Random Complaint Thread. No white knighting allowed.

[Cichy]

I dont care about world chat but zone chat would be a nice feature.

[Lordender]

Ya... beyond frustrated with this game and too be honest, the severe lack of communication as of late is really bothersome. I hate to make comparisons to other games, but for example, CCP and EVE online, they literally post "Development-blogs" every week, detailing fixes, issues with lag, and upcoming additions to the game. While most of the time they aren't extremely useful, just reading these blogs makes me feel as if the development team is at least alive.

Its because SE still has no clue what they're doing. SE has done zero homework of mmo's that have come out over the past 10 years. This game is beyond fucked, people expecting this huge turn around because new people are doing the work are just trolling themselves and setting up a huge letdown.

Maybe SE is starting to realize they can't save this shit because the foundation was faulty and started to crack in the BETA then the shit just fell apart @ retail causing the building to collapse.

[Corrderio]

As long as this guy has a brain and allows me to continue a leve after I disconnect he's okay with me. Lost a PT just now since my net crashed for about 15 min.

Also for another complaint, why do some doors automatically open when I get within touching distance of them, but some I need to interact with them to open them? Kind of a PITA when I have to open doors to fight whatever aggroed me from that other side.

[fussel]

In FF14 your weapons broke because it's realistic, you need a job to buy stuff because life's hard, bad monsters instant kill you because there's no realism in starting zones having just the mobs your level, and so on.

I actually like mixed level mobs in the zones. Gives revisiting them an actual purpose instead of making that a chore through "storyline quests" (I'm looking at you Aion).

[Cureslime]

S-E probably only has 5-10 programmers working on bug fixes and content combined. The rest of their 100 person team is likely just worthless managers and directors.

[The Q]

Maybe they're just SO busy with such a HUGE update that they don't have time to post anything.

(I bet someone on ZAM is making this argument right now.)

[Cureslime]

Maybe they're just SO busy with such a HUGE update that they don't have time to post anything.

(I bet someone on ZAM is making this argument right now.)

This was one of the main arguments people used in beta and right after launch...

I would like to see weekly updates from them saying "we are working on x right now." I know it doesn't help things but it at least gives people hope and a reason to keep playing. It's not like it takes hundreds of man hours to write up a little thing every week and have your translators translate it.

[The Q]

Hey guys I found the update. Seems they forgot to list it on the site.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePD3c...&feature=feedu

Poastan in complaint thread because FUCK SQUARE ENIX for wasting time and money on this shit.

[miokomioko]

Hey guys I found the update. Seems they forgot to list it on the site.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePD3c...&feature=feedu

Poastan in complaint thread because FUCK SQUARE ENIX for wasting time and money on this shit.

Yes, because it's the same team that works on these stupid Stories of Eorzea that also does the actually coding of fixes and updates. Also, recording some dopes playing a game for an entirely different country's market (where it might actually matter) is expensive.

[The Q]

Aren't those supposed to be Japanese celebrities? Not dopes. Not inexpensive.

[jPuff]

Hey guys I found the update. Seems they forgot to list it on the site.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePD3c...&feature=feedu

Poastan in complaint thread because FUCK SQUARE ENIX for wasting time and money on this shit.

This is the equivalent of pretending the wastebasket next to your computer is a monster and being totally enthralled by it. Look, NPCs existing! Stuff happening! All it takes to enjoy FFXIV is the brain of a three year old.

[jPuff]

Yes, because it's the same team that works on these stupid Stories of Eorzea that also does the actually coding of fixes and updates. Also, recording some dopes playing a game for an entirely different country's market (where it might actually matter) is expensive.

If they posted these 4 months ago I would probably have agreed with your sentiment. But they posted them, like, yesterday. With the game in the state that it's in. After S-E admitted the game is terrible. After they haven't changed anything yet. I can't imagine that even the most hand-picked target audience wouldn't find these videos utterly stupid and insulting.

[Telliani]

Up until recently, they're just in-game crap (one showing the terrible tabbing system...) The ones with the voices and actors shown in them seem to really start up 1month ago, still think it's just them giving the HR dept something to do.

[Sephiroth]

I don't expect the game to be good until at least the end of the summer. The only content I'm expecting before then is more NMs, more faction leves and that hamlet defence thing.

I just don't get why anyone at SE thought releasing the game in that state would be a smart business decision.

[Siatdiat]

Square was basically a fail company in the 80s that came upon the formula of Final Fantasy that was a hit. Go play an old Square game from the 80s prior to the success of the first Final Fantasy game, nothing notable. Maybe they have just lost their steam? Maybe you can't expect anything good to be produced by them anymore? They should just become a graphics development studio and do graphics for other games, because that is their only real strength.

Going to put my lol out there now for anyone who comes out saying they make great stories. If you want a geat story read a book.

[Hyan]

Going to put my lol out there now for anyone who comes out saying they make great stories. If you want a geat story read a book.

What else? I mean you're saying they've "lost their steam" and then say their "steam" was nothing worth mentioning in the first place. How contradictory.

This is the first truly, objectively shitty product they've come up with, for a genre where shittiness is basically the norm. The rest of the games are simply not as good as people want them to be.

The real problem lies in the fact that they haven't made real progress where it matters- the storytelling. It's been the same shit for decades, we've simply grown up and so has our tastes. It's quite easy to see why people keep Lost Odyssey in high regard- it's one crappy game but the story wasn't meant for 10 year olds. Had XIII had similar quality of storytelling there would be no polarized playerbase, imo.

How ironic that the XIV team realized this, but not like it matters a lot in an MMO environment anyway. Now to hope that the rest of the company catches up.

[sruon]

Tired of having to bot the Behest NPC every fucking time, raise the cap to 30 players or something.

[Cureslime]

*time hits :00*
F8F8F8F8F8F8F8F8
ENTERENTERENTERENTERENTERENTERENTERENTERENTERENTER ENTERENTER

"Unable to load"
or
"Whoops I was wrong, we already have enough people"

It's only a problem at Horizon on my server but it does tick me off. Horizon is the best since it has lots of groups of 2-3 mobs where Bloodshore has lots of 1 mob groups (wasting total exp.) Bloodshore is also full of 5 year olds that are incapable of following simple directions.

[Hiroishime]

kept getting dc's during behest.. ONLY during behest it will happen, about 3 out 10 behests i will dc.. it gets even more irritating when you need 5-10min to just log back in, seriously why cant they just kick the character out the second i tried log back in?

[Lucavi]

What else? I mean you're saying they've "lost their steam" and then say their "steam" was nothing worth mentioning in the first place. How contradictory.

This is the first truly, objectively shitty product they've come up with, for a genre where shittiness is basically the norm. The rest of the games are simply not as good as people want them to be.

The real problem lies in the fact that they haven't made real progress where it matters- the storytelling. It's been the same shit for decades, we've simply grown up and so has our tastes. It's quite easy to see why people keep Lost Odyssey in high regard- it's one crappy game but the story wasn't meant for 10 year olds. Had XIII had similar quality of storytelling there would be no polarized playerbase, imo.

How ironic that the XIV team realized this, but not like it matters a lot in an MMO environment anyway. Now to hope that the rest of the company catches up.

Wow. Well said. Totally agree. They've been doing nothing but a mismash of FFII - FFIV stories ever since. New storytelling would be nice, or even a new style. Thank goodness XIV shook things up; I don't remember too many pretty-boy male protagonists until WotG, and I'd have killed to have the fucking Arch Angels in ANY console version of a FF title.

I just want that fight again someday. WoW be damned; Divine Might (done the real way) is still my favorite fight in any game, short of the badass scripted Cecil/Kain fight in IV where you (realistically) cannot win.