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SE just fails thy making SP easy till r20 n i'm stuck @ 41 now cant do sh*t 40-80 sp per kill when im going to get 50 next years SE THIS IS GAME DONT MAKE PPL SUFFERING ....

Update schmupdate... This game still sucks WANG. Damn you SE; Damn youz to hell!!!

The problem isn't they do jack and sh*t...the problem is we don't know what they do exactly other then what they are affecting, but not in what degree they affect things.

Like wow...we do know STR affects blocked DMG and Attack...but to what degree? Is 1 STR=2dmg blocked, or is it 10dmg blocked or w/e? Is 1 STR=1 Attack, or is it 10 Attack? If Stat increasements were actually shown in your stats other then STR, VIT etc, but in Attack, Defense etc, we would know how much they affect each thing and could work with that.
SE gave us some insight on stats, but we still don't know what they really do...we just know where they do it.

PS: I as an Gladiator could see a way better affection of STR, if blocked DMG for example wouldn't vary between getting hit for 50DMG and 300...

and also We already spending too much time in Wards.

This is no complaint about FFXIV, but about PCs....god damnit I hate my PC...one day everythings fine, the game runs smoothly...the other day I log in and I get R0 constantly...although nothing @#%^ing changed on anything...the game is still the same, my PC is still the same and my internet connection is still the same but it just @#%^ing changes all the time...

Thats why I'm looking forward to the PS3 Version...@#%^ing get rid of my @#%^ing PC, cause I @#%^ing hate the varieing results in playing each @#%^ing day!

HATE my PC!!!!!!! >.<

Gathering
My character has 2 eyes. Why can she not tell me WHAT the hell I am actually LOOKING at? Gathering is like trying to hit a pinata during a birthday party: You can't see what you're aiming for and you get vague (at best) feedback on how to hit it. The problem is though, since you cannot see what is IN the pinata and no one tells you, you have NO IDEA if you even want it. Add to this you don't actually have the fun of swinging the bat and connecting with the pinata... plus I am no longer 10 years or under and thus pinata hitting has lost its charm in general.

Now, add to the fact that I have to do this for several hours and I still am not guaranteed to find even one item that I actually want, you get a boring mess of a gathering system.

Fishing
Fishing is so special it gets its own section. Not only do we have the idiocy of the gathering system as mentioned above, but now we have 3 more goodies: WAITING, "nothing bites..." and "the fish got away!"

Waiting: Really S-E? You take the single most BORING part of fishing in real life and subject us to it? W-H-Y?!

Nothing Bites...: I will tell you what bites. This fishing system. THAT is what bites. Unless you plan on adding an NPC like there was in FFXI giving us insight on what baits to use for what fish in what areas, then LOOSEN the restrictions on the store bought bait. I don't want to be required to have psychic powers just to go fishing in a game.

Hooking the fish: Instant failure before you even GET to the minitort... errr... "minigame". What a BRILLIANT idea. It's ideas like this that make FFXIV the steallar game with rave reviews it currently is. Well done! (I seriously hope you detect the sarcasm.)

Crafting
Oh what a joy of a system.... not. What we have here is a game of chance. You know, like other popular games of chance: Slot Machines, Coin Flipping, Dice Rolling... This does NOT a good crafting system make. Crafting should be based on SKILL. That is why you gave us CHOICES to make during the synthesis, right? Oh... I forgot... unless we choose standard synthesis, we are almost guaranteed a fail. And when we choose Standard Synth, we still fail randomly and with impunity on items 5, 10, 15 levels BELOW us when we can breeze through stuff 5, 6, 7 levels ABOVE us. Why do I have to have a random chance to succeed or fail which is then modified by a randomly determined orb color which is then given a random chance to produce an instability which has a random chance of going away that I can do nothing about...? It seems like you WANT us to have control over our synth, but you have so much randomness going on that it totally rips control out of our hands and puts it in the Random Number Generator's.

Guildleves

So I am a level 8 fisher... doing a lvl 10 guildleve. I'm out minding my own business running to my guildleve location when I see an angler sitting there waiting for me. Surely this wonderful mob isn't aggressive? Wrong... OK, so it's aggressive. I can change into a lvl 10 DoM/DoW and kill it right? Sure... IF it were level 10... It turns out that the lovely angler is level 20. Seriously, SE, by your OWN gaming standards, I should be at Camp TRANQUIL at level 20. NOT CAMP EMERALD MOSS.

Cactaurs... really? OK... so of course I know that they can use 1000 needles. It's they're signature move, after all. SO WHY THE HELL ARE YOU PUTTING THEM IN LOW LEVEL GUILDLEVES FOR THOSE WITH LESS THAN 1000 HPS TO GET 1 SHOTTED?! And to rub salt into our wounds, you LOWER the amount of HP vitality gives and don't compensate DoM classes for the HPs we lose from vitality. My lvl 20 Conjurer has 630 HP with a VIT score almost as high as my intelligence. I dare not lower it any for fear I will have WORSE defense and even LESS HP than I have now. In contrast, my lvl 17 WEAVER has over 800 HP. Umm... yeah...

Guildmarks... I have done enough leve quests at Camp Horizon to get both my Thaumaturge and Conjurer to lvl 20. I have yet to see one guildleve offer me Conjurer points and I have had at least 10 offer me Thaumaturge points. I have no other DoM/DoW classes above level 1, so why am I not seeing any Conjurer marks here?

Same goes with DoL and DoH guildmarks... Hell, DoH can't even tell if they're going to GET marks.

You seem so wrapped up in asking yourselves: "Does it function?" and "Can it be exploited by bots and/or RMT?" rather than the most important question for ANY part of a game: "Is it fun?"

They delayed the PS3 version. If I want to play on my PC, I'll have to get a new video card.

Grrr and stuff.

Thank you for your unsolicited opinion. FYI, I enjoyed beta testing the game.

Ya, the beta was great, other than the fact that it was basically alpha level junk. And the game hasn't changed 10% since. If you love hammered dogsh!+ this game is for you

-Teeg

At least Pikko is still here! I just want to say what fond memories I have of seeing Pikko pose with all of my favorite FFXI npcs! I have just one general observation that may embrace all of the various and sundry complaints about FFXIV, which may give SE an insight as to the underlying problems with the game. SE seems to have structured FFXIV specifically to thwart 3rd party interventions into the game. From the lack of the auction house, to the continual problems with lag, to specifically limiting internal .dats which leads to exciting battle moves, and integrated party interactions, SE seems comitted to maintaining exclusive control over activity in the game. This is understandable. There is always an inherent conflict in online games between how much of the minute to minute action you control centrally at the server level versus how much autonomous processing that you imbue the end gamer's computer. SE consistantly lamented that weak link in FFXI was the amount of independent processing that was relinquished to the individual user, primarily due to the limitations in communications bandwidth available to the average user at the time. Time and time again, in FFXI, SE was battling 3rd party plugins, hacks and .dat mods. I believe that FFXIV's inherent flaw is SE's attempt to make the game exclusively a server controlled experience, which made it impossible from the start to make FFXIV into FFXI v.2.0. SE management needs to experience a paradigm shift. Unless more autonomous processing is relinquished to the end user, FFXIV will never attain the depth of experience and enjoyment as did FFXI. No doubt, this would open FFXIV to the same sort of issues that plagued FFXI, but really, who of us would complain that a Vintage Haubergeon cost 13M gil, if FFXIV was as good as FFXI?

There is nothing to inspire me to level up at all. I used to love levelling up in ffxi just to equip an amazing new piece of armour. Now I can equip any armour at all at level 1. I used to love the LB1 LB2 LB3 LB4 AND LB5, beating Maat was such an achievement and getting all your friends and Linkshell together to help you break through the next 10 levels restriction was so enjoyable. Buying scrolls to learn new spells meant you had to work extremely hard to earn them and specially the very expensive ones, and when finally learning that spell you had been saving for for ages was so Epic! If you wanted spells for AOE you had to buy specific AOE spells, now you can just change any spell you like to AOE - Boring as hell. It was just so hard to get to higher level and once you achieved it, you had respect from every one for finally getting there and it was a genuine "Congratulations!" The Scenery in FFXI was extremely breathtaking, it was magical and exploring new areas with friends was really exciting, whereas the scenery in ffxiv is so bland, empty, boring, and easily accessed. There is no hard to reach places. I don't agree with the fact that every one can teleport - this should be a Mage specific ability.

So in a nut shell - every thing is just so easily achievable, that there is no inspiration for anything in this game. I want them to shut down this game - fix it, make it a replica of FFXI just keep the current graphics, and relaunch in a few months time, because I cant seem to stay logged on for more than 5 minutes without opening my browser and doing something else from pure boredom and lack of community spirit

Of all the problems in this game... there's one that is infuriating to me. I apologize if this has been posted before but I have been ignoring this thread to keep away from the negativity.

I speak of DoL fatigue. This is not surplus. After about 60-120 minutes of gathering (depending on speed of gathering), which is about 10k Skill Points, you begin to damage your harvests. This does 2 things: (1) you damage the item and (2) you get about half the SP.

If they want to limit the number of items being introduced to the economy for game balance purposes, that's just fine. I have no problem with damaging items. However the SP loss is maddening and is probably an unintended consequence.

Fatigue resets gradually for up to 24 hours. This morning I had waited the 24 hours, did 4 leaves, then spent the anima to go across zones for a session of logging. 30 minutes and 5500 SP later I'm fatigued. It's 81,000 SP to next rank. I'm not going to FU#@%!G schedule the next two months out to maximize SP gain for the ONLY discipline that I enjoy.

Imagine if you could only craft for 60 minutes or defeat enemies for 60 minutes before that disciplines progress was cut in half.

They either need to give me full SP when fatigue damages my harvest or introduce some worthless items like sawdust and pebbles that give normal SP.

I'm almost halfway into the 6 months that this game has to become enjoyable. This problem alone is game breaking enough that I will leave with permanent disdain.

this game was a worse sneak attack than pearl harbor.

TOMMY WHOM

Ok SE, the time has come. You need to decide once and for all is this a level up grindfest that will revolve around parties most likely too large to ever get with the meager population you are able to maintain on my server or is it a casual friendly game you can play solo.

I appreciate the fact that your dev team had absolutely no creative ability whatsoever and decided to push every player in the game into the same box. Why have varying people give you things to do when you can just do the same 6 or 8 leves per level at the same camp for what seems like ever. I get it, your MMO team has very little creative talent (obvious also by the cut and paste terrain, but thats another issue entirely).

However, don't $#it on my cupcake and call it frosting. If the stupid a$$ leves were designed to make the game equally playable by solo or group via the star rating system (a mechanic that as much as I hate the repetitive boring leves does at least allow me to play them with LS mates when they are available) STOP POPPING THE QUEST MOBS IN AN AREA THAT CAN"T BE SOLOED DUE TO AGRO.

-Teeg

Ironically in their misguided attempt to stop RMT (If we make it realllllllllly REALLLLLLLLLLLLY hard to make gil) they have actually created a world in which RMT can flourish. You have 2 choices. Level virtually every craft except for fish and food (currently all my crafts are within 10 lvls of my main melee) OR just say screw it and buy gil. If you spend a few american dollars (an easy choice in reality for a game that is free to play) you can simply walk into the wards and buy whatever you want. (assuming you can find ANYTHING) no shoppping needed. :) its win win! Lazy players flourish as do the RMT. No wait.... thats not what they intended at all. Congrats SE. Another pointless punishment for your players. Yay

-Teeg

Oh my god....that...lady bug. Its ...starring at my so deviously and viciously. Any moment now, while it's minding it's own business in the forest walking back and forth it's going to strike out and mame some innocent young children and pregnant women. SOMETHING MUST BE DONE. Quickly, kill that lady bug! KILL IT! KILL IT NOW BEFORE ITS TOO LATE!

Yes, I am being sarcastic but the combat in this game feels so unepic. I'd prefer killing goblins, vicious wolfs, preying vultures than ...lady bugs minding their own business in the forest. If there was some back story like the lady bugs are eating our crops and our children will starve if we dont kill the lady bugs, meh, I could feel more encouraged to kill 'em. Right now though, it doesn't make me feel very heroic. More evil for killing these innocent lady bugs.

BUT WAIT! ....Oh my god. Is that...a HARE? KILL THAT RABBIT BEFORE IT SAYS WHATS UP DOC AND STARTS EATING A CARROT! ..oh wait. Its not talking, it's just minding it's own business in the forest also.

Well, look at that tree? in the wilderness? minding its own business walking back/forth? forest mushroom minding it's own business? A monkey minding its own busizz...zzz...zzzz....

All the fights in this game make me feel like I'm not really killing anything all that special. The few exceptions might be the bandits in the zone north and west of Ul'dah or the giant dragon-styled mobs.

They added a search function to the wards?
I stopped playing around early November/late October because i essentially became super bored to death.

I have my own issues with the game that are prolly not as common to most of the current players.

The absolutely biggest problem i have is the repair system which to me became very repetitive.
Finding/upgrading weapons and gears is a task itself but to have it wear out in 1 hour is ridiculous.
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Ehh hold it. Was gonna write something long and boring but forget it.

Im glad some are having fun but it just doesn't work for me and the sad thing is that the game will prolly grow to a great MMO but ill still have my issues with it no matter how great it becomes.

I say SE must really abolish the weapon/gear repair system. Just get rid of it, it is super worthless, very annoying and takes away from the game.

So I hit fatigue at rank19, then I hit fatigue again at rank25 6 days later. I mean, really? This is dumb.

we need:


1.AH, wards still missing items as IMPOSSIBLE to sell all varieties of items in 1 ward. OR allow players ro "register" their retainers at 1 npc to sell everything their retainer has....have the game create copy of retainer in each respective ward so that "search" actually is a search and not random luck of the draw depending on what players are prioritzing to sell. needing to travel to each city to see wards is something i dont agree with unless they do away with anima altogether as anima regen is still not enough for active players. would much prefer teleport spells as in ff11.

imo wards have improved but not enough to replace ah if they stay this way....no way.


2. mail omg mail! how ridiculous having to trade to a friend and trade again to my alt characters extra gear/repaired gear, materials etc. i do many crafts and have gathered many needed materials to level them, increased inventory is great but not even close to what crafters need...nor is the extra retainer sufficient Oo is almost....embarassing to have a game with no mail Oo like.......this century plz?

3. time for paid extra retainers...needed those a month ago

4. chocobos at the very least rented ones from npcs.

5. address sp today...not a month from now. its not enough, its at least half of what it should be for the intended "non-grind" game oo errrrrrrrr...

6. get rid of stamina on UI add timers to limit usage of moves not stamina its a bad and clunky design imo. TP moves and abilities are fine.

the rate of change is staggeringly slow ,wow, i realize it is a new team and i feel for them. such a mess to clean up is a huge job...but many small additions are far better for morale then waiting months for a large change. they will lose ppl more easily that way.
i want this game to win, i truely do. i refuse to give up on it but the lack of change is sad.

yes free playtime is great but it will NOT be enough for a large amt of players...we have suffered enough lol time to change and change now se plz.... @@

I've warned you in prior posts SE. tick tock. tick tock. With the preorder of Rift I can tell you something: I didn't TOUCH ffxiv during the ~4 day beta I was given access to in exchange for my preorder. Rift is fun SE. FUN! HUGE world (in beta I might add). 100's if not 1000's of players at any time of the day or night. It would SUCK to play rift if you don't like pepople because every major zone of the game where questing is going on (I know SE, scary idea, but the quests happen EVERYWHERE not just in a couple small confined, repeated, stupid areas) you get blind invites to help or gather together to defeat a common foe (it like some community or something). Crazy stuff! It almost feels like some form of MMO. Maybe that is what you were shooting for (altho it certainly seems not by gameplay as it exists MONTHS into your commercial release)

Its do or die time guys. On the first of January I thought 'Wow, a poll. How quaint. Too bad they are incapable of reading, otherwise they could simply go to any one of the dozen FFXIV Forums to get a feel for player sentiment.' Obviously too 21st century for you. Now you are informing me that you will be doing 'something' around the middle of the month. (maybe?)

The only reason I am here extending this final olive branch to you is that Rift is in closed beta yet and not available on a 24/7 basis. I recommend you quit asking questions you already know the answer to and get to making some real earth shattering changes to your 'game'. Between Rift, SWTOR and GW2 you don't stand an F*n chance in 2011 unless you do.

-Teeg

Not THE ffxiv forums. THIS ffxiv forum. THIS *1* thread details 90% of peoples complaints about the game. Right here. 1 shot. 1 place. No need to put us off for 6 F*n weeks (early December to MAYBE mid January to see SOME indication of where the game is going) while they pretend they are going to change 'something'. Maybe you play, maybe you don't, but I do (level 32 on my DoW and 20+ on every craft except cooking and fishing) *I* am the user they need to be paying attention to. Not all the dumb a$$ double digit IQ fanboys and white knights who go on and on about how great the game is and how great SE is and how they are going to fix everything. *I* (and the tens of of thousands of people who have already left) are who they need to be concerned with. Not the extremely small minority who think the sh!t SE put on their cupcake was frosting.

Karma bomb away.

-Teeg

[quote=Teegotaru

The only reason I am here extending this final olive branch to you is that Rift is in closed beta yet and not available on a 24/7 basis. I recommend you quit asking questions you already know the answer to and get to making some real earth shattering changes to your 'game'. Between Rift, SWTOR and GW2 you don't stand an F*n chance in 2011 unless you do.

-Teeg[/quote]

I am cautiously watching the upcoming releases with hope that a "fun" MMO will appear. One with a compelling story line. Until SE DEMONSTRATES that they have a plan and are marching toward it, I have to assume it is all lies and "cupcake frosting" as you phrase it.

Whats that ticking sound, SE? Time running out, or a bomb about to explode?

Okay, found out that F8 will target the nearest Mob... or it is suppose to. Was doing a Leve yesterday, hit F8 and got the Mob closest to me of a pair that was linked. Finished off the first one, hit F8 again and it choose a Mob twenty meters away that wasn't even part of the Leve instead of the one right in front of me that was already red named. Please for all there is, Fix this!

lol