FFXIV Random Complaint Thread: Look forward to it

[Eidle]

animation/cast delay on hallowed ground, pls. I guess im a bad paladin and don't judge my incoming damage well, I try not to use HG when it's completely unnecessary, usually if im 500hp or lower i start spamming HG and i end up dying too often, i guess i should give it a higher threshold like 1500 hp or something.

[Tyche]

Benediction is the same way. I fucking love shooting off benediction into the sky as the tank's face gets pushed in.

[Waraji]

Problem with those skills is the artificial delay posed upon them by animations. Fkin bullshit. Love my Hallowed Ground going off as soon as my body hits the ground.

[Meresgi]

It's been over a decade since FFXI was released, the times have changed, I expect better than that.

Well you fucking shouldn't. Name me a MMO that has launched with a butt load of content that was worth doing and didn't have a cockblock leveling process.

[Kirbyprime]

Hallowed ground pisses me of because half the time you die and hg still goes on cool down.

[Seravi Edalborez]

^ Tank @ low HP, waiting to come out of conflag.

Lustrate, Benediction, Hallowed all go off. Tank dies.

Working as intended.

[Qeomash]

I love when I use Benediction when the tank is at 200 HP, he still dies, and the Benediction cooldown is also taken.

[CrstyCptSteveWitherspoon]

One thing they should have done was leave primals off of duty finder. I know casuals would cry but they should have kept it 1.0 style with farming tapers to get in with a premade group, kill ifrit, then one weapon would drop AND you get an ifrit 'token' that after collecting a certain amount you could trade in for a weapon of your choice and even some ifrit specific armor. Farming tapers would get you back out in the world that is so barren at this point and freakin bring back treasure chests and keys. Have the chests drop materials or something that would give crafters something to do.

I get NO MMO EVER LAUNCHES WILL FULL END GAME EVER but seriously this is 2013. Like someone else said take shit from XI that people liked, sea/sky/Limbus/Dynamis/etc., and incorporate it with a more casual mindset instead. Instances can be on a one week lockout like coil, sea/sky shit would be open world but without the camping wars like in XI. Instances shouldn't be over an hour long. I just find it totally stupid that they had some great ideas in XI with a boring grind attached to it and no one in the whole company said "HEY GUYS LETS TAKE THIS FROM XI, SUBTRACT THE GRIND, TWEAK IT A BIT WITH SOME EXTRA FLAVOR AND THROW IT IN XIV!". There's 10 years of content ideas you could pull from.

[dejet]

People crying they want everything the easy way because they have a lot going on in real life.

fucking great I really mean that. I hope things are good but maybe a mmo is not the game for you then. Mmos are time wasters, and what we have is a one day a week game. Unless you plan to lvl every job.

Something else if you have limited play time you should rightfully be left behind a little. What we have here is a lot of past 11/wow players that where teens and had little to no responsibility, this has changed for most of us.

Family, work, graduate programs,this is what the hardcore players of our time are doing. Myself included. Cpa study time is about to fuck my playtime. Guess what? Im going to be left behind, my gear is going to be ass. Im fine with that.

The people who have the time and will be paying for months and years to come deserve far more then to please me, someone who likely will be turning the game on and off as time permits. Get into a fc that will help you as much as they can. Let the game move forward without us, hell the more to do the better, when you do log on you will not be asking yourself "what is there to do" but "what should I do".

[Lucavi]

I'm fine with those kinds of time wasters. The ones I don't like are the animation lag bullshit ones that waste our time by giving us bullshit wipes because the Japanese can't code.

You rebuilt the game from scratch and you still have locking animations that get people killed and waste cooldowns.

[Ksandra]

More of just a random comment, but more on the side of complaint so putting it here.

Hubby and I broke down and bought a VPN service to see if it helps with all our lag issues. Holy fuck, playing this game is like night and day now.

Last night did coil 1 +2. Get to the final boss in turn 2, we wipe like crazy because I couldn't dodge the laser, so died, so couldn't silence, etc.

I was like "WTF IS GOING ON" when hubby took a look at my comp and saw that somehow during our turn 2 run my service turned off (dunno if there is a hotkey to switch it off or something, still looking into it). So he got it back on. We went to the boss again, I WAS DODGING LIKE FUCKING NEO ON THAT SHIT.


Still kinda pisses me off we gotta pay for this service because SE doesn't know you can put servers in different places. But at least now I don't have to experience the kind of stress I was experiencing in fights anymore.

[Corrderio]

IIRC isn't movement client side based? if so why can't hit detection be the same way? I'll agree it's a load of BS since I can't dodge plumes on Titan to save my life. Run out of the circles but I still get nailed by 2-3 of them.

Wish I could find that GIF I saw the other day where someone was a few feet away from titan and at his side and still managed to get hit by Landslide.

[Argantes]

There's content and then there's being a slave to the game. At my "peak" activity time for XI, I basically had shit scheduled 6 nights a week. It got a bit exhausting weighing RL against some of these things and as some of those events finally came to a close for me, there was some relief gained as 6 became 5, then 4, then 3 as we got what we'd wanted out of the stuff. Of course, part of XI's issue was tying access directly to the RL day, so missing something like a Salvage or Dynamis didn't mean you could just do 2 the next day. I always disliked that, but whatever.

Right now, Coil is the only thing literally time locked, but at a week instead of a day. I guess you could count tomes in this, but they're not so much locked to one activity and at least have the benefit of acquiring at your own pace for the week. I kind of hope we don't fall into the rut of having Coil one night, CT the next, Primal farming the day after, some other new alliance event in the future that's a Must Do, and then juggling all that against capping tomes, making money (to buy new gear/consumables), crafting, leveling other stuff, or whatever. Basically, people can get overloaded, and this is a flaw of the sidegrade system some opted to ignore when it came to defending XI in past arguments.

I see what you're saying and ofcourse you're right about a lot of it.

What gets to me is people going " I don't have time for all this shit anymore so I don't wanna do it"
You still don't have to when it's available to do. It's still their own choice.

Too many people complain about not having stuff to do and they pay monthly to have content, but when there is too much content they're like " Hey, stop RL yo. I'm not 14 anymore"

Not pointed at anyone in particular, but my comment still stands.
I don't care about if others don't feel like spending time on it, just as much as others probably don't care about me wanting to spend the time on it.
I still want it there.

[Ksandra]

IIRC isn't movement client side based? if so why can't hit detection be the same way? I'll agree it's a load of BS since I can't dodge plumes on Titan to save my life. Run out of the circles but I still get nailed by 2-3 of them.

Wish I could find that GIF I saw the other day where someone was a few feet away from titan and at his side and still managed to get hit by Landslide.

This is my sig on the OF forums, could be from the same video:



That's basically me 75% the time without the VPN.

[Corrderio]

Yep that's it. Makes me wonder why hit detection isn't client side or something far more reliable than this crapfest we have ATM.

[Ksandra]

Ya idk either. Honestly, splitting the servers up would go a long way to help the issue. A lot of this is simply because these ISP servers are getting overloaded, and people's connections having to do several hops for everyone to all get to the same place.

I just hope they fix it soon so we don't have to keep paying extra to play the game. XD

[Corrderio]

I'd like to hope, but we had the same problem with Ifrit and plumes in V1, so I'm pretty sure SE has no intentions of adjusting anything

[ronin sparthos]

Given the number of security exploits the game has had since launch, does SE really want hit detection client side? How long before people start making themselves invincible and unable to be hit by anything?

[matic]

people saying DRG isn't useful, forgetting/not knowing that DRG buffs BRD and literally everyone is running with at least one BRD in group. I fucking did this loldrg shit in XI. At least then it was justified.

[Fojoop]

Well you fucking shouldn't. Name me a MMO that has launched with a butt load of content that was worth doing and didn't have a cockblock leveling process.

How many MMO's released with a good amount of end game content since WOW? 0 How many successful MMO's have released since WOW? 1. Guild wars 2, actually gains users and makes money according to anet. How many have failed due to people getting bored and having nothing to do, especially at end game? All of them.

Maybe you shouldn't be saying "Well no MMO has ever released with lots of end game content so it's ok FF14 didn't!" and instead realize that every single MMO that didn't has failed and gone f2p, and maybe dev's should be learning from their mistakes by now and not making the same mistakes for an entire decade. I want FF14 to succeed, copying failed MMO's design philosophies is not the way to go. I don't understand how your argument can be "no mmo has ever released with lots of end game" when that exact design flaw is why every MMO in the past decade has gone f2p and failed.