Random Complaint Thread. No white knighting allowed.

[miokomioko]

During betas and when the game first launched, when I got d/c'd it was always real quick and snappy, not wasting any time. Now, when I get R:0, my game will run for so goddamn long before I'll get a server error/timeout message and I end up having to force quit it after I've been running for 5 minutes wondering where all the mobs/players are only to see that my S/R has been red for god knows how long.

[Sephiroth]

I hate the new interface for selling to NPCs. I've already NPCed my Brass Alembic +1.

[sruon]

I hate the new interface for selling to NPCs. I've already NPCed my Brass Alembic +1.

And why is "Return" the default choice now :/

[Draylo]

Is there a damn secret to downloading these terrible patches? Shit goes SO SLOW, I left it overnight with estimated time 5hrs and 8 hours later its 3 hours till finished at 30%. How?

[mdkuser]

open ports to you routers? it took like 5 minutes here, ive never had trouble DL ing their updates.

[Draylo]

It's always been like this, always terrible long patches and then I've tried the torrents in a different program and bit faster depending on seed.

[fussel]

Is there a damn secret to downloading these terrible patches? Shit goes SO SLOW, I left it overnight with estimated time 5hrs and 8 hours later its 3 hours till finished at 30%. How?

1. Open Web interface of your router, section for port forwardings
2. Open CMD.exe
3. Run FFXIV Updater
4. Type "netstat -a" in CMD.exe, look for "LISTEN" ports bound to a TCP port in the 55000-55999 range
5. Create a port forward from that port on your router to your PC's IP, same port
6. Wait a couple of minutes and enjoy 500kb/sec downloads.

[Riposte]

Probably said a lot by now, but the SP party system is quite busted. I especially don't like how I can't claim/kill multiple enemies at once. Completely against the direction of the game's combat system. In some ways I lament the old SP system and wanted to see it improved on, but I also realize it was a pointlessly complicated way to do grinding which is a bad thing altogether.

I am somewhat pleased with soloing leves with Guardian's Favor. However it is still slow and I got to imagine now that I am down to 0 favor, it will suck. (Favor seems to recover much slower than anima)

[Hyan]

(Favor seems to recover much slower than anima)

10 per 12 RL hours, iirc.

[Cureslime]

I had to reinstall and I can't change video settings now. The window force closes whenever I try. Annoying as hell playing windowed at 1280x720 or whatever it's set at. Selling to vendor is shitty as hell. It takes just as long...they just added moar button presses in exchange for reducing lag. Crafting is still slow as hell but at least there's method to the madness now that they improved rapid.

Loving a lot of the changes. The game is almost ready to go to retail now. In its current state if they fixed party exp and added market ward search it would probably get a 6.5/10 instead of 3/10 from reviewers.

[Grey Jorildyn]

I agree with that. If they then also added some interesting classes and/or created some support-specific classes that were both worthwhile to invite and engaging to play, i'd bump that to an 8/10.

[Vilmos]

Great changes to a lot of things with the update.

Still nothing to do in the game though. Sure you can grind to R20 faster, but for what? The game is still an empty shell of content.

[Cureslime]

For the people who wanted to grind to 50 for whatever NMs are coming in the December update it sucks yeah. The game still isn't good enough to go back to yet IMO. I hope we get the December update while still in the free trial period.

During NA prime time there had to be 2k people playing on Palamecia which was down to like 600-700 before the patch last time I checked. The interest in the game is still there for now. We'll see if Cataclysm and actually having to pay cripple the game or not.

[Greedouw]

Still annoyed that it takes forever to grind my Miner =\

[Sephiroth]

So I've been away since Saturday morning. I don't actually feel like logging in any more. I can't grind GLD because they fucked our skill up recipe. I can't grind DoW because party SP is fucked. I don't feel like doing leves because they nerfed the rewards. All I can do is login, check my retainer and do local leves. I will give the game until the end of the year and if the situation is the same I'll be giving up.

[jPuff]

Did they seriously stealth-reduce running speed or am I nuts? If so, what the fuck was the reasoning behind this?

[The Q]

While the patch made the game actually functional there's still fuck-all to do besides grindgrindgrind and the occasional short as can be quest every 5 levels. There are no goals to work for outside of levelling for levelling sake. It's too bad because I was really happy once I learned of no more random SP and then crushed when it was still exactly the same game otherwise.

Still no real reason to play at this point.

ALSO weapons and shields still degrade fast as hell. They may have upped the numbers but that just means, and I'm throwing numbers out for example not actuality, where before a weapon would wittle down in 20 minutes now it does so in 30.

[miokomioko]

I don't feel like doing leves because they nerfed the rewards.

Did I miss something? What regional leve rewards were reduced? They added a number of new items as rewards...

[Crizto]

Rewards for high-rank levequests have been reduced slightly, while awards for lower-rank levequests have been significantly increased.

I think he means that. The gil rewards are certainly less.

[miokomioko]

Yeah... I'm not sure who was doing leves just for the gil. If anything, I've had a surge of guild mark rewards and equipment from both Fieldcraft and Battlecraft leves since the update (lol luck?). "Nerfed" is a bit dramatic if it's really just the gil because that as a sole reward pretty much sucked in the first place.