Complaints DepartmentFollow

AUTO SORT the inventory. PLEASE.

Not to mention the combat in DDO is EPIC compared to FFXIV.

Fast paced, reactive, mobile. Not just standing in one spot clicking 2 or 3 moves. Of all the MMO I've tried, the combat in this game is very basic, bland, and generic.

My point is that you shouldnt have to go to that much effort to do something which is a simple feature this game should have. BASIC. Thanks alot for the info tho ;)



I hear yah, I felt exactly the same when I started so I ranted on here and luckily a guy from my server read it and invited me to a chatty LS. Maybe you should post in the server forum asking for a LS invite. That being said the game still needs world chat. BASIC.

At least one thing was a direct result of complaints from FFXI:

Complaint: It's a pain looking for Quest NPCs, it needs to be easier to get quests. There is nothing marking quest giver npcs. We know you don't want to have an icon floating over someone's head.

Answer: Levequests, your one stop answer for all things quest.

Better answer: A list of jobs at the Adventurers Guild that you then go to the proper npc to pick up, with some dialog and maybe a small cs. Something like - The water supply is being tampered with! Go talk to Uppi-Downi at the Public Works department to start this job. Then have Uppi-Downi have a bit of personality and talk about the animals in the are nesting in the main aquafier or whatever.

or another better answer: Have quest - givers with quests you haven't done show up on your map with some sort of an icon.

(Not spell checked, sorry people!)

IF FFXIV was a resterount,
this is how SE run it.

you go to the resterount and by a plate (an emty plate).
then you choose what ou want from the menu.
you ask for a sunday roast.
SE then say there gona try and bring you it... eventualy.
they then bring you pretty flowers.
/wait 999,999,999
then a pretty nappkin.
/wait 999,999,999
then they bring you your vegetables!
/wait 999,999,999
then they bring you...
a fork.
/wait 999,999,999
then a spoon.
/wait 999,999,999
then then close the esterount for maintenance.
/wait 999,999,999 + a day
now there gona bring you your potato's!
/wait 999,999,999

then they finaly bring you your meat, but its not quite what you asked for, its a little less.
and when you try and ask for a drink... well, you can geuss how that would go.

Player: "SE can you add a patch to sort inventory?"
SE: "..."
Player: "Please?"
SE: "..."
Player: "se, when are you gona add that patch for the inventory sorting?"
SE: "..."
Player: "OMFG SE! SORT INVENTORY PLEASE!!!WTF"
SE: "We'v improved the part bonus system! :)"
Player: "..."
SE: "Thank you for your feedback :)"

why dont SE listern to what people want and do it, theres no shame in being able to adapt your idea's to acomodate players. i wana know what the jap players think. becouse surly they cant be happy with what SE have produced.
iv posted somewere els all the foults i have with the game, things that should have been sorted in development.
and i read other peoples comments and people have realy good ideas that arnt diffecult to produce,
why SE keeps producing franky unimpressive systems.

the Guild leve.. ? revolutionary? no. just a potentialy awsome questing system, done badly.
wouldnt it be great if you found leave quests on mobs?
and you can trade them with people?
what if players could set there own leves?
and were are the Leves that have CS's? and adiquete rewards?

Grafics? amazing? imersive? no.. there not worth the amount of lag im getting to display them.
grafics are realy nice. but if no one buys a MMO JUST becouse the grafics are good.
and im sorry to burst peoples bubbles but, there are about 4 different hills / cliffs. that are re places in diferent orentation all over La nosca. boring as hell. and its frigging dark 60% of the time anyway!
so i couldnt see if there was anything worth looking at anyway.

SE have said there gona make changes.
and have givern us 30 more days free, wich is the smartest thing SE have done since.....

i do love FF, i HATE SE. allways have allways will.
SE are total hipocrits; for instance: "Totaly emersive gameplay"
Reality: *Cant climb a small ledge thats about 1"in scale of the ground*
*have to repeat the same quest over and over, "Make this guy some new swords" ..."oh he needs some more"
.."Again? realy?" .."yea yea iknow the drill, gimme matt's" if i wanted to play WOW i would have bought WOW
*fighting a mob* ... *Another mob attacks you!* "Cool im gona fight that one" *targets self* *locks onto self* "Huh? oh i see" *unlocks from self* *Untargets self* *Targets Player to the FAR left of me* "Gah" *Targets Self again* "WTF hurry up and target!" *Targets a mouse in the distance* *Dies* .... "realy?"

SE have there work cut out to make this game what they prommised.
as it stands;
FFXI was a tough game to play, but the people that they got they realy impressed, eventualy.
FFXIV is a tough game to play, but SE clearly HATES you and want to stamp on your private parts!

what do you guys think?...
Rant over, ima go back to the Fantasy world of FFXIV, were you'l find me killing Rats.. in a feald.. *sigh*

Edited, Oct 21st 2010 9:44am by LukeA

Absolutely. I shouldn't have to use windower to get XIV from crashing when I alt+tab out of fullscreen either, but well, there you go.

/rant on
FIX ERROR 3102 ALREADY!

seriously, with the buggy code FFXIV has it brings my over-qualified computer to an unparalleled level of instability.
whenever I crash (which is caused by the shutter lag), ERROR 3102 BLOCK me log in for at least 10 mins every time.
wasting me ONE HOUR A DAY effective.

is it that hard to boot a char from game when it dc?
why we need to get additional punishment caused by SE's poor programming??

/rant off

Did they just decide to design the biggest time sync of all time in this game. My gear is all broken seems I spend all my time at the repair npc that can't seem to now even get rid of my red broken crap icon. I research how to repair my own items and looks like I will spend an hour just getting all the menus to pop up just to do repair one piece. Just wow....

Wow I click a npc fixed up and go man we need something hella less time consuming then this with all the pieces that need repair this feature is pure ass.....

Not so much of a complaint, but more of a possible website feature request. not entirely sure where to put it. Sometimes reading the site on my mobile can be a bit of a pain.

Has anyone on the site ever thought about a more mobile friendly version of the site?
Possibility of activating Tapatalk perhaps?

http://www.tapatalk.com/


[edited] Just realized where I should've posted this. XD
You can delete this if you like. Sorry.

Edited, Oct 22nd 2010 3:00pm by Faaeng

The concept of having to repair items isn't new and I can handle some say discomfort red plate comes to mind in wow it displays a small pic of your toon on screen with the failing piece in a color showing the degree of failure ground breaking lol. But having all the pieces of gear all needing different items to repair or crafts is the most clustered fed design in the history of mmo even if you could repair all your gear where the heck would you keep the mats???? The repair system on a whole concept, design, and implementation SE gets a fat juicy F = FAIL.

At least it makes me happy now when I play wow and pay gold for my high end plate gear to be repaired and not spend needless hours of my real life seeking repairs of low level gear repaired instead of enjoying the game I am spending good money to play........

So far not so good I keep playing but its painful as hell trying to give it benefit of the doubt that they can fix this game but many have just stopped logging in we just run end game again in FFXI having a blast. Oh well one more month free then decision time comes not looking good atm....

Edited, Oct 22nd 2010 3:40pm by kenshynOnShiva

retainer complaint

I accidently released my retainer from service while in the wards and lost all my crafting stuff and over 1 mil in gil. the system is garbage. If you release a retainer all the items and gil should either be put in your inventory or you should be able to get the retainer back from the desk where u got it from. almost want to quit due to this system and over a month of saving crafting matts.

I shall pose this complaint as a couple of questions:


Why has SE taken everything that they've done to make FFXI more enjoyable, then make XIV without any of those things?
And they messed with so many concepts that worked well for XI and would have been unique still if they have found a way to implement it with the new system of things.

Why can't there be an auction house?
Just because every other game has some form of an auction house does not mean that the idea is unoriginal. On the contrary, it has been found to be one of the most effective ways to trade in games. There are many aspects of games that I want to be refreshing and new. The auction house system, conceptually, is not one of them. Searching through bazaars in XI was like playing the lottery. Sometimes you found something, but most of the time you spent an hour gaining nothing. Now playing the lottery seems mandatory.



I just don't understand it. I spent 3 days when I first started playing XI just running around sandy talking to NPC's trying to find quests, and finish them. Why? because there were tons of them or the NPC's had little tidbits or stories or funny comments (the couple in north sandy by the smith guild who are on opposite tiers of the platform, both upset at the other for not being there. Made me lol.) Maybe it's the targeting scheme, but running around trying to talk to people always annoyed me in this game.

Let me put it simply. You spent several years learning what the gaming audience wanted from their MMO's. Teamwork, reputation, community, prestige, Epicness, etc. You went from this shining masterpiece of a hard core MMO, and then tossed us this steaming pile of sh*t. Everything but the graphics just seem half assed. No thought whatsoever. Don't get me wrong, This might be a great single player game. but I just don't understand how this is the same development team that did XI. teamplay mechanics are absolutely void. The game is full of insanely annoying redundancies. There are many people who defended you SE, and then you turned around and shat in their faces. I don't have time to waste on this game. There are much better things to do. Like sit here and type all this out.

I mean, what the I don't even....

I am very happy to see endless people agreeing that this is by far the worst MMO released within the last 10 years. I had writen a post before which stated that "Compared to ff11, ff14 is awfull, and I had many people defending this programming mess. I will not even call it a game, because games are fun.
The only good thing this mess did was make me more aware of other future MMO releases like Guildwars 2. Alot of people said that FF11 was this bad at release, I would REALLY have to see that to believe it. I have a lot of anger because I feel like i have been severly ripped off.
PS.. wouldn't it be easier to make a post having people list the good things about FF14, because the post would be reduced in size dramatically. Ok here goes the list of good things..1. graphics, 2, (?). end of list.


Edited, Oct 25th 2010 11:36pm by bigalohelper

It's a flat out chore to play this game, I've given it a chance, and the first month has not been even the slightest bit enjoyable. It still baffles me people are having fun based on the future possibility that this game can bring. It's ridiculous, this game COULD be good, I imagine it will be fun, so it must be fun!

It's simply not worth hanging around for future possibilities.

reading this thread gave me FAR more enjoyment than playing the game does. Thanks, and i agree on pretty much every single gripe.

Windowed, moveable, resizable map please....helloooooooo

Link please.

I know the numbers are extremely low for an MMO launch. I'm fairly certain Warhammer and AoC had more successful launches than FFXIV, and that's a damn tragedy. I just haven't seen anything that looks even remotely official (ie. from a reliable source) to indicate what those numbers might be.

*ESC key should be immediate, and for all menus. ESC key only works "most" of the time... why can't we make it all the time?

*When trading items with retainer, the data should be sent at the end of all transactions. Waiting 5 seconds after every item is very frustrating.

*Retainer item exchange and bazaar management should be in one window.

*It takes 10-20 seconds to change from class to class because of action/equipment macros changing one at a time.

*Seemingly cannot do any actions when the mob is doing a special attack? Jarring Strike keeps getting canceled due to mob doing a unnecessarily long attack animation.

*A limit on the amount of shouts that can be done a day. Also /block command should be reissued.

*More party-based content. Leve parties are a waste of time. Behest is like Garrison in FF11, where you spend twice as much time getting half as much exp/money you get than normal.

*Inflation is going to be a nightmare. Being able to get 1million in less than a week is ridiculous.

*Party searching feature is useless. The old one was much better.

*Next time, get game-testers that aren't yes-men and fanboys, but actually make the game playable.

After playing this since CE release I must say I'm heavily disappointed like the rest of you. I looked forward to playing this game since it was first announced there would be another MMO next to XI. I will keep my post simple and to the point:

I think almost everyone can agree this game was released way too early for as many flaws as it does have. I would have preferred a release with the PS3 in March of 2011 instead of this garbage.

1) The retainer system
Good on paper, but it frankly irritates the heck out of me. You go to the market ward and have so many bodies having to load up just so you can see them... by the time I get to like the 20th person I'm like, "wait who did I all check again? o_o"
While I encourage SE to be creative and a little different I prefer just to have the Auction House back. They have already basically hand written an invitation to the Chinese players whom are the majority of RMT. The only way I can see this not turning into RMT like XI is if they ban it in China not to do this crap. But nevertheless, they were invited and I originally figured that the retainer thing was part of the whole "fix the RMT" solution. Please correct me if I'm wrong here but that was how I viewed it. Adding a search function I don't think is going to help matters for me. Selling is one thing but buying is another.

2) Partying/Interaction with other players
Okay... where is the party? No, seriously. I hate to refer to XI here but that had a good system. /sea all, /sea, looking for party flags. I am all for wanting the ability to solo but for me if I wanted to play solo 24/7 I would have bought a 1 player game not an MMO. :( This is by far the biggest complaint for me. I am a people person. I want to play with people, make some friends, have that easy option to put a flag up and solo as I am. My server is extremely silent and when you do ask for something in shout people do not respond.

Partying seems rare in this game and it makes me sad. :/ Functioning of a party no skillchains, no teamwork needed makes it blah feeling.

3) Chat customization, more options
Again, it seems as if SE took a step backwards here as well. We need more options such as changing colors of font, adjusting certain filters, maybe the color scheme of the box, number of lines displayed...the list goes on. Search function I have found almost useless so I'm not sure if I just don't know how to properly use it, or if it really is useless.

^ Solution: Implant XI's system and possibly update it even further.

4) UI and delays

This has been heavily discussed, not need to further discuss it as my opinion is very much the same.


5) Is it just me or... does it seem like a lot of people are just crafting? That kinda bugs me. If that was what I wanted to do in a video game I would want to be paid irl money for it haha. Some people do enjoy it and I'm happy for them but it seems more focused on you have to level crafts which is a little bit of a turn off for me.

I will say this much on their behalf, it seems like I am making money a lot easier but...

6) Where are the quests? lol
I want to have to walk around talk to townsfolk and have to do something for some rewards. It gives me something to do when none of my friends are online. :(

7) ANIMA recharge times are absurd.

Positive things:
* Behest
* Leves
* Storyline is developing so far so good
* Seems easier to make money

I'm sure I can list a lot more things but my point is too many things that just aren't finished. I think everyone can agree there. I liked FFXI, and I will stick around and see if this game develops into something better. For now though I'm getting very bored with it and I'm not even Physical level 20 yet. I will login a few hours and get sick of it. That's pretty bad considering I played FFXI for 10hrs straight and was still never tired of it lol. If no improvements by end of December I am either quitting or if there is an option to freeze the account I will until March to try again.

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My long time friend from FFXI had this to state about FFXIV:

"lol well what makes me mad is they took 11, updated graphics, kicked everything else in the balls back to beta 11, and then sucked all the fun outta it."

He also stated he misses our Mog Houses as he liked filling his with decorations. I'd have to say I miss my house as well.

Edited, Oct 28th 2010 12:08am by SelenaUzume

Sorry just need to rant and get this off my chest, this seems like the best place to do it, even if no one reads it, at least i've said it.


I'm really trying to love the game but i think it's the little things they took away from us that has made this less interesting for me. They have made a beautiful game but unfortunatly graphics are not gonna keep me entertained.
The crafting system and the drop system have in my mind have pushed me away, everything is made from scratch, unless you get a guild leve with an armour drop, you pretty much have to rely on crafter's (killing mobs and getting a normal drop of its harvestable drop or a +1 +2 or a +3 is just an inventory killer, but probbably so SE can make more money from us with the release of purchacing new retainers).
The mage spells, i hate the way you automatically learn them, it seems a bit cheatish, you rank up and your spammed with all the spells you've learned, i liked the way on ffxi you'd either go hunt for a new spell scroll or purchace one, yeah yeah its to stop manopolizing of the prices, but it made you work for your goal, here you turn level 10 and you pull phalanx out of the twelves asses (can't remember what level phalanx is).

Leves, Quests & Scenario's OH MY

This i think is the problem for me, the leves are too damn boring, there's no variation, even the faction leves are exactly the same, just mixed around with a behest style, there is nothing that grasps you, even getting them is annoying and that's what scares me, FFIV is Guildleve Oriantated, Just look at the opening movie its like a ground hog day, you pick the same ones you had the day before, go out and do them (even in a group i feel bad sometimes for the others and don't attack because they go down fast, even on the hardest, so i sacrifice my SP gain for so the others can gain from it). there is just no reward feel to them,

Quests, hmm yeah.... talk to the same NPC then enter an instance (lazy mans way of not having to code different text into different NPC's IMO) i hate these instances, i don't think theres any need in them, a cutscene can show me whats gone on, without the couple of mins to load the 1st NPC to then see a small Cutscene to enter an instance, to wait a couple of min for all the NPC's to load again and be stuck in a ring where if i leave i have to start with the 1st NPC again, to only during this instance either talk with the Same NPC again, or the one thats is standing right next to him, to see another short cutscene and be back where i started or where ever the NPC said for me to go with them, you don't need an instance for a cutscene.

Main scenario, these are too short to keep me entertained, and to far apart (in the current climate of the game) 5 ranks in this game may aswell be 20 to any other MMO i need like 22k SP in this game at rank 20 and only like 40k exp in ffxi for level 80, problem is FFXI exp is easier to get.

I just logged on after a week of non-play and...

I take a look at the server numbers (Kashuan, which was low pop anyway) and it's down from ~1500 to 800!

Plus it was really laggy.

It really bummed me out.

Consider me canceled. :(

i am really going nut without the Auction house!!!
how come the FFXI is so much nice, and better than FFXIV!?!?!?
as a new game suppose to be better than the old one. but so far all i can see is just the graphic, that's it.

what's wrong with the game.

Doubt RMT counter measures are the factor that decides implementation of features. Ultimately, the game lacks so much from FFXI becuase they wanted to create a game that did not compete with it at all, ironically that success has lead to the games failure.

I do remember reading an interview saying they fully intend players to play FFXI along side with FFXIV and not feel like FFXIV is the successor of the franchise.

Yeah, I've read that thread but it's like the only biggie is no AH and no one knows if the decision on the removal AH is based on RMT counter measures, maybe they just didn't want an AH; seeing as how they are big on breaking trends and ruining things on purpose.

From my perspective, I see them being greedy by trying their hardest not to compete with FFXI playerbase and making people play both. Maybe those gameplay factors you consider RMT counter measures are just things implemented to deliberately slow progress; because to me that is exactly what they feel like.

I find myself thinking a lot, why isn't this feature like it was in FFXI, why does it seem like they tried to turn that feature on its head, this would be much more enjoyable if it were like FFXI and so on.
The conclusion I draw from these thoughts leads me to believe they just tried really hard to make it not like FFXI for some reason or other. Does not seem to me that SE are fighting the hard fight against RMT and we are collateral damage.

Edited, Oct 30th 2010 3:44pm by sylph19

Going to give the complaining about the game a break for now, instead I want to adress a little pet peeve of mine, and many others about the people that are palying. This is something I have noticed in all the online games I play, but for some reason seems way more prevelant in FFXI and FFXIV. People that don't know how to pronounce words. Some from FFXI and some From FFXIV, and any other general term used in games.

1) Melee [mey-ley] Stop saying "Me Lee"

2) Pugilist [Pyoo-juh-list] It Isn't "poo guh list"

3) Phalanx [Fey-langks] I have actually heard several people say "P-hal-in-ex"

4) Paladin [Pal-uh-din] Not "pala-dine"

5) Haubergeon [Haw-ber-juhn] This one is an understandable mistake


*tongue-in-cheek*



Edited, Oct 30th 2010 7:53pm by KristoFurwalken