Mistake 2.0Follow

Didn't realize I replied in feedback, reposting reply to general discussion forum.

SpoilerI'd say most people who stuck with it for this long will come back once 2.0 is released. Sure the ideal would be to maintain free trial until l 2.0 drops, so I doubt they'd be starting monthly fees unless they felt they absolutely had to for whatever reason. I'm not too concerned if people aren't playing right now while the game is undergoing these drastic changes, in fact I'd rather see the more fickle among us wait until the game relaunches with 2.0.

For the rest: shoulda, woulda, coulda - didn't. We can spend the next year harping on how SE failed with FFXIV's launch, how they didn't do this or should've added that from the start, but honestly at this point it's gotten a bit stale, especially when they're actively working on fixing those mistakes. Unless you've got a time machine, talking about how SE didn't add jump when the game launched a year ago isn't helping anything.

I'm not saying ignore the past, but there's a difference between constructive criticism based on past mistakes and hostile ranting over spilled crusty milk. IMO the OP falls in the latter.




Edited, Dec 4th 2011 1:41pm by Redyoshi

Red,

Way to miss the point.

The criticism was: They - SE - is mirroring its first launch. They are repeating their initial fatal mistake - launching a product that is not worth the money they wish to charge for it due to it's lack of basic polish, proficiency and professionalism.

Basic functions such as jump, auction house etc are still not in the product and despite this fact they are demanding payment on the promise some of these things will (may) eventually be added. This is not even touching the lingering problems which have been improved but not adequately solved.

As far as your attack against my post. I find it far more "hostile" and "stale" to pollute forums with the white knight do-no-wrong heroism you peddle in the absence of accepting a blanket obvious failing on the part of SE. There's no need for me to rant. I have nothing at stake. I don't play the game and given SE's current strategy I don't plan to and from the look of things not many do.

With the coming new year of SWTOR, Guild Wars2, The Secret World, and TERA not to mention currently available MMO options and the plethora of great Single/Multiplayer games out there - only diehard loyalists will see FFXIV as worthy of their time and money and look forward to it's snail's pace of progress. But by all means to each their own.

A toast to your tea cup.

It's definitely sad to see how FFXIV turned out. I prefer not to have a jump feature, though. There's some pathing issues that certainly need to be fixed, but not by adding the ability to jump. One only has to play Aion or WoW (or any other game with a jump feature) for just a few minutes, to see why we're better off without the ability to jump.

Edited, Dec 9th 2011 3:17pm by Corthaemus

No, what's absolutely ludicrous is the militant anti-jump stance this playerbase has taken as if having a function to easily navigate terrain in a realistic way will somehow cause the universe to implode. I still shake my head in wonder at some of the arguments people have made, and frankly, it's just another one of those things that a reporter looks at and wonders "wtf" when she is doing a review of this game. They are not winning any *individuality* points by excluding it.

Adding jump would have saved the developers a lot of time and resources they could have then focused into other things. This playerbase is its own worst enemy.



No, it doesn't have an auction house. It doesn't even have anything that remotely resembles an efficient way to buy and sell goods. They keep trying to add features to a completely failed system and eventually it might function similar to one, but it is by no means an auction house.



Well, when people are paying for a product that was advertised as one thing and then don't get what they paid for, they tend to get a little upset. The fact that this has now dragged out to almost two years is a little over the top.



The only one who sounds butthurt is you. You might want to work on that regrettable lack of tact.