Random Complaint Thread. No white knighting allowed.

[Corrderio]

Weren't +1&2 mats supposed to be taken out of the drop lists? I swear it was even in patch notes that they would no longer be available via battle, and yet, that never happened.

Eh? I haven't seen any mobs drop +1 or +2 items at all.

[The Q]

I remember getting drops, but then again may have been special circumstances. Been a while since I bothered to load up the game to be honest. I could be wrong.

Though if they DID take them out for drops why the hell leave them in for gathering?

[CrstyCptSteveWitherspoon]

My biggest issue it weapons/tools. Having a tab that holds one of every tool for each crafting/DoL class would be great(just main hand, not off hand). With regards to the +1/2 mats, I think it was just battle related that you can't get them from anymore, only NQ and +3's are able to drop. When you craft/gather you can still get +1/2's. Kinda wish they did away with them from crafting/gathering too though.

[Hyan]

Ehh, I always thought that removing them was kinda an easy way out when they could be just combined into one item. I don't think there's anything bad about +1 +2 and +3 items per se.

[The Q]

BOOM! Found it! I knew I wasn't crazy.

Guildleve

Director Komoto has expressed on mutiple occassions his desire to promote natural growth through freedom and variety. The quest system - Guildleve - is the realization of this dream. The system will serve as a way for players to customize their own quests, much like the Moblin Maze Monger event in Final Fantasy XI. Adventurers seeking to improve their skills can visit a Guild and choose from a number of jobs that are currently available.

Guildleve uses a set of cards, called Leves, that are combined to define mission parameters. These can include goals, locations and required jobs. A Garderner may have a task to complete, but require the protection of a Gladiator. There will be consideration paid to variety of jobs, so that many people can undertake quests together. Also, players within a single party can be using different Leves, helping each other to complete their various duties while each reaping their own individual rewards.

Quests accepted through Guildleve will not be demanding with some taking 30 minutes or less to complete. Players can carry multiple Leves and blow through a number of objectives in one run. Again, it is up to what the player wishes to do within the time they have available. Guildleve is literally a way for users to customize the gaming experience to their liking.

taken from http://www.ffxivcore.com/topic/92-ff...ealed-updated/

Going through all this old info is the most depressing shit I've done in a while.

[Hyan]

Was also said that guildleves can last for multiple days in some cases instead of just 30mins, which is probably part of this plan as well.

Well, as long as people vote for AH as the #1 priority I doubt it will come to realization anytime soon either. The main progression system of the game should not be made more interesting.

[Corrderio]

Wasn't the AH only in 2nd place? Either way I'd rather see the AH happen sooner or later since the retainer system fails in so many areas.

[Hyan]

Yeah, lack of in-game content was first. Of course it's a fake poll, but at least from reading other forums content(one time quests) > AH > large scale PvE > rest seems to be the order of importance.

Guildleves share the last place in both questions. That side content is more important at this point is understandable, but AH? AH?? derp

[Corrderio]

I went with the AH since content will eventually come, and less content gives me time to get Lancer and other classes up. The AH option could have just been there to see if the playerbase still wanted one over the retainer system.

[Hyan]

True, that.

[The Q]

Ok so after reading up on some history and becoming thoroughly depressed I have come to a realization: Next to nothing has really changed since alpha. Not talking about little tweaks, or UI changes, or lag fixes but the only major game system change we've seen since alpha, unless I'm just missing something, was the XP system and that was just a quick and dirty change. Practically everything else gameplay wise has not changed. Little tweaks here and there yes but no real changes.

Looking back and seeing what was planned vs what was stripped out or forgotten and what we actually got has really really done it in for me for this game at this point. Even more-so than before, which is saying something. I had this idea of going and looking through all the changes, ranking them, listing out what I think needs to be done. Fuck it. I don't even know where they even intended to go with this game and I doubt even they did. I look at this game, and realize that in going on 4 months next to nothing has been accomplished. It is as if they made this world and these simple systems and said, "Fuck it." If they had anything in the works ANYTHING then where is it? Where WAS it? What the FUCK were they doing that whole time? I mean SE is one of the biggest game development and production companies IN THE ENTIRE GOD DAMN WORLD and yet they can only produce such a little amount in the time they had? And I'm going back to beta, hell even alpha because a lot of shit just remains the same or practically the same since then. This is one of their fucking flagship titles. This is a game that is supposed to bring them revenue for 5+ fucking years and yet they don't seem to want to put but the bare minimum manpower behind it?

I mean look at Rift and Trion Worlds. Before a few months ago I had never heard of this company and I'm a guy who keeps fairly knowledgeable about Gaming and MMOs having played the genre for 14 years. In the 14 years I've played I can only think of one game that may have launched as terrible as FF14 and that's AO. And here is this relatively unknown company getting ready to put out a polished, fun, content-filled game vs a huge company with huge resources putting out a pretty pile of shit. How does this even happen? If I were running SE and saw this happen I would have flipped so much shit that they would still be cleaning the stink from the island for years to come! I would have fired every motherfucker who had a hand in the design of the game and blackballed them from the industry, not just resign them from the project. I would have probably burned down the corporate offices from the rage-induced heat caused by being associated in some way with such a mess.

For this game, for me, at this point anything less than a complete and utter miracle patch of completely unrealistic proportions and expectations will be too little too late. Am I okay with drastic changes to the rules? Hell yes! Fuck it, scrap the entire game for all I care. At this point a character wipe wouldn't bother me in the slightest if it were a sacrifice made so that an actual real good game could be erected, because if something big doesn't happen and fairly soon the damn thing is as good as gone to me anyways.

Yes. I mad.

[Hyan]

Rofl.

for me, anything less than a complete and utter miracle patch will be too little too late.

Does that mean you will no longer post here?

[The Q]

I really don't know. It's a situation where the old "bad car accident" saying comes into play.

And I chuckled as I wrote some of that. All this has angered me a great amount and what I said is my opinion and I do feel that strongly but I had to try to amuse myself with it at the same time.

[Hyan]

Unless you gave up on the game as a whole I don't think there will be a "too late" situation if you'll still lurk around anyway... hehe.

Well that's just what I think.

[CrstyCptSteveWitherspoon]

I completely agree. As some one that's been playing since phase 2 all I've seen are little tweaks to systems. Faster leveling, slower leveling, not 100% sp after each synth, 100% sp after each synth, easier synthing, harder synthing, back to easier, zomg faster UI, more anima per day, lower anima costs, restructured market wards; the list goes on and nothing is 'game breaking' or 'huge' in content and I feel like they DO have opo opos working as the main staff taking this long to implement these minor changes. Hell that NM update was so lol adding 5 rank 50 NMs. I remember during open beta saying "just release the game already, you'll have a big content patch in a month including chocobos and airships to help get around faster and some NMs to boot". Yea.... couldn't have been more wrong about that.

Hey, at least the game is still pretty.

[Sephiroth]

I don't know about other servers, but I'm noticing a second wave of people quitting on Wutai in the past couple of weeks, even if some may be temporary. SE need to make an announcement and soon. Their schedule probably has a big content patch planned for march and it's understandable that it needs development time, but they need to start talking.

[Yoli]

I think I've seen that too. Although to be fair this time does coincide with schools getting back in business, so some of the people who were around probably just get on a good bit less. Myself, I get on much less because I don't really feel like grinding doblyns anymore for my last five levels or so. Will just hop on two or three times a week for leves, and let it take however long it takes most likely.

[Fawkes]

They can't make an announcement about future updates, they're too busy showing japanese housewives why they should play.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vzb3d7ax--g

[The Q]

"just release the game already, you'll have a big content patch in a month including chocobos and airships to help get around faster and some NMs to boot"

This is exactly what I was saying word for word. I remember my roommate asking if I was going to play past the free month and I told him I would pay for one month to see what changes and new stuff was in store.

JOKE WAS ON ME!

Also @that video: 1) No content?! LOL MAKE YOUR OWN! 2) DEM TEETH

[Lucavi]

My god, the teeth.