LOL things people say on the BETA website...

[Eyedea-Seraph]

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Inb4 so many people here who really shoulda got beta
Well run past the first camp and explore, make a damn party and fight harder shit, run around the city and find all the other quests, you don't have to stand out from of Bearded rock and only camp there. As was stated before they aren't releasing BETA for you to critique the playability of FFXIV, they are testing server load and getting bit of feed back from us regarding glitches and just seeing how we interact with the world. They didn't say that this was a demo ...its a BETA so why would you expect that the first area outside, where everyone who logs on for the couple hours BETA is open, ...wont be crowded and in the same areas???.... there are a bunch of people all your level that are exping in the same area for a reason, soo explore and make a pt go somewhere further away....stop bitching about BETA and shitting on my thread.....!!!

[Eanae]

Nerd rage more about it why don't you.

[sruon]

shit's getting real.


contributing but too lazy to make a SS.

http://twitter.com/FF_XIV_EN states " The next beta test is scheduled to begin on Sat., July 24, 2010 at 2:00 a.m., and will last until Sun., July 25, 2010 at 0:00 a.m. (GMT)"

At the moment, the current GMT time is Sunday, 25 July 10:56pm. What gives?

Also, this testing period wasnt mentioned on the front page.

itt: time is hard

[Vandole]

SE was really stupid with their choices on who is in the beta or not. fuck this thread makes me rage

[Cairthenn]

Some of the lower coning stuff still killed me. Puk Hatchlings were light blue but still wrecked my face in. I stopped trusting their con system.

This is because you suck! (Well, not exactly..) Certain mobs have mini strategies. They become easier if you fight them different ways. Roselings are annoying is shit if you don't know that you can avoid their TP moves by running to the side and Puks are awful if you haven't found out you can Stun them (or delay them a bit) by punching from the back. Backflip can also be avoided from the sides.

[roippi]

Inb4 so many people here who really shoulda got beta
Well run past the first camp and explore, make a damn party and fight harder shit, run around the city and find all the other quests, you don't have to stand out from of Bearded rock and only camp there. As was stated before they aren't releasing BETA for you to critique the playability of FFXIV, they are testing server load and getting bit of feed back from us regarding glitches and just seeing how we interact with the world. They didn't say that this was a demo ...its a BETA so why would you expect that the first area outside, where everyone who logs on for the couple hours BETA is open, ...wont be crowded and in the same areas???.... there are a bunch of people all your level that are exping in the same area for a reason, soo explore and make a pt go somewhere further away....stop bitching about BETA and shitting on my thread.....!!!

Is this a copy/paste from somewhere else or did your cat type this? Because I refuse to believe that a human being with a functioning prefrontal cortex is responsible for this post.

[Eanae]

The thing is I went into this beta without researching anything or spending countless hours looking at information because it's ruined the last 2 MMO's for me (I obsessed over Aion and Warhammer and quit both in a month or less). I'm sure if I actually spent time reading about the stuff it would have been a cake walk, but I just don't feel like ruining another MMO because of diving too much into it before release. Both other MMO's though, even in beta stages, have been much better at helping players go where they need to go instead of kicking their ass out at the first quest hub and going "GOOD LUCK". SE needs to realize it's not how you do any MMO anymore and why so many people quit FFXI in the 1 to 10 level range.

[Cairthenn]

I didn't really read anything content-wise about the game. Fun to figure out on your own early on.

[Osede]

The game is boring because a heap of things are either disabled or on long cooldowns (leves).

The areas are crowded because there is only one area instead of 3 (which there will be at release)

People are stupid and need to move beyond the Bearded rock area. There are tons of mobs lowbies can kill elsewhere if they look. If they add more mobs to the Bearded Rock area, it will just encourage people to all gather in one spot and further lag the zone out.

The main problem to me is that there are way too making rams in both bread and skull camp. I waent to skull camp, which I saw less people over there. But end up always see large portion of rams instead of other lower level mobs. The other reason maybe because I keep killing the lower level mobs.

Also, it seems like some family of mobs tend to has high evasion... I'm keep dying to Puk which is green for me QQ

[Tineey]

I agree with Eanae.

My suggestion would be to extend the journal menu a little further and integrate it to the main screen. Or extend on the journal functionality to "things you can do now".

After enabling leves, an arrow points you towards the monsters you are required to kill.

Journals could work the same way, bring up a menu of things to do, click on one of them, and an arrow appears pointing you to the area or npc. This will give newbies a sense of direction, instead of wandering all over the city.

The journal menu is too deep within the menu as well now, they need to expose it further. Journal also means history to me, the name doesn't show how useful it is.

But... getting off topic D:

[Edgie]

Idk but if I didnt want to ruin my game experience, not that playing beta does that in any way, I wouldnt play beta.
Im enjoying this test, and cant wait to see the finish product, If I dont like it then thats a different thing all together.

[Osede]

I agree with Eanae.

My suggestion would be to extend the journal menu a little further and integrate it to the main screen. Or extend on the journal functionality to "things you can do now".

After enabling leves, an arrow points you towards the monsters you are required to kill.

Journals could work the same way, bring up a menu of things to do, click on one of them, and an arrow appears pointing you to the area or npc. This will give newbies a sense of direction, instead of wandering all over the city.

The journal menu is too deep within the menu as well now, they need to expose it further. Journal also means history to me, the name doesn't show how useful it is.

Just post them in the feedback section. Ignore the general forum lol...

I will submit the feedback again in that section after the next beta come up. Had to see will they do some changes, and what will be the improvement. So far, my major concern still is the slow and delayed menu. It is very frustrated for me, especially in the equipment menu.

[Tineey]

Just post them in the feedback section. Ignore the general forum lol...

I will submit the feedback again in that section after the next beta come up. Had to see will they do some changes, and what will be the improvement. So far, my major concern still is the slow and delayed menu. It is very frustrated for me, especially in the equipment menu.

I am not in the beta
Post for me if you will.

[linkinsg]

This is because you suck! (Well, not exactly..) Certain mobs have mini strategies. They become easier if you fight them different ways. Roselings are annoying is shit if you don't know that you can avoid their TP moves by running to the side and Puks are awful if you haven't found out you can Stun them (or delay them a bit) by punching from the back. Backflip can also be avoided from the sides.

/this
It's been mentioned in the beta forums as well, you can't just stand in front of the mob and whack away... there's actual strategy involved.

[Achitophel]

Aka: We like having the most subs in the market, and thus, bringing in the most money, so we'll keep doing what has worked so far.


Seriously, there's better things to rag on blizzard about than their policy for making shit-tons of cash, which, by way of Wada, SE actually wants a piece of.

Kinda. But I guess you could say the same about like...Miley Cyrus. She's making money, cant hate on her talent, right? Well, no. No one is making money off of SE, so no one should care how profitable it is as long as it is of high quality and it's profitable enough to keep the servers up and the updates coming.

[Hyan]

The thing is I went into this beta without researching anything or spending countless hours looking at information because it's ruined the last 2 MMO's for me (I obsessed over Aion and Warhammer and quit both in a month or less). I'm sure if I actually spent time reading about the stuff it would have been a cake walk, but I just don't feel like ruining another MMO because of diving too much into it before release. Both other MMO's though, even in beta stages, have been much better at helping players go where they need to go instead of kicking their ass out at the first quest hub and going "GOOD LUCK". SE needs to realize it's not how you do any MMO anymore and why so many people quit FFXI in the 1 to 10 level range.

So basically HURR I DON'T WANT TO READ THE MANUAL BUT I WANT SOMEONE TO HOLD MY HAND ANYWAY

Reminds me of one guy on the forums; "You can't expect people to read the manual, if you don't know what to do or how without reading it something is wrong with the game."

Halo generation, representin'

Also, too fucking bad if scum of earth like them quit. At least I get to keep some of my IQ in the future.

[BlackheartX]

Waiting for retail that is all...

[Jesifromgaruda]

So basically HURR I DON'T WANT TO READ THE MANUAL BUT I WANT SOMEONE TO HOLD MY HAND ANYWAY

Reminds me of one guy on the forums; "You can't expect people to read the manual, if you don't know what to do or how without reading it something is wrong with the game."

Halo generation, representin'

Also, too fucking bad if scum of earth like them quit. At least I get to keep some of my IQ in the future.

People don't want to have to read a novel before they sit down to play their entertainment. When people get home from a long day of work then finally put their whiny brats away to bed, they don't want to have to do MORE work just to enjoy their game.

You are looking at it from the perspective of someone who has more time on their hands than just the free time they get to play their video games, etc. Why do you think WoW has such a bigger population than FFXI?

It's because FFXI it's such a bigger timesink AND if you want to actually be good at it, you have to spend time on forums like this to actually learn which gear is good, tips on how to play your job, etc.

I guess we could just judge everyone who doesn't have insane amounts of free time as retarded, or we could live in the real world and understand what's really going on.

God forbid someone wants to jump right into a game.


Oh and lots of these posts rule. I haven't actually laughed out load from something on BG in a while.

[Kyrra]

itt: moving out of beard rock is hard

Thing is, many current day MMOs do hand-hold people on where they should go. Aion, WoW, and Warhammer all direct people on where they should be leveling at any given time. FFXIV is going against what a majority of MMO players are used to, what do you expect people would say/do?

To make it worse, The "Skull" camp has its guild leves marked as level 10, even though there are plently of places up there for level 3+ people to grind at. To me, this just seems like bad zone setup by Square Enix (or at least mis-represented areas).

[Eanae]

To make it worse, The "Skull" camp has its guild leves marked as level 10, even though there are plently of places up there for level 3+ people to grind at. To me, this just seems like bad zone setup by Square Enix (or at least mis-represented areas).

Quoted for emphasis.