can jump in Aion.


Icemage

[Aeni]

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It's funny how every other recent MMO has managed to implement jumping in their games despite the "technical issues".

Which games are you referring to? I haven't seen any that have had them implemented, unless you mean RO type of MMOs (i.e., very low resource requirement) Amongst all of the games released in the past 5 years (MMORPGs), there's never been any that was as system intensive as this game.

[Grizzlebeard]

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There's technical issues with jumping. It's prone to exploitation for one (WoW has a ton of exploitation and even with a restrictive environment

It's funny how every other recent MMO has managed to implement jumping in their games despite the "technical issues". There's zero reason to not have jumping in a game other than to act as an additional impediment to player progress. S-E are past masters at making the player endure hours of worthless shit in order to achieve the simplest of tasks, anyone believing otherwise is simply deluding themselves.

[Fliegar]

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You can watch videos while you're alt-tabbed from the game. Some parts of the map you can get away with the auto-run feature. I play SC2 while the boat takes me across the waters. lol

Every time I alt+tab out, I always come back to a message saying "You have been raped by a giant ant! Watch where you're going, asshole!"

I hate ants.

[Aeni]

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I wouldn't want to see people hopping around like bunnies either, but with the distances in XIV there's no reason to make players go around low obstacles in the terrain if they aren't serving a purpose.

There's technical issues with jumping. It's prone to exploitation for one (WoW has a ton of exploitation and even with a restrictive environment, due to being able to jump, players can get around a lot of restrictions) and then there's the other issue of having to develop "sensors" built into every part of a map. God knows that you can get away with that in WoW due to the simple graphical display requirements but trying to do that in FFXIV will require a rig that needs to break the 10,000 point barrier in the benchmark.

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I'm guilty of being one of the players that likes to hop around, but I only do it because it gives me a button to press and be mildly entertained as I'm travelling somewhere.

You can watch videos while you're alt-tabbed from the game. Some parts of the map you can get away with the auto-run feature. I play SC2 while the boat takes me across the waters. lol

[TheGrandMom]

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With as boring as FFXIV is can you imagine how many asshats would be jumping around non-stop? Can't say that I blame them though...