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Exactly, I want to play a Final Fantasy MMO not some no-name F2P game. I do play all the single player games I have time for as well. I'm glad that alot of XIV is casual friendly, and I won't be looking for a endgame raiding FC or LS. I'm glad they will have extreme/hardmode stuff and thats great for those that want it. I hope its crazy hard and very strategic but without a "trick" like AV from FFXI.

My whole problem with XI, even though I played it for years, was that you were forced to dedicate long hours to the game or you got nothing. Even playing for hours, you could walk away empty-handed - losing claim or just getting crap drops. It never did sit well with me, but I kept playing because I enjoyed the game so much.

My thoughts exactly.

I concur.

What really blew my mind is i never knew so many people dont read quests, This one quest you had to get the food orders from four people in this bar, the quest tells you Spoilerdont forget the man on the roof of the bar and all day in that zone were people shouting where is the forth guy. Seems like people need to slow down alittle and look around.

How do you have difficult long term accomplishments and still make it fun and fast paced? That's the issue MMOs face. I want to get stuff done, but at the same time I don't want the entire server to be running around in the ultimate armor because it's so accessible.

Would it really be so hard to implement a system like duty finder to pair you with people on the same server, then fill in the gaps from other servers? This game is greatly lacking in the elements of socializing and team work. There is no sense of accomplishment from anything. I quit WoW because I was bored, I quit XI because it became to hard to get anything done, and the player base became all about the grind.

I was indeed hoping to find some of the great things they had in XI, like partying to level up. Everything seems to be so focused on solo content and easy. This game really doesn't offer anything new that I can't get from Guildwars 2 at this point, and for no monthly fee. In fact I just felt like I was in WoW starting areas, endless quests, with boring story line.

I loved XI, and played it for a long time. I probably would have gone back, would now as well, if I hadn't lost my square enix log in info for my character. I also can't get into the e-mail that I used for that account to recover the information (happens to be a yahoo account that was hacked and for some reason they can't help me recover it). But then I know if I did, it would be the same old thing, of sitting around and now it's so top heavy no one does anything anyway. I guess I was hoping for a fresh take on XI. What we got was a combining of WoW, guildwars, and rift. I know, I will get a lot of hate from the die hard FF fans, but truth is truth. I pre-ordered and after open beta, I'm rather regretting it.

Why do they have such a hard time finding a balance for those who like easy mode and those of us who like a challenge? It can be done. Also what some of you fail to get, is that we are not complaining just to complain, I am sincerely disappointed, I so wanted it to be great. I wanted a challenge, and there has been none of it that I have seen.

We keep being told to wait till level 50. It's a new game folks, you don't have to luxury of making people wait that long. It needs to be good from the start, including lv 1-10. If it's not good, fun, engaging from the start, why in the world would I bother to reach 50? The die hards are always going to hate criticism of their game, I don't blame you. But defending what people are obviously finding fault with, will not help the game. I bought the game and will probably play for at least the free 30 days, but I don't believe it can hold my interest for more than that. I can play a solo game and get the same thing I am getting in what is supposed to be an MMO.

Here's a though, WoW all ready has the game for the people looking for easy and solo play, why not make a game that is for those who want more challenge? Or maybe I'm just going to have to give up on MMO's and play those solo games, there really is no point to MMO any more when no one plays or interacts together other than shouting at one another in chat. I'm just so disappointed, and I suppose sad.

You do make some interesting points.

For the solo playing. If you dont want to solo play. Get a group of your friends to play with yea. It may be hard at the start but by the time you leave your starting area you have people that sorta grew with yea. Though I thought hey I am lvling really fast, but then I looked at the clock and I realized it was just avg at best for lvl. I had fun in the beta. I hope you join us on the game and maybe reach the higher lvls so you can start enjoying it.

As always everything can be improved. Now I am not trying to be rude, Have you ever thought of sending business formal letter to SE regarding your concerns? I know who the hell sends letters these days. If you though you might get some cool free stuff and some acknowledgement from it.

I have done that a few times in my life and always got something nice in return regarding my concerns. Its never a free thing most of the time its a sticker set or a tshirt but that's nice.

I believe they addressed that kind of grouping preference when answering questions about the Duty Finder. Basically, they stated that they avoided adding any kind of same-server preference because it could lead to players on less active servers getting into groups at a lower rate than players from active servers.

Telling someone to reassess their statement, when yours is based on nothing but guesses and what you suspect?

I dont know why everyone was expecting a finished product from an open beta. Every single open beta i've ever played had its glitches and easy mode problems. But by far, this is the most polished beta ive seen from a game yet and i expect there to be great things for this MMO. I've seen far worse beta's for games that turned out ok at launch, for instance all of the starcraft, warcraft, and diablo games. Those 3 were probably among the highest anticipated, but with the worst beta turnouts. Nothing could have been easier and more glitch ridden than the diablo 3 beta, not to mention all of the exploits in the first act alone. That being said, ARR's beta has been the most organized and methodical of any beta ive experienced. I am going to give SE the benefit of the doubt on this one and say not to worry about anything that we've seen in beta testing so far. As much as we wanted to test out the full capabilities of the game, Im sure SE had plans testing we the gamers out as well.

The dude is on the hill above the restaurant. I was spamming quests and didn't get that at first but eventually found him. The time limit on the beta really changed the way I play. Reading cut into my hours.

Lol thats too funny!

I agree 100%, I understand people enjoy easy mode but it tends to get extremely old and boring fast when you have no challenge or everything becomes too easy. You also shouldn't have to level to max level 50 to see the challenging content of the game either, one of the reasons i enjoyed and played the hell out of FF11 ( and never bothered to touch WoW after vanilla ) was because there was a lot fo stuff to do through all levels not just max level, and also everything felt like a great adventure with something new around every corner and felt like the game experience would never end.

this game now as much as i forced myself to enjoy ( no offense also t those that do but I do deserve to give it my own personal opinion on it as anyone else is entitled to ) but considering how easy and accesible things are what is going to wind up happening is more than half of player base will just max cap, play for few months tops and then grow bored and move on to the next "WoW killer" or anything else with uber hype.

I have yet to play a MMORPG after FF11 that has made me feel like i was part of a huge adventure. I loved having to play with others and being a priority because I play online RPG to be able to play with people and not by myself ( also not saying that mandatory 100% is required but it should be at bare minimal 50% of game ) and honestly as a huge huge HUGE ff11 ex player ( also quit after abyssea when it became easy mode ) and I also enjoyed 1.20 ff14 a bit this ARR is a let down and average game at best.

Id wish the game would of gone a different way but what can we do. The company tried to please too many people at once and this is almost impossible.

to those that continue to spew the classic "its still in beta" if i only had a dime for every time someone said this while playing FF14 1.0 for 2 years+ more this id be rich lol. This game has a long *** time in development and also a resurrection of a already released game. "game is in beta" is void statement.

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gathering and crafting some of the most fun i had in any game, also UI improvement is huge on this version I love controller mode ^^, just wish the game was not solo mode ( with few spammable dungeons in between ) etc as discussed by many people before me.

Edited, Aug 19th 2013 4:50pm by KingAlkaiser