The patch had some really good points from the very needed UI, made the game so much better with server lag way down. The auto sort is very nice, and the game it self has great potential, started off out the hole amazing.Now to get real, crafting needs to get a list in it, I mean this is not the 90s anymore, to write it down or have a web site up in background, common really, just put a list in. No story line so far that has depth in it, I mean very little, and quest lines are short, you have got to keep the clients interested SE whats going on, wheres the af1, wheres the windurst m1-1,1-2, etc you guys had a great line on ff11. HNM camping is a thing of the past, force pop is where its at, but ff11 was amazing in its day, from znm,dynam,hnm,sea,sky, so much to do, so little time. I think everyone nows what I mean. But in the modern world if you wanna make money, I don't have 12hrs a day to be on this game, so if you wanna get paid you gotta make the clients happy, i mean not bend over and take it like WoW but make it worth our time. The sp is so messed up, and even if you did grind on lowbie mobs your dura is gone, raise the dura on items, Ive been playing 2,5 months I think and not hardcore like they said they wanted, my max guy 33, what you think I wanna spend 8-9 months getting to 50 at 150sp a mob. No end game so far, ok give them some time to do it cause of the early release. Walking from point to point, I did not like WoW to much, to kiddish for me. But I have to say flight points help everyone, more people play, can do rl issues why your toon is in flight to somewhere. Summoning stones, major help in a game, not everyone has all the time in the world, let your team mates help you get there. I love the graphics in ff14, but you gotta get dif gear out there, clients pay 13.00/m for this, they wanna look dif. than everyone, its human nature.Thats one of the reasons I left 11 after 6-7 years, was everything looked the same, but there was so much to do. I have liked every ff game, from ff7 to this, and I have them all, I'm a huge fan, I want to see 14 just take the cake on mmo's. In order to do it, they gotta get the client in mind, stop thinking of how to make side money, look at wow, the game is stupid easy, same thing every week, but millions play at 15.00/m. Its the flight points, summon stone, gear change, mob variety, quest's, all things to help the working people out, so we can pay to play a game while where busy. Raptors for 15 lvls, that was wonderful whoever made that call SE. No sc's or mb's, the area's are pretty small, with nothing in them. I would love to see ff14 take the cake once again, but if they cant get some stuff added in this game, to help overall clients, its gonna die before it ever hits ps3 in march, I mean what does SE want stick to its guns and let the game fail, or get the clients in mind.

Downloaded, installed, started up...WOW! Everything was sooooo much better than before the patch! And then...I started pt'ing... =(
75 sp off an IT mob with a pt of 4...BS! Why'd they have to NERF the SP!?!?! Granted, while soloing it's great to get consistent sp gains, but what the hell happened to the party bonuses!?!? After doing all of the leves about 50+ times a piece, it's kinda nice to just go out and kill stuff with a party and rank up. At least, it used to be. Now, what's the point? If I get the same amount of SP for killing a blue mob solo as I do killing a red mob in a party?
Aside from that it's great, but, now I don't know that there's enough content to keep me interested in playing until the Dec. update.
I do have to say I've been a fan of this game since I started playing the beta, and was willing to put up with lag and UI issues because I figured "Hey, it's early in this MMO's evolution. Certain things will change and they'll fix all the bugs." The absolute freedom given to players of this game is the one thing that has kept me coming back to play this game almost every day since launch. But, now there doesn't seem to be much incentive left for me to make the most of the social experience this game could offer... =(

Edited, Nov 27th 2010 9:53pm by joel11683

Looking good, and even better now that they are updating/fixing problems... still can' wait to play, hurry up with the ps3 release! ,_,

While theirs still a decent amount to complain about and still little content, SE proved they can abolish a lot of the games beta feel with nothing more than efficient design change. Scrapping the old SP gain system in favor of something more traditional shows a lot of integrity to quickly recognize which new ideas just aren't panning out. I really appreciate a much less stubborn approach than that of FFXI.

They have successfully shown the capability to move the game away from that beta feel, and with one more update to go before i have to actually start paying for the game SE's bad decision is nothing more than a speed bump in my eyes. I look forward to putting this all behind us and i'm very much looking forward to content updates over core updates.

Heres to SE and hoping the players that left can regain some trust and patience with SE. Now if you'll excuse me i'm going to go back to playing FFXIV.

Since I've installed it, it plays like utter crap on my system now. And what's worse is I have added an additional 4GB of ram. I tried lowering the detail and it's really choppy. It is not making any sense. Besides the new detail settings, everything is the same and my settings remained that i had previous. Any suggestions?

On the other hand, the menu systems seem incredibly more responsive.

Edited, Nov 26th 2010 3:03pm by Leachpunk

Looks like the death of eft parties and 15 man groups to get 500 sp off of every mob. Anyone know where to get good SP 34+?

No 50 leves or NM's (From what I have seen).

Leveling seems far to quick now..

However, UI updates are great but not ideal. Want to buy content.

So as the title puts, great patch. I'm glad SE is listening and making the game better :) There's only one issue I keep getting server disconnects, I mean all the time. Everything is amazing though, I love the new skill points. Makes grinding less aggravating =D but anyway just posting wondering if anyone else is having this problem :(

So far so good.

Did anyone noticed in HP dropped for your class? 1800HP down to 1500HP GLA R33.

Yay now I get to not play for 5 hours while this stupid patcher downloads at 9 kbs!

This is progress. yay

This patch seems bad *** but I notice something is missing. SE said that they will add a item search engine for the wards but there is nothing like this mention in the patch notes, I really hope they did...