I wonder how many of you would play FF14...Follow

...smothered in BBQ sauce. Yep, apart from death or maiming of my hands/eyes I'm playing FFXIV.

I have had enough problems with SE's customer service on the token issue to ever want to play another of their games. 3 months and still they haven't fixed a token problem.

I haven't been banned (yet) but if I do that's it for FFXI and I'll NEVER play another of their games even if FFIV is a WTFOMGBBQ game.

I will not be playing FFXIV, for many of the reasons previously stated, plus one of my own.

I can't seem to shake the feeling SE is poisoning the milk so we all DO go over to XIV. The crap with the bannings, and back to '05 customer service standards and communication, along with the thrown together and untested updates have me convinced it's NOT all due to oversight and ineptitude. They've been at this way too long to be this novice about things.
It fits in with the whole this is our game, you'll put up with what we do/don't do/say etc that we've all come to know.

I get the distinct impression they think we didn't so much buy a game from them, as we signed some kind of contract to do business with SE.
I didn't buy SE online. I bought FFXI because thats the game I wanted. I won't be forced into their next title if that's what all this amateur updating and enforcement is about. If it's some kind of business strategy, I'm not going to be a successful target.

Edited, Jul 28th 2009 5:38pm by Restyoneck

Which company are you talking about?

Edited, Aug 1st 2009 6:40pm by NatePrawdzik

After being on hold for 2 hours while at work and not getting my ban resolved, I will NOT be buying 14.

Ill gladly play Knights of the Old Republic and Diablo 3 with my younger brother.

And on a second sucks note...I was going to get Captain Rank for Assault Static tonight.

Oh I've had my friends quit and banned too and what else. Sucks, but did I go on a personal crusade against SE? No.. Sucks that SE did it, but yeah I don't feel that much sympathy about people on the internet that it'd affect me (in the long term). "Because my friend that I don't even know in RL got banned, I'll never buy an SE product again!". It's thanks to FFXI that I met those great people in the first place, and we can still continue chatting outside of the game too.



Internet analogies.. woot. I am always scared of dying in a car accident too. The chance is roughly the same as getting banned at some point.



So to you customer service is as important as the game itself? I respectfully disagree. It's more like saying "Which would you rather have, sore throat or have your kneecap crushed?". I can still play the game even without good CS, but will good CS be enough to make me play a bad game? I douuubt it.



Edited, Aug 2nd 2009 12:55pm by Hyanmen

Proof has been posted, bannings of legit players have been verified, but apparently you don't actually read the threads you like to reference. So here's an idea, why don't you STFU until such time as you know what you're talking about, mmmkay?

I will not play ff14.

Many people have said it best. SE is turning into a "Evil Company" over simply trying to get rid of evil people. I know many of you are not religious, but you can ALL understand it when I say. "The road to hell is paved with good intentions." What this means, is that if you only look at the greater good, you end up being WORSE than the people you are trying to get rid of.

Right now, the only way I see SE redeeming itself is to unban EVERY account that was banned that was in existence for over 1 year and had a character with 1 or more 75s. Roll back your VBV and SecureCode service plans, and ONLY target the people who send spurious tells, and by spurious I mean to more than 15 people, within the first 5 minutes of being made. Put them into Mordion Goal, and check their tell logs. If it contains the same exact message, ban the account, card, and IP.

What you DONT do is leave it up to an automated, unthinking, uncaring system that will burn people harder than the selem witch trials. Right now I am strongly reminded of The Crucible. You simply do not target people on suspicion alone. Throughout history this has always led to chaos.

Edited, Aug 2nd 2009 4:39pm by lightningcount

I will not play FFXIV.

It will be made by people who like you to spend DAYS camping things for one freaking item.

Where a bunny can potentially kill you.

Where you go to a mine and you mine PEBBLES and SNAPPING MOLES (wtf?)

It will be made by people who just don't know what a freaking tank is ( utsu ni anybody ? capped 1:1 pdif ? useless stat like vit)

Where you fight crabs,pink birds, floating fishes(floating?wtf again) and crawlers(that's some scary experience,it's everything i wanted to do if i were an adventurer,kill crabs)

Where a dev team obviously had a crush on Samurai History.

Where a dev team smiles telling you in interviews : maybe uhuh ihihi. (they don't know how their system works...but being dark and oblivious is cool).

Where you have to RUN for like 30 minutes to go from point A from point B,even if that point is 5 meters in front of you, because you can't jump over that little dune.

Where the game is full of NM with 1% drop rate on items, 1% chance to pop, 100% of uselessness of the dropped item.

Where instead of fighting rmts they find new ways of gimping gil making activities.

Where they put a well thought augment system which gives you +3 earth resistance on a lvl 75 item and you can only do it once per day.


Where the only endgame there is is spamming utsusemi Ni NI NI NI ICHI NI NI NI

Where parties are made of BRD+RDM+900 DDs+1 puller (you know those 900 dds don't have even a pebble with them to pull with...btw you can mine them in zerhum mines)

Where you add +5000000 accuracy and you chance to hit improves of 0.65%

Where you get some uber items that give you +1% to Critical hit rating AWESOME.

Where you have to spend AT LEAST 2 years to get a relic(it's a game btw)


No thanks, you'll not have more of my money. I don't pay incompetent people.