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The /r is pretty bang on with my experience at the last Beta, I am not surprised at all that the numerous bugs have continues into the release version, despite all the fanboys claiming that the beta wasn't the release version and the bugs would be fixed!.

When a game is unplayable in the sense this is, it takes someone who is looking hard for the game to be good to find it good. The fact that so many quests are bugged, the basic quality of life things are bugged, and that the world hasn't been stitched up ie. falling through floors and doors is still persistent pretty much cements my thoughts at the end of the beta FF14 v1.0 all over again.

FTP by Christmas.





Edited, Apr 7th 2014 1:42pm by rdmcandie

I don't get why they'd remove it. I mean, sure, it probably wasn't the strongest narrative sequence possible. But it wasn't so bad that it HAD to be removed, at least not with this alternative.

When it makes it to the final beta builds... you launch with it.

I've not ever seen teacake say anything about any other game.

I've been there though. When Vanguard was released, I loved it. It still had 'issues' at release i guess but mostly it just took a faster than average machine to run smoothly and some of the anticipated features were't offered up at release. But it was panned by most everyone for it's bugs and lag throughout beta and right into an early release. Neither of these things bothered me at all when I played - so yeah, I didn't get all the negative publicity.

ESO on the other hand, I never got to look good on my machine. Still my old Warhammer Guild is playing and seem to be having fun.

Thats only because a lot FFXI players posting here mostly had their heads stuck up their asses. Thankfully through tireless effort in cleaning up the FFXI forums I managed to troll enough of them out of this community and over to whatever elitist cesspool they call home now (probably BG.)

Really the FFXI community on this website was ****, it was probably the most hostile community for a video game I have ever seen and their notion that every game was inferior to the crotch stain that was FFXI from 2006-2012 is laughable. My favorite arguments were the ones that stemmed from WoW being to easy...because in WoW you didn't have to stand around for 3 hours waiting on a world pop and use your 3KUSD Bot to claim it to prove you had skill.

Also I should retract my comment about cleaning up the FFXI community, while I trolled all the elitist twats, it was Abyssea that killed them. The best thing to happen to ZAM FFXI was Abyssea because all the elitist folks quit because their 2 years of abusing a glitch in the game in order to get leet gear amounted to wasted time, or they got banned when SE punished the majority of the endgame crowd for exploiting.

Seriously though. **** fanboyism.

EVE Online is still the best MMO though

I've played it for at least 20 hours now. Not one broken quest. I have five characters started, one is L8 (it takes pretty long to level, I've seen people say that on the PTR (the private Beta maybe?) it took 150-200 hours of /played to get to cap). I like being dumped into the main city first, because it has a bank and a stable, and the first person you see when you exit the building you find yourself in tells you to go to the docks and talk to "so-and-so" who then sends you to the starter island. What motivated me to do just thatSpoilerwas that I was told that she saved me by pulling me from the water, and would explain more when I spoke with her. Meanwhile, you can get things sorted at the bank as I found I had looted quite a bit of stuff in the tutorial area.

I have not fallen through the ground once. I have not experienced any lag. I have not lost any items. I like quests with a theme, but I have to be honest in that I don't have a great attention span for quest dialogue. I have no idea what the overall story was in GW, and only an inkling of what the story was in FFIV, and is there even a story in Rift or WoW (/sarcasm)? But the way these quests are designed, they are as much showing me the story as telling it to me, and I like that.

I'm not without complaints, but my complaints involve the way Zenimax has run the game "outside" the game. Their website did not take my credit card because it said there was a problem with my address matching my billing address. But the address was correct and I tried many times. Support told me to remove any punctuation or special characters. I had no special characters and it was impossible to add punctuation - there were fields for me to fill in individual parts of my address and the website then put them together. I tried two different credit cards, and I had used both numerous times that day, in person and online, with no problem. I finally gave up and bought the game from Amazon.

However, that just put the problem off for a couple of days, because when the pre-purchase time ran out I had to go to Zenimax's website to enter my subscription. The first problem was that it was completely non-intuitive. There was no place to enter a subscription and I went through every page on the site. I finally found, after doing some Google research, that you have to "activate a game code" and the website would then prompt you to subscribe. But I had already activated my game code, that's how I played for two days during pre-purchase. Anyway, after that I got the address error again. I then tried using Chrome instead of Firefox. Bingo, it worked.

To me, all of that, and the authorization hold of the full subscription price, is amateur stuff that I wouldn't expect from this company. I've seen people post that they will be taking a three week break from the game until they get paid (maybe they're paid monthly?) because they just don't have the dollars or euros for the authorization hold. To me, that's unacceptable on Zenimax's part. They do not need to hold the full amount, one dollar is enough to see that the credit card is valid. I wonder what will happen with that person when he comes back in three weeks and finds that three weeks of his first 30 days is gone?

Native controller support would be nice. Wonder if the console version will enable that for PC. Seems like the game would play well with a gamepad. Only 5 skills, plus soft targeting. I played Skyrim with a controller and my bad hand is already getting sore from ESO this weekend.

That thing is scary looking! The Tartarus. I could always use xpadder or something but I've never really had good luck with half arsing it with an emulater.

Where the mudcrabs at? Stabby stabby stab. I made a Khajit to try out DW daggers. Stabin crabs all day now with teleport strike to flurry.

Wish it did not take so long to get the mats to make some initial leather armor though. ._.

Wolves you say? hmm maybe this one hunts wolves now.

*edit I keep getting pulled into quests on noob island while trying to farm.

Edited, Apr 7th 2014 1:49pm by Shojindo

I'm not sure I understand the draw to DKs for solo play. It looks like a lot of their skills are mitigation or blocking related, so you'd have to go sword-and-board to maximize the benefits, right?

How is soloing a tank any fun? I might just be missing the point.

I don't know and my DK is still low level, but there's something fun about it. I like the visual when I block with a two-hander or when I interrupt, as opposed to dual wield's block and interrupt. I like some of the other skills like charge and chains. It makes picking my fights easier, for sure. And there's just a lot there there. In other words, he takes a beating. Maybe it's all in my head, because for this guy I set all the sliders all the way to the right and he's huge.

I've been splitting my time between the DK and the dual-wield Kajitt. Kajjit. Kajiit. Cat.

(EDIT: I know, Khajiit)

Edited, Apr 7th 2014 8:18pm by cynyck

Catjeet is really fun so far. He might win the highest level alt race soon.

They should have stuck with the original plan.

(Still more than a little pissed that classes are a thing in this game. If any game should have had completely free skill development, it's ESO).