Comments on: Conversations: The Disappointment of Final Fantasy XIV (14)

By: Vangordon

Vangordon — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 00:18:30 +0000

“nostalgic roadtrip for a FFXI addict. Maybe next time you could talk to someone who is a) not your friend, b) not addicted to another game to the point of preoccupation”

J, you dont get the point..him being a fan or what not its the experience that counts nothing else. the interview says in other words how i felt and i did not play thousands of hours of ff11. one more thing all this time and effort all we get is same type of looking characters, same type of jobs but instead of many they just put all of them in a huge mixer and handed over you few little jobs…Disappointing, Disappointing, Disappointing, Disappointing, Disappointing, Disappointing, Disappointing, Disappointing, Disappointing, Disappointing, Disappointing, Disappointing, Disappointing, Disappointing, Disappointing, Disappointing, Disappointing, Disappointing, Disappointing, Disappointing, Disappointing, Disappointing, Disappointing, Disappointing, ….

By: Vangordon

Vangordon — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 00:10:26 +0000

I just finished reading the interview with Andrius and entire time I was so shocked to see that he wrote EXACTLY what I had in mind about FF14. In every way possible. from the jobs to auction house or the entire game itself how lame it is. After so many years of experience Squareenix got from FF11 and trying to implement what the fans really wanted why would you make another game with same topic but missing so much. missing the point, making it far from fun with taking away simple things like auto attack, follow, when you about to check someone you can’t move anymore, like they say “Talk about fly-by-night merchants…!” .. Why can’t you just right click someone rather than another window opens with small fonts at the right side of your screen , you trying to click on browse or something quick quick before he runs away in all the LAG. ..AndI got 3x 24inch screens and trust me it’s a pain…right click and menu right there in your face, that’s how its suppose to be! And yes, yes it is indeed true how are you suppose to find something specific when you just don’t know who the hell has it >.> when you need something you go to that specific store that has it not go in every single store to find it!!!! What Andrius means in my opinion is SE took away the simple things that made the game more convenient! Another thing, why isn’t there any mobs around??! you can run for hours in the map and you will find a few mobs here and there. with such huge areas why not more mobs? Anyways I did quit the game and I won’t be going back to it until a lot of things are fixed. from my part I know 6 of my friends quit as well. I personally had bought 2 collector’s edition copy and when I saw this disaster I was so disappointed that I quit the game 1 week later. I have played a lot of games to make the different between a good one and a bad one. these are things that didn’t even need to be fixed, they are common sense. just sucks and frustrating to pay and play miserably while these issues are fixed. it feels SE just makes it on purpose to waste a good 6months or more of players time and collect money then you start playing. IMO SE is aware of what they made and errors but too confident that people are desperate to play their games. well I hope people will wake up like I did and move on so they don’t take people for fools. Star wars coming out, we all moving to that game. see you all there..

By: J Sensei

J Sensei — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 07:37:37 +0000

I wanted to play this game myself. Basically, I’m not sure if they can (or will) improve it, but my heart hopes that they do. This is a game that should have been a big success.

By: Buy FF14 Account

Buy FF14 Account — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 07:22:23 +0000

Nice review. Been looking forward to play this game though. Despite of all the shortcomings and negative thoughts I still wanna play final Fantasy XIV and see it for myself.

By: merc

merc — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 11:57:08 +0000

Very honest and insightful, good stuff.

By: ShinChuck

ShinChuck — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 09:37:15 +0000

Seems fairly accurate to my experience, with both XI, XIV and the various MMOs I’ve played. I think some minor points are debatable, like the issue with the Dark Knight. I liked the DRK class as well in XI, but spreading it’s abilities around is just an attempt at balancing the game. I miss my dragoon Jumps and my lil wyvern as well, but I think we need to give it some time to see how well it all balances.

If anything, I’d say the armory system that allows you to mix and match abilities is the best thing XIV has going for it right now, although as it’s been said the downside is it could lead to one dominate build when it comes to endgame. Still, it’s pretty cool that I can play as a Lancer and toss out spells, or play as Conjurer and knock mobs around with some weaponskills.

There are a few issues not brought up. The targeting system is pretty awful, and the sluggish UI complete with unnecessarily awkward menus compounds the problem. There’s no good search function to find parties, and you need to be face-to-face with someone to add them. Just a lot of little issues that seem to hint the game wasn’t quite ready for release.

I’m not quite sure why a certain segment of XIV fans seem personally offended when something negative is said about XIV. I’ve still got the first FF game on my NES, I wanted XIV to be the next big MMO just as much as anyone else, and I’m probably going to stick with it in hopes that it’ll improve. But I don’t feel it necessary to personally insult people who disagree, nor are my Garlond Goggles tinted so deeply rose that I’ll try to deny the legitimate issues brought up.

Anyway, good conversation, and I’d say it’s mostly fair compared to my own experience. XIV is not broken beyond repair, there’s potential there, hopefully SE takes note of people’s complaints and continues to improve on the foundation they’ve built. I really think that, given an expansion pack or two, XIV will end up being pretty solid.

By: J Sensei

J Sensei — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 08:32:34 +0000

Actually he pointed out to me about the auto run – he meant auto follow. (I corrected the error at his request btw.) It’s a long interview. To err is human.

I’m not sure what you expected here. Did you miss the word “conversations” in the topic? I provided a platform for one man’s opinion. I did not invent this opinion; it would have existed (in complete obscurity) without any help from me. As a curiosity, I spent some time reading reviews on Amazon.co.jp (the Japanese version) for the regular version of FF14. I found no difference in tone.

I’d love to interview people who are not my friends. I made a conscious decision to start with friends because I cultivate friends with strong opinions. I just find the idea that I led this into a negative reply baffling. He’s played these games. That formed his reply, not me.

By: J

Sun, 10 Oct 2010 02:37:55 +0000

So you strove to present a meaningful snapshot of FFXIV and did so by talking to your friend? That undercuts pretty much anything he had to say if your already leading questions did not do so.

While I am wholly convinced FFXIV has problems that need to be ironed out, your “interview” serves only to set up for a nostalgic roadtrip for a FFXI addict. Maybe next time you could talk to someone who is a) not your friend, b) not addicted to another game to the point of preoccupation, c) without leading them into a negative reply with poorly written questions and absolutely hamfisted personal praise (seriously, get a room), d) someone who has actually played the game enough to know that mechanics do exist (auto run is R on a keyboard, and it is on the joystick). All of these things will lead to you having a little more credibility that is slightly above a hooters waitress saying it’s all about the wings.

By: Indigo

Indigo — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 01:24:37 +0000

One of the best and most honest reviews out there.

I totally agree that there is absolutely no community feeling in FFXIV, it just feels very bland and empty. As far as questing, it is non-existent. The closest thing to a quest is a guildleve. A pointless system that gives you a paragraph of storyline crammed into a hidden log sending you to some floating crystal that instructs you to kill some monsters over and over again. The monsters don’t even have relative placement, they are just, ‘there’. “Why am I doing this again?”

I played FFXI for the long stretch myself, I don’t see FFXIV being able to repeat or create new instances similar to all of those great times. Checking back on PS3 release, though I don’t expect much.

Thanks for the honest review.

By: you obv haven';t played

you obv haven';t played — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 21:35:47 +0000

Auto Run is most certainly in game, has been, and is bound to my L1 button on my controller =/